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ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Sagebrush posted:

a company tricked them into buying a lovely product by lying about its quality. that's extremely effective advertising, granted, but it only works repeatedly on the terminally stupid (gamers).

no one else is going to keep pre-ordering products from the same company that burns them like that over and over again.

lol let me introduce you to dyp and all the samsung fans therein

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



LastInLine posted:

lol let me introduce you to dyp and all the samsung fans therein

i imagine the overlap of gamers and samsung fans is pretty much a circle

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

BONGHITZ posted:

gently caress a ad

ultimate custom avatar combo

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

pagancow posted:

lol websites have little value. got it.

online advertising is, by and large, worthless

the only meaningful exception is google search

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


BONGHITZ posted:

gently caress a ad

agreed, comrade

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
"in dealing with advertisers you must remember that they are professional liars"

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



blocking ads is a moral imperative imo

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

defending ads is just contrarianism

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

do hipsters view ads ironically?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

LastInLine posted:

do hipsters view ads ironically?

do pretzels make you thirsty?

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
if blocking ads is bad/illegal i should be able to sue sites that push malvertising onto my precious compy

til then ill block the ads!

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


I blocked an ad today

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

blocking ads is not illegal

website owners can block viewers as well, it goes both ways if they want.

But that's a stupid arms race with everybody losing.

Instead the content becomes the ad, then u reach peak advertising and you go full consumerism and something something something, you thirst for ads, something something something, $4,000 camera

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
the gimmick has begun to break down

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

i have never been more tempted to quote stymie in my life

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


Asymmetric POSTer posted:

i have never been more tempted to quote stymie in my life

I found a workaround, hold on

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


the gimmick has begun to break down

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
at least include a citation

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


and create a wormhole? I don't think so

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



i love sites that break when u block ads:

https://twitter.com/GarbageDotNet/status/896213457929871360

e: this is more lovely design i guess but still fuckin ads *shakes fist*

Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Aug 21, 2017

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Why bother catering to customers who bring you no income?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

pagancow posted:

Why bother catering to customers who bring you no income?

data collection is being the big one

e: i guess that falls under income but not ad income

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

100 sticky paying customers are worth more than 1,000 freeloaders who will just go somewhere else when your js is tied to page load

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



but it was in their support portal. and only their support portal. and im not a paying customer, i was just trying to lodge a missing item enquiry as the recipient of an item that had gone missing in the post.

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

pagancow posted:

Why bother catering to customers who bring you no income?

because organic "sharing" drives visitor counts

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

the problem with this entire argument is that the ad-funded content is trash and we'd have a much easier time navigating the internet without it

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

pagancow posted:

100 sticky paying customers are worth more than 1,000 freeloaders who will just go somewhere else when your js is tied to page load

let's be realistic

it's more like 100 sticky paying customers for every million freeloaders, of which 100,000 will go somewhere else when you force them to view your insipid garbage

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
i wouldn't mind paying for good content, except i know they'd still shove ads down my throat. also the content would still suck because why make an attempt at actual journalism when you can just copy/paste a press release and call it an article

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

lol post more ads

https://weather.com/science/space/video/best-place-to-watch-eclipse

Weather channel promo for total solar eclipse

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Suspicious posted:

i wouldn't mind paying for good content, except i know they'd still shove ads down my throat. also the content would still suck because why make an attempt at actual journalism when you can just copy/paste a press release and call it an article

hmm maybe if people just watched the ads harder they could hire more journalists instead of keeping up their AP/Reuters subscription!

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
solar eclipse news stories are just a conspiracy by Big Solar Eclipse to sell more solar eclipse

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

pagancow posted:

lol post more ads

there are some really great ones out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_taxBRRZ6s

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
https://vimeo.com/215045337

syscall girl fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Aug 21, 2017

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



double lol

Only registered members can see post attachments!

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

triple lol you use amberpos

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

syscall girl posted:

triple lol you use amberpos

My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!

wtf is this

did someone hack the forums???

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

syscall girl posted:

there are some really great ones out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_taxBRRZ6s

yes fast food advertising industry

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

My Linux Rig posted:

wtf is this

did someone hack the forums???

i can't get a vimeo to imbed in bbcode

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Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE

pagancow posted:

lol post more ads

https://weather.com/science/space/video/best-place-to-watch-eclipse

Weather channel promo for total solar eclipse

the only good part of The Weather Channel was their actual forecasting/data science division which they sold off to IBM so they could stuff it into Watson because they're desperate for that division to save them now that mainframes aren't a cash cow

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