Linked by David Adams on Tue 12th May 2009 16:43 UTC
As you may know, the global economic depression has hit the media hard, due in large part to the fact that ad rates are in the toilet. OSNews is in the same boat. Despite the fact that we still have good advertisers, our income from advertising this year will only be a fraction of what it was last year. We probably won't make enough to cover our costs. Other news sites, as they've seen revenue decrease, have responded with more, and more intrusive, advertising. We don' t want to do that. We feel we have a covenant with our readers. If you'll be respectful of our need to run ads, we'll be respectful of your need to read the site without having ads shoved down your throat. Please read on, for more discussion of our ad "covenant," and a plea for help, including a plea to all Adblock users to please unblock OSNews.
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I have adblock plus installed and subscribed to one of the lists. Previous to that I was blocking ads manually when the really annoying pop out of the screen ones would show up. I have now disabled the blocking for osnews.com. I didn't realize you could unblock them on a site by site basis otherwise I would have done it a long time ago. Its the least I could do for you guys. I don't remember OSnews ever having the annoying ads, although there was that one Intel one where you can select what type of customized computer you wanted.