Advertisements on the D site

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 01:14:17 -0800, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 12/8/2013 9:18 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> I can confirm there existence on my home computers.
>
> They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been  
> there, and help defray the site hosting fees.
>
> I actually kind of like seeing what Google thinks are relevant ads for D  
> :-)
>
> I briefly tried Amazon context sensitive ads, hoping they would show ads  
> for relevant programming books. Wouldn't that be cool? But most of the  
> ads were for the latest Batman movie. Even worse, it would delay the  
> page loading by up to 40 seconds. So I gave up and removed them.
>
>
> As an aside, I recently bought a kitchen faucet. For weeks afterwards, I  
> was bombarded on web pages by ads for that very same faucet from the  
> same vendor. How many kitchens did they think I have? It was an epic  
> fail of their (I don't know which company did the ad delivery) data  
> mining ad delivery software.

Oh I know that they are there on purpose. I was just confirming their  
existence to those who use ad-blockers. :-)

I also understand why they are there. But I also agree that it doesn't  
help the professionalism of the site. I was just throwing in my opinion,  
but we all know how much those are worth... :-)

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/