Originally Posted by PunksNotDead:
“And then you wonder why the forums gone down the pan.
How are they expected to make money to fix & maintain the forum when the money
they make through ad revenue is running at a loss due to Adblock”
It's a vicious circle, but DS only have themslves to blame! The ads on DS are
far too obtrusive, slow the site down, and as others have said contained malware on a few occasions. I'd be happy to allow safer & more subtle adverts to help pay towards DS, but until then I will keep using Adblock Plus.
Originally Posted by Damien_Johnson:
“It makes you wonder why so many sites want to go down the Buzzfeed/clickbait route when it ends up biting them on the ass.
As a TV/media graduate, DS used to be really good 10-5 years ago. The rating round ups, general media news and opinion pieces were always good reads. It was a mature website.
Now it's like it's written by 12-year-olds. The gifs, the emojis, the "OMG!!" style headlines. Since when did OK magazine take over?
Hopefully the new 'trend' is for media companies to revert back to more serious websites and put an end to the clickbait.”
Good post. Especially agree with BIB. The internet isn't exclusive to 12 year olds!