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Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
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Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
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No offense take. I'm not an entrepreneur. ;) But if I ever do come up with an awesome idea, I'm determined I'll create it and make money off of it without putting up adverts. I hate adverts with a burning passion and I'm not about to force them down my potential users throats.
Advertising is one of the only ways to monetize free visitor aspects and paths. Advertising is one of the last American innovative markets. As soon as you start trying to bring any type of content that that is free, I am sure you will change your ways. Blocking ads is like anti-bacterial soap. It makes your immunity to these things much lower if that is why you are so bothered by ads. Block ads on sites that you don'…
Agreed. Personally, I find advertising much less annoying than having to pay for things directly, especially online where it's still easy to phish. The only ads I block are the obnoxious Flash ones.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#73Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#74If it sucks less than firefox, when the linux version comes out. Im to lazy to reboot to windows to try it out right now, and i usually switch a few weeks after something new comes out.
It is definitely faster and has a nice interface to boot.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
No offense take. I'm not an entrepreneur. ;) But if I ever do come up with an awesome idea, I'm determined I'll create it and make money off of it without putting up adverts. I hate adverts with a burning passion and I'm not about to force them down my potential users throats.
Advertising is one of the only ways to monetize free visitor aspects and paths. Advertising is one of the last American innovative markets. As soon as you start trying to bring any type of content that that is free, I am sure you will change your ways. Blocking ads is like anti-bacterial soap. It makes your immunity to these things much lower if that is why you are so bothered by ads. Block ads on sites that you don'…
There are lots of ways to monetize free sites. See Kayak or TicketStumbler. There's also the freemium service.
The reality of ad blocking software (which is spreading quickly and won't stop until it's as ubiquitous as popup blocking is now) is that you'll have to find a better, more integrated business model at some point.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#76I will be moving to chrome when it gets extensions!
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#77Perhaps when there is a stable linux client.
agreed
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advertising is one of the only ways to monetize free visitor aspects and paths. Advertising is one of the last American innovative markets. As soon as you start trying to bring any type of content that that is free, I am sure you will change your ways. Blocking ads is like anti-bacterial soap. It makes your immunity to these things much lower if that is why you are so bothered by ads. Block ads on sites that you don'…
There are lots of ways to monetize free sites. See Kayak or TicketStumbler. There's also the freemium service. The reality of ad blocking software (which is spreading quickly and won't stop until it's as ubiquitous as popup blocking is now) is that you'll have to find a better, more integrated business model at some point.
My hunch is that ad blocking is a huge threat to Google. So if they can control the browser space...
I still don't know why IE doesn't ship with ad blockers. Would it hurt them? Perhaps in the short run. But in the long run, it would do far more damage to G.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#79Chrome will not interest me until there is some ad-blocking available. Yes, it is superior to anything else out there, but my killer app for the web is still being able to surf the web sans irritating advertising.
why is ad-blocking so important?? please someone explain me...
In FF it helped keep some sites from dogging my cpu
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#80Not until Chrome gets extensions/addons. I absolutely cannot live without ad blocking, better tab management, NoScript and my check-multiple-gmail-accounts addons.
I always found it somewhat contradictory and hypocritical that the very people that live off ad-based websites (webbased entrepreneurs and founders) are so highly correlated with the group of people that absolutely cannot live without adblocking software - thereby robbing the siteowners of their income model. Note: spydez - this isn't in any way meant as a personal attack, it just seemed like the right place to put m…
I could care less if ad-based websites come or go. Communities will emerge regardless.