I’d be unobtrusive if it were down the bottom where the copyright shit is. Hell, even between the “reply now” button and the “quick reply” box, IMHO. But as it is now, it tacks itself onto the end of the thread and tries to look like another post, and just gets in the way. The smaller text ads are not so bad, but the “HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF FUND” bold-text-massive-bullshit is a pain in the ass. I don’t care much about ads either way, I just don’t like the placement of these ones, and I wish TPTB had set up a poll of some kind or something to find out the preferences of the users, before just globbing them in there and going “Right, here they are”.
(Also, context-sensitive my ass. I’ve seen 2 hurricane Katrina ads, and the rest are for mailing lists and other spam-tools)
Wait just a minute. We cans save 20% on our mass mailing lists now. I hate paying the full price for those things. This is so pleasing! And we can grow our revenue. Wow. There’s never enough money in my pocket. How wonderful is this!? And all from a company named after America’s favorite president.
And the American List…why this is helpful too! I’ll be able to target Americans for my revenue increase. They have extra money, I hear. That sure is “a merry list” for me!
And MGI? Mighty Good Information I’ll bet! I further wager they are not kidding about being the source. A veritable font of high earning revenue, I have no doubt.
Gee, and everyone’s reacting like the stuff in the ads is worthless sh**t. How ungrateful.
Yup. I just right click the Flash object, select to Adblock it, and then cut off everything after the .com/ or .net/ so that it gets all the ads from that server.
brianjedi recommends using [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1136]Filterset** to automatically block a ton of crap.
Adblock, once it’s all set up and configured happily, is a miracle piece of code.
I notice **Excalibre **got an Official Warning for his ATMB thread about how to throw a monkey wrench into this fucking ad scheme.
Fuck you, Admins. You can piss and moan all you want about your paid membership not swallowing your spoonfed shit. We’ll still spit it back into your face.
I’m not bent out of shape about the ads; it could be flashing banner ads, or pop-ups, or pop-unders, or, heaven forbid, it could be like snopes. But it’s not going to make 'em a dime of money unless the ads are for something people want! As above, I’ve seen two or three for (allegedly) the Red Cross, and all the others have been for mailing lists. That’s bullshit.
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I wonder what the backlash would be for MacPPT if we sold ad revenue in the scratch area just below the Slide pane? You can just ignore it, right? Oh, that’s right - it’s a bad comparison b/c we’re profitable and the Reader loses money.
How about Script Debugger? I know for a fact that they are not profitable. The immediate window can have commented out Google links at the bottom of every script you write. No problem, eh?
How about ESPN Insider service? How 'bout some Google ads at the bottom of every columnist’s article that I pay for? Where do you draw the line?
Maybe I’m being a whiny bitch. Don’t care, really. The end result is that I’m an unsatisfied customer, and I don’t feel like they care too much about that.
Well, when my membership runs out, I guess I’ll spend time other places. Amazing that so many websites manage for free when the SDMB is apparently a money-losing pit, despite charging more than similar websites.
Justifiable warning. How much monkeywrenching is okay with you? Advocating sabotage is not cool. Excalibre’s suggestion would jeopardize the Reader’s partnership with the least offensive source of ad revenue on the internet. If advertising on the SDMB is a done deal, this is an invitation for more annoying ads.
More passive suggestions for people wanting to avoid ads (without fucking up the Reader’s deal with Google) aren’t being censured in any way, so calm the fuck down.
This is a ready-made “hosts” file that effectively blocks most advertising. (For Windows users only.) This works at the OS level. Replace the hosts file (there’s an easy installer proggy if you need it) and any browser’s requests to ad servers will get a big fat nothing in return. The current version of the list blocks Google text ads out of the box. Enjoy!
