Originally Posted by magiciansampras
Absolutely not. I believe the goal is to irritate everyone enough so that they'll fork over dough for the ad-free version of FT. The revenue from that will easily surpass whatever they're getting from the ads now.
Not a bad strategy, except it alienates your users and makes us lose respect for the entire enterprise who thought FT was above this nonsense.
Interesting thought.
Well, I have via the helpful posts of some tech savvy FT'ers done the 'hosts' edit which took even doofus me a few minutes, and I see no ads. And very clearly lots of others are doing that too.
Seeing there is
NO option (yet) to get a paid version (which I have been advocating for a year as the ads increased in number and style and annoyance levels) I just wonder if there might be a lot of FT'ers who now will see
no need to subscribe to that service when it inevitably comes on stream. As they have been literally forced to take action already to block them.
Bad timing for these new ads to come along and REALLY irritate everyone on FT it seems before the opt-out paid version rolled out. Reading the posts as I just have in 5 forums about these, seems everyone that sees them hates them.
'Straw that broke the Camel's back reaction' it looks very much like to me.
