Forgive my ignorance - I'm not in the internet ad business - but do the ad counters count page hits or actual ad views. What I'm getting at is, if I'm using an adblocker do the advertisers know that I saw the page but not their ads?
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Forgive my ignorance - I'm not in the internet ad business - but do the ad counters count page hits or actual ad views. What I'm getting at is, if I'm using an adblocker do the advertisers know that I saw the page but not their ads?
I've been wondering about this stuff, but am completely ignorant. I specialize in hospitality.Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
The ad obviously requires an NSFW AUDIO tag in order to comply.
Oh sure, punish the wrong people. That always works!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeppelinskier
Seems like you are defending the add as if? you had something to do with it. I have been irritaed by the add for some time. I have seen more than 1 thread started in ask TGR indicating displeasure with the add. But on it goes.?Quote:
Originally Posted by snowful
This is a community of people loudly sayin!!! the add sucks!! its irritating!! fix it PLEASE!
This thread is an appropriate escalation of the displeasure many of us feel related to this add.
Oakley and TGR have crossed a line of intrusion with the sound activation. I should not have to adjust my computer settings to gaurd against this one off obnocius add.
So from me and many others Sayin Now VERY LOUDLY FUCKING MAKE THE BAD ADD GO AWAY
Note TGR Forums are a differnt demographic than New School
Oakley should get the message that this ad is hurting their business. I'm not going to buy or recommend any of their shit after this.
And snowful, fuck off and go away.
A hit is actually a call to the server, so if a page had four pictures on it, you would probably end up with 6 or more 'hits' (1 for the page, 1 for each picture, 1 for the css file, etc.). The adserver will count the number of times the actual ad (or the little 1x1 image associated with the ad) is called. The adblocker blocks the java script that calls the ad so there is no ad view. That's for banners. For traditional Google adsense, you only get paid when an ad is clicked, which can't happen because again the js that calls the ad is blocked. Advertisers can know when an adblocker is being used if they want. I used to redirect those with ad blockers to a page explaining why they couldn't see my site, but eventually threw in the towel when enough viewers complained.Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
got it thanx.
I wouldn't create an ugly an obnoxious ad. The only thing I have to do with TGR is posting here, and as result have met new and interesting people which I have been able to share very rewarding time with. Like ski and party time!
I just want us, as a group, to at least present the appearance of being gracious to our host.
Sometimes that requires a little sacrifice on the guests part to get things worked out. Patience is a virtue, which only matters if you are into virtue, I suppose.
If not, keep on keeping on.
ill pm the tr to you :pQuote:
Originally Posted by snowful
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Dhelihiker
snowful = whiney & self-entitled
Wow! You neener neenered me, but good!Quote:
Originally Posted by jahroy
To the top cuz I'm a self-entitled whiny attention whore!
Furthermore, what the fuck was the original threat? To quit posting stoke? Riiiiiiiiight. That'll take care of everything. Morons.
first i closed my eyes and wished the ads away, but that didn't work. then i went on a skiing strike, but i could only last 12 hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowful
then i came up with the stokott, and evidently it was enough to get your panties in a bunch.
You have voiced my sentiments exactly. No longer will I be able to view new products being offered by ANY company advertising through TGR (or other sites). If only Oakley hadn't had such a blatantly obnoxious ad campaign. However, this could have been there goal....Quote:
Originally Posted by Lani
I know living in the dark half the year can be rough.Quote:
Originally Posted by dk_alaskan
It's OK to come out and play now, I think the mean old ad is gone.
Every good skier on my local hill when I was 12 or 13 had to have the bright green Oakley goggles.Quote:
Originally Posted by dumpy
I bought a pair of frogskins with my paper route money.
from there it went. I have always had Oakley something on my eyes. I have an Oakley visor on my hockey helmet. I have a pair of chainsaw/work/shop glasses, and a pair of sunglasses. I have 2 pairs of goggles. I have had a couple of pairs of ski pants.
I don't know why, I've just always had good luck with those products, nobody ever questioned if my Oakleys were ANSI when I was a HECM.... As I said in another thread, I even went and bought stuff from other stores when I was managing a shop that dealt Smith and I had shop form.
What this keeps coming back to in this thread and the other thread is that people think we're just bitching because we're annoyed at the ad.
That's like when your good friend tells you about the spinach in your teeth and you tell him to go fuck himself and quit bitching about it. "Deal with it bro, I need to eat spinach, it's good for me. Just don't look at it you pussy."
Either way, I know how much of a shit Oakley gives about my/our business. It's not because of the ad...a shitty ad isn't bad product, it's because we've been making this point for weeks and nobody values our feedback enough to fix the issue.
Don't sugarcoat it. Just say Barista.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowful
it only gets rough when I run out of booze and the liquor store hasn't gotten their half yearly delivery-this is usually do to dog sled failure. Otherwise, the dark is a good place.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowful
:D Quote:
Originally Posted by PhiberAwptik
It looks like a cartoon, but this is actually a real photograph of DK_Alaskan and his dog "big pete".
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thum...untain-man.jpg
This is another photo of DK_Alaskan on his way to pan for silicon which he skillfully whittled into his trusty laptop for "connectin to them interwebs.".
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/da-b...Prospector.jpg
you know, because everyone in alaska ... :rolleyes:
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
I whole-heartedly concur. Anchorage is dope. I'm often tempted to return.Quote:
Originally Posted by dk_alaskan
I also concur that the old Oakley ads were incredibly obnoxious. That said, I own several pieces of Oakley ski and mountain biking clothing (all from SAC), and it has served me well.
to be clear: snowfulQuote:
Originally Posted by powdork
you got owned mofo...stfu :tdo13::p
Well you are very lucky then. The ads are annoying as hell. A annoying voice saying dumb shit. But that is not what makes the adds so bad. Up till now if you encountered such a ad it was your own fault, you clicked on the add banner. But these ads come come up if your cursor just tracks over the ad. And on a notebook that happens alot. That is what makes these ads so horrible, they are obtrusive.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
No, Oakley *IS* costing him money. By having a ad that plays obnoxiously if your pointer just tracks over the ad. We are *NOT* talking about a ad that people on their own free will double click on and then dont like the ad. We are talking about an ad that frequently goes off just by the cursor going over the ad (which happens alot, especially on notebooks).Quote:
Originally Posted by snowful
Thanks for the hook-up.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdlv
Hmmm...I'm glad I purchased my nice new Smith Prodigy Goggles! To Oakley: :fm:
I am in oakley's target group for these ads and I find them offensive.
http://adsoftheworld.com/files/Oakley.jpg
(btw the smiths work just great and they don't fog up anymore thanks to tech talk tips and goggle management practices - I like the lens better than my old oakleys too)
internet advertising
first chance: popups - screwed that up; popup blocker became standard in goddamn internet explorer
second chance: flashing banners - LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME INSTALL SOME SORT OF AD BANNER BLOCKER
third chance: flash ads - not only do they suck CPU cycles (loveland), they talk (oakley), sometimes on load!
honorable mention: intellitxt - good lord do you want everyone to go away?
and then they have the ovaries to complain about how adblockers are bankrupting them
Its just an ad, get over it. Go skiing or get laid or something. Really.
p.s. no one here needs anyone's stoke. You're not that important.
Try working with a bunch of mormons. You don't define what's NSFW, your co-workers do.....Quote:
Originally Posted by TGR420
By the way I'd like to be the 400th person to point out that that smith ad of Ian Mcintosh fucking shredding is pretty fucking epic
I think the TR's are great. Not everybody is a waiter in Jackson, and gets to ski all the time. Some of us are chained to a desk all day, and are lucky to get a couple of days a week in. People like Powdork provide great stoke, and at least 30 percent of the relevant (I.E. Not dumb bullshit) content on this site.Quote:
Originally Posted by the Mad
I agree completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhiberAwptik
I ski everyday but I've been laid up for a month going out of my mind and a provider of stoke suddenly calls for a stokott?!
powdork, I dig your awesome stoke. You went full fucktard. Never go full fucktard.
being a ski bum forum , i think the target audience is for people without jobs, then nsfw doesnt exist.. the adds made danny kass look like the douche that he is that was funny and anyone in the know buys smith anyways
good thread
FWIW, I do think the stoke boycott is pretty silly. But voicing displeasure is on the money.
Stoke boycott is a tad silly, but it was really my only bargaining chip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
The fact is, broken all the way down we provide stoke and they make money off it.
There is a whole lot more to it than that
1. They provide and maintain an excellent platform. These things don't run themselves. If they start to run themselves then VBB comes along with an important update that requires you to rebuild the database.
2. We enjoy the stoke. I would say at a level far greater than the money they derive from it.
3. The stoke we provide on an ongoing basis helps to keep tetongravity at the top of search engines for a ridiculous number of skiing and backcountry related terms.
4. TGR also provides ridiculous amounts of quality images and video on their own behalf.
5. And then there are relationships that exist amongst all publishers. Unlike a typical client customer relationship, you have a three party system involving your users (us), the publisher (TGR), and the advertisers, which may also be sponsors for them in the reel world part of their business. The users and the advertisers don't always see eye to eye, and the publisher is stuck in the middle.
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men.
If you like the Ian McIntosh ad then buy/download re:session. It's in the middle of his segment, which rocks.
If you think this Oakley thing is bad, it's just a drop in the bucket.
Dear TGR,
Fuck you. Fuck you in the ass really hard.
Sincerely,
Arty
This thread will self destruct in 1 hour.
So, if you're going to start a thread about me deleting the thread, this is your one hope to avoid that.
today was fun
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1265781174
Nice whistle! Good man.
so this PAD is pointless??Quote:
Originally Posted by powdork
I'm boycotting fuckin with jongs