11-01-2010, 09:36 AM | #1 |
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new recipe all done. and an idea.
the idea is that some of the web sites we use for recipes earn money for advertising. if we skip the article page and go to the print version, the site will suffer. in this recipe, and in all my future ones, i will download the article page before i go to the print version.
so this recipe is ready to be builtin. Spoiler:
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11-01-2010, 01:29 PM | #2 |
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Note that downloading the article page will almost certainly not help, since most ad systems rely on javascript to fetch the add once the page has loaded and since the news download system does not execute javascript, the ad view is never registered.
Generally speaking, most web based ad systems rely on the browser reporting back to the ad server. Since ebooks do not support javascript and are often viewwwed in a context without an internet connection, a web based ad system is unlikely to work for them. |
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11-01-2010, 05:01 PM | #3 |
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i see. i will leave it like this and of anyone using the recipe feels it is too slow, they can remove the 2 lines of code.
in any case, it is a really good recipe, if i must say so my self. |
11-01-2010, 08:24 PM | #4 |
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All my years I have stripped ads from the websites I view using abp and so forth, but then you wanna add them to a ebook recipe? I see amazon in the near future taking and making the screensaver screen be an ad. Again when/if that happens I will install a jailbreak and remove that. If you really don't want the website not to suffer then consider sending them a paypal donation but ad's boo hiss on that!
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11-02-2010, 03:47 AM | #5 |
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i agree with not wanting to see ads. but when the site goes to advertisers it says "we have 1 million visitors a month, an add will be some amount". that is what keeps them in business. no i understand there are more sophisticate ways of measuring ads, but i am sure the number of times a page is browsed to is a factor.
all i did was add two lines in print_version that open the original article before getting the print version. if it takes the recipe a couple more minutes to download, so be it. my computer can turn on on its own a few minutes earlier. i want to support my news sites, and it makes no difference for the end file i get... |
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