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Or in other words, Safari's reader is going to kill our page views and ad click-through rates and we're mad about that because we're not getting rich on Apple's
by kylemathews 16y ago
Or in other words, Safari's reader is going to kill our page views and ad click-through rates and we're mad about that because we're not getting rich on Apple's app store like everyone else.
- wmf 16y agoIf Ars believes that there's more money to be made from the App Store than from the Web, they're welcome to release an app.
- devinj 16y agoNo they're not. They're welcome to submit an app to approval. They have no freedom to control what gets released.
- blocke 16y agoSo what is the point of the web if people have to get permission to publish native apps to make money off their own content?
- wmf 16y agoI agree that Apple is screwing things up, but I don't think Ars is complaining out of self-interest.
- blocke 16y agoWasn't Ars the site that was whining at it's readers about how adblocking screws them? It would fit in with their previous complaints.
- loewenskind 16y agoHow does blocking ads that I'm not going to click screw anyone? Surely no one pays for their ads to just appear on a web page. If they do I think they're getting ripped off. Until I started hearing people talk about how scary targeted ads were I never even knew. I don't run ad block but I don't even notice the ads. I had to consciously look to see if they were targeted. I saw they were, said "oh, that's scary" and went back to my regular browsing. A result of growing up on public TV I guess.
- gte910h 16y agoBlock them then.
- masklinn 16y agoThing is, it's not even going to do that. You have to be on the (first) page to trigger Reader, so you'll see ads anyway, and it will fetch all the pages one by one when reformatting them. They just built Readability in the browser (literally, there are acknowledgements to Readability in Saf 5)