On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:51PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > If we don't look at the ads the advertisers won't pay anyone to put them > > there and the sites will all go away. > > It will no doubt come as a shock to you to learn that there are Web sites > that do not depend on banner ads for survival (www.debian.org, for > example). In fact, I cannot think of a single banner-ad-dependent site > that I would really miss. google also has no banner ads. (either that or they are so tasteful that i am not instantly annoyed by them like other sites) > If your advertisers want me to look at their ads all they need to do is > come up with content that interests me. So far none have. and present them in a reasonable fashion, the current trend of obnoxious, loud blinking, strobing animated ads is unnacceptable, it makes the page unusable/unreadable. (the privacy degradation attempts are also unacceptable) ask almost anyone who is or are planning to block ads why they are doing it and i bet you a quarter the above is the reason. maybe ad companies should take a hint? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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