It's easy to say cry me a river until you run your own site and have to maintain servers and a broadband connection among other costs. Sure I'd love to not include ads, but they pay for my overhead and give me motivation to continue to work in hopes that I can continue improve on my product as a full time job. Its pretty selfish to want to use my content and hard work for free and not at least let the ads through. It may not be the death of the internet it will surely limit whats out there. People may say they only block intrusive ads but thats bologna. Most ad blocking programs do them all in one fell swoop including google ads. Sure technology might adapt and maybe you'll see AJAX or some other method being used to make sure that you did see the ads otherwise making the site unavailable to you. Really it does boil down to you paying for sites like CNN etc
I love Sirius online streaming, I don't have to buy extra docking stations or lug around an antenna like my XM officemate buddy. The Sirius online streaming only does the music channels however, the sports and entertainment ones are listed but don't do anything. On another note if you buy a Sirius yearlong subscription its the same price as XM ($10)
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It's easy to say cry me a river until you run your own site and have to maintain servers and a broadband connection among other costs. Sure I'd love to not include ads, but they pay for my overhead and give me motivation to continue to work in hopes that I can continue improve on my product as a full time job. Its pretty selfish to want to use my content and hard work for free and not at least let the ads through. It may not be the death of the internet it will surely limit whats out there. People may say they only block intrusive ads but thats bologna. Most ad blocking programs do them all in one fell swoop including google ads. Sure technology might adapt and maybe you'll see AJAX or some other method being used to make sure that you did see the ads otherwise making the site unavailable to you. Really it does boil down to you paying for sites like CNN etc
I love Sirius online streaming, I don't have to buy extra docking stations or lug around an antenna like my XM officemate buddy. The Sirius online streaming only does the music channels however, the sports and entertainment ones are listed but don't do anything. On another note if you buy a Sirius yearlong subscription its the same price as XM ($10)