By: iz (i.delete@this.z.x), April 23, 2012 12:49 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 4/22/12 wrote:
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>>If I visit a website, I do that because I want to visit THAT website, not some
>>random crap on the internet. By not hosting the ads >yourself you don't take responsibility
>>for them (and also slowing down the loading).
>
>>That you go through an advertising network doesn't mean you can't host (and select)
>>the ads yourself. Maybe they don't give that option, but >it's technically possible.
>>I'd call it quality and content control, but if you don't care about that for your
>>site, fine. But don't whine I'm not loading random crap >from the internet.
>
>Advertising networks will not give you that option unless you are a giant site.
>
>I loathe the reality of this situation, since I have no control over the ad network.
>They could serve ads quickly, or they could stall out.
>
>What's most aggravating is that the ads often cause articles/forum posts to load slowly. That is a total affront to me.
>
>However, unless we somehow grow the site by several orders of magnitude I'm stuck with that problem.
>
>The alternative is to implement some sort of ad-free, paid subscription. Which is quite sensible.
>
>Actually, if you are big enough like the NYT or WSJ, you can just put up a pay
>wall altogether. But that's not really a good solution for more boutique sites.
It seems to work for LWN.net.
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>>If I visit a website, I do that because I want to visit THAT website, not some
>>random crap on the internet. By not hosting the ads >yourself you don't take responsibility
>>for them (and also slowing down the loading).
>
>>That you go through an advertising network doesn't mean you can't host (and select)
>>the ads yourself. Maybe they don't give that option, but >it's technically possible.
>>I'd call it quality and content control, but if you don't care about that for your
>>site, fine. But don't whine I'm not loading random crap >from the internet.
>
>Advertising networks will not give you that option unless you are a giant site.
>
>I loathe the reality of this situation, since I have no control over the ad network.
>They could serve ads quickly, or they could stall out.
>
>What's most aggravating is that the ads often cause articles/forum posts to load slowly. That is a total affront to me.
>
>However, unless we somehow grow the site by several orders of magnitude I'm stuck with that problem.
>
>The alternative is to implement some sort of ad-free, paid subscription. Which is quite sensible.
>
>Actually, if you are big enough like the NYT or WSJ, you can just put up a pay
>wall altogether. But that's not really a good solution for more boutique sites.
It seems to work for LWN.net.
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Single page view? | Del | 2012/04/23 12:22 AM |
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Bulldozer's Oddities. | anon | 2012/04/22 05:01 PM |
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Bulldozer's Oddities. | EduardoS | 2012/04/23 01:22 PM |
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Bulldozer's IDIV | Heikki Kultala | 2012/04/27 09:56 PM |
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Bulldozer's IDIV | EduardoS | 2012/04/30 04:39 AM |
Bulldozer's IDIV | P3Dnow | 2012/05/08 12:23 AM |
Bulldozer's IDIV | Exophase | 2012/05/08 06:37 AM |
Bulldozer's Oddities. | EduardoS | 2012/04/23 01:15 PM |
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Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/27 11:56 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | anonymous | 2012/04/28 12:43 AM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 01:59 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | anonymous | 2012/04/28 07:45 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | anon | 2012/04/28 01:13 AM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 02:23 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | anon | 2012/04/28 05:19 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 06:58 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | David Kanter | 2012/04/28 05:38 AM |
Guessed meaning of "strong dependency model" | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/04/28 06:24 AM |
Guessed meaning of "strong dependency model" | EduardoS | 2012/04/28 08:46 AM |
*Right meaning* about "strong dependency model" | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 03:59 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 03:24 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | anonymous | 2012/04/28 07:50 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 08:47 PM |
SNB width | David Kanter | 2012/04/28 08:48 PM |
SNB width | hcl64 | 2012/04/29 01:24 AM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | David Kanter | 2012/04/28 08:56 PM |
Clustered MT as SMT for high frequency | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 10:44 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/04/29 06:19 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/04/29 04:31 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/04/29 10:26 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/04/30 07:08 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/04/30 08:59 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/04/30 05:10 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/04/30 05:32 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/04/30 09:47 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/05/01 01:24 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/05/01 04:46 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/05/01 05:37 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/05/01 07:19 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | hcl64 | 2012/05/01 06:39 AM |
PD-SOI | David Kanter | 2012/05/02 11:22 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | slacker | 2012/04/30 07:10 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/04/30 09:16 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | slacker | 2012/05/01 09:04 PM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | David Kanter | 2012/05/02 07:19 AM |
SOI, FD vs. PD | zou | 2012/05/02 11:23 AM |
Previous discussion of clustered MT | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/04/28 06:00 AM |
Previous discussion of clustered MT | hcl64 | 2012/04/28 08:38 PM |
Previous discussion of clustered MT | David Kanter | 2012/04/30 03:37 PM |
Previous discussion of clustered MT | hcl64 | 2012/04/30 06:24 PM |
Previous discussion of clustered MT | David Kanter | 2012/04/30 06:40 PM |
Previous discussion of clustered MT | hcl64 | 2012/05/01 08:15 AM |
Latency issues | David Kanter | 2012/05/02 11:01 AM |
So, what do people think of these numbers> | Megol | 2012/04/21 12:57 AM |