[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?

William Pietri william at scissor.com
Thu Oct 25 03:40:31 UTC 2007


Jason Calacanis wrote:
> Step one: 100% optin advertising where the user has to turn it on.
> Step two: put ads on search results [...]
> Step three: [...] PERHAPS put ads on pages by default [...]
>
> Step one is a total no brainer... i can't think of one reason to be
> against OPTin advertising.... can anyone?

You've given the reason yourself: it's a slippery slope to putting ads 
everywhere.

Refusing ads entirely may or may not be optimal, but the clarity is 
unmatched.

William

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