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My brain has re-wired itself to completely ignore advertising. Never occurred to me to donate until I read this post, because I just flatly ignore ads, even fro
by PostOnce 16y ago
My brain has re-wired itself to completely ignore advertising. Never occurred to me to donate until I read this post, because I just flatly ignore ads, even from nonprofits.
Just an observation about myself that might perhaps hold true for others.
Or maybe I'm just abnormal.
- weesilmania 16y agoIt's called "Banner Blindness". We probably all have it.
- JCKa1 16y agoPretty hard to ignore their ads (very large and intrusive).
- bmelton 16y agoI think it might also have to do with the mental conditioning of Wikipedia, which is to say, you're not used to seeing ads on there, so the 'Appeal' is all the more apparent. If that ad were on TechCrunch, I'd never have noticed it, but on the otherwise stark canvas of Wikipedia, it's all I can do to disregard it.
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- axod 16y ago> "My brain has re-wired itself to completely ignore advertising." This post is an advert :/ You didn't ignore it... Perhaps we have different definitions of 'advert'.
- hugh3 16y agoI see the banner and it annoys me. I'm much more likely to respond to this sensible third party encouraging me to give money to wikipedia than I am to listen to "A Personal Appeal From Jimmy Wales, Founder Of Wikipedia" begging me personally for money.
- alxp 16y agoI haven't looked at the page code but it seems like there's a deliberate delay after the page loads and you start reading before the banner pops in right in your field of vision. It drives me crazy every time.