# And Now Pop-up Ads?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-pop-up-ads/453695>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 21, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-pop-up-ads/453695 "2008-06-21T16:28:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-pop-up-ads/453695/21 "2008-06-24T21:33:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Fear Itself]  
Why is that obvious? The Reader propped up this board for years, losing money every year [even after we had subscriptions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6616745&postcount=50).  
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Going by your logic (that the Reader’s finances are private), we have no idea how much money they were losing on the board.

And as others have pointed out in other threads, the financial means needed to run the board software and hardware _should_ be much lower than the amount the board made off of subscriptions. Crying poor when the math behind your situation is apparent to your customer base is, as the kids say, weak sauce.

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-pop-up-ads/453695/22 "2008-06-25T01:44:16Z")

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Hmmm. Three days and no _official_ response. Good thing I’m not the conspiracy-theorist type. . . .

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-pop-up-ads/453695/23 "2008-06-25T02:51:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Czarcasm]  
Just what we need-_another_ atheist.  
😛  
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Re: the subject of this thread, what’s the official word? Who, if anybody, gets popup ads?

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-pop-up-ads/453695/24 "2008-06-25T21:38:48Z")

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I’ve never gotten them, still don’t get them.

This board has never been about making money. It’s funny how many people seem to believe that there must be some giant sucking money pit that is taking their subscription money and giving nothing back. If that was true, the new owners would hardly be experimenting with changing the revenue model now, would they? :dubious:

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