[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Having individual people opt out of ads is no problem. You can already do
this by including add stoppers in your browser. This is no issue.

When projects opt out, it means that they are not part of the solution. In
the past the question was asked what the consequences would be for a project
that opts out. When opt out for projects are accepted, one modifier would be
to have another skin that is free of adverts, it not being the default skin.

The biggest question that nobody is asking is, what would the technical
requirements be for an add provider. We could consider things like
completely anonymous adds ie the same adds for everyone on the same page.
Maybe with a modifier for the language selected by a user..
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the subject of ads, I have a question. Given that all registered users
> can
> edit their WP stylesheet to suit their needs, /if/ ads were added, what's
> to
> keep the registered users from putting something like .ads {display:
> none;}
> to make sure they saw nothing? And by that extension, what's to keep
> a project from adding that to their local mediawiki's stylesheet? I would
> assume a policy would exist to prohibit the latter.
>
> Just some food for thought.
>
> -Chad
>
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