Re: Problem with an advert (I assume) on your download site

On 23 September 2011 23:39, Robin Guest <robin.guest_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just once I'd like to see someone taking responsibility for the
> consequences of advertising. It's always dressed up as beneficial to
> the project team, and never seen as an even more pernicious form of
> what all advertising is: ways of persuading people to buy stuff they
> didn't want to, or taking a cut when they were going to buy the stuff
> anyway. Don't tell me, the people who got decieved were stupid, or
> it's their own fault for not using adblock?

I know. I hate the ads, and to make matters worse, I would expect that
we only get revenue if people actually click on the button to
download. In 99% of cases they will do that inadvertently because the
download button is usually unlabelled and looks like the one to use
for the TSVN download. We even put the ads right at the top of the
page to make it look that way. OK, so it generates income to pay our
hosting costs, but it also damages TSVN's good reputation.

Simon

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