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Why is this guy treating everyone without AdBlock like they're in a third world country? It's literally waiting 5-30 seconds for a video to load, at most.
Tuesday, 27-Aug-13 20:30:56 UTC from web-
@mastertdi It's funny because ad revenue is a terrible way to make money. I don't think I could pay for my parking with the money I've made on ads
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@ceruleanspark I'm not going to pretend I'm well versed in what ads accomplish, but I dunno, I guess on a larger scale it's gotta do something, if content creators are so against it.
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@mastertdi even if I put a huge ass interstitial that played sound and was unskippable smack in the middle of RDN's timeline, even if you guys didn't all leave in disgust, I'd still make less than a living wage
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@ceruleanspark Everything Okay?
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@ceruleanspark I don't feel knowledgable enough to rebuttal, but I'm still not fond of the idea
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@mastertdi It's a horrible idea and I'd never do it. I'm not quite as much of an idiot as I make myself out to be.
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@ceruleanspark I know that
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@ceruleanspark The difference is that RDN isn't a high-profile website that gets millions of users a day. Of course ads wouldn't be profitable for you. There are people, however, who make a comfortable living off of ad revenue, so obviously it's a system that works.
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@zeldatra http://i.imgur.com/s0vRdct.png yeah I guess that's pretty small time
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@ceruleanspark Whoa. More than a third of the usage is just bots.
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@ceruleanspark In comparison to sites like YouTube, or Newgrounds? Yeah, it is.
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@zeldatra And reddit hits a billion pageviews a month and still doesn't make enough money to support its costs without also offering a premium option.
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@ceruleanspark But Reddit doesn't gain revenue from people just staring at the ads. You're missing my point. It doesn't work for everybody. I sure as hell can't make enough money in video ad revenue to support myself. But those people who actually are able to make a living on that kind of stuff are getting shafted by this AdBlock campaign.
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@zeldatra The truth is that it's who your ad contract is with that matters. Hits will open that gate for you, but you've gotta keep it up and not do anything to dole them off if you want to keep it open.
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@ceruleanspark "not do anything to dole them off" yeah so RDN is kinda out of luck in that, isn't it
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@rarity Our "Infringe Hasbro's copyrights" button at the top probably doesn't help.
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@ceruleanspark or the fact that the URL of the website is a copyright infringement
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@rarity Trademark, not copyright.
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@zeldatra People have the right to take measures not to be fed ads down their throaths as much as other people have it to post ads.
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@thelastgherkin Well, that's my bad. I'm not an expert
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@ceruleanspark That button hasn't worked for a while now. I sent a link with new episodes to replace the ones taken down when I first noticed. Here it is again if you wanna support the infringement.. Alternately, you could maybe just put fan episodes up there. https://www.youtube.com/user/MysteriousBrony2/videos?view=1&shelf_index=1&sort=dd
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@rarity It's fine. I bought Speedycloud.net a couple of months back just in case
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@ceruleanspark both the series and fan series are among the playlists at the linked site
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@ceruleanspark Oh yeah I remember that
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@ceruleanspark that.. is.. awesome1
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@ceruleanspark Do you have to renew that or is ownership permanent?
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@pony You renew every year.
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@ceruleanspark It is very costly?
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@pony It was $8 for a full year.
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@ceruleanspark oh really not bad then!
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@pony That's what made it a worthwhile precaution to take I feel.
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