"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> At 05:02 PM 10/14/2002 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Someone on another mailing list I'm on posted a link for Ad Death, which
> >kills most banner ads.
> >
> >http://www.jonathanclark.com/ad_death/
> >
> >Has anyone here used it? I'd like more than one person's recommendation
> >before I decide whether or not to download it.
>
> Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various
> ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software
> companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from
> recouperating the costs of maintaining these websites?
Actually, if I could *pick* the sorts of ads I were being subjected to,
I wouldn't mind very much. It's just extremely annoying to have to wait
for the ad to load before the rest of the page does, and leave me
staring for a bit at something I really, really don't want to click
through to. If there were some sort of smart system that I could enter
preferences into, such that I got ads that I were more likely to be
interested in, I'd take advantage of it.
The closest thing I've had to that is with Weatherbug; they let you pick
your sponsor. And even then, when they started with that, I found a
sponsor I was happy having ads pop up for (insofar as I'm happy about
ads popping up), but then that contract expired, and I was left with,
well, as far as I was concerned, junk to pick from. So I picked the
least offensive, but I'm still not entirely happy.
If someone were to create a system whereby you could select criteria for
ads to be loaded on your computer, I bet that would only help the
sponsors and create something closer to a win-win situation for
everyone. (I mean, please, a pop-up ad for Viagra? That's the last
thing I need. Pop-up ad for Sports Illustrated isn't so bad, just
annoying, and I'm not likely to subscribe until I no longer have kids in
diapers; and speaking of kids in diapers, if I only got ads for
baby/child things for awhile, I'd be *really* happy. OK, those and DVD
releases.)
Julia
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