johnward

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by johnward 11y ago
I'm not sure if the Doubleclick AdExchange allows that but sometimes it can look like it's coming from Adsense or Doubleclick AdExchange but the ad is actually served from Doubleclick For Publishers. In that latter case the publis
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Those are really the only ones I can think of that bother me but it's the sites placement that is what makes it a terrible UX. They place all those ads around the actual download button. You would think you could get banned for trying
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by johnward 11y ago
I saw a few that expanded to take over the screen if you hover over them for like 5 seconds but they gave you a warning. I haven't seen autoplay though. Are you certain they were adsense? Sometimes ads can appear to be adsense because
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by johnward 11y ago
It's on the ad network side so I would expect it to work everywhere.
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Most users tend to complain about flying, pop ups, auto playing audio/video. Google does none of that. So is there a real benefit here?
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by johnward 11y ago
With the recent ad blocker threads I wanted to see how many of my users actually use an adblocker. I have a technical tutorials site that is not that active anymore. I estimate that tech sites will likely have a higher percentage of adblock
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by johnward 11y ago
Someone could probably build a browser plugin to at least keep track and divvy up money. The real problem is people say they want to support sites but they really don't want to see ads or support the site.
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by johnward 11y ago
It's more about the appearance of working vs actually having work to do. I used to come in at 7:30 and leave at 4:30 because my commute was terrible other wise (2 hours each way). The few nights I stayed until 6-7pm I noticed the engin
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by johnward 11y ago
We did have several people leave before joining because they refused to sign the agreement. I know that it's my fault I signed the agreement. I'm also working towards your suggestion (38 applications so far this year) but the thin
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It's kind of a grey area. The court docs show that they have won. I don't know if they were directly related to the persons daily responsibilities. I think there was some wording about any thing that competes with the company but
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by johnward 11y ago
For some reason all of the consulting names are hilarious to me. "baconsulting" "mexiconsulting" I've worked with CJ apis before and they were pretty bad.
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by johnward 11y ago
My favorite one, when looking for consulting related names: taconsulting Though it says taconsulting.com is available but it's registered. Also when I click the namecheap affiliate link it would be nice if it landed on the domain searc
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by johnward 11y ago
My employer technically owns anything I create. Even outside working hours. They have even won cases where an employee patented an idea after leaving the company. The court granted the company the patent. Talk about screwed up. Obviously I&
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by johnward 11y ago
In that case you decide which is more important. Work or taking care of your family. Now I know having a job is part of the taking care of your family thing but you have to honestly weigh "if I leave work on time am I actually going to
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by johnward 11y ago
There is this hyaundai commercial ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ8Klm8vPlI ) that hits home for me. "When did leaving work on time become an act of courage". It's so true.
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by johnward 11y ago
I'd be willing to bet a Washington that no one in real life uses the term Lincoln.
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by johnward 11y ago
That was basically the same plan Sam Palmisano put into place at IBM. I call it "cut your way to prosperity". Basically cutting cost and not growing revenue with a focus on manipulating earnings per share. It seems very short sigh
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by johnward 11y ago
I guess it's similar to walking away from the TV. However, DVR providers attempted to use technology to automatically skip ads and there was a huge backlash. The advertisers seem to have won the battle with TV even though you can still
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by johnward 11y ago
> I think a lot of people don't want to admit that most of the web is more a waste of time than anything, and given the option, nobody would pay for most it. I kind of agree with this but yet so much content that I think is worthles
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by johnward 11y ago
Actually, ad blockers work hard to make sure this can't happen. I'd like for a site to be able to identify those users and decide not to serve content but there is a reason why adblockers don't want this. If I can identify th
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by johnward 11y ago
Is updating the ToS going to actually change anything?
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by johnward 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not.
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Hosting is basically a commodity now but there is still cost involved. Especially if you are actually producing unique content. If I choose to steal a physical product is that an "obvious flaw in the business model" too? Look, I&#
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by johnward 11y ago
I'll give you that argument. Even though people continue to return to those same sites. Then complain about sites that try to implement other means of monetization like paywalls.
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by johnward 11y ago
Leaching content is not much different than the early days of MP3s. So I'm hopeful we'll find a new business model that works without me having to pay for every site on the web I want to browse. I can't remember the last time
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by johnward 11y ago
Which tend to still use 3rd party ad severs. Probably because they don't want to develop that tech in house.
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by johnward 11y ago
Stop browsing ad supported content then. It's a simple solution that works for everyone involved. Everyone says "i'd happily pay" but few put their money where their mouth is. For the HN downvoters why is choosing not to
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by johnward 11y ago
I'm almost 30. I just brought this video up a few weeks ago and it's one of the first times I have felt old. No one knew what I was referring to.
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by johnward 11y ago
This. This is the thing that makes you question the justice system in the US? Maybe they should have a class action suit against ISPs for having shitty caps? I'm in rural Ohio and I don't have a 2gb cap per month. If I did I certa
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by johnward 11y ago
You can also still manually install fixes if you don't allow automatic updates. I can't understand why these people with such low datacaps would allow automatic updates anyway.

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