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from my point of view, ads are an enrichment in general, when placed right and when they're contextual. Chances are, they will grab my attention when they're displaying content, which was the reason for me to visit that certain website in the first place.
Now, when I speak of contextual ads, I mean the ever loving Google AdSense ads or similar ones of course. From the view of a website owner those ads are an ideal way of saving time. They just save you from picking or buying images when writing articles or designing pages. You just place an image ad and you're good to go. It looks good, your visitors might get some use out of it and it makes you a little bit money.
Google for that matter lets you choose between text and/or image ads and those ads have the ability to match the page content. Having all this in mind, I cannot imagine that any person who visits a website (looking for information) gets disturbed or annoyed by ads, that are actually helping them to find a possible (or a better?) information or answer.
On the other hand...
when advertising companys are publishing ads with content that's really catchy and have that special "just want's ya to click on 'em" look. And when you're on that page and see nothing but more ads... Personally..., that's what I hate the most.
Google, for instance, has some strict rules in that case, when they let you publish ads with AdWords. If your ads do not meet their guidelines (irrelevant or misleading ads text) your ads actually have a good chance not to get displayed at all.
And that ain't only helping the readers but "them" advertisers too. The more interesting the website is (coming from a certain ad) the more stuff the user is willing to do there (signing up, buying products or becoming a member etc.)
At the end of the day, I think ads are a good thing... but only if they DON'T pop-up, swoop-in, pop-under, slide-in etc.
I have a very strict personal policy on those "r@t b@5t@rdos":
I DO kill every ad off, that I didn't ask for... no matter how intersting it may be!
But that's just me...
Be happy!
Thanks for reading,
Ken.
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بنت البحرين بنت الخليج بنت العراق بنت لبنان بنت فلسطين بنت الكويت بنت اليمن بنت المغرب بنت قطر بنت سوريا بنت سوريه بنت مصر بنت ليبيا بنت ليبيه بنت عمان بنت السودان بنت الجزائر بنت الاردن
Let's face it, it has nothing to do with advertising because some of the most populated blogs have ads on them, this is pure and simple B.S.
I would rather see a few ads on reddit than lose reddit because there are a bunch of cheap people who will support reddit in lipservice and not with their checkbook.
They do have expenses and need to generate revenue.
What do you people think reddit is? A God that does not need money to operate? How foolish.