my first rant is probably going to go bad but here we go.
Ad shorteners. You see them all the time for Minecraft mods, downloads to stuff, all that stuff. It's just one thing: the people who use those links get paid, while you're stuck on a loving advertisement page waiting 7 seconds, while some stuffty media player downloads to your system. These infuriate me, and I know people will say "WHY DON'T YOU USE ADBLOCK THEN loving NERD", but here's the thing: What if you want to support places like your favorite websites? Yes, I know there are whitelists. But those can be mildly confusing to some people.
These things, shortest, adfly, all that other crap, make me just want to punch the creator's faces to the monitor.
Here's a few things about ad referral links.
1. If nobody clicks on it, you're not getting paid for stuff. So if it never gets popular, or no one wants it, you're not getting jack stuff.
2. The payments are seriously low for each click. It'll take a couple hundred, maybe even THOUSANDS just to get a single profit.
3. JUST ASK FOR DONATIONS. Seriously, if it's good enough, people will donate to you. No need for someone to waste 7 seconds of their time on a loving timed page to skip an ad.
Look, really. Just use bit.ly, tinyurl, ANY of the free ones will work. Just please, don't use ad shorteners for forget's sake. Most of everyone hates them.
i'm probably going to get a lot of debate, hate, or agreement, but I honestly don't care. I just had to get this off my chest.
