You [read geeks], are not the general public, Firefox and adsense allow 'normal' people to block ads fairly easily, whereas internet explorer doesnt.
The more you kill a sites funding, the more likey the site will simple not exist anymore, or even worse, make you register and come up with more and more ways to make you 'pay'. Advertising will not and can't simply go away, the internet needs it(for now), and advertised need the internet
I quite like the idea of mirco payments, every page you hit gets a small amount of money (% of a penny) from that person (being slashdotted would be like pay day). So every 10 times you hit a site they get a penny...
But it would be a nightmare to implement on a WWW scale
Turn off Adblock,
Adblock will only kill the source of money for most sites.
I believe that pop-ups and large overlays and messy flash ads should all die a slow and painfull ad death, but you have to allow some ads through to support the sites that you visit, that and buy their stuff and subscribe.
Runnning servers is not cheap/free, and not everyone is nice enough to do it for free/ especially if the bandwidth bills start to mount up.
Without ads, google wouldn't exist, and i can think of a few:) other sites that would die if everyone started blocking ads.
So dont be so selfish and shortsighted and switch Ablock off and click on a few ads from time to time and buy stuff.
Well nows Google is a PLC if you're a share owner you can ask why are they keeping features that dont make money.
I fear this could be the beginning of the end of Google as more and more 'features' get cut so they make more money to satisfy their share holders.
There is nothing more depressing to me than finding out that 'the most powerful country' in the world voted Bush back in. It's as if America has lost its sense of humanity. He doesn't even really care about anyone else. Or anything really. All he wants to do is control. Sigh...
Ad companys pay depending on how many viewers there are, if that drops by 5% because people don't watch tv anymore because they watch what they want off the internet then they get 5% less money...
In fact if i were to buy the whole Babylon 5 series on DVD it would cost £200 ($6000), its nowhere near good enough to spend that much money on.
I would pay £20 to download it all quickly though
Your missing the point, if everyone is downloading ad free tv shows instead of watching tv shows with ads, then they are losing viewer and thus ad renvenue
Wow about half way down the page before a sensible argument to not just landfilling everything.
I would also add, that if manufactures design for sustainability a bit more making it easier to *reuse* and recycle materials we would all live in a cleaner, more environmentally friendly world(for those that dont relise, that would be a good thing)
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scam?
You [read geeks], are not the general public, Firefox and adsense allow 'normal' people to block ads fairly easily, whereas internet explorer doesnt.
The more you kill a sites funding, the more likey the site will simple not exist anymore, or even worse, make you register and come up with more and more ways to make you 'pay'. Advertising will not and can't simply go away, the internet needs it(for now), and advertised need the internet
I quite like the idea of mirco payments, every page you hit gets a small amount of money (% of a penny) from that person (being slashdotted would be like pay day). So every 10 times you hit a site they get a penny...
But it would be a nightmare to implement on a WWW scale
The internet wasn't as big as it is, and was mainly funded by universities and research teams.
Turn off Adblock, Adblock will only kill the source of money for most sites. I believe that pop-ups and large overlays and messy flash ads should all die a slow and painfull ad death, but you have to allow some ads through to support the sites that you visit, that and buy their stuff and subscribe. Runnning servers is not cheap/free, and not everyone is nice enough to do it for free/ especially if the bandwidth bills start to mount up. Without ads, google wouldn't exist, and i can think of a few:) other sites that would die if everyone started blocking ads. So dont be so selfish and shortsighted and switch Ablock off and click on a few ads from time to time and buy stuff.
why walk? when you can work from home?
Nope, Second Post
Nope, First Post
x = 2.4494897427831780981972840747059
Can we have some real units please? How many Libraries of Congress is that?
Well nows Google is a PLC if you're a share owner you can ask why are they keeping features that dont make money. I fear this could be the beginning of the end of Google as more and more 'features' get cut so they make more money to satisfy their share holders.
Neither have you
Well we have free healthcare for all ;)
There is nothing more depressing to me than finding out that 'the most powerful country' in the world voted Bush back in. It's as if America has lost its sense of humanity. He doesn't even really care about anyone else. Or anything really. All he wants to do is control. Sigh...
Can someone convert it to Libraries of Congress, I cant work in Terabytes.
Does 30 years count as old these days? I hope not!
Ad companys pay depending on how many viewers there are, if that drops by 5% because people don't watch tv anymore because they watch what they want off the internet then they get 5% less money...
In fact if i were to buy the whole Babylon 5 series on DVD it would cost £200 ($6000), its nowhere near good enough to spend that much money on. I would pay £20 to download it all quickly though
Of course
Your missing the point, if everyone is downloading ad free tv shows instead of watching tv shows with ads, then they are losing viewer and thus ad renvenue
If they would release the Invader Zim DVD in the UK I wouldn't have to download the episodes illegally.
if you use the opera filter.ini file, it blocks the ads :)
ms blaster among others would go straight through a firewall
Wow about half way down the page before a sensible argument to not just landfilling everything. I would also add, that if manufactures design for sustainability a bit more making it easier to *reuse* and recycle materials we would all live in a cleaner, more environmentally friendly world(for those that dont relise, that would be a good thing)