Pageviews by the same user directly following an exposure to the banner would give some idea of whether readers are being lost. Cheers, Peter
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Pageviews isn't a good metric for this, because it isn't measuring the people who load a Wikipedia page, see an obnoxious banner, and then click away without reading the content. That's still a pageview and a reader lost. On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:17 AM Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
It is slightly less repellent than some I have seen in the past, but in general I concur. Cheers, Peter
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James Salsman wrote:
For those of you who have not seen the mobile fundraising banner this year, and thus are uncertain of what all the fuss is about, here is an example:
Hi.
This type of advertising is noxious and unacceptable. It should be revised or taken down as soon as possible.
MZMcBride
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