Pageviews isn't a good metric for this, because it isn't measuring the
people who load a Wikipedia page, see an obnoxious banner, and then
click away without reading the content. That's still a pageview and a
reader lost.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:17 AM Peter Southwood
<peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> It is slightly less repellent than some I have seen in the past, but in 
> general I concur.
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads
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> James Salsman wrote:
> >For those of you who have not seen the mobile fundraising banner this
> >year, and thus are uncertain of what all the fuss is about, here is an
> >example:
> >
> >https://i.imgur.com/wL4Y5dl.png
>
> Hi.
>
> This type of advertising is noxious and unacceptable. It should be revised
> or taken down as soon as possible.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
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