3 inches of Advertisement on Pitchfork
March 9th, 2009 @ 8:37 am by MikeThe music review biz must have been hit hard by these bad economic times. In addition to music whatever, the new Pitchfork site layout features about 3 fat inches of advertisement.
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March 9th, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
Or maybe it’s to make up for people like me who block the ad from being displayed.
March 10th, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Go check out the Washington Post’s home page. Yeesh. And you CAN’T block it.
March 10th, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
That is terrible (viewing it from Internet Explorer), but Firefox with Adblock Plus does block it nicely.
March 10th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
ESPN is doing the same thing. In Firefox, flashblock stops that stuff too.
March 11th, 2009 @ 9:58 pm
But why should I have use up precious hard drive space for Firefox? Then the advertisers will just find a way around Firefox.
March 12th, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Precious hard drive space?
Let’s do the math.…
There are roughly 1,000,000 MB in 1 TB. (Actually 1,048,576 — but we’ll call it 1mm)
You can get a 1TB hard drive for under $100. (but we’ll call it $100)
Cost per MB on the 1TB hard drive:
$100 / 1,000,000 = .0001 cents / MB.
The min required Hard Drive space for Firefox is 52MB
.0001 x 52MB = .0052 cents cost for Firefox