- Patents
“If you’ve ever played a videogame and wondered why the game didn’t give you anything to do while a new level was loading, Namco’s patent is the answer.” - "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame
This isn’t even funny really. Unbelievable how many forms force you to enter a credit card number in some specific format instead of fixing it themselves with some trivially easy server side code - Common Questions About Design Professionalism
- 8-Bit NYC
- Alfred App
- Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
Imagine running a restaurant where 40% of the people who came and ate didn't pay. In a way, that's what ad blocking is doing to us. Just like a restaurant, we have to pay to staff, we have to pay for resources, and we have to pay when people consume those resources. The difference, of course, is that our visitors don't pay us directly but indirectly by viewing advertising.
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Re: Ad Blocking
I’ve been whitelisting sites I love that depend on ad revenue for a while now. But in all honesty, the online ad industry brought this upon themselves. Nobody is using adblockers to block small, unobtrusive ads. We use them to block bandwidth-hungry, processor-intensive Flash ads that slow down every page load and force us to see ads before we see the content we came for.
The sites that host these ads are just as culpable as the ad networks. They chose to go for ad revenue over an optimised user experience, and now they’re paying the price.
So I’ll keep whitelisting sites that I know depend on ad revenue and use ad networks that aren’t going to serve up any irritating Flash ads (eg http://decknetwork.net/), but most people aren’t. And you can’t blame them.