Featured Worklog
Price Search
PC Apex Sponsor
PC Apex Sponsors
PC Apex RSS Feeds
| |||||||
| Slashdot RSS RSS news feed directly from Slashdot. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
05-December-06, 10:20 PM
| #1 (permalink) |
| News Hound  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Floating among Data streams, waiting for the right moment
Posts: 44,023
  |  Slashdot // Consumer Ad Blocking Jumps Dotnaught writes to tell us about an InformationWeek article reporting that, according to a Forrester Research report, consumers are fed up with ads. From the article: "In the past two years, the number of consumers using pop-up blockers and spam filters has more than doubled.. More than half of all American households now report using these ad blocking technologies to block unwanted pitches... Today, 15% of consumers acknowledge using their digital video recorders to skip ads, more than three times as many as in 2004." The study would have been more meaningful if it hadn't conflated spam blocking with ad blocking. More... |
|  |
| Sponsored Links |
|
| Bookmarks |
« Slashdot // Linux Desktops Catching On In Education
|
Slashdot // Solar Cell Achieves 40% Efficiency »
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Slashdot // Windows Expert Jumps Ship | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 08-February-07 10:20 PM |
| Slashdot // Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 21-December-06 10:20 PM |
| Slashdot // Blocking a Nation's IP Space | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 01-September-05 03:44 AM |
| Slashdot // Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 05-April-05 03:02 PM |
| Slashdot // Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 19-November-04 09:12 AM |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:32 AM.
Advertisements
