Please uninstall Ad Blocker.

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Ok, sorry, your avatar creeped me out too much to read on, I'm sure it was interesting and filled with great points, this account was a recent one, old E-mail got hacked, damn that, but whatever, sure it was full of great points though.

Well yours is boring so I am not reading your crusading posts anymore. Nice thing is I won't miss anything that could be pertinent to the topic. Wow, I feel so mature. I shall have to be affected by images more in the future.

I don't have an issue with creepy imagery, but when it repeats, its just.... Yeah, I'm sure your argument was worth it... Yeah.... It just keeps repeating..

You know, I hear if you have an ad blocker, you can also use it to filter stuff like that. Heh.

Or I could go into setting and turn off the picture thingies that identify people, but then I wouldn't have the fun pleasure of seeing random stuff and pictures through those icons.

Ah, but you see, you can filter only the individual images that displease you, rather than having to disable all of them. Everybody wins!

 

[Lenin211]

There have been lots of threads claiming "I KNOW HOW TO SAVE THE ESCAPIST!!!11" of late.

 

[Steven Snyder]

The only ads that really bug the shit out of me are the ones on random days that force videos to pop up in a new window >_>.

 

[RYjet911]

Yes it does.

I disagree heavily with the forced advertising we're getting these days. Since Youtube started, it seems everywhere with videos on the internet wants to do them.

One of the things the internet has always had is on demand service, and getting interupted every fucking video by the same fucking advert over and over again is a piss take. Why should I be made to watch the same 10-30 second clip between videos? If they were ALWAYS different, I could understand, but half the time I'm hearing the same shitty jingle designed by committee to get me attracted to a product, and the sheer obnoxious nature of them (Especially considering the Escapist has this strange thing of making videos popout occasionally so I can't use the rest of the page while watching the video, and get a large, brightly coloured border around my video that is very distracting from the video content) makes me want to buy the product LESS.

I can understand a few banner ads, I'm used to those. What I'm not used to is having content blocked for the sake of force feeding me some marketting nonsense I simply don't give a shit about. Seems strange that a news site that constantly publicises games would even need to add more game related adverts to get me to buy a game? That makes no fucking sense to me. I get it, the site needs money, but I just hate having videos interrupted constantly. And before you say it's like adverts on TV, no it's not because TV interrupts me once every fifteen minutes (so realistically every 12-13 minutes of show time), where as otherwise I'd be sitting through adverts every four or five minutes if I didn't adblock sites.

This site isn't the one trying to sell you the game, it is the company that pays a small bit every time their ad is shown, that wants to sell you the game.

I don't understand how people are ignoring the common sense here. The Escapist and other internet sites don't have the money to just stay running all the time, they have to sell ad space. They get money from putting up the ad, a small bit every time it is shown, and a small bit if it is clicked.

You are taking your internet entertainment for granted, they don't make this stuff just to please you, they do it so they can make a living, or to supplement their incomes because the main job doesn't pay enough.

I find it very hypocritical, people whine and moan that they have to deal with or pay for a certain service and think they shouldn't have to help out or be a part or pay, but if they were in the same boat, they would expect to get their due compensation.

Despite my reservations, I have disabled AdBlock for this website, if only because I respect Extra Credits and want to help get them money. However, I still disagree that there should be FORCED advertising, advertising that gets in the way of the content. Especially when I've had other websites glitch on me and ONLY play adverts. This is the whole reason I got adblock in the first place.

Why are banner ads not enough anymore? Why do they now have to be full videos that cost more money to host and produce?

 

[MrSalamandra]

I have AdBlock, and just disable it for certain sites, like JustinTV & TwitchTV (for Starcraft 2 streams), The Escapist, etc. No need to uninstall it.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Despite my reservations, I have disabled AdBlock for this website, if only because I respect Extra Credits and want to help get them money. However, I still disagree that there should be FORCED advertising, advertising that gets in the way of the content. Especially when I've had other websites glitch on me and ONLY play adverts. This is the whole reason I got adblock in the first place.

Why are banner ads not enough anymore? Why do they now have to be full videos that cost more money to host and produce?

Why do stores raise prices for certain items? They do it because the price, for buying an item to resell it in a store, has went up.

Sometimes banners ads just don't make enough money. The Escapist needed to sell other types of ad space to make money to keep bringing the things they bring us.

Until we somehow remove the need of currency in exchange for services, and the need for currency in the first place, the ads and things like them aren't going to go away.

Though it isn't going to happen there is always going to be a need for compensation for services. The Escapist gives us the service of entertainment and gaming news.

 

[Aprilgold]

Ok, sorry, your avatar creeped me out too much to read on, I'm sure it was interesting and filled with great points, this account was a recent one, old E-mail got hacked, damn that, but whatever, sure it was full of great points though.

Well yours is boring so I am not reading your crusading posts anymore. Nice thing is I won't miss anything that could be pertinent to the topic. Wow, I feel so mature. I shall have to be affected by images more in the future.

I don't have an issue with creepy imagery, but when it repeats, its just.... Yeah, I'm sure your argument was worth it... Yeah.... It just keeps repeating..

You know, I hear if you have an ad blocker, you can also use it to filter stuff like that. Heh.

Or I could go into setting and turn off the picture thingies that identify people, but then I wouldn't have the fun pleasure of seeing random stuff and pictures through those icons.

Ah, but you see, you can filter only the individual images that displease you, rather than having to disable all of them. Everybody wins!

I think I'll live, this time...

 

[viranimus]

Ok in all fairness I think its quite ridiculous for any site to have a business model that exists based off of advertising revenue. I wish I could understand why anyone anywhere bought into this "selling ad space" bullshit.

No body appreciates being advertised to. Advertising only works on the incredibly gullible. If they are, then why waste money on developing commercials when you could just shine a light in their eyes and scream at them and have it work just as well.

Simply put if your model of operation has to rely on revenues from advertising, then your organization is not built on a sound financial foundation because even in a best case relying on advertising revenues is nothing more than delaying the inevitable.

Now as for the notion of uninstalling ad blocking software thats really an irresponsible and ineffectual idea. First and foremost it will not accomplish what you think it will. It is not as if using such programs actually diminishes funds being generated. When a site is setup with advertising with such things as commercials, the packet requesting the page as well as the commercial info is is being sent to the advertiser and conversely sent back to the user for the page to be displayed. The advertiser gets what they paid for, the ability to send that user information. Adblocking software simply blocks that information from being opened and displayed.

Seconly, by telling people to uninstall adblocking software, your asking them to put their computers at risk for the sake of one site? Advertising is everywhere, and most of it is not benign. Last I checked one of the most damaging things that happens to computers in this day and age is not viri, its malware that typically comes from advertising. So asking people to uninstall a program that actually is a security program is no different than asking a person to slowly destroy their computer.

So its a sign of a larger problem, the proposed solution would not even work anyway and it would do more harm than good and not accomplish what it was set forth to do. Pretty much the same as DRM. There is clearly a problem, It certainly needs ideas to repair it, but this is not the droid you were looking for.

 

[TheIronRuler]

There are no ads for my geographical location.
I only use it when I surf through native websites.

Wow! You live on the dark side of Europa? (Obviously the Jupiter moon, not the continent )

I'm serious. No ads in Hebrew and due to my geographical location I rarely get any ads when I surf the web in English.

 

[V8 Ninja]

Last I heard Extra Credits was cancelled because James Portnow decided that he owned the show, not because the Escapist wasn't getting payed enough money. And besides, The Escapist is starting to become another That Guy With The Glasses, essentially a site that just has too many shows that it comes to the point where you ignore the new kids because they aren't doing anything notably original. Besides, it's better if other websites acquire the talent and help spread the wealth all across the board instead of one site just hogging whatever talent exists.