borisvvz

Joined 14 years ago

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Nov 29
Co-founder & CEO of TheNextWeb.com. On Twitter as @Boris
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Comment · 5 years ago
Save it only for the worst scammers then
Comment · 10 years ago
I created a bot that sorts my inbox contacts to MailChimp and Pipedrive. Saves me hours of copy-pasting...
Comment · 11 years ago
The Next Web experimented with a pro account that removed ads. That has been discontinued but the site is still very much alive.
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't think advertising is a antiquated but banners are. We are trying something new and this is it. It's new and needs to be fine-tuned but we hope it will be less annoying than seeing banners all over a page. Give us another chance or at least keep an open mind.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think adblockers will catch up soon enouygh, and that's fine.
Comment · 11 years ago
Got it. We will try to fix that by providingg clearer instructions and maybe speeding up the animation.
Comment · 11 years ago
Point taken. We will try to improve/fix both issues.
Comment · 11 years ago
We don't mention the 'c' key anywhere yet and have only implemented it a few days ago after a reader suggested it. We are testing it now and really like it so will make it more clear asap.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'll focus on proving more clear instructions for now based on your feedback.
Comment · 11 years ago
All great feedback. Will how much we can implement and how fast.
Comment · 11 years ago
As I said in other comments: that's fine. And we will improve our ads even more over time.
Comment · 11 years ago
Hmm no, thats now how that works. If you browse aroudn the site we don't show the ad. If you visit new from twitter or google or facebook we show yyou the ad once. When you go to a second page we don't show it anymore. So when you open a private window it assumes you are new and shows you the ad.
Comment · 11 years ago
As far as I know adblockers aren't blocking our Canvas ads yet. I don't mind if they do though. I think it is better to give up trying to make money on people who really hate ads and instead focus on people who don't mind them. Feel free to read our content with an adlocker. I just hope to tweet or like our stuff every now and then. :-)

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