LWN advertising update

Posted Sep 4, 2007 3:32 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: LWN advertising update by elanthis
Parent article: LWN advertising update

Pathetic. If you are unable to ejaculate your indignation better
than that, I'd suggest another venue. Lavatory wall or political
meeting, for example.

For what it's worth, no Windows (pirated or not) here, I see no
reason to run a commercial distro on any local boxen (pirated or
not), no pirated music or video (if I want to watch or listen, I'll
bloody respect the author's copyright, TYVM, and I sincerely doubt
that digging through the piles of garbage on p2p networks is anywhere
near a feasible way to find something I wanted anyway) and I have
no hesitation in blocking all ads I can block or going elsewhere if
I can't.

As for the costs... I have no problem paying with patches, paying for
CDs, DVDs (and vinil back when it had been there) and paying for
subscription in case of LWN. If it's not enough, the other party can
raise the price; I'll either pay or drop the matter entirely and do
without. If the price includes lending my brain to advertisers, it's
definitely "do without".

Trying to conflate all kinds of behaviour into "freeloader" label,
pretend that it all goes together and use that to support a baseless
claim ("there is no valid reason for avoiding all ads") is a tactics
worthy of politician. And execution in this particular case would
be piss-poor even for one of those...

LWN advertising update

Posted Sep 4, 2007 12:12 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Actually it's a tactic worthy of an advertising executive.

(I recall a series of letters in the Economist a few years back, in response to an article about guerrila marketing which had stated that the average citizen of some country (the US? the UK?) saw three thousand `commercial messages' a day and that of course this should be increased. There were a stream of letters saying no! there are too many! ... and one from an advertising executive expressing bewilderment that anyone wouldn't love adverts no matter what their shape or form and stating that he had always watched adverts for *pleasure*. Some people just don't think like the rest of us.)

LWN advertising update

Posted Jun 28, 2011 6:50 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link]

And exactly because preferences differ (some people would rather pay with "attention" than with money, while others rather cough up more money to avoid any ads), there should be options (as there are on LWN.net) between, no fee-many ads, and high fee - turn off ads.

This, being online media, is no problem at all to implement (in contrast to say the printed Economist edition).