Curious

[jennyjoan]

Does this website make money for the powers that run it - if so, how, since none of us contribute any monies.

[Mamyalynne]

Advertising.

[Tilly2]

Advertising revenue, JJ.

[andy-hughes]

Like most websites, it relies on advertising revenues.

As one of the original (and best of course!) public forum websites on the net, the AB is a market leader in this form of site.

[jennyjoan]

Err - what advertising

[Mamyalynne]

Those brightly coloured things trying to sell you things or entice you in some way.

[jennyjoan]

mamy - do you mean ads etc on this page cos Errr - have adblock

[Mamyalynne]

Oh my - I'm sure will send you an invoice for back payment JJ.


Good of you to be honest.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure Ed will ^^

[jennyjoan]

well I will plead innocence here as I am not teccie savvy but only knew the ads annoyed me

[hc4361]

Without the adverts AnswerBank would not exist, JJ.

[Mamyalynne]

Before we go further please be assured my answer was meant to be humorous - however hc is correct.


I too find them very difficult with my visual issues so I do understand.

[jennyjoan]

ok - will take adblock off

[Jackdaw33]

You can disable adblock for this site only.

[stuey]

And the ads know where you live...It's spooky. Right now I have an ad for tickets to a Toronto Blue Jame baseball game; an ad for a $99.99 bundle deal from Roger's Communications; and one from a Mercedes-Benz dealer in my town.

[stuey]

That should be Toronto Blue Jays.

[Ninefingers]

Ad bots, they look at your cokies and advertise anything that may appeal, it's that targettingthat can make a website a lot of money, random stuff has less potential of someone clicking the ad so less benefitial.