[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

[Jon Harald Søby]

How about just adding a button that says "Turn off advertisements" that
works just like the "close" button for the sitenotice?

2008/3/19, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>:
>
> People who edit wikipedia are a very tiny minority of the peole who
> actually
> use wikipedia. Most annoying thing on any website is the stupid
> advertisements that get in the way.
>
>
>   - White Cat
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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