Saturday, October 5, 2013

Here, Have An Awesome...BANNER AD?!!

So I was skimming Hackaday via Feedly today and up came a page asking me to support them by allowing their banner ads. Maybe I'm a sucker, but a website that asks even not-super-duper-nicely. Like Hulu, which--this is notable, I think, though I with no real advanced web programming wouldn't know for sure--still lets you see what you came for even when it can tell you're running an Adblock. Also notable: Hackaday is making an effort to include companies in its ads that are most relevant to its base.

But I digress.

The real point I'm going for, and the awesome thing that came out of all of this: Hackaday may be the first time I felt actively rewarded for doing such a thing, and possibly just by chance. But the first ads I saw after the ad allowance are better given in picture than in words:


I know what those ads say, but they might as well say "Allowed our banner ads? Have a kitten."

Awesome.

P.S. The company which made that awesome ad was FindChips.com.

P.P.S. I reloaded the pictured Hackaday to see what would happen ad-wise. Same company still (though it sounds like that varies some, maybe) but this other FindChips ad came up and deserves posting:

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2 comments:

  1. weas10/05/2013 10:18:00 AM

    A nice gesture (I went ahead and whitelisted Hackaday on my ABP plugin) but unfortunately I only got Flash-based Texas Instruments ads. At least they weren't the kind that play sound.

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  2. Dan Lower10/05/2013 10:21:00 AM

    Yeah, they made that one of their explicit things.

    You'll probably find the cats eventually, but I'm not sure how much reloading or extra page-looking you have to do. I've gotten non-cat ads now after clicking some other pages, so theoretically the same will eventually result in a cat ad if you didn't get one at the outset.

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