The administrator of this board -- myself -- simply said that advertising is not a technical issue. As the administrator I have no control over advertising, and I have not said anything like your quote. I simply have asked users to post these concerns in a forum where they may do you some good. I have posted the same thing every time a user has posted a concern about ads for the last 5 years.
Originally Posted by RichardInSF
I have to admit that I find the responses from the administrators in this thread to be far less helpful than virtually all other comments I have seen from the House of Miles.
"We need the money, you should be grateful since that's what it takes to run a free site, so live with it," is what, rightly or wrongly, I infer from the tone of these responses.
Well, they're right. But since I find this particular form of ad as more intrusive than virtually any other, and since at some of the places I currently view FT, I can't install ad blockers (like at work),
the net effect is that I will look at FT less often.
It is a two way street. For example, I subscribed to the magazine as my way to "pay back" for FT, even though so far, everything I need I have found here first. So I don't feel guilty in suggesting that a little more sensitivity to the desires of FT viewers is appropriate, even if this is a free site.