The Net is Dying

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• 1 Devro // Feb 7, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  Seriously man stop being such a tight ass, people dont visit the net to be bombarded with advertising. What you do with your own site is your business but i cant imagine you making much money off this site anyway. I run a gaming website and ive spent lots of money on it and brought in a fair bit too, but nowhere near enough to cover the cost of running it. Its a sad day when people only make websites to make money, the internet is a information resource and a way of communicating with each other. I think many people including yourself have forgotten that.

  I got no problem with you so dont take this personally but your post has just seriously wound me up, as if anyone needs to read that garbage anyway. Start talking sense mate, because theres no way you can make me feel bad for using ad blockers when google is raking it in. Its not even like they own the net or you for that matter, its for everyone to share and enjoy. That doesnt happen when im bombarded with rubbish adverts here there and everywhere crashing my net.

• 2 Doughful // Feb 9, 2008 at 10:06 pm

  I think the problem is that there are too many people on the net who think that hosting thier own website is providint to those who visit it. If the problem is that these people don’t earn enough to cover the hosting charge, then the problem is thier own. The death of websites through lack of funds is a cull to all those sites who feel as though they aught to make money from nothing but the fact that it exists to service people to visit. If you accept that buying a host package is not going to service users who ‘use it’, but a service to your own web ambitions for the users ‘to use’, that’s when net would be a better place.

  The issue with add-blockers is not really there. People who use ad blockers are the people who wouldn’t even consider clicking the links anyway. Web ads in general must be the most patronising, ugly and downright idiotic things that exist in media gateways, aimed squarely at idiots, children and generally mis-informed users. Some ads I can live with, such as those that are tasteful and interesting. I can accept them in the same way as I would accept the billboards as I walk down the street. You aren’t forced to look, but people would tend to anyway as they can bring a bit of colour and interest to an otherwise blank wall. What I’m talking about here are the banner ads that exist on media websites, such as games, movies and books. I would only consider blocking them if they are irritating or intrusive. That’s exactly how ads should be handled. People block them when they cross the line of acceptability. I think the net has learned since, I don’t know if you were a user some 8+ years ago, but back then web ads weren’t so much the livelyhood of providers, as they were the scourge and deathbringers to those that would accept the service they were suggested to have been recieving. These days, net ads are much less, although, the net is much more. There isn’t a connection with the amount of ad popups and the wealth of the internet to provide itself.

  One of the great things of the internet today is to provide to users the gateway to voice your oppinions, to deliver service to people who you don’t otherwise have access to, and to promote your own individualism. People listen when content is of interest to them, when they are open to the delivery and of the payback. Intrusive ads are not what web users are looking for, and the ad blockers in my oppinion will only improve the delivery that web providers utilise in order to draw out and economise those that are looking to be attracted.

  Try to think who it is who is providing and delivering a service, and those that are expected to pay for it, and then make judgment on webusers who do nothing but partake and the suggestability of users in thier web habits.

  It’s not the users that are killing the net, it’s people who rely on thier particular behaviour, such as yourself.

• 3 Simon Bennett // Feb 11, 2008 at 8:43 pm

  I am not that bothered if you block my ads, because i post for fun etc not money.

  The thing that really does get on my nerves is spam!!

  Simon

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• 5 Daniel // Mar 22, 2008 at 7:37 pm

  I don’t have adverts on my site because its not worth it. My site costs me a lot to run (spent about £400 since it started 3 years ago) but I do it for the love of the site. Ads are annoying and I’m quite happy to have adblocker plus on.

• 6 Website Design Derby // Jun 9, 2008 at 5:44 pm

  Google Actually Banned my Adsense account after it had grown upto a $300 balance, and did so 4 days before the cheque was supposed to be sent.

  Your point is a total fail, in every single aspect.

  The internet is dieing because its all ADVERTS, too many Adsense BS Sites etc etc…

  The internet is being swamped with sites that sell “Local Adds”, a paid directory “the next yell.com” as they say… their spamming the search engine results, but to be honest the adverts are the things that are totally messing up the net!

• 7 Marc // Aug 17, 2008 at 2:02 am

  Just to follow up my comment in your later post, what’s wrong with getting tired of looking at those ridiculous “push the button” banners, or those moronic ads that try to trick unsuspecting people into “closing” them by actually clicking on them? It’s 2008, and yet you can still see them when you’re not using an adblocker!

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