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Okay, fine. I visited your website, refused to be told to buy a subscription to a dating website, and now after you've served me the page and saw that my browse
by jordigh 11y ago
Okay, fine. I visited your website, refused to be told to buy a subscription to a dating website, and now after you've served me the page and saw that my browser isn't rendering something that is telling me about that subscripton, you then decide to tell my web browser to not show anything at all.
From here I am supposed to feel guilty for not wanting to hear about that new car model, and thus after hearing about about that new magazine I should buy, I shall be allowed to hear how to fix my computer problems.
Thus I learn how to fix things, you get some fractions of a penny off me, and hopefully I will some day go on to buy some great new self-help book.
This sucks. I don't want to be told to buy anything. If you want money, just take my money. Don't tell me to give other people money.
- corobo 11y agoYou do make a fair point and to be completely honest I think I was only really picturing the non-obtrusive CPM forms of advertising where a view is enough to get however many fractions of a penny it's worth rather than clicks. I guess in that sense really thinking about it I also believe ads are worthless too.. Just to clarify my post was not the best written at all, I've got no real problem with ad blockers and I do use one myself in a blacklist fashion for those really terrible ads that (in the case of my local newspaper's site) rip the page in half and really try to get in the way so you'll pay attention to them. In the ideal world something like flattr would be the best model for current ad-based revenue sites, easily better would be selling something directly that people actually want as a service or product