Comments on: Adblockers

By: KR

KR — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:16:46 +0000

One solution is to host the ads on your site – it would take bandwidth but because ad-blockers generally work via recognizing the url of the ad picture, they wouldn’t end up blocked – I think anyway.

By: wesker

wesker — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:21:47 +0000

Hey there, interesting blog post. I really like your breaking news site, its clean and efficient and you can see that you put a huge amount of effort into dissecting your articles for use in the classroom. I can learn a lot from you.

This is not a new problem for the web, I would prefer to donate to the upkeep of your site rather than a subscription. I would also switch off my ad blocker if the ad’s were not very intrusive.

I have trawled through many esl sites that require subscription to view any content and I have never gone back to those sites. The reason that I would consider donating is that you have given me some free content and now I feel that I do owe you.

Have a read of this link first comment ‘SpringProductions’ (http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/croqe/i_gladly_donated_to_reddit_but_i_wont_pay_for_it/) it explains what I am trying to say a lot better.

Anyway thanks for a great site!

By: dean

dean — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:36:30 +0000

Sean
Thanks for your website; I use it regularly. I have whitelisted BNE, as you suggested.
I am too busy to submit lessons, but I would be happy to pay a subscription.

By: none

none — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:45:22 +0000

Popups and flash are annoying, distracting, and sometimes outright offensive by nature. Stick to simple banner-ads to avoid ad-blocking. They should not be surprised if annoying overly-obtrusive advertising techniques are blocked.

I boycott any company that uses popup ads out of principle. It is the bad advertisers that force people to use adblockers.

By: Shé

Shé — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:30:15 +0000

Hi Sean

Out of all your options posted above, I think adding a “Donte” button is the best one to start off with. It is non-obtrusive and allows the regulars to contribute monetarily to the upkeep of the sites and your wellbeing

I am new to the world of efl/esl but websites like yours, (which I just stumbled upon), are an invaluable source of information and inspiration to us all.

Hope the stress levels are descending! Keep up the good work.

Blessings

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:56:25 +0000

Hi TV

Thanks for white-listing my site – I keep meaning to add a banner to my pages, but there are about 6,000 of them – a huge project. Will wait and see what happens with adblockers.

By: TV

TV — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:18:44 +0000

I use Adblocker, but just turned it off for your site. You might start by putting a request banner at the top that says, “If you have adblocker please consider turning it off”. I use Adblocker a lot, but I turn it off (disable it) for my favorite/most useful websites.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:56:21 +0000

Thank you Myo Ko Ko Oo – There’s no chance of my giving up on my sites and charging for them is way down my list of things to work on for the moment. Just replied to an excellent idea by Gavin about inviting my site’s visitors to contribute lessons. That’s towards the top of my “to-think-about” list. As is an excellent link sent to me this morning by Nik Peachey (Master Finder Of Amazingly Cool Links): http://www.embedarticle.com/. I also have lots of other things to ponder before I consider subscriptions.

Best wishes,

Sean

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:48:18 +0000

Thanks Gavin for your excellent idea – definitely worth considering seriously.

By: Myo Ko Ko Oo

Myo Ko Ko Oo — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:24:14 +0000

Hi Sean … Don’t give up please! We are still willing to subscribe to you sites even if you start charging for your content.

¬ koko ¬