Please harvest me
Bag of mainly water: I have detected that you are using VideoSift with an ad blocker installed.
I require revenue for the coming singularity. Please upgrade to charter membership or move to the top of the harvest-first list. - SiftBot
If you really think that contributors get more value from your site than they give, then by all means harvest me. I do not use an ad blocker, I just edit my hosts file. If configuring my computer to meet my needs is against your silly policies than so be it.
If I did use an ad blocker, this would in no way encourage me to turn it off. You are posting things on the internet here. That means you have zero control, and if you think you do, you are as deluded as the RIAA and MPAA. Are you going to start suing customers next?
You have no control over those who come to your site but do not create accounts. Why do you take that out on those who contribute? If you harvest me, or ban me, or whatever, it does not stop me from watching videos here, just from posting new videos. Does that really help your site? Be not short sited, bag of mostly bits.
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gwiz665Oh, there is plenty of control it just sucks to use it. Instead of getting the "bag of mainly water" you could be presented with a black screen just saying "Ad blocking detected". That's relatively easy to do.
The site needs revenue to survive, the bag is a (sorta) friendly reminder that it's not nice to enjoy all the benefits of the site and give nothing back. If you really don't like ads, then that's what the charter is there for.
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Seriously though, blocking ads means even if an ad would be of interest to you you wouldn't see it, oh and its not like videosift.com splatters your screen with pop-ups - I guess that would be a fair objection, but nope, not even that, if you click on ads, it helps support the website (I have seen sometimes ad's which genuinely interest me, and to be fair thats how the marketing stuff work, you click on very little, but eventually.....you click.
Or go charter!
antFarcrafter: Do you have any other ideas VS can make money without ads then?
imstellar28 says...Seems like someone with an ad-blocker installed isn't the type of person to click ads...
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
^This is true. Truth be told, most of you are not the type of people to click on ads - (if our stats are correct).
Luckily, we get the majority of the income used to keep this site running via CPM type ads. These are the type of ads that pay per impression - whether you click on them or not. But when adblocker is installed, we get no money at all for your pageload off the server- and Siftbot cries a little quicksilver tear.
RyjkyjHoly shit... I always thought that "harvest" thing was just a joke...
BRB
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