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For example, when they visit, there are no interstitial pages, boxes covering the page when a user mouses out of the viewport, autoplaying audio/video, or any o
by ihsw 10y ago
For example, when they visit, there are no interstitial pages, boxes covering the page when a user mouses out of the viewport, autoplaying audio/video, or any of that other obscene nonsense.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agopaulddraper is pointing out that if the user has an adblocker, they will never notice whether your ads are intrusive or not.
- ihsw 10y agoThere is no chance to recover a user after they install an adblocker.
- daveguy 10y agoUnless you stop using ad networks and just inline unobtrusive text ads?
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThis is a trap. If you make your ads content-like, and integrate them into your content, then people will say your site is deceptive, hiding ads in content so people read them like factual articles.
- corobo 10y agoYou don't need to make them content-like. Have ad sections that are just text. I can't recall the name of the site but that one Mac-related site that does text ads seems to be doing pretty well at it. Please if someone does know the site I mean let me know it's on the tip of my tongue!
- angry-hacker 10y agoThe inventor of markdown. Fireball something. But it's really an exception.
- corobo 10y agoDaring Fireball, that's the one! Of course it's an exception - no other bugger tries, opting to instead chuck adsense all over the place.
- K0nserv 10y agoJohn uses Deck[0] for Daring Fireball 0: http://decknetwork.net/ http://decknetwork.net/
- corobo 10y agoDidn't realise there were also adverts on the site. I was more talking about the feed sponsorship http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
- nzp 10y agoDeck is the only decent ad network I'm aware of, so I keep them unblocked. The fact that you haven't noticed he has ads on the site speaks enough.
- corobo 10y agoI'm not a mac user so I only ever visit the site when I double check he's still doing the sponsored feed thing before using the site as an example of non-ad income. Unfortunately however I didn't notice it as uBlock Origin had blocked it.
- nzp 10y agoI find his podcast relaxing (well, most of the time) to listen to even though I'm not a Mac user either. I think he mentioned Deck a couple of times, so I turned uBlock off to see, and hey, they really are reasonable and tasteful, so I left it open for them. They're not getting almost anything from me since I very rarely visit sites in their network, but I leave them on on principle. I don't mind ads, I mind being digitally and visually raped.
- danielweber 10y agoAfter they install an ad-blocker anywhere. The site in question could always been been nice and unobtrusive with their ads. It makes no difference for most users.