Does anyone else look at the Advertisement?

I seem to when reading manga or typing in the forums watch the repetitious advertisement on the screen for alot longer then belive i do anyone else?

Do you mean banner ads, or video ads? Banner ads never go away, and video ads are meant to stay a while; the long the ad is, the moar money the hosting makes.


Ad Block is your friend.

Support websites by keeping Adblock off.

I go on with my phone quite a lot, so I do look at the Ads at times, but just a glance. I installed Adblock on my laptop because I hate the ads on other sites that I go to.

AdBlock. I don't see ads unless I open Chrome for the first time or if ABP fucks up.

I find it really derp funny when I accidently would download the advertisement .gif video instead of whatever I'm watching cause my video downloader off browser allows me to save any videos active on browser.


And akwardly enough grey boxes with red crossout circles caused by add blocking seems much more menacing In an ascetic pov then just letting that adds play idk I guess I'm weird like that

Good point

I support some websites with Adblock

Not this one though. It already has its own store. Probably will buy something.

The problem with using Adblock is that the ads won't just go away, they'll get worse. You can't make ads go away. They absolutely must find you, because that's pretty much every popular website's method of earning the necessary income to run it. It's not optional.

The only exception I know of is Wikipedia, which is constantly asking for donations, but things aren't looking good in that department. They used to ask for each user to give a dollar, but now it's three dollars, and it's not so much the money as much as it is the hassle to actually stop what you're doing and go through the process of donating.

Seriously, if too many people block ads, I guarantee you'll just get something even more intrusive that you *can't* block, like ads placed in-between pages.

Personally, I'd prefer a subscription model. Give donating users a few unique perks, let them navigate with fewer ads, give some traffic priority, and access to one or two very nice things, and I'd be on board. Heck, even a unique forum would be nice. Then no one could argue with you, ever, unless they pay for the opportunity.

I beg to differ.



The problem with that is it's far too easy to abuse it. Pages that open like that (especially ones that open a dialogue box when you X out of it) are renowned for installing Trojans and Malware without your knowledge or consent, so I don't think that would happen. Plus if there's enough demand someone will develop an add-on to block those ads as well.

You know depending on what they make premium if they where to do so imo would dictate the the overall feel of the website, like it could become a pay for porn, where only certain non popular stuff will be available to general public, or it could be like crunchyroll where anime is available just not the brandnew stuff and you have to deal with super annoyingcomercials, or pay for forum rights which I guess makes it feel more like a country club in tje sense you pay to interact with people from a community, but it also makes it seem non sensible in that right too. How is fakku funding anyway? Cause they are a completly free website, so as long as they dont expand too much it should be fine. This might also be the reason wikipedia sticks to donations as well.

Fixed.

It's a pretty useful tool, and I sure as heck won't turn it off because I might accidentally cause a few sites to lose a couple pennies.

Oh shit Snivy's back.

>not mudkip
>not rayquaza
go away snivy
i no lik u

I use to have snivy theme'd avi's all the time.

Also
>having a rayquaza themed avi
>looking like an autistic and edgy faggot

Pick both.

I haven't seen an ad here for years.

Seriously, want to help the site without using any money? Click a banner ad. You can close it before it even loads, and with browsers having built-in pop-up blockers, it's not going to harm anyone, but the site would benefit tremendously, no kidding.

I'm guessing they're all using the basic click-count method to generate ad revenue, and the more clicks there are, the sturdier the site is to maintain, and hence, the more both the site owner and the advertiser will be happy, and so the site remains steadily maintained as free.

EDIT: Dude, the -rep is a little crazy, it's just the reality of how all free sites that require advertising work. I'm sorry to all the kids who think they're totally exempt from such an inconvenient fact that clashes with that magnificent delusion of entitlement.

Sorry, love, but I'll have to guarantee that you're wrong. Sites have used insanely invasive means in the past to present ads before--infinitely more invasive means than you have proposed or could imagine, I assure you--to directly combat things like Adblock and such, and everyone in the marketing community knows that if you make your site too obtrusive, people will just leave. It's happened a million and a half times before, and every time it happens, people lose money.

People go to marketing schools for years to avoid doing things like that.



I'm sure Jacob would have a sum of qualms with the idea proposed, but you'll have to talk to him about that.



Once again, love, you are wrong; The counters used to detect clicks often require the use of cookies (often filled with complex functions to stop fraud), making it so if you close the page before it has fully loaded, you won't be generating anything for the site you're supporting (hell, clicking at all isn't 100% due to caching errors and the like).

I'm sorry to say it, dear, but you seem quite ignorant of the mechanisms of both programming and marketing in play.

Kinda scumbagish.