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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on May 26, 2006, 04:26:51 pm
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Look at the ad Clicksor just served me when I posted a new topic! :wakka:
(http://www.hard-light.net/staff/sandwich/images/wc-cic-ad.png)
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:lol: Nice!
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Don't you have Firefox? Why do you still get ads? Get adblock plus and dutchblock
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Don't you have Firefox? Why do you still get ads? Get adblock plus and dutchblock
:wtf:
I think two things need to be clarified here:
One, the ads help pay for the server hosting costs. And Two, those costs come out of my cradit card. Soooo.... draw yer own conclusions as to why I don't have ads blocked. ;)
And really, the whole ad blocking craze was well and good when sites went stir-crazy and had pop-ups, pop-unders, and all those other annoying formats. Generally speaking, these days most sites learned better and have much more well-behaved ads, which there's not much reason to block and every reason to leave unblocked - especially if you like that site.
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Don't suppose I could just donate with paypal or somthing.
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It may come to that. We're unsatisfied with the current ad system and will be getting rid of it as soon as we find an alternate system to use. If we can't find something....
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:eek2:
Can I donate with paypal? I don't like hearing that kinda talk!
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It may come to that. We're unsatisfied with the current ad system and will be getting rid of it as soon as we find an alternate system to use. If we can't find something....
How much do you need, again?
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30GBP/mo.
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The wierd thing is that I once actually tried to turn off ad-blocking on Firefox and I couldn't find a way to do it.
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Should I be amused or worried that CIC is advertizing?
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30GBP/mo.
30 British Pound Sterling per month? Per admin? I'm sure I can donate a few dollars a month to help out if you guys need that :)
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What do you mean, per admin? Our hosting package costs 30 GBP a month. On top of that, there's the negligible $10 per year cost for the domain. But none of the admins get paid except for myself, and I only get "paid" because that 30 GBP comes out of my credit card account. I don't even know if what the server was costing me and what I was receiving from Google evened out, since I only ever got 2 checks from them before the account was canceled.
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I'm lost. I know it costs money to run a webpage like HLP. So all admins split the cost, is what I meant by "Per admin"? I know all admins work for free for HLP (well, most likely) and it's your passion for FreeSpace that make you guys created HLP and keep it running for years :)
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No, the admins don't split the cost. Advertising has approximately covered for the costs until Google kicked us out, so nobody has had need to donate. Yet. Anyway, the server costs HLP 30GBP per month, period.
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I love how around 90% of the posts in this thread have nothing to do with the topic the thread was started about.
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And surprisingly, nobody cares.