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i was more startled to learn in passing that yahoo was blocking people's email if they blocked ads. that one seems particularly desperate, given how the last thing yahoo needs now is more reasons for people to abandon them.
That one is right along the lines of 'the beatings will continue until morale improves'.
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Even more money? The delicious graphs at http://www.bildblog.de/auflage.php show twelve consecutive years of decline. That's not "even more money".
That's only offline sales. They know this business is dead and aggressively push their online services. I don't see a downward trend in their over-all profits: http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/451654/umfrage...
BTW I like your choice of adverb.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That one is right along the lines of 'the beatings will continue until morale improves'.
Or the beatings will continue until morale improves unless you notice the door is unlocked.
Oh well. It's like Music Lables vs Napster all over again. The funny twist is, Springer gives away content for free. They just imply that there is "some kind of contract" between a website provider an a visitor, that the visitor has to "pay" for the content by viewing Ads. Most people (especially in Germany) don't block Ads because they hate Ads. They block because they hate tracking, slow websites, bandwidth usage e…
Oh well. It's like Music Lables vs Napster all over again. The funny twist is, Springer gives away content for free. They just imply that there is "some kind of contract" between a website provider an a visitor, that the visitor has to "pay" for the content by viewing Ads. Most people (especially in Germany) don't block Ads because they hate Ads. They block because they hate tracking, slow websites, bandwidth usage e…
I started using iOS ad blockers on day one. Judging by the amount I have to recharge - I'm on pre paid - I use about 50% of the data I used to and spend proportionally less. I also stopped using the Twitter and Facebook apps in favour of the mobile web sites. I only see Twitter ads now. There really needs to be another model.
Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
"There was a wonderful quote from CBS this autumn that they’re less worried about PVR ad-skipping ‘because people are too busy with their smartphones to bother skipping ads anymore’." - http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/11/24/tv-mobile-and-...
This goes right to the heart of the issue so I felt it was worth highlighting: Who cares if they lock out their content? There are literally millions of news sources on the Internet, all (hilariously) copying each other's posts on what's trending in news, with often amusing (or horrifying) results when the stories are wrong. Oh, I can't read this story on Yahoo? Well I guess I'll just have to pick from the ten thousand freaking other copies of the same information available elsewhere.
We have TOO. MANY. NEWS. WEBSITES. The ad space isn't worth shit because the same ads are being pushed on millions of pages many times over, and the public is so desensitized to them at this point that the click rate is dropping like a safe.
If you work for one of these publishers, get a new job. Fast.