ioi said:
Traffic isn't much use if you block the ads. That just costs money to host but doesn't pay anything back! We get paid per impression not per click - doesn't matter if you click through or not but blocking ads from displaying cuts off any revenue that the site can try to generate. I obviously appreciate people linking to and promoting the site and apologies if my original comment was a little harsh but I do feel like people that block ads (and especially those who go and boast about it) are basically sticking two fingers up to all the work and time that goes into the site. It's like me going into a shop and just helping myself to whatever I want without paying for it. I want to keep the site free for you guys and have advertisers fund its existance, but if you block the ads (as about 1/4 - 1/3 of users now are) then it really makes things an uphill struggle. |
I understand that but I never buy from ads they are just spam in my home.
And plus I think of it as a security issue as some maleware is aimed at hovering your mouse over ads even ones that were not meant to have it built in and aims at random sites in random ads.(I listen to Leo Laports Security now Podcats and TWit.tv)
I never let HTML either in my emails,just text as a security thing for the same reason.
I truly appreciate the site and sites that offered donations when I financially can I gave money to the site itself.
I don't really boast about ad blocking I just made a little side joke and had no idea it would become such a huge issue..never seen admins/webmasters do it before.
If the tongue and cheek comment is that offensive then by all means delete it.
Anyway I hate to de rail this topic so I said a few times in the topic how much I like the new look and will leave it there and just move on to other topics.
