I think your concerns are warranted. Gamers in particular are notorious for shortcutting or ignoring any system that isn't fun or interesting. Likely they'll start the ads and cook food or watch something in another tab while it happens. This will almost certainly amount to a near-zero benefit to advertisers. Personally I look forward to the day when advertisement as a revenue stream on the web and in software is dead. Then people will be forced to try to make good content instead of clickbait if they want to make a living with it.
It's just disappointing that the state of advertising is so... Oversaturated. Like, I wouldn't mind ads- and might pay them some heed- if they weren't all over the place. I've made a hobby of counting the ads-per-page on sites I visit- I'm happy that Voat keeps it to one.
I tend to try to disable ad blocking on sites that I go to which have decent content. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I actually pay attention to to the ads - it just means that I acknowledge that if I don't I'm robbing the site owner of a portion of his income. I find ads in software on the other hand to be obnoxious, and I'd much rather pay a 1-time fee or subscription than get bombarded by them all the time.
Ads are generally meaningless to me because 99.9% of the time they're not making me aware of anything new or exciting. A lot of the time they're embellishments or outright lies which attempt to make something seem like it's more than it really is. If someone made it their business to lie to you on a regular basis, would you really want to hear what they had to say?
I disabled blockers on your site, so hopefully the few pennies that go in to your pot helps out.
[–] SkepticalMartian 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I think your concerns are warranted. Gamers in particular are notorious for shortcutting or ignoring any system that isn't fun or interesting. Likely they'll start the ads and cook food or watch something in another tab while it happens. This will almost certainly amount to a near-zero benefit to advertisers. Personally I look forward to the day when advertisement as a revenue stream on the web and in software is dead. Then people will be forced to try to make good content instead of clickbait if they want to make a living with it.
[–] Jourdy288 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's just disappointing that the state of advertising is so... Oversaturated. Like, I wouldn't mind ads- and might pay them some heed- if they weren't all over the place. I've made a hobby of counting the ads-per-page on sites I visit- I'm happy that Voat keeps it to one.
[–] SkepticalMartian 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I tend to try to disable ad blocking on sites that I go to which have decent content. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I actually pay attention to to the ads - it just means that I acknowledge that if I don't I'm robbing the site owner of a portion of his income. I find ads in software on the other hand to be obnoxious, and I'd much rather pay a 1-time fee or subscription than get bombarded by them all the time.
Ads are generally meaningless to me because 99.9% of the time they're not making me aware of anything new or exciting. A lot of the time they're embellishments or outright lies which attempt to make something seem like it's more than it really is. If someone made it their business to lie to you on a regular basis, would you really want to hear what they had to say?
I disabled blockers on your site, so hopefully the few pennies that go in to your pot helps out.