freitasm: For those with false positive, are you using Ghostery or other such software?

freitasm: For those with false positive, are you using Ghostery or other such software?

We are looking at ways of reminding people that ads are our only revenue for the site.

Currently we see around 35% of pages served to browsers with ad blockers installed.

We already put a red bar on top of the pages asking for people to whitelist Geekzone and a yellow bar reminding people that there's a Geekzone subscription option.

I was recently approached by a startup that is pitching a subscription service - the difference here is that instead of users subscribing to Geekzone, users sign up for this service and any website running this service will offer subscribers' features and receive a share of the monthly payment based on pageviews. The advantage for the user is that if this company manages to get some good sites behind it then users get "one subscription to rule them all".

Comments on the idea?

freitasm: I actually don't like the idea of a floating banner - that's one thing I find annoying in websites.

freitasm: I actually don't like the idea of a floating banner - that's one thing I find annoying in websites.

grant_k: The reason I'm currently running an ad-blocker is because a few weeks ago a large advert for Philips shavers appeared which took up a significant part of the page and it showed a video clip.  Small static ads I don't mind, but ones that pop up and take over a large part of the screen whilst showing video I'm not prepared to put up with.

-  Perhaps some stricter vetting of ads is called for?

-  I realise this is done by 3rd parties, but there must be guidelines you can give them specifying which types of adverts are not permitted on your site?

freitasm: I was recently approached by a startup that is pitching a subscription service - the difference here is that instead of users subscribing to Geekzone, users sign up for this service and any website running this service will offer subscribers' features and receive a share of the monthly payment based on pageviews. The advantage for the user is that if this company manages to get some good sites behind it then users get "one subscription to rule them all".

 

Comments on the idea?

 

freitasm:

grant_k: The reason I'm currently running an ad-blocker is because a few weeks ago a large advert for Philips shavers appeared which took up a significant part of the page and it showed a video clip.  Small static ads I don't mind, but ones that pop up and take over a large part of the screen whilst showing video I'm not prepared to put up with.

-  Perhaps some stricter vetting of ads is called for?

-  I realise this is done by 3rd parties, but there must be guidelines you can give them specifying which types of adverts are not permitted on your site?

We don't allow popups, auto play, auto sound ads. From your description and looking at the ads in the queue I think this is one that expands when the cursor is hovering over it for three seconds or longer. It actually has a little 'ear tab" at the bottom that moves as the cursor is on top of it, to indicate time to play.

freitasm:

 

We are looking at ways of reminding people that ads are our only revenue for the site.

Currently we see around 35% of pages served to browsers with ad blockers installed.

We already put a red bar on top of the pages asking for people to whitelist Geekzone and a yellow bar reminding people that there's a Geekzone subscription option.

I was recently approached by a startup that is pitching a subscription service - the difference here is that instead of users subscribing to Geekzone, users sign up for this service and any website running this service will offer subscribers' features and receive a share of the monthly payment based on pageviews. The advantage for the user is that if this company manages to get some good sites behind it then users get "one subscription to rule them all".

Comments on the idea?