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Just a heads-up for those of you who notice such things. I’ve run the AskWoody site for a couple of years without any advertising. It’s a way to say “
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Thanks for the heads-up Woody and for your efforts in maintaining this site.
I don’t think it should be a problem… unless you start promoting Windows 10 to Windows 7 users
Just kidding, as you know I use Windows 10 and not rolling back, although I use only Windows 7 at work.

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HA! Now that would be one turned worm…. (although I, too, readily admit to using Win10)

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Look forward to it. Some economists claim that advertising transmits useful information, among other things. Certainly this is true in the case of anything endorsed by you.

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I will continue to read your articles. I have enjoyed this site since I found it and I do not have any issue with one or two ads that are stationary. Those ads that have movement in them turn me off.

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Thanks for the Head-Up

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Hi Woody,is it possible that you can write a review for our windows tablet or laptop?

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I only write reviews for machines that I’ve used for months, in multiple situations. InfoWorld publishes them. Would I consider writing about something that’s different and worthwhile? Sure, but the competition’s tough, and there’s no guarantee InfoWorld will find a spot in their editorial calendar for it. Shoot me email, woody@askwoody.com.

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I can countenance ads that are unobtrusive and don’t track me.

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allman71 is right on the money (pun intended).

My online banking site likes to put up a flashy ad covering most of the screen background just as I am typing my password and it is not only distracting, but it makes me think I typed something wrong or hit an unintended key. Worse, the site then cycles through several more ads in rapid succession.

An informative, low key, polite ad is OK and might even catch my interest if it is off to the side where I can read it later if I wish.

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Thanks for the advance notice, Woody, and for all the useful advice (thanks also to fellow commenters for their contributions). I shall await the advert with interest.

Now it’s time to bring up my updates and install or hide them as appropriate. Fingers crossed!

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Hi Woody,

The other day you made a comment on this site(I had thought it was in this discussion, but it doesn’t seem to be here) about how the clicks on your Infoworld articles were counted and eventually became beneficial to you.

You said that you weren’t sure if multiple clicks on the same article from the same IP address were counted only as one click or if every click counted separately — is there a way you could find out about that?

Also, do they look at that on a per-day basis or for-all-time basis? In other words, as I often do, if I look at an article by you on the day it’s published, and then months later I go back to it to read it again (from the same IP address and computer), is that counted as only 1 visit, or 2 visits?

You also said that you were surprised that slideshows were counted separately – does that mean if there are 10 slides, and the person reads the whole thing, you’ll get 10 “points” from that one viewer?

If I have a lot of adblocking and tracker blocking going on, do my clicks at your Infoworld articles still register for your benefit? Or am I preventing Infoworld’s knowing about my visit to your article?
If a certain thing needs to be turned on/off for clicks to be correctly attributed for you at Infoworld, what would that be?

You described some time back what you’ll be unveiling next week for sale here, and I expect that it’s not something that will be up my alley, and I am not in the market for computer books, so I’m just wondering what I *could* do in order to throw a bit of profit your way, to thank you for keeping your site here going and for your general help and nice character. (I did in the past give some suggestions about small things I thought you could add/do here on your site, so I won’t repeat those.)

If clicking around on your articles at Infoworld (even more than I already go back to them, which is a lot!) would help in a meaningful way, I definitely can do much more of that.

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That’s the kindest post I’ve ever read!

I’m not sure exactly how clicks are counted – and I don’t think InfoWorld makes that information public, because it has to do with advertising rates – but I’m reasonably certain that (a) clicks from the same IP address on different days are probably counted as separate visits; (b) visiting a slideshow – one slide, or all of them – counts as one click; (c) adblocking ensures that the click won’t be counted – if you use an adblocker, it would be helpful to me, personally, if you didn’t use it on the InfoWorld site (it makes no difference here); (d) you might be surprised by what I’ll unveil in a couple of weeks. Something completely different.

Right now the race is on to get the project finished before I head back to Asia on May 19. I’ll be there through the end of June. I’ll be online the whole time, but my response times will lag a bit.

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OK Woody, infoworld.com is now whitelisted in Adblock Plus.
Any idea about cookies configuration to be useful for your hits ratio?
I normally block 3rd party (tracking) cookies and allow only 1st party cookies which is the best that it can be done in terms of privacy in relation to cookies. When I browse to infoworld.com from here, it comes up with “This page is prevented from setting cookies” which must refer to the 3rd party cookies which I block by default.

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Thank you!

I don’t think cookie blocking will make a difference…

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Look forward to your new site.Would welcome ads that have your endorsement. Would hope it resurrects old programs that were arguably the best software ever written. (Lotus Organizer, Xtree and others) I think there is still a market there.
Read your “Dummies” books for 8.1 and 10 cover to cover before buying three laptops in Nov. Concluded that “damning with faint praise” was not an endorsement but I had no choice and you offered third party solutions to most of Win10 features. I use most after frustrating experiences.
Thank you and good luck.

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Ditto here, InfoWorld is now whitelisted.

For the “not-so-tech-savvy” folks that visit this site Woody you really should explain a little more clearly what we can do to help.

I refuse to believe that there is one single soul frequenting this site that wouldn’t bend over backwards to help YOU for a change!

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Thanks!

I’ll update the post. Appreciate it.

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Hear, Hear!!!

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Woody, you might want to put somewhere on your main website template the following information
(which you did add to the end of your blog post above, but I expect that few people will have seen it, because you added it a couple of days after the blog post was initially published):

“My income comes from InfoWorld and from sales of my books. If you’d like to help, and you’re running an ad blocker, please disable it for InfoWorld. That adds to my clicks, which helps the bottom line. Thanks!”

I don’t think that anybody would feel that it was inappropriate or irrelevant — quite the reverse! — for you to put that information somewhere on your askwoody.com site where visitors could easily see it (such as, have it set off by itself in a corner of every webpage).

A few months ago, I also tried to get you to add an Amazon clickthrough to your books from this site, so you could get some % of those sales (that’s free to set up and maintain, isn’t it?) as well as institute a couple of other things that might boost your operation (in modest, subdued ways; nothing garish or over-the-top, of course). But you said it’s not your emphasis/focus/mindset, and I understood/respect that.

But I am sure that regular readers here would like to help somehow, and hopefully our Infoworld un-adblocking will make a small, positive difference!

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Very kind of you. I used to have a link to my books, but I made about $2/month with it on average.

I do appreciate folks turning off their ad blockers for the InfoWorld site. That helps boost the numbers not just for me, but for all the folks who work with me – a great bunch of people.

Looks like it’ll be the middle of the month before the new ad’s ready. Got my fingers crossed.

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