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What's so bad about that? Besides the whole "advert for lawyers" thing which I've always found weird.
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An appropriate number for estate lawyers
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Ever since I clicked on that link my Facebook is full of DUDE WIPES ads! 
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Doctor Malaver posted:Ever since I clicked on that link my Facebook is full of DUDE WIPES ads! Maybe they're trying to tell you something?
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Somfin posted:Adblock has a whitelist that companies can pay to join. UBlock doesn't. Oh no, not one whole extra checkbox to click while setting up! 
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Ublock Origin also uses less RAM and CPU than Adblock.
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Sleeveless posted:Oh no, not one whole extra checkbox to click while setting up! Yeah, that genie goes right back in the fuckin' bottle, doesn't it? E: Hmm. Which blocking software do I want- the one that just fuckin' blocks everything, or the one that checks to make sure I really want to block everything when I'm getting ad blocking software? And starts with the 'don't actually block everything' box ticked and greyed out? I remember seeing a bit of software where the installer had a back button on the first page- and going back from the first page was the only way to prevent it from installing a pair of toolbars. Software is built on trust, and lovely little things like that damage that trust. Somfin has a new favorite as of 11:36 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Somfin posted:Yeah, that genie goes right back in the fuckin' bottle, doesn't it? Content is paid for by advertisers, allowing some non-intrusive ads to be shown helps content creators and rewards avertisers who don't use lovely, malicious ads. Oh no wait everything is always free and always will be, got it.
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Somfin posted:Yeah, that genie goes right back in the fuckin' bottle, doesn't it?  Software that sneak in a checkbox for something like a new toolbar or search bar to be installed in your web browser to exploit your not paying close attention are also annoying as poo poo and I don't see how this should get a pass either.
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I Am Crake posted:Content is paid for by advertisers, allowing some non-intrusive ads to be shown helps content creators and rewards avertisers who ftfy
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Any expectation of trust in a developer goes right out the window when they explicitly promise that the software they are promoting will block ads and then intentionally allow ads to be shown by default when it's installed. Like hell I'm gonna let them decide what the words "some" and "non-intrusive" mean after pulling that poo poo.
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Isn't uBlock open source as well?
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Someone is trying to monetize a product/service that they don't charge for? loving shocking I tell you.
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I Am Crake posted:Oh no wait everything is always free and always will be, got it. The kind of advertising that Ublock blocks makes fractional percentages of pennies to the site host, throws malware and noisemakers onto websites, and shits cookies onto your browser to track your movements. Advertisers aren't held nearly as accountable as they should be. And if your first thought is "well that's just how the web works" then that is exactly why we need Ublock. bongwizzard posted:Someone is trying to monetize a product/service that they don't charge for? loving shocking I tell you. Monetization as a concept I'm fine with. It's when they 'monetize' by sneaking malware onto computers that I draw the fuckin' line.
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bongwizzard posted:Someone is trying to monetize a product/service that they don't charge for? loving shocking I tell you. That's why any modern blocker allows you to easily add exceptions to it. Like a dudes website? Tell ublock you don't want it to filter ads on his domain. Like a ladies YouTube channel? Tell ublock you don't want it filtering ads specifically on videos from her channel. For ublock, it's as easy as right clicking the icon by the address bar and clicking the option. It's the future. #wow #woah This is also ignoring more direct means of getting money to creative types you enjoy, such as Patreon, PayPal donations, or subscriptions such as Twitch's.
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So in Survivor Commercials, all they are talking about is how these pretty and/or intelligent people are going to get brutalized by the "brutes" on the island for the new season. I'm curious what's appealing about that, I mean so far, I've seen 3 commercials and all of them are the host yelling stop or he's down, or we need to evacuate, while blood poors from some poor man / womans face. Is there legit appeal in watching people get brutally victimized?
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TIL you can use the block element option in UBlock Origin to make duplicate ebay listings less annoying. There's still a space and a text listing to scroll past but you don't have to look at the same item 500 times because someone thought placing 500 ads with 1-cent price differences would make people want to buy their lovely product.
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bongwizzard posted:Someone is trying to monetize a product/service that they don't charge for? loving shocking I tell you. Dumb moves in marketing: making your advertising annoying enough that people seek out adblockers, shooting your business model in the foot. But unfortunately it only takes a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone.
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Skaw posted:more direct means of getting money pfft, as if anyone would pay money to use a forum, let alone pay extra for ad removal out of principle
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Sentient Data posted:pfft, as if anyone would pay money to use a forum, let alone pay extra for ad removal out of principle The other benefit is one dude donating a fiver is already putting more money in a persons pocket than several thousands of ad views ever would. Not only do people have to contend with the tenths/hundredths of a penny per view, they also only get a check after a certain value threshold is met or it just keeps rolling over month after month until the value is cumulatively met. Internet ads are poo poo for income. They should definitely just be seen as a little bonus rather than the main way for you to make money on the net. Donations, subs, and to a lesser extent affiliates, are much more lucrative and personally engaging while being absolutely unintrusive. They're also way less painful to deal with. I know Google Adsense is extremely strict, which makes sense since it's one of the better ad deals you can get. But some dickhead refreshing your webpage over and over again will cause Google to look at you like you're someone trying to game the system and pull you from their program pretty quickly until you can prove otherwise. Skaw has a new favorite as of 01:53 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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I love adblock just because watching internet marketing people flail impotently, swearing that they're totally going to get adblocker software declared illegal because mumble mumble and then they'll get to keep their cushy SEO jobs forever, is funny as gently caress.
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Skaw posted:Internet ads are poo poo for income. They should definitely just be seen as a little bonus rather than the main way for you to make money on the net. Donations, subs, and to a lesser extent affiliates, are much more lucrative and personally engaging while being absolutely unintrusive. They're also way less painful to deal with. I know Google Adsense is extremely strict, which makes sense since it's one of the better ad deals you can get. But some dickhead refreshing your webpage over and over again will cause Google to look at you like you're someone trying to game the system and pull you from their program pretty quickly until you can prove otherwise. An LP group from a number of years ago lost their Google Adsense license because of a huge spike in activity on their website. The reason for the spike? They actually launched their site. They had the site up and running for some amount of time before that, but didn't advertise it until it was good and ready.
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Turtlicious posted:Is there legit appeal in watching people get brutally victimized? Uh yeah,
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I keep seeing this Cisco ad about how you can use their services to work from anywhere, with a woman and a man communicating over a video chat across the world. This sounds reasonable, but the conversation consists of her impatiently telling the man that they needed a job done the day before, and then sighing at his explanation before saying "Alright then. Have a great Monday." He responds "It's Tuesday here, but thank you." It's hard to explain without the video but the message I get from it is "Cisco: passive-aggressively hate your coworkers from anywhere."
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Cleretic posted:An LP group from a number of years ago lost their Google Adsense license because of a huge spike in activity on their website. WOW. Which LP group was this?
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Sleeveless posted:I love adblock just because watching internet marketing people flail impotently, swearing that they're totally going to get adblocker software declared illegal because mumble mumble and then they'll get to keep their cushy SEO jobs forever, is funny as gently caress. I love this, because it's one of the most... Big Business (TM) ways to go about it. Obviously, not every site can go "Hey, we saw you're blocking the ads. Could you... Not? I know, they suck, but they help keep LParchive/dongs.org/swap-avi-archive.net running, so please?", but I'm sure that a lot of people are sympathetic to that kind of message (I know that the first thing I did when switching to uBlock was to whitelist LParchive, even though I don't visit all that often).
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Serperoth posted:I love this, because it's one of the most... Big Business (TM) ways to go about it. Obviously, not every site can go "Hey, we saw you're blocking the ads. Could you... Not? I know, they suck, but they help keep LParchive/dongs.org/swap-avi-archive.net running, so please?", but I'm sure that a lot of people are sympathetic to that kind of message (I know that the first thing I did when switching to uBlock was to whitelist LParchive, even though I don't visit all that often). Seriously, it's so delicious. quote:I can't quite believe I'm saying this, but how about suing the ad blockers out of existence?
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Henchman of Santa posted:I keep seeing this Cisco ad about how you can use their services to work from anywhere, with a woman and a man communicating over a video chat across the world. This sounds reasonable, but the conversation consists of her impatiently telling the man that they needed a job done the day before, and then sighing at his explanation before saying "Alright then. Have a great Monday." He responds "It's Tuesday here, but thank you." That ad sounds awesome. Somebody in that agency has dealt with one too many terrible project managers.
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Maybe it's just me, but I feel like YouTube Red is either a really clever name choice or a really hilariously bad one. Nobody familiar with RedTube isn't going to make that connection.
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TheKennedys posted:Maybe it's just me, but I feel like YouTube Red is either a really clever name choice or a really hilariously bad one. Nobody familiar with RedTube isn't going to make that connection.
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Strudel Man posted:It's an odd choice to begin with. "Red" isn't really associated with the premium or otherwise better version of something, as for example "gold" would be. Red is YouTube's color. It's in the logo and it's the color of everything from the play button to the progress bar to the "Subscribe" button.
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Strudel Man posted:It's an odd choice to begin with. "Red" isn't really associated with the premium or otherwise better version of something, as for example "gold" would be. Red carpet. Red letter day.
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It just makes me think of Kamel Reds, and I'm not even a smoker.
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TheKennedys posted:Maybe it's just me, but I feel like YouTube Red is either a really clever name choice or a really hilariously bad one. Nobody familiar with RedTube isn't going to make that connection. I think of that every time I see it somewhere. Always causes me a brief moment of confusion like, wow, we're at that point in the future now where we can just talk about watching porn like we talk about watching TV shows? Because it's always in some chill context like "Now you can watch all your favorites ad-free on Youtube Red."
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Serperoth posted:I love this, because it's one of the most... Big Business (TM) ways to go about it. Obviously, not every site can go "Hey, we saw you're blocking the ads. Could you... Not? I know, they suck, but they help keep LParchive/dongs.org/swap-avi-archive.net running, so please?", but I'm sure that a lot of people are sympathetic to that kind of message (I know that the first thing I did when switching to uBlock was to whitelist LParchive, even though I don't visit all that often). One site had little images under their ads that said that, and I felt bad so I unblocked them. Within loading the page one more time I had 2 full screen pop ups, an autoplay unmuted video ad and a bunch of lovely flashing colour ones. Never trust advertising, ever.
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dog days are over posted:WOW. Which LP group was this? That was the Freelance Astronauts, who were big in the subforum at the time. Don't remember exactly when that was.
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Sleeveless posted:Red is YouTube's color. It's in the logo and it's the color of everything from the play button to the progress bar to the "Subscribe" button. For every one who has the normal content, who did not pay for anything special. If YT's main colour was green and the pay-service was YT RED then I'd get it, but "pay money to have YT now in red" just doesn't ring true, you know?
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I don't know why they don't make it more clear that Youtube Red also includes the subscription to Google Music. It's not a bad deal if you plan to use both. They should make a bigger thing about it in the ads.
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Cleretic posted:An LP group from a number of years ago lost their Google Adsense license because of a huge spike in activity on their website. I only really lost like, barely even 4 buck a month but still, gently caress Adsense.
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