
Facebook Showing 10 Ads Per Page: Would You Pay for an Ad-Free Internet?
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2012/07/11 23:18:20
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Penny Arcade is running a Kickstarter campaign pledging to run their site without ads for a year. On the flip side, sites like Facebook are displaying more and more ads, hopefully not leading to their own demise like we saw with MySpace. Does it even matter to you? Or would you pay for an ad-free internet?
VENTUREBEAT.COM reports:

VENTUREBEAT.COM reports:
Remember when Facebook only showed three ads on each page? And when the company moved to four in 2010? More recently, the company has been at six, and I'm currently seeing seven, but Facebook is now testing up to 10 ads per page ... and I'm thinking of some ancient history.

Read More: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/11/facebook-please-...
Top Opinion
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Chancy99: Plague Rat 2012/07/12 11:34:46I would NOT pay.





















Get an adblocker.
But seen as some of the nice guys were nice enough to provide me with Facebook, I can tolerate a few adds.
(EDIT) Just cracked level 16!
Sodahead is just as guilty. The only one that really bothers me is that stupid ad with the Horse-Faced girl that says "How will you look Old?" every time I log in.
For sites like facebook, where the content is all provided by other "customers", I would not likely be willing to pay a fee to avoid ads. In that type of environment they're basically just supplying the platform, not content. If they end up having their ads become intrusive to encourage people to pay for removal, then the company will die, and a bunch of new sites will spring up to fill the void.
Ads may suck, but without advertisers, there would be no quality social or communication networks. Ads on the web are a necessary evil!
Happy Thirst-day!
pARTy On! ...
Especially when there are free...solutions...to this problem.