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I never had an adblocker, don't find LET ads intrusive either. Checked buysellads and there is a waiting list to advertise here. @jbiloh seems to be raking in the money 😃
Always easy to misinterpret: to me, last Jan. is Jan. 2019 rather that this Jan. (2020).
I'm pretty sure he meant this Jan, otherwise the screenshot would have stated 2019 explicitly (assuming the screenshot is recent).
EDIT2: Upon employing my amazing detective skills, it is now evident that he meant January 2020, because 23.01.2019 was on a wednesday, not a thursday.
I have been working to get more ads sold and talking to people. It has been helping. Thanks for not running an ad blocker.
The adroll/perfect audience/etc code that was still around from the prior era has all been removed.
Posting on LEB has always been free. If you are a legitimate company, you are eligible to be posted on LEB, it's an open to everyone process (so long as the subject entity passes the more stringent newer scrutiny we are undertaking). As I've mentioned recently I am reviewing all submissions and making sure the entities getting posted are more reputable. I've reached out to dozens and dozens of hosts the past two months to ask for submissions and I've asked others to do the same to drum up more interest. Right now we are scheduled out to nearly the end of April so the efforts to attract a wider variety of hosts are working.
It's Jan, 2020.
If you would like to be featured just submit an offer at https://lowendbox.com/submit-an-offer/
Basically the screenshot xeonhost posted just confirms that everything jbiloh has said is bullshit and a core relation still exists between collocrossing and lowendtalk. Re branding the scapegoat didnt fix squat
This is just not accurate.
Any sales rep, and any company, is welcome to direct their hosting company clients to submitting offers on Low End Box. When hosting companies grow it's usually good for their datacenter partners.
For the record, and to be clear, being a customer of ColoCrossing does not guarantee you a listing on Low End Box OR bumping to the front of the line. Any hosting company which buys from ColoCrossing will be held to the same scrutiny as anyone else.
As I said previously I invite anyone to suggest to hosting companies to submit their offers to Low End Box. The more offers we have, from good, reputable companies, the better.
But, with all due respect, for the record, and to be clear, this wasn't the case during a significant period of time in the not-so-distant past, correct?
There is no question that in the past that if you were a client of ColoCrossing you were looked at more favorably to get posted on Low End Box. This is no longer the case.
We should all help the initiative @jbiloh is taking with LET.
LET is now the only site where I have my ad blocker disabled.
Considering how malicious third party ads can be, I do not trust ads. I would prefer if there was some alternatives and a system to buy ad posting ability.
For example, an ability for providers to be able to post in the offers section, not some tiered membership like WHT. It will not change anything visibly, will not add any badge or anything, just enable the provider to post offers once in seven days.
Providers who don't buy ads will still be able to post offers once in ten or 15 days, so that start up and smaller providers can still get some boost for their businesses.
Tiered membership imposes a wrong impression that a higher tier member is more trustworthy than a lower tier member while in reality it just tells that a higher tier member bought the higher tier, nothing more.
With all the scams going on in the hosting industry, this impression is bad, hence the ability to post offers, not 'memberships'.
In addition, there could be an option to buy offers - to be able to post offers twice a week instead of sticky posts. Buying ads would not reflect anything on the provider's membership status.
I would personally prefer first-party self hosted ads instead of BSA loading arbitrary javascript
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Interesting idea, I will think on this, thank you.
I'm with you... because BSA takes 25% commission on everything and that really adds up. Especially when we basically sell all of our own ads to the community via the "Advertise here" links.
You got it man.
Nah man. This forum gets enough ad posts as it is. Last thing we want is, every second thread is an AD. Specially with the way Vanilla is with chat style thread with out categories, it would be annoying to browse.
Gracias Senor
I never found them to be intrusive, I would even sometimes look there to see which offers were on, but I guess I'm not as sensitive as everyone else
Well, thanks for keeping your ad blocker off for our website. I really appreciate it.
@jbiloh keep up the good work, keep improving LET .... FYI never used adblocker
I understand. That could be a premium option, or no option at all.
We can all agree that LET needs some revenue to stay afloat.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Just disabled adblocker on LET and LEB. Keep up the great work, @jbiloh
Thanks brother. Much appreciated.
Please no. Nobody has a different genuine offer every week. It will just be regurgitated bullshit. Let them buy ad space.
I'll disable just because the ads aren't annoying. The Patreon idea is a waste of time - most members are tight and bringing in a premium membership will just annoy people.
I think a compromise is that this site enrolls in BAT. People that use the Brave browser can then chip in to the site since they're not viewing ads.
I've given $200+ to random websites via it already.
Francisco
Disabled. Hope things get better and better in the future.
I don't install adbloker. I simply don't visit annoying sites.
I wish this forum and all members get better and successful.
@jbiloh tell us what subdomain(s) you use for delivering your ads, we might consider adding a passthru rule to our dns rpz policies.