Microsoft Ads

[whych]

I know the forum gets a kickback/revenue from ads, but why would I be interested in Microsoft Cloud when I am visiting a Linux forum?!
(For those of you who have the 'Remember Me' login option set, lately, every time you visit the site you get an ad for M$ Cloud services from M$.)
Almost as bad as those 'targeted' ads which promise everything and can't detect that you run Linux and a windows app is useless.

Just my 2c worth.

[jayd512]

Yeah, this has been mentioned a few times in the past.
Since that is the revenue for the Forum, though, the best thing we could come up with is use something like Ad-Block, or to blacklist certain of the adverts in your /etc/hosts file.

[MASONTX]

Hope the MS ads are on the joke's and funny stuff page.

[arespi]

I don`t know how it works. M$ gives linuxforums money just to place the ads or when somebody clics on them?

If by clicking on the ads means LF gets more money I wouldnt mind doing it. It is not like i will pay any attention to them anyway

[HalluxSinister]

I think they hope you'll switch, so Misro$oft can hold your data, take your money, and keep you dependent upon them. Pretty good reason to target you with ads, not DESPITE the fact that you're running Linux, but specifically BEACAUSE you're running it. This is Misro$oft we're talking about here.

[whych]

I think they hope you'll switch, so Misro$oft can hold your data, take your money, and keep you dependent upon them. Pretty good reason to target you with ads, not DESPITE the fact that you're running Linux, but specifically BEACAUSE you're running it. This is Misro$oft we're talking about here.

But that's precisely why I left them. I got tired of paying their 'friendship fees' every year, and I only use software when I absolutely have to.
It looks like we now have linux with windows nagware, for those who remember the early days of shareware programs.

[HalluxSinister]

Ummm... Linux Forums may be running on Linux servers, and you may have a Linux box as you view them, (as I do, Fed14 all the way!) but the website itself is NOT Linux, it's a forum ABOUT Linux, and they probably have ads that come from whomever is hosting them. I don't know that they control the ads, or have any say in them, or even necessarily know what ads are showing up on their pages, so I think maybe you might have been less than altogether fair asserting that there was now "Linux with nagware". ANYWAY, if you don't like the ads, and you're using Firefox, and what else would ANYONE use, eh? Then why not install AdBlockPlus, subcribe to... for example, EasyList, (through the plugin) and ads will be a thing of the past!

I esp. love watching videos that stop in the middle and display a screen apologizing... (imagine that... apologizing!) to me that for some reason, they can't display the ad message from their sponsors! Oh gosh, I'm so upset not to be annoyed by patronizing, often downright insulting and stupid advertisements... Hahahhahahahah

Anyway... just my thoughts on that.

[HalluxSinister]

Also... bear in mind web-based advertisements are rather like spam. They are cheap as dirt, and if only one person in a thousand who sees them actually stops in and buys something, they've won! So yeah, they probably try to make the ads as flashy, memorable, insidious, and annoying (hey, if it gets the ad remembered...) as possible, because there's money at stake. They don't mind suggesting that this Mother's Day, you should buy mom this, that or the other... they don't bother to check your Facebuch page, or whatever, so maybe the person they're suggesting you buy something for has recently passed-on, as they say, and suggesting you should buy a bunch of flowers or whatever is incredibly insensitive, and will make a percent of the people who see it red-hot mad... but they don't care about that because at the end of the day, they spent $100 on advertising, and saw a $275 boost in sales attributable to the ad, so who cares if some people got mad.

Likewise, Misro$oft ads on Linux forums might be a deliberate attempt to pis sus off, or a total accident, or maybe it's that M$ paid the hosting company a wad of cash to put their ads on all 10000 sites they host, without reading the entire list.

I just AdBlock em, and I sometimes feel surprised when I see people online talking about popups and banner ads. I find myself thinking, "they still use those?!?" Oh yeah... that's right, they do in some places!

[Freston]

Or, it could just be, that Microsoft recognizes people going to an IT related forum such as this can be interested in IT/ICT solutions in general. Microsoft and Linux are not mutually exclusive and in fact many professional environments have a mix of both.


That said, I really have no idea what adds you're talking about. To me, adds anywhere on the internet are more of an IE thing

[whych]

I agree that many firms use both technologies, but I should imagine the normal linux user/decision is more aware of the M$ offerings than his M$ equivalent and would use an M$ if it was needed.

Just like when you want to buy more ram for your system and you go to somwhere like crucial. They will scan your system and tell you what ram to use... but only if you are running windows!