[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

[Chad]

Let's assume projects can opt-out, and this must be approved
by the Board (as they are ultimately responsible for fiscal
matters). For the sake of arguments, let's pretend enwiki came
to a fairly clear consensus that they wished to opt-out of WMF
ads. Wouldn't this basically kill the entire ads cash-cow right
there?

Now, continuing this scenario, I can imagine the Board would
probably reject an opt-out from the largest project. This begs
the question: does the Foundation see all projects in an
equal light?

-Chad

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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