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Lord love us - I really was in a mardy mood when I wrote that!
I do apologize - I've always valued this site, and have valued the fact that it's free to use: I'm getting old, though, and now and then irritability sets in; i.e. bad tempered old sod!
Even so, I still don't want pop-ups; to be quite honest, they're a waste of time, since we all know where to go in order to find materials ....oh dear: oh dear, I've given the game away now.... Yes! indeed! Advertise, we superannuated artists may yet find goods of which we were ignorant before! Advertise by all means!
I fear I may have committed something of a grievous error....
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Adblock is available via Google Chrome. I believe it's also an Ipad app. You can also get it on the Microsoft store.
The trouble with it from this site's point of view is that it - the site - is funded by advertising - so if we block ads, we're at best not contributing to the income stream on which this whole forum and gallery depend. So I do tend to switch it on and off depending on how intrusive the ads are. If they were less distracting, and from my point of view unnecessary, I wouldn't use it at all.
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I don’t see how using Adblock would affect any funding the site receives from ads?? If, like me, you never click on an ad and therefore never buy anything from it, it would make no difference to the advertiser if you had Adblock, as you are never going to buy their stuff
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by Helen Martell
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That's true - well, I think it's true, but then it's in my interests to think so. However, if advertisers think that their money is being wasted, because users of the site are blocking their advertisements, then they'll be less willing, or plain unwilling, to continue their spending. And that would be the site's main form of income down the Swannee.
Of course, the Warner magazine group uses its own site for its own advertising, which Adblock won't block - it has a shop, it promotes its magazines (which are also part-dependent on advertising, plus subscriptions and other sales). I have stilled my conscience by taking out a digital subscription to one of the magazines - The Artist - but I do think that blocking other adverts might have the company tapping its foot somewhat in irritation.
Most websites these days will offer a premium site - ie, for a cost - or a site with adverts; YouTube does this. and if it detects an AdBlocker will tell you "it's not allowed" - in YouTube's case, however, they've either not yet worked out how to build a paywall, or have reasoned that they'd suffer a huge fall in users if they did. They're easily circumvented. The Times, however, will stop non-payers from reading their website - because without advertising, they almost certainly wouldn't still exist. Well, this must also be a concern here, I would have thought.
I've never yet responded to any advertisement on YouTube, and they are extremely intrusive; so much so that I don't have any problems with the conscience in circumventing their attempts to, er, block Adblock. This site is very different: I don't want to do it out of legitimate earnings if I can help it. Your point is completely sound - you don't respond to adverts because you know what equipment you need, and where it can be found, and so do I: so adverts are just annoying. I would ask the company what it thinks, but it's hardly likely to say oh no, go ahead, block the advertisers we encourage to support our site; so I don't.....
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As Dawn has said it will be fixed I'll bear with it for now ... if not, I'll try to figure out how to do it. Generally the pop ups don't bother me as I just ignore them but the latest occurrence really interferes with participating in commentary both on the forum and the gallery. Thanks Robert for answering.
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, if advertisers think that their money is being wasted, because users of the site are blocking their advertisements, then they'll be less willing, or plain unwilling, to continue their spending.Would have thought that their money is wasted anyway…. As none of the ads I get popping up on here are anything to do with art!