Excluding VideoSift from Adblock, to help site revenue

This is not an original idea. I occasionally read DailyKos, and they've had this suggestion stickied to the top of their site for the past couple of weeks at least. Any way, if you're not a charter member but run Adblock on Mozilla Firefox, you CAN help this site out a little. According to dag most of this site's ad revenue is derived per impression, and not by clicking the ad. Therefore you can help this site by following these simple steps:

1. In Firefox click Tools > Adblock Plus Preferences> then click on 'Add filter...'

2. Copy/paste : @@http://*videosift.com/* to the 'New Filter' field.

3. Click 'Add Filter' at the bottom of the window, then 'OK.'


Like I already suggested, if you're a charter member then you're already excluded from ads. However, if you're not a charter member, then you can help this place out by following these few simple steps. Help out the team. Please?
Croccydile says...

Do sites get money for click through or displays these days? I think im going to set myself up for an unpopular view about ads on the web. Let me precursor myself with saying that I have been using ad-blocking software since before Firefox and AdBlock Plus was even around (Anyone remember AdSubtract?)

I'm unfortunately the guy who has never clicked on any advertisement since the first day of being on the internet. No I will not punch the monkey nor will I click your annoying flashing and/or spinning advertisement. Worse still, I remember sometime last year when IMDB ran ads for The Dark Knight that obtrusively covered what you were trying to read unless you clicked a tiny little 'x' to make the thing go away. This is the reason I blocked ads to begin with. I've started to show up late for movies because I'm sick of the "captive audience" advertisements thrown at moviegoers now on top of the $12 (here) movie tickets.

That does not mean I would not support charter, since I like Videosift

Static ads or inline text ads do not bother me. Throwing in motion or flashing or anything else to try and grab my eyeballs does.

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