Too Much Junk On Ebay

Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff

actually the ads for most of these websites doesn't hit their servers at all...for instance, google ads are served outside the server from google directly.....ie it costs me NOTHING to serve up ads on a site (unless I AM doing it locally on page, but I will be making ALOT more per ad than google ads, so the minimal bandwidth more than pays for itself). I mean websites DO have to make a profit somehow...ads being the way to do it...and while they can be INVASIVE and crappy, ad blockers make these sites unprofitable, hence people won't want to run them....just telling the other side of the story. I for one, NEVER ran crappy bandwidth hog ads nor those Fing auto play/flash/shockwave BS that crashes your browser.

this is also why people can put videos on their site with ZERO impact...they are hosted for free at VIMEO or youtube and the code4 in your site streams it from THEM, not your server. I could make a site right now with every single scrapping videos that is worth a SH$% for instance...and it would be TINY...you would hammer the videos all day long...I would not care. I would just serve ads all around the embedded video and get paid everytime, no matter if it was my video or not.

Just giving some insight for those that are unfamiliar with how that works. I am actually building 2 websites now...one to show people how to save and make money on the web and the other will feature "the best geek gifts" you can buy for your favorite "geek"...cool stuff.



IT DOES suck about the delay for your project though...I hate that for you.

It is these very ads your speaking of that eat up bandwidth on the consumers end, data packages for mobile devices are very limited with the customer paying exorbitant prices for every meg used over quota, No matter how you look at it, it;s theft of my bandwidth.

For instance these websites your building, if I or others were to hotlink to your graphics using them for my own purposes you would claim that I was stealing from your server bandwidth, which would be true.

You would be sure to impliment proceedures to prevent others from hotlinking just as I use ad blockers to prevent unauthorised use of my bandwidth.

For personal reasons I no longer use photobucket or any other image hosting service, but have rather choosen to hotlink images used in my posts on the various forums I belong to. Yes I'm guilty, but the few killobytes used before the thread beciomes aged amounts to a grain of sand on the beach.

Hotlinking: What Is It, And Why Is It Bad?

Originally Posted by alloy2

It is these very ads your speaking of that eat up bandwidth on the consumers end, data packages for mobile devices are very limited with the customer paying exorbitant prices for every meg used over quota, No matter how you look at it, it;s theft of my bandwidth.

For instance these websites your building, if I or others were to hotlink to your graphics using them for my own purposes you would claim that I was stealing from your server bandwidth, which would be true.

You would be sure to impliment proceedures to prevent others from hotlinking just as I use ad blockers to prevent unauthorised use of my bandwidth.

For personal reasons I no longer use photobucket or any other image hosting service, but have rather choosen to hotlink images used in my posts on the various forums I belong to. Yes I'm guilty, but the few killobytes used before the thread beciomes aged amounts to a grain of sand on the beach.

Hotlinking: What Is It, And Why Is It Bad?

I wasn't disagreeing about YOUR bandwidth being used when these ads are shown...you are certainly correct. I do still maintain that most websites have to make money somehow to be viable (otherwise whats the point), so the only option they have is ads to pay the bills. It's not a great solution, but pretty much the only one short of charging access to the sites info (which about ZERO people would pay, they would just click to another site). I get around "limited" data plans by being on wifi about 95% of the time. Yes, I know many people live in areas that are more remote and that doesn't work...unfortunately I cannot help the choice of living in a remote area. If I can't have high speed internet and be close to stuff, I won't live there.

Hotlinking is certainly an issue, but most sites have the code to prevent that...many sites are built with wordpress (mine are for simplicity of maintenance) and there are tools to prevent that for free. Any professional site generally would have that (or should). I only embed things that have permission (youtube allows you to turn the embed feature on and off...but you generally would allow it if you are participating in the revenue ad sharing with youtube since ANY showing gets you ad $$$ as it is embedded in the video itself).

I was just pointing all that out for people that maybe didn't know how alot of this stuff works.

All you points were valid and I understand your position completely. All that being said, website owners still need to make a living or at least pay for the thing...unfortunately ads are the reality of how that works. It is a bit of a toll vs having to pay to access every single website out there we want to read information on.