 CapinPetePremium
join:2002-12-23
West Palm Beach, FL | Whats the big deal with ads anyway? I don't understand people. The vast majority of you more than likely read print newspapers and/or magazines which contain ads. Does a version of AdBlock exist that removes ads from print materials? No, yet people still read them.
How do you people expect all these sites to stay afloat without ads? People bitch and moan when websites start going the subscription only route. People also bitch and moan when it's free but there are ads. Then they "show the rest of the world" how tough and smart they are by using programs like AdBlock to circumvent the "evil" advertising which keeps the site you love so much up and running.
It's people like this that expect everything to be free that will cause the eventual downfall of the internet. Not necessarily the downfall but definitely a reduction in quality content.
--
»www.thegng.org -- Adult Gaming Community (not necessarily mature =P) |
|
 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | Very good point, CapinPete.
True story -- DSLReports has ads. Most Premium members don't read them, yet some are pretty good. Did you know there's T1 available for really pretty damned cheap? It's a current advertiser on DSLReports.
With me being in the Comcast fray, I can't tell you how many snotty responses I've gotten with, "well if you want dedicated service," ...(I don't)... " then pay thousands of dollars for it!"
We ought to be supporting our favorite sites by turning on the relevant, unobtrusive ads. At the same time, we ought to continue to block the ones that we never want to see again (including any pop-over, scroll over, etc. ads).
--
Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
HTTP is the new Bandwidth Hog...
|
|
|
|
| reply to CapinPete
The big deal isn't ads. The big deal is how NebuAD targets them to you. Essentially, they're spying on your Internet usage to find out what you're doing online. The box they place at the ISP watches and records everything you do online and creates a record of your activities.
And you have no say in the matter as to whether you want this spying or not. Of course, some folks will say to change ISPs, but the problem is that the ISPs are doing this very quietly. Charter is only backing out because they got busted in a big way. If an ISP is going to do something like this, they have an obligation to clearly tell their subs exactly what they will be doing and not bury it in the microscopic print of their user agreement. |
|
| reply to CapinPete
It's not about the ads, it's about how they use YOUR browsing history to target ads and how they GET that information used to target ads.
If the newspaper prints a separate edition for your neighborhood, that's targeted advertising. But what Nebuad wants to do is put a microphone in your house and listen to everything and then stand outside your home and put in ads based upon your conversations. They won't get permission to do this, and if you object, they won't stop listening, they just stop putting in the ads generated from the conversations. |
|
