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- MackenzieArbour, on 12/09/2007, -40/+463There are ads on Digg!?
- inactive, on 12/09/2007, -3/+178never saw this comment coming...
- mrfreeziexp, on 12/09/2007, -1/+158I honestly would like an ad to tell me I haven't won for once. It would be a nice change of pace.
- Cyre, on 12/09/2007, -27/+157This lame dupe again? Just get firefox and adblock plus, you idiot!
- supermajic, on 12/09/2007, -3/+132Can we please Digg this to 10 000 diggs to prove how ridiculous these ads are.
- CNSecrest, on 06/02/2008, -5/+127You have Firefox, but not Adblock? That's the real paradox.
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -4/+59You use Adblock? AMAZING!
- themastersb, on 12/09/2007, -5/+60So.... who divided by zero?
- encrypter, on 12/09/2007, -3/+57I think you mean Adblock?
- lcarsdeveloper, on 12/09/2007, -0/+45What's the point of having ads on here if most of the visitors are too smart to click on them, or they have zero interest in them? I resisted the temptation to have Adblock installed, simply because I run my own site and I know that ads pay for my entire hosting bill (I would have closed down if not for Adsense). I wanted to support Digg by leaving the ads displayed, and occasionally if something interesting came along I would click on it out of genuine interest.
Then we started getting "You are 10,000 visitor! Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!" banners, and gigantic THREE MEGABYTE flash banners for webcam dating sites, and I had no choice. I had no desire to click on any of these and it was actually making the site unusable for me, I don't have 3 minutes to wait for the pages to load.
I'm sorry Digg/Kevin, I think it's a really great site you've built, but I'm no longer able to support you by viewing/clicking your ads, as much as I'd really love to. It was much better when you only had the text-based Google Ads, which were actually related to the stories we were viewing. I probably gave you 10 clicks a year out of those due to genuine interest in what they were advertising, such as new software products or new gadgets.
By the way, out of the 15 seconds it took for this page to load, 12 of those seconds were waiting for "ads1.msn.com" to load. I ended up having to redirect that hostname back to my local IP address using my etc/hosts file, that cut 10 seconds out of the loading time. And that's WITH adblock, because that still requires that Firefox resolves the hostname. - kss42, on 12/09/2007, -0/+41You guys, stop making fun of the blind.
- TheAstronomer, on 12/09/2007, -2/+38Yes, I am at hour 11 of studying for finals today so my brain is fried.
- encrypter, on 12/09/2007, -3/+37Oh. Best of luck to you!
- theexitwound, on 12/09/2007, -1/+34Are they playing on the idea that people will actually believe they've won something or are they hoping people will click because they're nostalgic of the late 90's ad styles?
- rabiddachshund, on 12/09/2007, -1/+3410,000 or 999,999?
- mzkply, on 12/09/2007, -0/+31My dad would think he had won.
- zweben, on 12/09/2007, -0/+31Both at once.
- ThankTheCheese, on 12/09/2007, -0/+29You end up with this:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/5/51 ... - Poland, on 12/09/2007, -0/+28You're are visitor number 72,465,233.
You've lost.
Please send us three easy payments of $19.99 to make up for your suckage. - fwc67, on 12/09/2007, -2/+30looks like they thought 10,000 was too few
- inactive, on 12/09/2007, -1/+26do you also fart air freshener?
- desu43fnoc, on 12/09/2007, -0/+24I thought those were dating service and diet ads...
- WestDC, on 12/09/2007, -0/+23He's both. A quantum winner.
- PixelD, on 12/09/2007, -1/+22Well did you claim your prizes? I bet the 10,000 one was better.
- ShadwDrgn, on 12/09/2007, -7/+26actually i honestly didn't know digg had ads.
- ikickass, on 12/09/2007, -0/+19You're a dupe.
- lotsa1s, on 12/09/2007, -0/+17I believes he pisses 100 proof vodka and ***** gold bullion.
- sclifford, on 12/09/2007, -0/+17I have FireFox and now have AdBlock Plus. Now. Earlier today, however, these ads gave me my first flashy ad induced seizure. Vertigo, nausea, vomiting, splitting headache, the whole nine yards. No crap. And I'm not an epileptic.
So now, yes, sadly, I've been forced to install AdBlock Plus and deprive digg of revenue from an accidental click.
The green flashy popunder was a nice nauseating touch to my experience. - valleyvideo, on 12/09/2007, -1/+18I seem to remember Kevin saying that the reason why Digg chose Microsoft as their ad source was the 'amazing new features' or something to that effect...
- kpmoore, on 12/09/2007, -1/+17Has anyone actually clicked one of those ads? what happens?
- DontEatTheFish, on 12/09/2007, -1/+16Linus torvolds did (Chuck Norris jokes)
also he only has 2 keys on his keyboard... 0 and 1
and he can play fps's in realtime by just looking at the source code
cant remember any more :S - Soave, on 12/09/2007, -0/+15Digg seriously has THOSE kind of ads? Wow, that's pathetic. Please tell me there aren't any noisy Flash ads...
- mistergosh, on 12/09/2007, -1/+16OVER NINE THOUSAND!?
- ThankTheCheese, on 12/09/2007, -0/+14I always thought those kind of sleazy ads were only used on sites like torrent search sites and porn sites who can't attract the big advertisers.
Does Digg have any control over the caliber of ads that appear? I know if I had a site like Digg I wouldn't want this kind of stuff on my pages. - Pillage, on 12/09/2007, -1/+14Digg just lost their add privs, I'm turning on Adblock for Digg.
- ganjadude4391, on 12/09/2007, -0/+12yeah, shooting bin laden popping out of a barrel is fun.... You know you can win a nintendo 64 that way
- kpmoore, on 12/09/2007, -1/+12ohh NOW I get it. Thank you for explaining that to me.
- Fatcheeseguy, on 12/09/2007, -0/+11Deja Vu?
- sexybobo, on 12/09/2007, -2/+13He might have meant adsense. Adsense is much better then this crap from microsoft.
- ShadwDrgn, on 12/09/2007, -0/+10or he has a transparent proxy at work that blocks out common advert servers. That would stop his browser from seeing the ad. This isn't uncommon.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 12/09/2007, -0/+10There are, I've had the giant 3 megabyte Flash ads for webcam dating sites. It's an infinite loop of a girl sitting on a bed with a laptop, and supposedly chatting to you live. 20 seconds later I had downloaded Adblock for the first time and installed it.
- EminNew, on 12/09/2007, -1/+11Exactly. I was surprised at how surprised i was.
- jon30041, on 12/09/2007, -0/+10Holy crap.
- Fritzel, on 12/09/2007, -1/+11He was using Firefox ^^
- lcarsdeveloper, on 12/09/2007, -0/+9digg needs to GO BACK to Google Adsense, like this - http://blogs.sun.com/basler/resource/digg.jpg
- blazes816, on 12/09/2007, -0/+9Deja Vu?
- bashar129, on 12/09/2007, -0/+8It's not as much as the ads take up space on screen, it's that the page loads faster when it doesn't have to load the ads, just the content.
- lotsa1s, on 12/09/2007, -0/+8If they are selling something to prevent further failure, then yes.
- tizz66, on 12/09/2007, -1/+8I was fine with ads on digg when they used unobtrusive google text ads. But when they started with the crap they use now, I blocked them. I don't want to have my vision assaulted when I visit a website. If they want to cover their operating costs, they should go back to text ads and I'm willing to bet a large number of people would stop blocking digg.com.
- senorcool, on 12/09/2007, -0/+7I believe that the article created a paradoxical time shift where you are both at the same time.
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