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vfork_0x00f

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Registered: 2006-08-28

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Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

For those who don't use addblock, there is a small publicity banner (from Google) on the top of most archlinux.org web pages. Most of them are related to linux. This is probably a good way to get money to pay for the web site. Today, I found two ads that let me with a strange feeling :

Here is the first one :

"Microsoft Windows Server
Has reliable features. See for yourself.
www.Microsoft.ca/getthefacts"

This is not a big problem, but there is a second ad that appear some time :

"Microsoft Windows Server
Choose Windows Server over Linux. Get the facts."

I can imagine a newbie that is reading the archlinux web site ... will it be convinced ... ?

According to the Google adsense web site  there is a "Competitive Ad Filter" that  enables you to filter out specific competitors or specific advertisers. Maybe this should be used in this case.

Last edited by vfork_0x00f (2007-12-23 03:23:05)

Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 377

Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

Hehe, reminds me of the McDonalds commercial I saw once in a Burger King, when they were showing MTV on an array of LCDs...
Dunno if that is really a problem, though...
Cheers,
Blind

oli

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2006-02-07

Posts: 164

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

Just donate some money every month or so and they don't have to use ads.

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crouse

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From: Iowa - USA

Registered: 2006-08-19

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

It's google ads, who ever is running them can "block" certain sites from being advertised...  but on the flip side of the coin,  I'd click EVERY m$crap add that runs up there.......... I have NO problem letting M$ give the Arch Linux site money   Remember, clicking ads up there DOES mean money for the site/or whoever runs the google ads. 

So, do we block M$ ads cause they are offensive, or do you just take M$ money and put it to good use   I vote for the latter lol. (not that we get to vote... I don't think that is really an option   )

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F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

I'm with crouse on this one.

Seriously, they're ads. Like violence, learn to get de-sensitized. ;p

Bestiapeluda

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 179

Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

Nice idea crouse.
I'll click every M$ link i see now, and let them support us
They would be so pissed if they knew...

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 410

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

"Competitive Ad Filter"

Competitive? Lol, get over that... What's the thing with Linux users, why they have to be such Microsoft facists?

Anyway... they are paying the ads. Having to pay ads to get sold says a lot by itself

Mantaar

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Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 70

Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

What's the thing with Linux users, why they have to be such Microsoft facists?

Nono, you're not getting it: Microsoft are the fascists here!

Mah, I actually agree with you. Waaaay too much stupid anti-MS talk in OSS-circles...

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krazyshane

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Registered: 2007-01-18

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

"Competitive Ad Filter"

Competitive? Lol, get over that... What's the thing with Linux users, why they have to be such Microsoft facists?

Anyway... they are paying the ads. Having to pay ads to get sold says a lot by itself

I think that's just the name of the feature in google ads...

dejot

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From: Osnabruck

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 12

Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

seriously, who cares? crouse is right. no matter if it's microsoft or some fictional megacorp as long as it gives money.
and no, i dont think a noob, who browses the arch linux website will click on that ad thinking "oh, if an ad on a linux website tells me, windows was better, it must be so"
if he does: never mind

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

if he does: never mind

Yeah, this can even be a "too stoopid" filter. I like how arch is welcoming to newbies, but some people aren't noobs, they're just dumb !

kensai

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From: Puerto Rico

Registered: 2005-06-03

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

Thats the best part of using ad block plus, no ads. But yeah, lets follow crouse on this one, MS is paying money to advertise on our site, so lets take the money.

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ravster

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Re: Archlinux web site contain Microsoft Advertising ...

Hmm. I never thought of it that way.
I'm deifinitely clicking the ads from now on.

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