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I make around 20 per thousand visitors, it helps pay for a pt dev, pt designer, and small team. Where is wasted time? Do you find yourself mesmerized by ads an
by bwb 4y ago
I make around 20 per thousand visitors, it helps pay for a pt dev, pt designer, and small team.
Where is wasted time? Do you find yourself mesmerized by ads and find yourself staring at them for hours :)?
- ASalazarMX 4y agoMy estimation is likely exaggerated, I was thinking of YouTube and websites with sticky video ads. Since 20,000 people seeing a 30s unskippable ad in Youtube amounts to 167 man hours used, maybe I should have said "hundreds of man hours wasted for a few measly dollars?".
- bwb 4y agoDo not use youtube then. And, life is not a quest toward perfect efficiency. Are you a human or machine? Having fun and enjoying life are not something to be scared of. You sound like you have your day scheduled down to the minute?
- account42 4y ago> Having fun and enjoying life are not something to be scared of. A good reason to block ads. I don't enjoy ads.
- bwb 4y agoDo what you want, but please recognize that is how that website pays its bills. And, you are getting joy/use from the content ads pay for.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoLook, it's going to get worse as more people get fed up with aggressive advertising practices and learn about safe ad blocking. It's going to be disruptive, and it will put out of business many websites that aren't paying attention. Big ad companies know it and are actively looking for new ways to keep eyeballs and product placement everywhere. Don't worry about the few people who use ad blockers, just be ready to follow new ad practices when they come. In fact, If I find a website useful, and it doesn't push aggressive/tracking ads, I purposefully whitelist it. Complaining about people blocking ads on your website might not encourage them to whitelist it, though. Your best advocate is your own work.