Current Events > Would you be okay with Wikipedia paying the bills with ads?

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Totally. I'll just block them
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It's actually astonishing they've been able to survive this entire time without ads
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Not really, as it creates a conflict of interest if they have to serve a commercial entity as a neutral fact based website.

It's an incredible resource, I'm happy chucking them a couple bucks now and again to stay independent.

What I don't understand is why they can't just stop Ads from being invasive bull shit. If a fucking video pops up in the middle of my screen, that's a bad ad. Why can't simple logos work in a corner or something like you see on a NASCAR car? Just make them clickable and when you do, it helps them (the companies with the ad space) even further witch in turn gives more money back to Wikipedia. For example, Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut pays them $1,000 a month to just have the ad on there, and then pays them an extra $50 for every click they get from their website

But no, we have to have terrible Ads that just block all the content you're trying to read. Make them better and then you'll get more money when people turn off ad block. But they're fucking jerks about how they show ads.

This is the Internet, not TV. Stop with the videos and stop with the huge extra windows that block up the entire page until you hit the X button
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Bad_Mojo posted...

What I don't understand is why they can't just stop Ads from being invasive bull shit. If a fucking video pops up in the middle of my screen, that's a bad ad. Why can't simple logos work in a corner or something like you see on a NASCAR car?

That's pretty much where I stand. If ads weren't such intrusive malarkey, less people would block them.
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Bad_Mojo posted...

What I don't understand is why they can't just stop Ads from being invasive bull shit. If a fucking video pops up in the middle of my screen, that's a bad ad. Why can't simple logos work in a corner or something like you see on a NASCAR car? Just make them clickable and when you do, it helps them (the companies with the ad space) even further witch in turn gives more money back to Wikipedia. For example, Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut pays them $1,000 a month to just have the ad on there, and then pays them an extra $50 for every click they get from their website

But no, we have to have terrible Ads that just block all the content you're trying to read. Make them better and then you'll get more money when people turn off ad block. But they're fucking jerks about how they show ads.

This is the Internet, not TV. Stop with the videos and stop with the huge extra windows that block up the entire page until you hit the X button

Yeah, that's definitely how ads should be. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to make all of these invasive ads that can even contain malware in them.
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