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Coraz
United States252 Posts
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quantumslip
United States188 Posts
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Kamais_Ookin
Canada4218 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:20 quantumslip wrote: Yeah, this thread has served it's purpose. Found out a lot of people adblock TL, it's oh so sad.so many selfish people in this thread. please close it, it's ridiculous to see the number of elitists in here who feel entitled to free everything and yet complain about the very things that TL really has no obligation to provide them. | ||
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kingcoyote
United States546 Posts
On November 05 2011 02:15 jester- wrote: ]If someone doesn't want to see ads and turns off ad block, you've stepped into the realm of ripping off advertisers who pay a lot of money via ad words for ads on here that the person has absolutely no interest in. For fuck's sake... Did you just spin this around to say that people who don't block ads are harming TL? | ||
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tooDARKpark
United States149 Posts
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euroboy
Sweden536 Posts
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nalgene
Canada2153 Posts
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yeint
Estonia2329 Posts
On November 05 2011 02:20 Dental Floss wrote: The problem isn't that people don't want to help TL. The problem is advertisements. If TL offered other models of support, many of the people posting about adblock would gladly use them. For example; I would rather directly pay TL the money they would get from my advertising impressions then look at those advertisements. Does using adblock mean I'm not willing to support TL financially? No. Does it mean I would like them to implement a different model of support? Yes. This is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, eating a big meal, and then refusing to pay for it because you are philosophically opposed to money. You would rather compensate for the food by giving something you deem far more valuable, like a poem or 5 minutes of Minesweeper coaching. Team Liquid supports itself via advertising. The vast majority of people here find this to be an ideal solution since it incurs no real cost on them. Rather than petulantly insisting that TL cater to your personal moral objections to their business model, a sensible person would just unblock the ads and be grateful. At the very least, you could opt not to visit TL until they offer an alternative, if you are that viscerally against advertising. | ||
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Lunares
United States909 Posts
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MaV_gGSC
Canada1345 Posts
 Good thing I'm lazy! | ||
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Dental Floss
United States1015 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:34 yeint wrote: This is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, eating a big meal, and then refusing to pay for it because you are philosophically opposed to money. You would rather compensate for the food by giving something you deem far more valuable, like a poem or 5 minutes of Minesweeper coaching. Team Liquid supports itself via advertising. The vast majority of people here find this to be an ideal solution since it incurs no real cost on them. Rather than petulantly insisting that TL cater to your personal moral objections to their business model, a sensible person would just unblock the ads and be grateful. At the very least, you could opt not to visit TL until they offer an alternative, if you are that viscerally against advertising. Actually TL supports itself through merchandising, sponsorships and advertising. | ||
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nalgene
Canada2153 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:34 yeint wrote: This is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, eating a big meal, and then refusing to pay for it because you are philosophically opposed to money. You would rather compensate for the food by giving something you deem far more valuable, like a poem or 5 minutes of Minesweeper coaching. Team Liquid supports itself via advertising. The vast majority of people here find this to be an ideal solution since it incurs no real cost on them. Rather than petulantly insisting that TL cater to your personal moral objections to their business model, a sensible person would just unblock the ads and be grateful. At the very least, you could opt not to visit TL until they offer an alternative, if you are that viscerally against advertising. There are other forms of supporting it... ads is just one way of doing so... but other ppl might be buying shirts and such... | ||
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yeint
Estonia2329 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:41 nalgene wrote: There are other forms of supporting it... ads is just one way of doing so... but other ppl might be buying shirts and such... Call me a bitter old cynic, but I highly doubt these anti-advertising suffragettes have closets full of TL jerseys. | ||
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:35 Lunares wrote: Right now I actually do have adblock on. I turned it off because I want to support TL, but for whatever reason with how the ad banner works it causes a very noticeable lag whenever I change to a different thread or a different page in a thread. If it didn't do that then yes I would turn adblock off. Loading times become noticeably longer, that sucks. If ads would be injected after page load, that would be so much better. I am blocking ads for TL against my desire. I use noscript, but I can't seem to disable it for TL and TL-embedded content, which is the way I would like it. I only have the option to block per domain of origin, which includes ad servers, for security reasons (which I would ignore for TL's sake). | ||
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nalgene
Canada2153 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:47 Badjas wrote: Loading times become noticeably longer, that sucks. If ads would be injected after page load, that would be so much better. I am blocking ads for TL against my desire. I use noscript, but I can't seem to disable it for TL and TL-embedded content, which is the way I would like it. I only have the option to block per domain of origin, which includes ad servers, for security reasons (which I would ignore for TL's sake). Performance/Battery life/Bandwidth. So you only get benefits from not seeing the ads. | ||
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Dental Floss
United States1015 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:43 yeint wrote: Call me a bitter old cynic, but I highly doubt these anti-advertising suffragettes have closets full of TL jerseys. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/EpqAP.png) | ||
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jumanji69
Canada25 Posts
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jester-
Canada547 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:22 visual77 wrote: For fuck's sake... Did you just spin this around to say that people who don't block ads are harming TL? ...No, I didn't. I said that viewing/clicking ads when you have absolutely 0 interest in them and costing the advertisers money is an issue as well. I posted earlier in the thread explaining how my adblock works on TL, it's been turned off for a few days now. It is kinda sad how this thread turned into exactly what some people were saying; this elitist attitude that if you have ad block off you're somehow above people that have it on. Everyone who posts here, adblock or not, helps team liquid grow indirectly by increasing the size of the community. People attract people and even if most of the people that are being attracted to the crowd have ad block on, a good portion will choose to disable it (or don't have it at all). Anyway, I'll stop and just say you're post is wrong. | ||
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Shurayuki
Germany2665 Posts
On November 05 2011 03:24 tooDARKpark wrote: Adblock turned off, and I even click the ad if it's remotely interesting, and lately it has been. i only get "meet this chinese girl here" ads ... ... oh i see *nudge nudge* ;P On November 05 2011 03:55 jumanji69 wrote: I disable adds on TL as a form of mini protest against the unjust moderation policies. Thankfully the Starcraft community seems to be moving away from TL dependence though. yeah i agree it's unfair, they don't ban enough people, Mani where art thou, do we need to reactivate Rek? xp On November 05 2011 03:16 dubRa wrote: I don't have adblock but I hate the elephant. you are the devil :o | ||
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MrTortoise
1388 Posts
But if they got bigger / animated / noisy / in my face then yeah id block them in a flash. | ||
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