Comments on: the blog is advertising free, again/2020/04/04/the-blog-is-advertising-free-again/various and sundry notionsSat, 04 Apr 2020 15:36:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: whbeebe/2020/04/04/the-blog-is-advertising-free-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1388Sat, 04 Apr 2020 15:36:52 +0000/?p=4778#comment-1388In reply to Marc Beebe.

With regards to ad blockers, I’m not sure I believe they work as well as they claim. Better to just remove them to begin with.

That ad placement right in front of you is another reason I decided to just remove the damn things.

The reason Facebook et. el. get so much money is based on clicks, or “click through”. And they can measure them, and charge based on how many clicks. The includes the fine folks doing click fraud with malware all over the web. If the clicks weren’t there then the money wouldn’t be either. And never underestimate stupid. The same level of stupid that keeps our spam folders so full, because there’s somebody stupid enough to follow through. Remember, 63 million idiots voted for Trump in 2016.

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]]>By: Marc Beebe/2020/04/04/the-blog-is-advertising-free-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1386Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:50:49 +0000/?p=4778#comment-1386Ad Blocker: never use the Internet without one.
I agree with you about the lack of ethical standards in the ads, but that is pervasive. Even our local supermarket puts promotions for so-called “immune boosting” products in their sales flyers. Companies argue they can’t edit content, but at the same time have the legal right to reject any ads for whatever reason. They simply don’t bother to.
The other annoying thing about the ads is placement: smack in your face we-are-more-important-than-what-you’re-trying-to-read. They will never learn that an unobtrusive and inoffensive ad will go further towards selling the product than a screaming poor-taste lie-in-the-face will. In fact the majority of ads on the Internet probably turn people away from companies rather than attract them. If businesses ever realize how ineffective Facebook “targeted” ads are the mighty social web site would lose almost all its revenue.

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