Sorry for the deletion of the "Block Safari Ads" post
The posts deleted were two methods to remove all ads from Safari.
To the poster, I was the one who rejected the link from MacBytes, and I was even toying around with banning the topic altogether on the forums. The reason behind it is simple...
I understand that these tools exist and people use them... but as the owner this site and forums, I certainly feel no need to facilitate their use and popularity... since their primary end-result is that it costs me more money out of my pocket to run this site.
A bit of history... MacRumors was losing money significantly towards the end of 2002. As a result, we started using more advertising, and even had to shift service providers (which was a major ordeal). Advertising pays for the existence of this site.
As for all the many arguments i've heard about ad blockers... I don't really accept them, and I don't think that debate should be gotten into here.
Anyhow... I guess my decision is that I won't allow their discussion here.
arn
The posts deleted were two methods to remove all ads from Safari.
To the poster, I was the one who rejected the link from MacBytes, and I was even toying around with banning the topic altogether on the forums. The reason behind it is simple...
I understand that these tools exist and people use them... but as the owner this site and forums, I certainly feel no need to facilitate their use and popularity... since their primary end-result is that it costs me more money out of my pocket to run this site.
A bit of history... MacRumors was losing money significantly towards the end of 2002. As a result, we started using more advertising, and even had to shift service providers (which was a major ordeal). Advertising pays for the existence of this site.
As for all the many arguments i've heard about ad blockers... I don't really accept them, and I don't think that debate should be gotten into here.
Anyhow... I guess my decision is that I won't allow their discussion here.
arn
