[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia public relations

[Sean Barrett]

> This scheme could be implemented more cleanly by using a 
> cookie rather than a separate domain.  A person visiting the 
> donate page could find a link to set a cookie that says 
> 'ads=true'.  After that, they would see ads until they turned 
> them off.  Alternatively, this could be an option in user 
> preferences.

Easiest yet: serve all the obnoxious ads you want, just serve them all from another subdomain; eg, inyoface.wikipedia.com.  Doing so would encourage the adoption of filtering proxies or browsers that implement easy image- and flash- blocking.

(This suggestion is close-smilied for the humor-impaired.)

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