Comments on: 3 inches of Advertisement on Pitchfork

By: Grue

Grue — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:51:39 +0000

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

Elias — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:58:00 +0000

But why should I have use up precious hard drive space for Firefox? Then the advertisers will just find a way around Firefox.

Grue — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:30:07 +0000

ESPN is doing the same thing. In Firefox, flashblock stops that stuff too.

dick — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:50:03 +0000

That is terrible (viewing it from Internet Explorer), but Firefox with Adblock Plus does block it nicely.

Elias — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:48:48 +0000

Go check out the Washington Post's home page. Yeesh. And you CAN'T block it.

dick — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:40:16 +0000

Or maybe it's to make up for people like me who block the ad from being displayed.