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LiveJournal to start including ads?!
Apr. 22nd, 2006 07:48 amYou may have heard about this, you may not. Apparently if you have a free account, your page may be served up with banner ads. And if you pay for your account and access someone's free account, you get ads.
Kinda sucks.
The worst part is that apparently their Terms Of Service say that if you use ad-blocking software, even if you're a paid subscriber, your account can be terminated immediately without notice.
That really sucks.
Makes me wonder if I should use the blogging software that came with my Scottsdale Hosting account. For that matter, theoretically, I could download the LiveJournal code for free and set up my own LJ system, but then your account grows into such a large web of friends that it isn't really practical to try to get all of them to move over: you can accomodate yourself, but it's your friends blogs that you want to read, unless you're just using your blog to rant and don't care about reading other's blogs.
The problem is that the people who created LJ sold the business not too long ago. A pledge was made that they would never have ads on the site. Guess what. The new company says that they need ads to be profitable! But don't worry, ads will be targeted according to the content of your blog, and we should all feel confident at that as we all know how well that works for other web sites. The REAL problem, from what I've read in Insomnia's blog (pointed to by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vasco_pyjama is that the new parent company of LJ has a pet project that they've been pouring money into with no return, and since they're making money off of LJ, why not make LJ more profitable!
I go to moderate lengths to avoid ads. I don't use specific-purpose ad-blocking software, but my firewall and browser (Zone Alarm Pro & Firefox) both offer ad-blocking features. As long as I can avoid pop-ups, I'm sufficiently happy as I can easily enough ignore (usually) banner and side bar ads. But this sucks, to put in specific mention that blocking ads can result in your account being terminated with no notice. Vasco has already accounced that she's going to look for another blogging site (but not that she's relocating yet), should I be doing the same? I think one thing that I will do is to look at copying my entries off LJ, just like when I moved from Xanga to here.
I'm going to have to check and see if it can be done programatically.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/20/0312230
Kinda sucks.
The worst part is that apparently their Terms Of Service say that if you use ad-blocking software, even if you're a paid subscriber, your account can be terminated immediately without notice.
That really sucks.
Makes me wonder if I should use the blogging software that came with my Scottsdale Hosting account. For that matter, theoretically, I could download the LiveJournal code for free and set up my own LJ system, but then your account grows into such a large web of friends that it isn't really practical to try to get all of them to move over: you can accomodate yourself, but it's your friends blogs that you want to read, unless you're just using your blog to rant and don't care about reading other's blogs.
The problem is that the people who created LJ sold the business not too long ago. A pledge was made that they would never have ads on the site. Guess what. The new company says that they need ads to be profitable! But don't worry, ads will be targeted according to the content of your blog, and we should all feel confident at that as we all know how well that works for other web sites. The REAL problem, from what I've read in Insomnia's blog (pointed to by
vasco_pyjama is that the new parent company of LJ has a pet project that they've been pouring money into with no return, and since they're making money off of LJ, why not make LJ more profitable!I go to moderate lengths to avoid ads. I don't use specific-purpose ad-blocking software, but my firewall and browser (Zone Alarm Pro & Firefox) both offer ad-blocking features. As long as I can avoid pop-ups, I'm sufficiently happy as I can easily enough ignore (usually) banner and side bar ads. But this sucks, to put in specific mention that blocking ads can result in your account being terminated with no notice. Vasco has already accounced that she's going to look for another blogging site (but not that she's relocating yet), should I be doing the same? I think one thing that I will do is to look at copying my entries off LJ, just like when I moved from Xanga to here.
I'm going to have to check and see if it can be done programatically.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/20/0312230
