Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Derek Fountain)]

Tim, the world doesn't all work like your part of it. In
England, and most of Europe, we have to pay for our
telephone calls. We also don't have high bandwidth
connections for the most part - we tend to use 34K or 56K
modems. Most pages that carry banner ads tend to pack the
ads on, and each one is often an animated GIF which takes
several seconds to download. Seriously, downloading all the
banner ads on a few pages of a news site packed with them
will cost me an appreciable amount of money: not 0.1p, but 2
or 3p. Over a period of a few weeks that represents a couple
of beers. WWWoffle is written by an Englishman. Scratch an
itch and all that...

Had banner ad users limited the number of ads they use, and
kept the sizes down so they were much less offensive to
download, maybe people wouldn't be so hostile to them. Bit
late now. Ad blockers are part of the 'net, and people such
as yourself are going to have to find a new business model.

I can see it happening: content will only be sent by the
server if the ads are sent too. Hmmm. I feel an Apache
module coming on... ;-)

"Timothy R. Butler" wrote:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> > If the ads go unnoticed by me even when they show up on a page why should
> > I not filter ads?  And aren't you also implying that free (as in free
> > beer) software can only be supported by ads?  If that's the case I'd
> > rather pay for software (or web information if I truly need it) than use
> > an app such as Gozilla! or the new, free versions of Eudora.
> 
>   I didn't imply that free software must be supported by ads, I detest
> software with ads in them. What I think is fair is that the site you have to
> visit to get the program have some ads on it. Believe it or not, I make a
> nice amount from visitors downloading my open source programs just by
> loading the web pages with ads on them. I don't have any ads in the
> programs, but by the visitors being courteous enough to let my ads load
> (even if they don't view them), we both benefit.
>   When I spend hours and hours of _my_ precious time creating a program for
> everyone to enjoy, why is it so hard to spend just a few extra seconds of
> _your_ time letting my ads load (and ignoring them). I get $.01 on many of
> the ads displayed even if you don't pay attention to them. It should be a
> token of gratitude for the people who do the work that you enjoy.


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