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- P5ycHo, on 05/31/2008, -7/+77NOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo............................
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -7/+56NOOOOOOOOO... *****!
How long till someone makes a plug-in/script which hides ad *****? - 0011002, on 05/31/2008, -9/+57Now we need Ad block for RSS feeds
- Farmer77, on 05/31/2008, -6/+35That's horrible...and this is coming from someone who uses adsense.
- CaitSith4343, on 05/31/2008, -11/+25I really don't understand why everyone whines about something like this. Sure, flashy, in-your-face ads are annoying. However, adsense is entirely tolerable and a good way for writers and website owners to get paid for creating the content you all love so much... RSS is great for convenience, but reading articles right from your feedreader prevents content creators from getting paid. It's really not that much of an inconvenience.
And yes, I expect to get dugg down for this. - superkendall, on 05/31/2008, -4/+17As much as I don't like it, this is how sites I like make money! I would prefer to keep reading a site with a few ads than to have it vanish forever.
- dustinmacdonald, on 05/31/2008, -6/+18Ads exist in many RSS feeds already. What this will hopefully do is push publishers to provide full content within their feeds. Good news all around.
- smurf22, on 05/31/2008, -6/+17As much as I don't like it, it's how google makes money. So unless I pay a subscription for google I say let them run their adds. Besides we can always block them.
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -4/+14I doubt AdBlock would block RSS ads,
- cubicledrone, on 05/31/2008, -3/+13Same bunch. Bitch about Flash even though it made YouTube possible. Bitch about Google even though they are directly responsible for the ability of about half of average web publishers to publish at all. Bitch about any web page that isn't 1997-era H1 headers, plain serif text and GIFs on a gray background. Bitch about Wordpress because it must be the 500 bytes of PHP that crashed the site, not the 500,000 people all trying to read the article in the space of 15 seconds. Bitch unless everything is handed over for free at massive expense to musicians, developers, writers, artists and everyone else, then bitch because those people didn't get post-graduate mechanical engineering degrees, then bitch some more.
Google has probably done more for the good of the Internet than any other company on the planet. - BryanJK, on 05/31/2008, -8/+18Advertisement is good, but there is a point where it starts to overwhelm...
- mateo60, on 05/31/2008, -2/+10There is a HUGE difference between the way Adsense shows ads vs the way other sites use them. Adsense ads aren't nearly as obnoxious, and sometimes they're even useful. I run a site that is funded off of Adsense. It pays my hosting and I make a small amount on top of it.
- 0011002, on 05/31/2008, -0/+6well there went my attempt at being funny. Apparently I failed
- Trixrox, on 05/31/2008, -3/+9The whole reason I use RSS is because it is nice clean text, no ads. Maybe feedburner will not be utilized as much ,or adblock will help.
- foltaggio, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5In Google Reader, it would.
- haxcorner, on 05/31/2008, -0/+5I have Adblock installed, but I don't pay too much attention to it because it's been setup for a while... but if you ran your RSS reader through your browser (Yahoo, Google, Firefox Add-in), why wouldn't it block ad URLs?
- kman17, on 05/31/2008, -4/+8Why is everyone so upset about this? Google ads aren't irritating or invasive, and the subscription model doesn't work for most of the web. What other option is there?
- WhyteclouD, on 05/31/2008, -7/+11This is getting out of hand imo
- SSUK, on 05/31/2008, -3/+7- L@@K! WOW - LOW PRICE FURNATURE
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- Scientists find God, he was behind the Sofa.
- I GOT THIS ADSENSE PLACE FOR FREE
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I can't wait! - duckyinc, on 05/31/2008, -0/+4Yes in google reader it will..
- Armor1901, on 05/31/2008, -4/+8This ***** blows. Is it not enough to see the ads rape the hell out of the page space in the article itself, we now have to see them BEFORE we see the article as well?!
Frack that - mudgie, on 05/31/2008, -3/+6People deserve to be paid for their content (which, by the way, you receive for free). As long as the ads aren't obnoxious, which is the case with Google's text ads, what's the problem?
- redwallhp, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2And what is your reasoning behind the argument?
- Sokkratez, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2I'm okay with it. I enjoy Google Reader for free, I think they should make some money off of it. If I end up being bothered, I'll just seek out a freeware application, plug-in or extension in which to get my feeds.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2Here's a hint- when ever a commenter on this thread uses the word "relevant" and "unobtrusive" you can be quite sure that they are a paid google employee using standard talking points to try and influence opinion.
- redwallhp, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2Listen up: You have your choice between having full feeds, or ad-free feeds. If you're going to expect RSS feeds to be ad-free, then you're going to have to visit the site. If you're going to want to read entire articles in feeds, don't complain when the ads start to show up.
- SSUK, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2... Yet.
- 4321234, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2Besides adblock, there's also "customize google" extension. No doubt customize google will be all over this, if it doesn't already block it. But if a website has ads that don't blink or somehow hurt my eyes, and aren't supplied from some 3rd party, I don't block them. Money makes the world go round, so let websites have sponsors, I just resent being profiled and part of somebody's database. Otherwise, adblock, remove it permanently, noscript and customize google pretty much hammers the piss out of everything.
- grah, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2That won't be our future. Our future will be a place with far less advertising, perhaps even none at all. As advertising becomes more targeted and relevant it will become invisible to everyone else. After all, it's only information.
- NJank, on 05/31/2008, -1/+3we only blocked them because they made them more obtrusive first.
- noen, on 05/31/2008, -3/+4Ever see Idiocracy with ads embedded absolutely everywhere? That's our future. (not the stupidity part, stupidity is self correcting, ask Charlie)
- Trixrox, on 05/31/2008, -4/+5Not in the RSS feeds I read.
- chenn, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1it is called yahoo pipes, lots of filter options!
- CreativeGuy, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1Everyone hates ads, yet they're more than happy to complain about not getting full articles in their feeds, block ads and then complain even more when the site goes to subscription model or closes all together.
I used to hate them too, but the fact is that content providers need to make money or the content goes away. If everyone clicked an ad once a week, sites would make more money, and there would be less ads on the site.
Simple economics. - acidbathfan, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1One day the entire internet will be nothing but one big ad that swallows every dime you have the moment you open up your browser. Once you're completely tapped out it will automatically call the cops to come pick you up for placement in a labor camp because you will have outlived your usefulness to society as a private citizen.
- Culyt, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1RSS feed are different to finding text ads in a website, firstly if they are adding new feed articles just for the ads it would be a massive pain since I would think I got news when its just a ***** ad. rss informs you when there is something worth looking at, it save me loading Digg and Reddit 2000 times a day and for all those minor sites and blog that I would otherwise never even remember existed in the first place.
The other thing is feed are generally nice and clean, that's one of the greatest appeals, I already don't have to put up with some sites horrible design because some Mac using 'webdesigner' thinks it the embodiment of 'Web2.0' (Because Linking ECMAscript to XML needs shiny, shiny gradients apparently). Adding ads to clean rss feeds will ruin that.
Fortunately there is dapper to setup your own RSS feeds, so I guess it will be an idea to start finding the advertising site and making rogue RSS feeds of them (Its already great for sites without feeds, such as bash.org). Otherwise you could do your own RSS meta-aggregator, but I like the reader.google.com one.
I will most likely remove any sites form my RSS feed that have advertising, %95 of content is not unique to the site anyway (or are like Digg/Reddit which are more like hivemind meta-aggregators with no unique contents, other than the comments), and if it is and its anything good it will be linked from other places anyway.
☢ - thatsoccerkid, on 05/31/2008, -2/+3What a product doesn't have in value they make up for it with advertising.
- JudgeMonkey, on 05/31/2008, -3/+4Perhaps if people would stop blocking every little ad then they wouldn't have felt such a need to make them more obtrusive. Ok, they would still have made them worse, but this full-page-ad before you can see pages sometimes crap is annoying.
- infinitus64, on 05/31/2008, -1/+2stop trying to make your own memes
- thailand1972, on 05/31/2008, -3/+4Wrong on all points.
Wordpress websites crash servers (those that don't use WP-cache) because it doesn't cache content; instead it hammers the database to render each page (unnecessarily so). You don't need 500,000 people to crash a WP website - perhaps a thousand is enough. It's just bad programming. There's nothing wrong without pointing this out. It's good for everyone to point this out. I hope future versions of WP will cache content automatically.
People who moan about Flash tend to moan about Flash-only websites where everything, including the navigation and all text content, is included in the Flash file rendering the back button useless and making copy and paste impossible as well as forcing the visitor to learn a bespoke navigation system. Perhaps you can point to blogs that moan about youtube using the .flv file format?
Google isn't responsible for allowing "about half of average web publishers to publish at all". What a load of rubbish. There's been free hosting since Angelfire (good and bad). You're putting Google on a pedestal. And 99% of blogs that host Google Ads earn pennies, not even dollars. It's just a bit of milk money to most people. - netzdamon, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Do not want!
- CreativeGuy, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1The ads are in the FEEDS, not Google Reader. You'll see the ads no matter what program or plugin you use to view RSS feeds.
- wardrox, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Just stop using RSS feeds with adverts in surly?
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -1/+1How long will it be until someone creates a firefox extension to block these?
We already have advertisements everywhere else like on television, billboards, bus stops, and just about anywhere else you could possibly think of. Do we really need to ***** up the internet too?
Don't get me wrong, because I'm totally okay with text ads. They're not as annoying as those blinking, fullscreen, annoying-as-***** animations that won't ***** shut up no matter what you do.
I wouldn't mind using text ads on my site for a bit of extra cash but google really needs to get rid of that ***** age limit. It's pissing me off. - inactive, on 05/31/2008, -11/+11It's called AdBlock. It'll be invented five years ago.
- LightSpeed4, on 06/01/2008, -1/+1how will the google fanboys spin this story? rofl
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- nesslander, on 09/19/2008, -0/+0Yes, it's a good thing for content site and publisher
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- NightmareFox, on 06/01/2008, -1/+1The only ads I really can't stand are those ads that double-underline random words in a page, and when your cursor hovers over them, they show a tooltip-like-ad that usually has nothing to do with the page you're viewing. I was at a page today and it was filled with those ads, but not just text and pictures, no; all of the words popped up VIDEOS that played immediately, with sound and all. Very irritating.
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