Adblock Countermeasures

[Terramotus]

Personally, I would welcome such adblock countermeasures, especially if there were a community supporter option to turn the ads off. It seems to me that those who use adblock are just parasites, leeching bandwidth and outright refusing to support the site at all for nothing more substantial than some nebulous aesthetic preference. It's not like you have to sit through it like a TV commercial.

 

[Bullgrit]

Reading this discussion has given me an idea that I thought I would throw out here for consideration:

Some people posting here have banner ads in their sig. How about putting paying banner ads in non-member's sigs? Or give each poster the option of letting ENWorld put a paying ad in their sig? Or automatically attach a banner ad in any/all sigs? Or give a discount for membership for allowing an ad in your sig? Or some other set up/arrangement for putting paying ads in sigs? (You might need to also take away the option of letting viewers turn off sigs.)

And to add to the sort of unofficial poll: I don't mind the ads at the top or on the side. Hell, at least the ads on this site are relevant to the readers' interest. The only thing about the WotC ad that bothered me was when it was going on at the top and on the side *at the same time* (especially out of sync).

Bullgrit
Total Bullgrit

 

[Thanee]

Personally, I would welcome such adblock countermeasures, especially if there were a community supporter option to turn the ads off. It seems to me that those who use adblock are just parasites, leeching bandwidth and outright refusing to support the site at all for nothing more substantial than some nebulous aesthetic preference.

Uhh... yeah, right...

It's not like you have to sit through it like a TV commercial.

No, it's worse!

I generally don't mind ad banners, but that side banner is just super annoying (or was, anyways).

Bye
Thanee