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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