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Jan 15, 2009 06:37

When did LiveJournal start having ads everywhere all the time, even though I've never opted in to them? Note that these ads only show up when I am NOT logged in, so they may have been there a long time. I like the aggregation of content that livejournal provides, but 3 separate banner ads is too much for me to feel good about supporting.

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enth January 15 2009, 16:43:00 UTC

What is a banner ad?

unkle_social January 15 2009, 18:15:43 UTC

What he said. The only ads I see are on Facebook.

mrsmalkav January 15 2009, 16:50:42 UTC

did you have a paid account that expired recently or something?

"only show up when I am NOT logged in" -- ah, indeed.

been there for a while -- a couple years ago.

Ads and CS canarasekal January 15 2009, 22:34:20 UTC

For what it's worth, I have no ads. Also, I obviously don't speak a foreign language called "CS".

clipdude January 16 2009, 03:26:46 UTC

What’s sad is that they’ve abandoned their previous business model-which was profitable-in which paid accounts were the sole revenue source.

roninspoon January 16 2009, 18:04:45 UTC

I think the only reason that model was profitable was because they found a sucker to buy the whole company. From what I gather, no one has really ever found a way to successfully monetize LJ.

That seems odd... mlissner February 4 2009, 09:31:36 UTC

They're number 46 on Alexa top global sites. Seems like they should have plenty of money coming in.

Re: That seems odd... pmb February 4 2009, 15:50:34 UTC

Not at all. It was built without any idea of how to realize profit from it, and they have the most complicated MySQL setup on the planet. LJ serves the absolute worst demographic for most money making online schemes: cheap, Internet-savvy, college students. These people have no money, and are the most inclined to be ad-blind.

LJ has limped along for a while without losing too much money, but it was never a big profit anything.