[Foundation-l] A reader responds on advertising

[Todd Allen]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is Scarian a reader only? I thought he was an en.wikipedia admin ;-)
>
>  Also - he says he hates flashing ads with moving targets, something
>  wholly separate from a sidebar of text Google ads. I don't think anything
>  more "flashy" than that will ever find a home on Wikimedia projects, and
>  rightfully so.
>
>  Nathan
>
>
>
>  On 3/23/08, Paul Williams <paul at skenmy.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > http://wiki-elysium.blogspot.com/2008/03/wikipedia-and-advertising.html
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > - d.
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>  > Without meaning to spam too much, my thoughts on it are here:
>  > http://skenmy.com/2008/03/23/wikipedia-and-advertising/
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>  > ~ Paul Williams
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How about nothing more flashy than "whitespace" ads never find a home
on Wikimedia projects?

You know, those ads with no graphics, no text, and no visible or
audible components at all? I like those ads, I don't even bother
blocking them.

It's almost like having no ads at all.

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