7 ms·
Unfortunately the servers and employees to run the service is not.
by supercoder 14y ago
Unfortunately the servers and employees to run the service is not.
- qompiler 14y agoI understand that very well, I constantly thinker about possible ways to make revenue without ads. If you are really honest about it to yourself you will realize it's not a very solid business model. People can easily circumvent ads and/or just ignore them.
- mattmanser 14y agoAd block is only effective because not many people use it. If it were even vaguely popular all major sites would have found a way to stop it working, they'd be a constant war going on.
- bliker 14y agoI cannot imagine how could somebody prevent browser extensions injecting code to websites. As a happy user of ad-block I have seen some sites that force you to turn it off. Like iconmonstr.com But that can be easily circumvent.
- unbeli 14y agoFor example, by making it difficult to tell what part of the website is an ad.
- nirvdrum 14y agoYou mean like charging $20 / year to access a service and not be displayed ads? That's the alternative revenue model and you want to circumvent that as well.
- rimantas 14y agoAnd it explains one of the reason I don't like everything-driven-by-ads world. If I never click on ads having vs. not having adblock just changes whose money I am wasting: page owner's or ads buyer's. With adblock I at least am not wasting bandwidth.