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Post by crazygringo »

neogodless wrote: post #238
crazygringo wrote: post #236

> If you want to support your favorite authors: send then money. A dollar helps more then viewing ads ever would. This isn't really true. I ran an ad-supported site at one point with my content, just a small banner at the top of each page. The ads paid for a significant portion of my monthly rent. Getting a few dollars from the occasional viewer would not, since 99.99+% of people are not going to do that. I don't lik…

Reread the statement though. Does one person viewing ads pay you more than one dollar?

But it's not one person viewing ads on just your site. It's across all the sites they visit.

A person viewing ads over the course of a year is generating much, much more than a dollar in revenue.

And in a parallel universe without ads, they're definitely not sending a dollar to every site they visit.

You can't compare one person who sends a dollar to a site with one person's ad revenue to a site, because as I said, 99.99+% of people are never going to send you a dollar.

The author is implying ads don't generate meaningful revenue but paying a dollar does. That's just false.

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Post by AlecSchueler »

brador wrote: post #206
nemomarx wrote: post #200

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If you really needed those things, you would have thought of getting them on your own time. Being tempted into it is consumerism and kinda why we're in this mess

The ads apply focus to a problem and suggest a possible solution. That focusing is the key to the benefit of letting them through the keyhole irregularly.

Could I interest you in a bridge?

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Post by skeeter2020 »

Theodores wrote: post #222
Vinnl wrote: post #194

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> I never see ads anywhere (and not just on the web: I never watch regular TV (I don't even have a TV), never listen to ads-supported radio stations, etc.) Ads in public places, bus stops, etc. are kinda hard to avoid unfortunately.

Get a bicycle and learn the car free routes into town and to your work. Nobody puts up adverts on cycle paths. It isn't against the law, it just makes no commercial sense to do so. By making the bicycle however you get about, you cut down on seeing ads.

this feels like a ridiculous sub-optimization, and I ride my bike pretty much everywhere

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Post by skeeter2020 »

rancidcrab wrote: post #216
Vinnl wrote: post #194

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> I never see ads anywhere (and not just on the web: I never watch regular TV (I don't even have a TV), never listen to ads-supported radio stations, etc.) Ads in public places, bus stops, etc. are kinda hard to avoid unfortunately.

But those are ok. They (usually) don't have sound, auto playing videos, shock content or cover something I want to look at.

billboards are still pretty obnoxious, especially when they block the view on say, a highway through a relatively undeveloped natural environment

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Post by nancyminusone »

grugagag wrote: post #239
mauvehaus wrote: post #220

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Have you filled a car with gas any time in the last ~5 years? The pumps around here (New England, USA) start playing ads with sound once you start pumping fuel. It's an absolute delight when your pump and the pump on the other side of your island are playing different ads with different audio or the same ad with the audio just out of sync. Usually, one of the soft buttons on the left or right edge of the screen is a…

I wonder what happens if you take a sharp object such a screwdriver and poke all the speakers…

There's no need to. If the unit is older than a few months, you'll find that the speakers have already been perforated.

This usually doesn't stop them from working, because people don't break the voice coil at the center.

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Post by Aurornis »

grugagag wrote: post #239
mauvehaus wrote: post #220

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Have you filled a car with gas any time in the last ~5 years? The pumps around here (New England, USA) start playing ads with sound once you start pumping fuel. It's an absolute delight when your pump and the pump on the other side of your island are playing different ads with different audio or the same ad with the audio just out of sync. Usually, one of the soft buttons on the left or right edge of the screen is a…

I wonder what happens if you take a sharp object such a screwdriver and poke all the speakers…

While being recorded from 6 different angles while standing next to your vehicle with a license plate on it?

You get arrested. That’s what happens.

Kiosk makers have already thought of all of these possibilities. There isn’t a nicely exposed speaker. It’s behind a metal plate with tiny holes in it.

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Post by psd1 »

mrheosuper wrote: post #136
dns_snek wrote: post #123

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Consider yourself lucky. Some of their A/B tests seem to be designed to psychologically torment you with videos "buffering" for 10-60 seconds before they start playing, navigation taking 15+ seconds. If that happens to you, this thread [1] is sometimes updated with manual workarounds that sometimes work: www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001) www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_ena…

>videos "buffering" for 10-60 seconds before they start playing Thanks, that explains a lot, why i sometime have trouble with youtube, while having perfectly fine internet connection.

I've noticed a big increase in time-to-first-content over the last few years, even on ever-increasing bandwidth and decreasing latency.

I should sniff traffic to find out why, but my assumption is that it's a mix of CRL bloat and code bloat.

Re: No adblocker detected

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Post by Aurornis »

mauvehaus wrote: post #220
rancidcrab wrote: post #216

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But those are ok. They (usually) don't have sound, auto playing videos, shock content or cover something I want to look at.

Have you filled a car with gas any time in the last ~5 years? The pumps around here (New England, USA) start playing ads with sound once you start pumping fuel. It's an absolute delight when your pump and the pump on the other side of your island are playing different ads with different audio or the same ad with the audio just out of sync. Usually, one of the soft buttons on the left or right edge of the screen is a…

I rarely see these any more (USA, not a small town). Could be the set of gas stations I visit doesn’t have them, but I do remember them being popular for a while. Now I haven’t seen one in a very long time.

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Post by sojournerc »

mauvehaus wrote: post #220
rancidcrab wrote: post #216

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But those are ok. They (usually) don't have sound, auto playing videos, shock content or cover something I want to look at.

Have you filled a car with gas any time in the last ~5 years? The pumps around here (New England, USA) start playing ads with sound once you start pumping fuel. It's an absolute delight when your pump and the pump on the other side of your island are playing different ads with different audio or the same ad with the audio just out of sync. Usually, one of the soft buttons on the left or right edge of the screen is a…

Someone has put caulking in many of speakers at my usual gas station. Not all heros wear capes.

Re: No adblocker detected

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Post by charcircuit »

bigfudge wrote: post #82
charcircuit wrote: post #76

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Your choice is to stop giving that place traffic.

When sites like these host a large part of our culture, I think it’s reasonable to think about non compliance because the alternative is essentially to become a digital hermit and not to be able to understand the world one is in. I never agreed to have all public spaces for Dr age ad-supported, for example. These illegal monopolies have made it impossible to talk to large chunks of the population without either watch…

Just because a place hosts culture, it doesn't mean that you are entitled for it. For example new movies are pay of culture, but that doesn't mean you should sneak in to a theater without buying a ticket because every movie theater requires paying. Compensating creators for their work is a part of experiencing creative works that are culturally relevant.
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