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Marcela
Impressive decision. The beeping advertisements were really starting to get on my nerves. I found myself refreshing pages until I randomly was given a different advertisement that wouldn't slowly drive me insane if I left my browser on the page for more than a few seconds.
I'm curious as to how this will resolve. Can Wowhead run without advertisements? Will some kind of premium service be enacted to hide ads for people who drop a $10 or so payment?
I agree, this was impressive. I, too, would be willing to pay for some sort of premium service to keep them off the pages for good.
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Sinista2k7
I was just talking about the annoying pop-ups yesterday, I couldn't agree more, the sound effects were annoying, even minimized it would spam it over and over again. Now I can keep Wowhead open in the background without the distractions ^_^
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Philmckraken
I hope you guys who use AdBlock and NoScript know you are violating terms of service for several websites on the internet. If they find out they can ban your IP. =/.
Terms of service requiring me to look at their ads? That's a good one. What's next? The History Channel sends the police to my house because I got up to use the bathroom during a commercial?
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Lusky
Just please don't start charging to use your services!
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Post by
mayoff
I would happily pay $5/month for an ad-free Wowhead.
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Philmckraken
All I can ask is that you two arguing may want to take it elsewhere.
As for the rest of us, I can safely say that using AdBlock/NoScript and/or ignoring the ads completely strips the developers of their right to
earn
money for what they do as a job (yes, they are paid to make Wowhead Wowhead).
I fail to see the logic that would support that statement.
If I run Firefox with Adblock and Noscript working, I don't see ads. The chance that I would have clicked on the ads (except accidentally) if I could see them is nil. So, the ad does not get clicked either way, whether or not I choose to view it.
Besides which, site traffic numbers and target marketing are how they choose which sites to advertise on, anyway. I've never seen a single advertisement for any WoW-related "service" (gold-sellers, powerleveling, etc) on any site that wasn't WoW-related to begin with. They simply don't advertise there. It's sort of like how you don't see a lot of advertisements for Depends and fiber supplements when you're watching Spongebob.
Bottom line, my filtering out the ads does not have an impact on your personal income.
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ArgentSun
Bring them all down! Donate to Wowhead, and get rid of ads permanently!
/respect
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o.0 those ads were sooo annoying. Especially when I'm typing responses like these.
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