Censorship December 10, 2006
Posted by paul in : Stories , trackbackSo yet again, I see someone claiming that advertising in exchanges with longer timers is better because viewers are forced to see your ad.
Ya know what? This has really bugged me since I first started using traffic exchanges. I just think that argument is a pile of something I don’t wanna step in! And so I’m wading in, hmmm…..
Firstly, tabbed browsers allow us to see as much, or as little, of each site as we wish to. I personally ‘give good page views’ and I hope that most surfers afford me the same respect. But I know within 1-2 seconds whether I want to take a closer look at what each page has to offer. So what is the point of a long timer?
Secondly, I don’t expect exchange owners to censor my viewing by cutting out the boring affiliate sites that repeatedly appear, so I don’t expect to be forced to sit and look at those sites either.
In short, I really don’t expect to have my viewing censored.
So, imagine my surprise when I found out that one exchange is deliberately forcing it’s members to stare at the screen for 20 seconds. They’re actually stopping the timer if you use a tabbed browser to go anywhere else.
OK, well they just lost my custom but perhaps you have a different view. If you’d like to see a few other opinions and discover which exchange this is, just visit my favourite forum
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