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Post by todd on Aug 7, 2013 0:41:25 GMT
While I don't usually pay attention to the advertisements, I noticed that there's an ad for ProBoards Badges that features a comic strip where a red-haired girl is talking about giving the badges to her friends, and in the final panel, is standing by a dark-haired girl. Are they supposed to be Annie and Kat? They look much like them, if not exactly (and the differences might be due to the art style).
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 7, 2013 1:32:33 GMT
Can't comment as I started using Adblock several years ago and never looked back.
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Post by Señor Goose on Aug 7, 2013 7:19:32 GMT
I don't even pay attention to the ads. Can you try to get a screengrab?
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Post by Toloc on Aug 7, 2013 9:20:33 GMT
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 7, 2013 9:29:27 GMT
The hairstyle of the second girl looks more like Faith from Mirror's Edge, so I'm going to say coincidence, but it's still funny, not least because they are trying to get you to spend real money on pixels that do not do a whole heck of a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 9:56:48 GMT
»I must construct a robotic thanking device that will provide my appreciation with transit to my Internet peer group!«
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Post by Señor Goose on Aug 7, 2013 15:21:11 GMT
Dammit, it won't load.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 7, 2013 16:50:21 GMT
Genteel forum-goers, I smell a topic ripe for parody.  |
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Post by melkior on Aug 8, 2013 9:56:24 GMT
Genteel forum-goers, I smell a topic ripe for parody. Maybe I shouldn't, but I just couldn't help it. I laughed out loud. Rather unfair on the proboards folks since they have to make money somehow to keep our wonderfully useful forum online. But maybe they'll forgive us since this thread will attract attention to their ads regardless. :-) |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 8, 2013 16:44:53 GMT
Genteel forum-goers, I smell a topic ripe for parody. Maybe I shouldn't, but I just couldn't help it. I laughed out loud. Rather unfair on the proboards folks since they have to make money somehow to keep our wonderfully useful forum online. But maybe they'll forgive us since this thread will attract attention to their ads regardless. :-) Trust me, Proboards is going to make bank whether 100,000 people click on that ad or zero  They have a very smart business model. |
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Post by Eversist on Aug 9, 2013 15:00:34 GMT
Can't comment as I started using Adblock several years ago and never looked back. You know, I would get AdBlock for Chrome, but many of the sites I visit are sites like this one; where the creator of the sites' content pays for their own hosting, and part, if not most of their livelihood depends on traffic to the site. So I can't in good conscience use AdBlock. And I know that you can unblock sites on there, but what's the point when 95% of them will be on that list? Also, I'm kinda-sorta in the advertising industry, so it feels like hypocrisy on some level. But... it frustrates the boyfriend, so my FireFox browser with AdBlock is for him. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 9, 2013 17:42:19 GMT
Can't comment as I started using Adblock several years ago and never looked back. You know, I would get AdBlock for Chrome, but many of the sites I visit are sites like this one; where the creator of the sites' content pays for their own hosting, and part, if not most of their livelihood depends on traffic to the site. So I can't in good conscience use AdBlock. And I know that you can unblock sites on there, but what's the point when 95% of them will be on that list? Also, I'm kinda-sorta in the advertising industry, so it feels like hypocrisy on some level. Yeah, that's true, he could use the money, but I don't think I've EVER seen a sidebar ad that I clicked on purpose. But... it frustrates the boyfriend, so my FireFox browser with AdBlock is for him. She keeps the browsing separate? That's a lucky man right there. |
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Post by Eversist on Aug 11, 2013 17:58:06 GMT
Yeah, that's true, he could use the money, but I don't think I've EVER seen a sidebar ad that I clicked on purpose. Common misconception that ads only make the website's owner money when it's clicked. Depends on the deal they have set up, but many have it based on views, not only clicks. She keeps the browsing separate? That's a lucky man right there. Haha. |
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Post by sidhekin on Aug 11, 2013 19:26:55 GMT
Yeah, that's true, he could use the money, but I don't think I've EVER seen a sidebar ad that I clicked on purpose. Common misconception that ads only make the website's owner money when it's clicked. Depends on the deal they have set up, but many have it based on views, not only clicks. When I turn off adblock (and I do for many sites, particularly comickers'), I still find that I'm blind to sidebar (and banner) ads, so I can't say I actually "view" them. But hey, the advertisers will never know that, right? Since I download the ad, that counts as a "view", and depending on the deal, just might make the website's owner money. Too bad for the advertisers, but hey ... |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 11, 2013 20:17:36 GMT
Common misconception that ads only make the website's owner money when it's clicked. Depends on the deal they have set up, but many have it based on views, not only clicks. When I turn off adblock (and I do for many sites, particularly comickers'), I still find that I'm blind to sidebar (and banner) ads, so I can't say I actually "view" them. But hey, the advertisers will never know that, right? Since I download the ad, that counts as a "view", and depending on the deal, just might make the website's owner money. Too bad for the advertisers, but hey ... Really? Just by page views? I never knew that. I always thought click through was the be-all, end-all statistic. Oh what the heck. I'll go add an exception to the filter. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 22, 2013 15:11:28 GMT
Keeping with the theme of the last one:  Haven't seen any more good ones, though. All I've been seeing lately is Allstate and Sunbrella. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Sept 22, 2013 19:45:45 GMT
Major.
Trouser.
Chili.
Really now.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 22, 2013 22:42:08 GMT
Major. Trouser. Chili. Really now. Sure. It's juvenile but it's work-safe and appropriate for most ages, and I think it does a better job at making the case for buying badges than the original.  |
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Post by Covalent on Sept 23, 2013 1:10:31 GMT
I also use AdBlock. However, don't ads support the forum running?
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 23, 2013 12:12:13 GMT
I also use AdBlock. However, don't ads support the forum running? That is a complex question and I suppose the answer is yes, but indirectly. If Proboards becomes unprofitable and closes down then the forum would have to go elsewhere. Over the long term it may help the comic's promotion to have banked all the collected info about its forum-goers through 3rd party tracking, but also indirectly. I suspect Proboards runs their own ads when they fall short of selling ad space and as a tiny percentage of total ad space to promote themselves. In my own limited experience I've been seeing less and less of the badges ads and more and more proboards plus ads in their place within that small allotment, and a lack of the promotions in the badge store, so I am thinking that they've achieved their ad sales goals and have either achieved their goals of badge-promotion (and are now concentrating on moving customers to proboards-plus) or that the badge campaign didn't rise to aspirations at all and they're giving up on it. And before you guys declare that the campaign must have been a flop because the characters in the badge ads are incredibly derpy and derpy characters are not persuasive when trying to make consumers spend money on a questionable purchase, many of those customers are probably little kids not spending their own money and/or forum-owners who want to breathe life into their dying forums. And Covalent your sig reminds me of many nightmarish nights ramming formulae into my head so I could scrape through tests... |
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Post by quinkgirl on Sept 28, 2013 2:44:35 GMT
Adblock? I... should probably know about this, shouldn't I? I've never seen the Proboard ads here before, though. Weird. Or maybe I wasn't paying attention. I like Cobalent's signature, though I can't make head nor tail of the last part. Um... I know CO2 and H2O...? But I can read Japanese... mostly. Not all kanji.
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Post by philman on Oct 4, 2013 18:05:14 GMT
I like Cobalent's signature, though I can't make head nor tail of the last part. Um... I know CO2 and H2O...? But I can read Japanese... mostly. Not all kanji. C3H5N3O9 is the formula for Nitroglycerine, the chemical equation is for what happens when it explodes. 6 molecules of nitroglycerine go in, 29 molecules of various gases come out, and rapidly expand... I don't know japanese or the mathematical equation, I assume they relate to expanding gases or explosions in some way though. |
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Post by quinkgirl on Oct 4, 2013 19:10:53 GMT
I like Cobalent's signature, though I can't make head nor tail of the last part. Um... I know CO2 and H2O...? But I can read Japanese... mostly. Not all kanji. C3H5N3O9 is the formula for Nitroglycerine, the chemical equation is for what happens when it explodes. 6 molecules of nitroglycerine go in, 29 molecules of various gases come out, and rapidly expand... I don't know japanese or the mathematical equation, I assume they relate to expanding gases or explosions in some way though. Ooh! Explosions! This sig really is awesome ... Now I feel like everyone here s smarter than me  |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 4, 2013 20:36:58 GMT
... Now I feel like everyone here s smarter than me Don't worry that's just the internet. Everyone's an expert on everything. Just imagine us all in our underwear or something. Half of the internet probably is. Adblock? I... should probably know about this, shouldn't I? I've never seen the Proboard ads here before, though. Weird. Or maybe I wasn't paying attention. The ads are targeted based on whatever details about you you give them and whatever they've been able to glean from your other activities in the nets. If your account info says you're 13 or under supposedly Proboards doesn't intentionally keep or transfer your info, though. Based on what they think they know about me they think that ads for banks and insurance and wristwatches would interest me. That's why I see Citibank, Stauer time-pieces, Allstate, Allstate, Allstate, Allstate, and Allstate when I look at this forum and you see whatever you see. But the system is imperfect. For example, since somebody else sometimes surfs with the same account I usually use I also see ads for leggings on a regular basis. This ad scheme is annoying but it does keep the internet free. Adblock keeps you from seeing all those ads but it is a ToS violation here so I'll let you learn about it elsewhere. Proboards probably has set aside a % of its own ad space to promote itself but it is standard practice to fill any unsold space with their own ads. I saw a spike in the proboards advertising on their own sites at the end of the month so I guess that's when they fill the empty cards. There were a bunch for proboards plus, a paid membership that exempts you from seeing ads on the forum, and some of those even had the same derpy characters but since you're kinda sorta getting something for your money I haven't been making fun of those. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 21, 2013 1:25:24 GMT
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 21, 2013 3:46:41 GMT
 What else could I possibly want from life other than to spend actual money on a bunch of pixels grouped in the crude likeness of a flaming potato that represents the destruction of my privacy? Just when you thought living couldn't get any better, they come along with something new. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Oct 21, 2013 3:51:15 GMT
I like Cobalent's signature, though I can't make head nor tail of the last part. Um... I know CO2 and H2O...? But I can read Japanese... mostly. Not all kanji. C3H5N3O9 is the formula for Nitroglycerine, the chemical equation is for what happens when it explodes. 6 molecules of nitroglycerine go in, 29 molecules of various gases come out, and rapidly expand... I don't know japanese or the mathematical equation, I assume they relate to expanding gases or explosions in some way though. Aaaaand this is why I'm going into Physics. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 21, 2013 7:14:46 GMT
C3H5N3O9 is the formula for Nitroglycerine, the chemical equation is for what happens when it explodes. 6 molecules of nitroglycerine go in, 29 molecules of various gases come out, and rapidly expand... I don't know japanese or the mathematical equation, I assume they relate to expanding gases or explosions in some way though. Aaaaand this is why I'm going into Physics. I don't know if most physicists get to blow shit up with TNT. That's a pretty specific type of physicist. You're more likely to get stuck on the midnight shift at a particle accelerator. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Oct 21, 2013 7:47:03 GMT
Aaaaand this is why I'm going into Physics. I don't know if most physicists get to blow shit up with TNT. That's a pretty specific type of physicist. You're more likely to get stuck on the midnight shift at a particle accelerator. I meant I'm going to physics because in my sophomore year I realized that there was no way I could ever keep track of those molecular formula, equations, and equilibriums. |
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Post by philman on Oct 21, 2013 18:00:52 GMT
I don't know if most physicists get to blow shit up with TNT. That's a pretty specific type of physicist. You're more likely to get stuck on the midnight shift at a particle accelerator. I meant I'm going to physics because in my sophomore year I realized that there was no way I could ever keep track of those molecular formula, equations, and equilibriums. Heh, biochemistry is fine for me, and chemical equations are far easier than the mathematical ones you need to be a physicist! (How many dimensions are we up to now?) Nitroglycerine is probably used more in medicine anyway, it produces NO in the body, which is a major vasodilator, so is commonly given for heart problems like angina. |
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