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It's only for a prototype (and the budget is - in theory - endless)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: and the budget is - in theory - endless)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
That sounds promising!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Yup. Same thing I saw regularly before my content blocker obliterated most of them. They either frantically push something I already bought (often including from the vendor I bought it from), decided not to buy, or was only researching for someone else and had no intention to ever buy. I can only thing of 1 or 2 times when the ads were for something I was researching but hadn't decided to buy yet. Oddly enough, none of the vendors who were stalking me in ads got the sale. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And that, my friend, is the scam that is "big data".
You buy a hat, you'll get nothing but hat ads. But marketers insist they need to spy on you in order to "give you relevant ads you actually want to see". Don't buy into that lie, they're still clueless.
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If Microsoft stopped making browsers, developers would spend less time and electricity trying to make their web apps / sites work in IE when they work perfectly fine in all the other browsers.
IE 11 / Edge included. What a joke.
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Or ... developers could stop making web apps/sites, turn off their computers and go and do something that doesn't require electricity at all instead! It's not like we haven't got enough to be going on with, now is it? 
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Shut down Facebook at night.
Heck, no, on second thought, that means even more people will do that during the day instead.
Shut it down permanently?
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I am seeing more and more websites asking for an adblock removal, and more and more articles on programming forums about blocking adblockers. This seems to take the same path as the tank vs. rocket where the former gets layers of shielding added while the latter gets multiple perforating charges added.
But why do websites need blocker of adblocks ?
People do not click on online ads, so adblocks do not prevent revenue because people do not go there first place anyway.
And once the ad placement has been paid by a company, why should the website care about whether the user disables them on his side ? Do ad-buying companies really request ads to be effectively displayed, no matter what program the user runs ? This is a lost battle...
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Rage wrote: People do not click on online ads, so adblocks do not prevent revenue because people do not go there first place anyway.
I get revenue from ads on my website, people do click on the ads.
I have to do this because people are not willing to pay for or donate for the software despite the hundreds of thousands of downloads against my software(so the software can't be completely crap).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I get revenue from ads on my website, people do click on the ads
Unless it is blocked; which I keep doing. Not just from a security-point, as it is serving all kind of outdated flash and silverlight, also to limit the cost of my communications.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think you have a completely valid argument here.
I don't care for ads, but I don't mind them either.
The only time I even mind ads is when they:
1) automatically start playing a video -- annoying and resource intensive
2) automatically start playing audio -- annoying
3) force me to click something to close them so I can read the content -- intrusive and slows me down
The ads at codeproject are okay, because they just display something and leave me alone.
It's a fair trade for the free content.
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I just now realized that I never noticed that CP has ads. I look at the site at home (with AdBlock) and at work (no AdBlock), and have never once noticed a difference in the site. Maybe CP is the one of the very few that know how to do ads correctly.
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At a personal level your post makes me happy because I try very, VERY hard to strike the right balance between advertising and experience. I hate annoying ads, and in fact we're a signee to the Acceptable Ads Manifesto (not that you'd know: they really need to update their site). However, software devs need to get the word out so that (a) they can earn a crust, and (b) they can make other software devs aware that what they are trying to write is already available.
So your post means "yay! I'm not annoying anyway", but it also means our ad sales team are crying into their coffees.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It took me awhile to find where they were, since I spend so much time in the middle of the page. The only ads I really find annoying are the ones that scroll with the page, play sound automatically, or even break the website.
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I enable ads via AdBlock Plus for certain sites, including CodeProject. Any site with intrusive ads, they are blocked. YouTube and such. I don't mind ads either, depending on how they're used. Sometimes they cover a site, sometimes not.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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There was an article on the BBC last week that asked if ad-blockers were heralding the end of the free internet with more sites choosing to charge for their use. Didn't bother reading it.
I see it like this.
In earlier days of slower connections ads were consuming lots of bandwidth and slowing down pages.
Nowadays such things wouldn't be an issue, but ads all too often block or interfere with use of a site.
Ad-blockers are not there (for most people) because they object to seeing ads, they are there because people object to crap web design that prevents them using sites properly.
A website I occasionally browse that is essentially a number of message boards recently bared users who had adblocking enabled. Thousands of users stopped using the site. They removed their adblocking blocking.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: message boards recently bared users who had adblocking enabled
That's taking the whole revenge pr0n thing a bit far isn't it?
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I use an adblocker because mostly the ads are a distraction: they animate, they flash, they annoy the heck out of me. Some are even deliberately designed to look like part of the website, so I click on it by mistake.
If I like a site and it's ad supported, then it can go on my adblock whitelist. But that will be rescinded if the ads are too intrusive. I've seen sites where it's hard to find the damn content without a blocker!
If a site won't let me in because of my use of an adblocker - there are plenty of sites out there that will...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Same here, to which I'll ad I also use ad blockers when the page is slow to load because of all the 3rd party crap they're bringing in (taboola clickbait container can EOADIAF). I'm also increasingly writing rules to get rid of native html that interferes with my use of the site: Historically links to random other articles injected in the middle of an article were the top offender for breaking the flow of my reading. Closely followed by divs that tried to follow as I scrolled down the article but moved jerkily or lagged the scroll noticeably (visual distractions). More recently, site headers and top of article graphics so big that they push the text to the bottom of the screen or off entirely are taking the bulk of my new block rules. Since most of the offenders do at least occasionally put something useful in the graphic that means I end up decapitating them and ripping all the site header information off instead.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Advertisers pay for views not for responses. The higher your 'circulation' the more you can charge. Ad blockers prevent 'impressions' so the page view does not count towards the 'circulation' figure. If the figures are sufficiently affected then advertisers will simply go elsewhere (TV, radio, print etc.) where they know they are not being 'censored'. It's no skin off their nose but it would effectively disable the Internet making it a luxury that only the wealthy (relatively) can afford.
It is not the purpose of the largest advertisers to pick up passing trade but to get brand recognition so that when you do need or want something that they supply at some later date theirs is the first name you think of. So clicks are almost irrelevant (what are the chances that they'll be advertising exactly what you want at exactly the time that you want it?) They want to be seen, even it's just in your peripheral vision or merely subliminal. Ad blockers mean that they don't get what they are paying for. Would you keep going back to a shop where you can buy anything you want as long as you don't remove it from the shelf?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Advertisers pay for views not for responses
Advertisers pay for views, or clicks, or downloads, or registrations, or visits to their site, or views of their webinar, or increased awareness of their product.
The days of pay-per-view ads being the dominant model are long, long gone.
Member 9082365 wrote: So clicks are almost irrelevant
Again I beg to differ: Cost-per-click is the primary business model of Google.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's the ones with sound that annoy the heck out of me. Videos that play or adverts that display over the content of the page that render so badly on mobile browsers, where you have to scroll to finds the 'X' to close it.
If they could go back to the banner/sidebar ads, I don't think anyone would be bothered about blocking them.
Then there's the fact that more people use mobiles now, and many of those have data limits, and I'm guessing adverts use more data than content on many pages.
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Seeing a trend whenever a discussion like this comes up... People don't block ads because they're ads... They block them because:
1) They're an increasingly-popular malware vector
2) Audio/Video ads are incredibly annoying and need to die
3) Ads that pretend to be part of the site are annoying and need to die
The mobile data argument is somewhat valid, but only really matters when category #2 above also applies, since a static image usually isn't that big a deal, assuming it's compressed properly.
So if sites would just go back to static images that don't try to trick you into clicking them, people probably wouldn't block them as much... Like some other geeks, I whitelist the sites that show reasonable ads, like CP...
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Totally agree, ad's have a place, after all, everything has a price, but some advertisers got greedy, which may lead to their own downfall.
It's only history repeating itself, again and again and again.
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It amazes me how "marketing types" think the Internet was created just as a portal for them to shove crap in my face. I've been in I.T. since 1982, and I can tell you the Internet got along just fine for the many years before ads first appeared.
99% of websites are just pulling content from other sites and slathering their stupid ads on top of it. Just do a search for a phone number. It's all garbage sites that just list every phone number so Google will pick up their page and show ads. That's what the Internet is becoming.
You want to block me because I block your ads? Go for it, I wouldn't want to visit a site like that anyway. What we need to do is create new content, by like minded people, create open source software, ad free sites running on open source OS and webservers, and marginalize the marketing jerks into oblivion where they belong.
Ads are the reason I junked my TV years ago. They are why I went Asterisk for my phone system so I could write my own telemarketer-jammer software. I won't allow a new computer to get on the open Internet until all ad-blocking software is in place and ready.
I HATE ads. It's WAR as far as I am concerned!
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