Call Off The Search
Oops, sorry for spoiling Finding Dory for you.
Also, just a quick PSA: I’ve noticed, as have all other site admins probably, that ad revenue has dropped dramatically in recent months. Part of it might be because of the rise of AdBlock – which is an awesome invention, but not all that cool for a small site like this. So if you’d like to support Optipess in the easiest way, just whitelist this site to let all those glorious ads reach your eyeballs once again. (Or, you don’t even have to look at them at all.) Alternatively, setting up a tiny Patreon pledge is a swell way to support the comic. Thanks!
Not even the great one knows the location of the missing one
I can’t wait for epic conclusion of this saga. Which of course is… Finding Dagon.
Done: whitelisted.
Thanks!
Ad revenue has been dropping across the board because many advertisers are now relying on pop-unders and heavy video ads, and users are growing increasingly frustrated when they are being forced to watch content they never asked for. I’ve always been using a non-intrusive advertising whitelist, so text ads and simple image ads always work, but recently on the Nexus and Wikia I’ve had to go through with a sledgehammer against all of the browser-crippling ads that are being forcefed lately and that are being deliberately snuck through the filters with spoofed subdomains or via content delivery networks being used for actual website content in addition to ads (which cannot be easily blocked). Basically, if they would just go back to serving simple image ads I think fewer users would fight back and webmasters could see more profit, but since video ads are far more profitable for them I just don’t see that happening. More or less, a natural progression of profitability and the natural blowback from consumers who don’t like their software to be screwed around with.
Also the “Ads based on your interests” is downright creepy and I don’t want any shitty, careless third-party company to keep data about me on their servers (even if all the identification they know about me is my IP).
They could’ve realized at this point that interest based advertising is counter-intuitive since (I think) most people will purposely go out of their way to *Not* buy any of the products advertised this way.
Agreed, and you’ll never see any of those intrusive ads on this site. Partly because I find them incredibly annoying, but also I have no idea how to implement them. Preferably I’d like to just display an alternate message in place of the ad to those who are using AdBlock, but I haven’t figured out how to do that either.
done. no more adblock.
Thank you!
I’m using AdBlock but optipess has been on my whitelist since day 1 (as almost all of the Webcomis I read). For people that make a living out of something that entertains me, that’s the least I can and should give back.
I wonder, with regard to advertising, that the common interest shared by the people here is that they enjoy your art and your wit. Maybe come up with a profitable and far sum advertisers could pay little 1-? Panel comics below the main. More content and patronage of the arts in financial ways not to be sneezed at… well unless it’s jerks, you dont have to do nothin if people are being jerks… have a nice day…
Far=fair ftfm