IMMINENT DEATH OF LIVEJOURNAL PREDICTED; FILM AT 11.

[pne]

So. There's Sponsored+ now.

I wonder how quickly this will catch on. I have a suspicion that a fair number of free users who don't necessarily need the extra features will sign up anyway once more and more of their friends go Sponsored+, meaning that the free user will see ads when they visit those users' comment pages. (AIUI, free users see ads not only on "sponsored" users' journals but also on their individual journal entries/comment pages.)

I imagine that some people will say, "I see ads anyway when I visit my friends' journals; might as well enable them for my account as well and at least profit a little". Thus becoming yet another straw on some other free user's back.

I'm mostly curious how quickly this effect will happen.

Comments

[nassus.livejournal.com]

Adblock is your friend *grin*

Adblock

[pne.livejournal.com]

Just don't let them catch you!

(Apparently, XVI.17.b. of LiveJournal's Terms of Service (http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml) prohibits users from "Employing and/or providing software programs, browser scripts, or other technologies that serve to block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages.")

That said, the (known) availability of such techniques in browsers these days, and the difficulty of proving someone is employing them, makes the idea of ad-sponsoring less effective than they might hope.

Re: Adblock

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but it doesnt stop other non lj users from using adblock. Are they allowed to change the terms on the fly. If you have an older lj should you have to put up with viewing adds on friends journals when you didnt sign up for them? Strangely enough I couldnt see any on the persons lj who commented they'd changed to +adds and that was without changing my default settings for adblock which I use as a matter of course/sanity/protection from spyware. <-:

Re: Adblock

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

Yes they are allowed to change the TOS and then say "Here are the new TOS, if you do not agree by clicking this link, you have the choice to delete your journal."

I don't think any ads are live yet.

Adblock

[pne.livejournal.com]

In case you hadn't heard: apparently the bit about adblockers being forbidden got in there by mistake (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_support/629907.html).