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.