Non-Intrusive Ads… for a Short While

[finalm]

Wasn't it legislated in the late 90s—at least in the US—that you had to be at least 13 to use the internet unsupervised? I distinctly remember this being a thing because it caused Yahoo to lock user accounts associated with birthdays that would make the user under 13 at the time—though it could easily be bypassed by providing a false birthday when creating a new account—immediately.

Nothing from the 90s comes to mind, though COPPA was ratified in 2000, so maybe that's what you mean? That's not some sort of blanket ban on minors using the net though, it only pertains to age restrictions for enabling user tracking by companies.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Man, I remember when I started using the internet, that I was limited to a walled garden called "Blinde Kuh" that had a curated list of websites that I could visit.
IMO, that was an actually good solution for allowing children to be online

 

[PhoenixDen]

How much does it even cost to run an ad on this site? Can't be that much, can it?

 

[ireadit]

Well, I've heard that the ads are now blocked in upstream uBlock filters. So that's that.

 

[popo53414]

will MD start detecting adblockers like youtoob and then doxx the users who blocked ads?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

will MD start detecting adblockers like youtoob and then doxx the users who blocked ads?

Well... I don't think we need to worry about that.
They still lack basic functionality like account deletion, such stuff is going to be way beyond

 

[ireadit]

Great, now the „non-intrusive“ ads got even bigger.

 

[vidopnir]

Yes indeed the new custom Dex-chan "Your Ad Here" on mobile is about twice as large as the empty ad frame it replaced.
The site load on mobile is also terrible with the home page taking up to 15 seconds and updates taking 8. Money well spent I see.

I am curious though, what exactly will you be using this ad money for? Where can I view your current funding input and goals?
You removed a huge amount of series a few months ago therefore you need less server space and less throughput handling.

I'm starting to get this kind of feeling something isn't quite right here.
NamiComi (cofounded and run by your own MD dev Tristan9) official takeover after months of unofficial shadow government shit, official subscriptions, mass DMCA purge, setup for expanded advertising (Maybe the subreddit staff shouldnt drop the hint there could be long term ads).....I wonder what could possibly be next

 

[finalm]

will MD start detecting adblockers like youtoob and then doxx the users who blocked ads?

A "wall of shame" would actually be worth a few chuckles. Sign me up since I took the effort to manually block all such elements on day one and it was somewhat of a pain, only fair I get recognition for that!

 

[finalm]

I am curious though, what exactly will you be using this ad money for? Where can I view your current funding input and goals?
You removed a huge amount of series a few months ago therefore you need less server space and less throughput handling.

If that's your concern then you should start with the donations - it's far shadier to ask for those while outright refusing to be transparent about how much flows in and how it's spent. Ads are just a way to monetize the user base, which they've been trying to figure out for years now. Looks like NamiComi scheme went far more poorly than expected.

 

[raze2012]

Right click the object to block, select "Block element...", select "Preview", click down the list starting from the top until too much disappears, then click one back up so it blocks the maximum level of what you want blocked.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Dude above gave us a filter rule so it was even easier than that.

My point was that most people won't know what the heck you just said. People underestimate how illiterate people can be on computers.

 

[JVick]

A "wall of shame" would actually be worth a few chuckles. Sign me up since I took the effort to manually block all such elements on day one and it was somewhat of a pain, only fair I get recognition for that!

I want to be on the top of the list then, I came up with my own filters like a big boy.

 

[JVick]

Yes indeed the new custom Dex-chan "Your Ad Here" on mobile is about twice as large as the empty ad frame it replaced.
The site load on mobile is also terrible with the home page taking up to 15 seconds and updates taking 8. Money well spent I see.

I am curious though, what exactly will you be using this ad money for? Where can I view your current funding input and goals?
You removed a huge amount of series a few months ago therefore you need less server space and less throughput handling.

I'm starting to get this kind of feeling something isn't quite right here.
NamiComi (cofounded and run by your own MD dev Tristan9) official takeover after months of unofficial shadow government shit, official subscriptions, mass DMCA purge, setup for expanded advertising (Maybe the subreddit staff shouldnt drop the hint there could be long term ads).....I wonder what could possibly be next

To be fair, is there a lot of websites doing the same with their ads revenues ?

 

[Tscheddov]

Yes indeed the new custom Dex-chan "Your Ad Here" on mobile is about twice as large as the empty ad frame it replaced.
The site load on mobile is also terrible with the home page taking up to 15 seconds and updates taking 8. Money well spent I see.

I am curious though, what exactly will you be using this ad money for? Where can I view your current funding input and goals?
You removed a huge amount of series a few months ago therefore you need less server space and less throughput handling.

I'm starting to get this kind of feeling something isn't quite right here.
NamiComi (cofounded and run by your own MD dev Tristan9) official takeover after months of unofficial shadow government shit, official subscriptions, mass DMCA purge, setup for expanded advertising (Maybe the subreddit staff shouldnt drop the hint there could be long term ads).....I wonder what could possibly be next

over a year ago they started taking support by subscriptions to dex chans art corner on NC. according to the achivements, this creator at least at some point had 250 supporters.
even with the lowest level at 5 dollars that would have been 1250 dollar a month through this support.
i subscribed for 20 dollar / month if anybody cares. And no, i did not connect my NC account to my MD account for supporter badge
for a while now (since august iirc) the connection to stripe (credit card payment processor) is "broken"
i can't even manage that subscription because of that.
but at the same time as this connection/ server issue arose, MD started taking support directly.
i can't help but having a bad feeling about this.

 

[Manko-sensei]

To anyone who may be interested, this is a Plykiya post from four years and a half ago detailing monthly costs (1,070$ per month in 2021) just after The Hombre Incident. Without taking into account inflation, traffic since then has only increased (which requires more resources to keep the site fluid, just remember the low loading times from 2023 for instance), a way to deal with the lack of storage was having volunteers sharing part of their local storage 24/7 operative because there was no money for all the increasing costs and of course that situation can't go forever. I haven't digged further (I don't remember the post that talked about upgrades and such, but it's all here in announcements) but I wouldn't be surprised if the yearly maintenance is about 20,000$, taking that into consideration yes, with insufficient donations there's a point where downgrading a site means closing it.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I'm kinda annoyed that they chose this instead of much more user-friendly and cooler methods of getting money.

Also, I do wonder why they have an ad on almost every main site page, when

[...](and it's really not that hard to do with our traffic levels, even a static banner on the homepage would pay the site costs back tenfold),[...]

 

[Simptember]

To anyone who may be interested, this is a Plykiya post from four years and a half ago detailing monthly costs (1,070$ per month in 2021) just after The Hombre Incident. Without taking into account inflation, traffic since then has only increased (which requires more resources to keep the site fluid, just remember the low loading times from 2023 for instance), a way to deal with the lack of storage was having volunteers sharing part of their local storage 24/7 operative because there was no money for all the increasing costs and of course that situation can't go forever. I haven't digged further (I don't remember the post that talked about upgrades and such, but it's all here in announcements) but I wouldn't be surprised if the yearly maintenance is about 20,000$, taking that into consideration yes, with insufficient donations there's a point where downgrading a site means closing it.

Me when I shill for scammers halfway across the world.

 

[Manko-sensei]

Me when I shill for scammers halfway across the world.

Apologies for not speaking that jargon but can you tell me which is the difference between you and a parasite? I'm feeling like feeding the troll today.

 

[ireadit]

Is it time to get the popcorn?

 

[finalm]

To anyone who may be interested, this is a Plykiya post from four years and a half ago detailing monthly costs (1,070$ per month in 2021) just after The Hombre Incident. Without taking into account inflation, traffic since then has only increased (which requires more resources to keep the site fluid, just remember the low loading times from 2023 for instance), a way to deal with the lack of storage was having volunteers sharing part of their local storage 24/7 operative because there was no money for all the increasing costs and of course that situation can't go forever. I haven't digged further (I don't remember the post that talked about upgrades and such, but it's all here in announcements) but I wouldn't be surprised if the yearly maintenance is about 20,000$, taking that into consideration yes, with insufficient donations there's a point where downgrading a site means closing it.

I'm sure we all understand that hosting and cdns cost money (remember the ToS, folks. No children allowed!). What we don't quite understand is why you, someone unaffiliated feels the need to argue this on behalf of a site, that has no intention of actually coming clean with it's expenses and income. Even worse, a site that has a for-profit company behind it, that is known to have established other streams of ravenue supposedly as support for the site (like those NamiComi subscriptions). Given all that, I think the community that they solicited for money is entitled to demand actual details of this operation, rather than hearing people say "it's for the cause!".