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Save it only for the worst scammers then

I created a very simple but fun way to screw with spammers. The next time someone e-mails you to sell SEO services, or outsourced IT or needs a way to transfer millions with you ge…

I created a bot that sorts my inbox contacts to MailChimp and Pipedrive. Saves me hours of copy-pasting...

The Next Web experimented with a pro account that removed ads. That has been discontinued but the site is still very much alive.

I don't think advertising is a antiquated but banners are. We are trying something new and this is it. It's new and needs to be fine-tuned but we hope it will be less annoying than…

I think adblockers will catch up soon enouygh, and that's fine.

Got it. We will try to fix that by providingg clearer instructions and maybe speeding up the animation.

Point taken. We will try to improve/fix both issues.

We don't mention the 'c' key anywhere yet and have only implemented it a few days ago after a reader suggested it. We are testing it now and really like it so will make it more cle…

I'll focus on proving more clear instructions for now based on your feedback.

All great feedback. Will how much we can implement and how fast.

As I said in other comments: that's fine. And we will improve our ads even more over time.

Hmm no, thats now how that works. If you browse aroudn the site we don't show the ad. If you visit new from twitter or google or facebook we show yyou the ad once. When you go to a…

As far as I know adblockers aren't blocking our Canvas ads yet. I don't mind if they do though. I think it is better to give up trying to make money on people who really hate ads a…

I thought about that a lot of course! I'm the founder and CEO of TNW and worked on the canvas ad with the design & dev team for months. We do know some people absolutely hate ads. …

That's too bad. We did test it extensively and although some people were distracted by the ads, they do understand theres a post hovering on the right that wants to move back into …

I agree that's ironic and something we (I'm TNW's CEO and worked closely with the dev them on this) should work on. I also believe we built this for the future and computers will c…

That looks awful and somethign we should fix. Passed it on to #dev. Boris (CEO TNW)

That would be a shame because we can produce some awesome content because we have an advertising model that works. Also, if you visit TNW through the front page you won't see an ad…

A screenshot doesn't do it much justice. What other people don't see is that the article is moving in a bit and a hover or 'c' key moves it in completely. If you think the ad looks…

I wrote that. I'm the founder and CEO of TNW and came up with part of the Canvas ad. After I pitched the idea of developing a sexy interstitial that would work intuitively and easy…

We do a similar thing when (annoying) sales people call. You can try to get rid of them as soon as possible. But it is more annoying to them to keep them occupied as long as possib…