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mediafire now blocks you out when using an adblocker
IdeTheBird:
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--- Quote from: Skip on July 15, 2017, 07:36:04 AM ---oh no a website with no other source of revenue trying to make revenue from their one source of revenue
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mediafire has stuffty popup ads that popup every time you download something
it's not advised to use it without adblock
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Are you seriously that handicapped. Skip's point still remains the same. The site has to have revenue somehow and the only way to do it is through ads, do you want them to start charging per month or download? No, so shut the forget up.
MoltenKitten:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on July 15, 2017, 09:05:24 AM ---forget you, i literally checked 10 different mediafire link. once again, the 'download here!!!!' malware button isn't their loving choice, it's the choice of whatever ad revenue agency they have.
you know, you'd think the loving dark gray box that they intentionally put around their real download button is intentional to separate it from the ads. but of course, they are clearly acting out in malice and do everything they can do entrap users in malware. shame on them, as a free non-profit service, for having some way to earn money to keep their site up and running.
maybe you need to do a little research, understand how free websites earn ad revenue in the first place
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Then why don't I get ads like this on other small time sites?
Verification:
--- Quote from: IdeTheBird on July 15, 2017, 09:06:24 AM ---mediafire has stuffty popup ads that popup every time you download something
it's not advised to use it without adblock
Are you seriously that handicapped. Skip's point still remains the same. The site has to have revenue somehow and the only way to do it is through ads, do you want them to start charging per month or download? No, so shut the forget up.
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They don't have to use those ads. There are lots of agencies like google ads which require a template to use so there are no popups, annoying laggy ad webms, and misleading ads.
PhantOS:
there's literally 3 options you can choose as a free website
option 1: choose the cheapest SFW ad revenue generator on the market
option 2: choose the most expensive SFW ad revenue generator on the market, which will filter out the 1/20 malicious ads that appear every minute for the targeted enjoyment of a couple of teens on the internet
option 3: do nothing, have no way to pay for the 2000 terabytes of server data you're hosting, have them seized by the IRS, declare bankruptcy, fire all your workers and be unable to afford your children's tuition
there's clearly one choice here that is objectively the best, but i guess 'muh adblock' is 1000x more important than the millions of dollars worth of data you dont have to even pay for
--- Quote from: MoltenKitten on July 15, 2017, 09:10:37 AM ---Then why don't I get ads like this on other small time sites?
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don't ask me, why don't you send them an e-mail and ask what they have to pay for and where they get the money from
chances are they only have to pay $60 a year for server hosting and that's it
IdeTheBird:
--- Quote from: Verification on July 15, 2017, 09:11:59 AM ---They don't have to use those ads. There are lots of agencies like google ads which require a template to use so there are no popups, annoying laggy ad webms, and misleading ads.
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No stuff they don't have to use those ads, but those companies pay out the best for the kind of file-sharing service mediafire does. Also I've always had ad-block disabled because I have it set to manually block ads, and I have never had any issues with ads getting in the way of my download.