Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and Some Tragic Words)
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Re: Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and Some Tragic Words)
#2The ads help pay for the service. If they are that intrusive choose something else.
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#3I just don't understand this. I hardly ever see the ads and when I do, they don't bother me. Why take such extreme measures? If the ads bother someone that much, why not use a different service or pay for one? Seems to me the cure is worse than the disease.
Re: Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and Some Tragic Words)
#4Uhm....ever heard of Adblock Plus?
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#5I just don't understand this. I hardly ever see the ads and when I do, they don't bother me. Why take such extreme measures? If the ads bother someone that much, why not use a different service or pay for one? Seems to me the cure is worse than the disease.
It's still a clever hack. Some hacks are beautiful, even if not "profitable".
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#6On a related topic: what do people think about ad blocking technology from an ethical viewpoint?
For me, I think I use the same screwy morality that I use when I'm downloading music...I don't mind stealing from wildly successful artists/businesses, but I'll gladly pay full price for a CD or click on an ad for someone who's just trying to pay the bills.
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#7i agree, i don't find the sidebar ads to be obtrusive. i don't even notice them. i do notice the ad above the email contents on occasion and they've been pretty useful to me.
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#8I just don't understand this. I hardly ever see the ads and when I do, they don't bother me. Why take such extreme measures? If the ads bother someone that much, why not use a different service or pay for one? Seems to me the cure is worse than the disease.
It's still a clever hack. Some hacks are beautiful, even if not "profitable".
To me the hack is not about wanting to hide the ads, it's about revealing the details of Google's decision and algorithm to hide ads on "tragic" emails. (I especially love the fact that you need one tragic word for every 167 non-tragic words.)
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#9On a related topic: what do people think about ad blocking technology from an ethical viewpoint? For me, I think I use the same screwy morality that I use when I'm downloading music...I don't mind stealing from wildly successful artists/businesses, but I'll gladly pay full price for a CD or click on an ad for someone who's just trying to pay the bills.
If the ads are presented in a nice way (no animated flash popups with sound (or any subset)), are for something good and not delivered through a data-mining ad network, I don't mind. Those will often get through my ad blocking filters all by themselves.
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#10The ads help pay for the service. If they are that intrusive choose something else.
Some people get a lame thrill off of making sure that someone else doesn't get money.