[Gambas-user] Rules for Application Repository?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 27/07/2014 22:33, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
>
>
> On 07/27/2014 04:08 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 27/07/2014 21:53, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/27/2014 03:15 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>>> Le 27/07/2014 21:04, Julio Sanchez a écrit :
>>>>> T lee Davidson:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://jsbsan.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/arduino-y-gambas3-lectura-y-graficos-de.html
>>>>> http://jsbsan.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/gambas-y-arduino-moviendo-dos.html"
>>>>>
>>>>> In the absence of donations, and my low economic resources, put advertising
>>>>> on my blogs.
>>>>> The downloads are free, you just have to wait for the "skip this ad" button
>>>>> pops in the upper right corner and then press it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the inconvenience
>>>>>
>>>>> Julio
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have no problem with that: I don't see that as spam.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well I do. I have no problem with advertising on websites. But to force
>>> ads upon downloaders of community contributed applications is, in my
>>> opinion, inappropriate.
>>>
>>> But if it bothers no one else, who am I to buck the crowd?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> T. Lee
>>>
>>
>> As I actually use AdBlock, I don't see them. Are they advertising from
>> blogspot or from Julio?
>>
>
> I am unsure what you mean by, "from blogspot or from Julio", Benoît. If
> by, "Julio", you mean the author/application page in the Application
> Repository, then, no, that is not where the ads are.
>
> Take, for example, the page at:
> http://jsbsan.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/arduino-y-gambas3-lectura-y-graficos-de.html
>
> The link for "Programa en Gambas3 (Nueva versión 2)" is
> http://5d346c06.linkbucks.com/ (hope you get lots of clicks from that
> Julio!)
>
> Click the link, and an ad pops up in a new tab. You have to wait for the
> ad to load, then you can click, "SKIP THIS AD". When you do that, yet
> another ad pops up in another new tab. Closing the latest new tab
> reveals the download dialog in the first ad tab.
>
> I suppose going through this is not too much trouble to help support a
> fellow coder. It's just that I find it somewhat, annoying; especially
> when some of the ads try to be deceptive with, "Your download is ready."
>
>
> And, as I said, "If it bothers no one else..." :-)
>
> Regards,
> T. Lee
>

Well if it's Julio's web site, he can do what he wants on it. Initially, 
I thought we were talking of ad links directly in the Gambas wiki. Of 
course I'm against that.

-- 
Benoît Minisini