Quarter Life Crisis
The world according to Sven-S. Porst
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Comment by Visa:
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That ‘<ifr’+’ame’ thing isn’t probably done to fool anyone else than crappy browsers that try to render tags that are inside of a JavaScript string.
Comment by John Gruber:
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Sven, what gave you the impression that I’m “smugly vague about whether or not [I’m] in favour of abusing the ads”?
I’m definitely not in favor of abusing the ads. I do hope people click them, but only if they’re at least vaguely interested in the content of the ad. I think that’s exactly what Google and the advertisers intend.
Comment by ssp:
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John, surely your text is clear about that. It’s more the feeling I had after reading it. What stuck with me is about the following: “Please click some of those ads, perhaps one or two per week. I appreciate it very much, thank you. If you don’t find those ads interesting, don’t.”
So what am I supposed to do? By your words I wont’t click the ads. But thinking that you deserve a little monetary reward for your writing and knowing that you’ll appreciate it, I could as well click one one them. This may not be playing along with the rules but it seems to offer the opportunity to use the money of people who peddle hair growth products on the net for something worthwhile, as long as Google offers us the possibility to do so. In that case you’ve done nothing wrong and I could surely live with lying to someone who gives you some money in exchange for my faked attention.
This, along with the ‘hint’ that you can easily open ads in background tabs, left me with the impression that your seriousness about people being actually interested in the ads they click on was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Your text may state the opposite in places, but that’s the feeling it left with me.
Comment by John Gruber:
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I truly mean both things. (1) If you’re the type of person who deeply dislikes ads and does not want to click on them, it’s really OK it ignore them on Daring Fireball. All I need for them to be successful is if some people click on them once or twice a week. Most people won’t, I know that, and that’s fine.
(2) Regarding Shift-Command-Clicking to put ads in background windows, I don’t think this is devious at all. It’s about convenience.
Remember, when an advertiser pays $10,000 to put a full-page ad in a magazine, they know that most people who read the magazine aren’t going to read the ad. Meople aren’t even going to look at it.
Whereas if you follow the link to a Google AdSense advertiser, you’re probably at least going to look at their page for a few seconds. This is what they’re hoping for — the advertisers know that most people who click the ads aren’t going to buy anything or whatever, but at least they came to look. That’s not dishonest — it’s exactly what the advertisers are hoping for.
Comment by ssp:
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All right.
It seems that all this comes from myself considering ‘appropriate advertising’ and oxymoron and I don’t think there is significantly useful information to be gained from advertising.
