Posted on 06/08/2016 7:51:19 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
I just have to get this off my chest, websites in general have become incredibly annoying! Videos play that I don't want to watch, I start reading something and a pop comes up asking me sign up for an email I will never ever read, flash ads give me the dizzy;s, your bullshit plugins give me script errors and on average you leave 10-15 tracking cookies.
And you folks are surprised people are using ad blocker? If someone comes up with annoying blocker you are screwed! Concentrate on user experience and then revenue, I just flat out leave websites I would usually spend more time on but you literally chase me away or lock up my browser.
I was putting up some reloading dies on GunBroker and when it came time to upload pictures, I got an error message that my Java program was out of date. I had to update before I could continue. Not happy.
Interesting.
I’ll check it out.
My combo of choice, too.
AdPlus is MUCH slower, heavier and memory hog vs uBlock Origin.
Likewise, Chrome is faster than IE and Edge.
“If there is information on your site that people want to see, they will pay market value for access to it.”
Not necessarily. You’re probably assuming that everyone earns in hard currencies. For those of us elswhere in the world, with currencies which are weak against eg. the USD, the costs could be prohibitive.
It’s not Java, but Javascripts that dominate websites these days. And not surprisingly, it’s these Javascripts that
are also the biggest security risks.
I stopped visiting Drudge when they started the annoying auto-reload.
I agree about Forbes. Most difficult sites I can manage to use with a little finagling of my AdBlock and NoScript settings. But Forbes is one site that I cannot access at all. I have given up on them. I'll bet the managers there are wondering why their web traffic seems to be lagging.
I don’t know how techwise you may be, but if you are ++ then try Firefox+NoScript+GreaseMonkey
Now that's funny! (You should try the toothpicks in the avocado pit method...)
Firefox users can use QuickJS. It is a simple toggle icon that turns javascript on or off. It solves the goofy reload problem at Drudge without the fine tuning NoScript requires.
| Yaelle, let me take a stab at a theory of what's going on. And I hope that others who are in the political arena or media will correct me where I'm wrong. A certain Halley's comet event occurs every 4 years. And that is the Presidential election cycle. And when that comet is visible, the media outlets see a huge dollar sign in the evening sky. And in this particular cycle, the comet was unusually bright because hundreds of millions were being spent on ads and editorial hit pieces. And unprecedented money was spent by the Bush, Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Carson, Christie, Bernie, and Hillary campaigns. Now Trump is a once in a lifetime celestial phenomenon. People like you and I were fascinated to hear what Trump had to say because he was fresh, honest, funny, and said things that everyone thought, but no politician or celebrity would dare say out loud. So that fueled tremendous excitement, news, and Trumpbots like you and me. Simultaneously, all Trump's competitors had to counter Trump by turning to rich globalists like FaceCrook and Golden Sacks to get the money to support writers and pundits who would talk on panels and produce thousands of hit pieces to destroy Trump. And the revenue tail of the Trump comet was so long, wide, and brilliant that well-known conservative pundit organizations like National Review, Town Hall, and Red State abandoned their principles to destroy Trump for the money. Breitbart, meanwhile, was actually sold to people who shifted the weight of coverage to Cruz. And at its height, you could not even view the Breitbart website unless you answered a poll question and left your email address -- which meant you would soon receive a fund raising letter and Cruz propaganda. Even well-respected outlets like the Rush Limbaugh Show found the money so enticing that it would periodically twist the truth to damage Trump in return for Cruz advertising money. No need for contracts here: when you got the money, you just UNDERSTOOD what you were expected to do. Fox News, the strongest of TV news networks also found itself in a happy dilemma. They not only wanted to draw the eyeballs of conservatives, but all comers. So they set it up so that certain people would be friendly to Trump (O'Reilly and Hannity) and others (like Meygn Kelly) would be 24/7 NeverTrump. In this way, they could offer shows for people of all Trump persuasions. And recently, you see Fox trying to reposition Kelly as more friendly to Trump, in part because there are few GOP opponents of Trump willing to speak out against him anymore. Now CNN and MSNBC are also interesting cases. They hate conservatives, of course, but the advertising money to support Trump coverage was so great that they temporarily abandoned their bias and spent money on covering and interviewing Trump. But now, all the gold doubloons with Warren Buffet's face on them are gone, so things have reverted back to normal. And CNN and MSNBC are -- reluctantly -- having to scrap money together from their traditional limited leftist funding channels and low-ball TV audiences. So that's my take. From reading FR for several months, this is how I piece the puzzle together. The overriding principle is: follow the money. |
Don’t forget their articles as slide shows with no option to view as 1 page.
A good read. Thanks.
Years ago Drudge was the thing that introduced me to FR, and for that I am thankful.
I’m never at a desk, iPad exclusively. So to read an article on a website, one has to be able to scroll. But the website keeps flashing and reloading so you cannot scroll down. Tapping the x’es of ads seems to symbolize that you are there: send you more crap. When this happens, I’m outa there. So the ads are not able to be effective.
On a normal site that isn’t hardcore like Breitbart, occasionally I will click on ads to see them. I have no problem per Se with ads. But when they actually STOP you from using the site, no.
Remember when “cable TV”, in exchange for a modest monthly charge, was supposed to deliver commercial-free entertainment?
Now, the monthly charge is anything but modest, the non-broadcast channels are loaded with commercials, and actual entertainment is almost impossible to find?
That is pretty good. Except that I don’t think Fox was allowing or planning Hannity to be pro Trump. It seemed like he was forced to be equal to all. (Never watched O’Reilly, my tolerance to him is very low). I listened to Hannity in the car, and he was fair to all the candidates when I heard him during the primary season. Occasionally he would let out a few words showing he understood Trump’s appeal. It gave me the impression that he was pro Trump but keeping his toes behind the line his bosses had set. I’ve listened to him for years, and that is the way that he does it, which is why I love him as a fellow conservative, because he is supposed to toe the line, but no hockey player can forever remain behind the line, so he always sends some past the goalie to let us have a little slap shot of the truth.
Rush taking money to hump Cruz is very unpleasant to think about but clearly happened. And shoving full-throated foam boy at us was equally whorish.
By all means, DO NOT install Ghostery! Nope, you WANT to leave all those tracking cookies on your PC! (/humor)
Try using a new car dealer site! So much junk that many sites are unusable with blocking some of the scripts.
I think web maker salesmen BS customers who aren’t web tech savvy.
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