Derek Fountain wrote:
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...
And if you had to pay to log onto the site, as well as paying for the time on-line (but without the ads), would you prefer that scenario? I know I wouldn't :-) Here in the Land of Oz we mostly use dial-up access as well, so I fully understand your point - but (there's always a "but") I put up with the ads because I am after the content on sites like that run by Tim. As a businessman myself, I know there is truly no such thing as a free lunch, someone pays in the end. I would far prefer that to be a business trying to promote their product, than a poor bugger like me trying to find some elusive bit of software. One of the reasons I use a lot of "smaller" pages like Tims' is that the amount of ads is NOT overwhelming, like some of the "major" sites
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.
Yep, and revenue would be down as a result, so costs would have to be met elsewhere.
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.
Yep, charge the user
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... ;-)
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