Advertising

Does anyone know if advertising is going to be placed on GB anytime soon? Bomb staff have to make a living so I presume that advertising is one of the major ways to fund GB...

When advertising does happen, do you think a paid membership will be implemented and one of the benefits will be the facility to turn off advertising?

It's not something that bothers me at all, I would just be interested to hear other peoples views on whether a paid membership, if it happened, would be of interest.

I doubt GB will do anything like paid memberships and whatnot.

Lmfao, I would never pay for this site just to remove ads. That's ridiculous IMO.

Just get adblocker and bam.

GB will start advertising later this year. We're all trying to be as clever as possible when it comes to non-obtrusive, but valuable ways ads can show up here.

We are presently toying around with the idea of a subscription based / no ads option, but have not made a decision yet. It's definitely not something we'd go overboard with as far as features go, and would more then likely be just a cheap way for peeps to turn off ads.

Dave

Thanks for the info Dave.

I don't think many here will have a problem with advertising in the non-obtrusive way you suggest - if it's keeping the site up and running and supporting you guys, it's a tiny price to pay for such a top notch site!

"GB will start advertising later this year. We're all trying to be as clever as possible when it comes to non-obtrusive, but valuable ways ads can show up here.

We are presently toying around with the idea of a subscription based / no ads option, but have not made a decision yet. It's definitely not something we'd go overboard with as far as features go, and would more then likely be just a cheap way for peeps to turn off ads.

Dave
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"Lmfao, I would never pay for this site just to remove ads. That's ridiculous IMO.

Just get adblocker and bam.
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Yea chances are people who are into the internet enough to buy a subscription, will also know about Ad-block plus.

As long as there is no pop-ups or those Flash ads that fly around the page I'm fine with ads. The blank space on the left would be a great spot to place a vertical ad.

Exactly, rather pointless to me anyways. Ads are cool I guess, when they are about games only, but its rather nicer to just turn them off completely with FF.