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Are Adobe's new PDF Ads totally useless?
But even if you're using Adobe Reader 8, it turns out that it's pretty easy to avoid advertisements. If you load up a document that has ads enabled, all you have to do is click a little X button to make it go away. And while we weren't able to replicate his results, Digital Inspiration's Amit Agrawal reports that he got a pop up message when he tried loading a file asking him if he wanted to see ads.
Now, given that most people are trained to click yes whenever they see a pop up box, and many people are too lazy to look for the little X box, it's possible that a significant portion of the folks who download ad-enabled PDF files will actually be exposed to the ads. But if you're a publisher trying to make a few bucks on a book or article, we're thinking there might be better ways to go about it than using an ad scheme that's so easy to ignore.
If you want to take an ad-enabled PDF document for a test drive, you might want to try out the eBook True Films by Kevin Kelly.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Qzaki Webmaster said 11:09AM on 3-14-2008
I posted a review of this program at: http://www.qzaki.com/Archive/AdsforPDF-Review.pdf
Based on my initial review of stats, I indicate about 50% +/- 10% of PDF downloads result in ad viewing and an order of magnitude revenue of $1/download...
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Fred Fry International said 12:39PM on 1-03-2008
Actually, it does not ask if you want to see the ads directly, but instead asks:
"The author of this document has added sponsor content, which requires connecting to http://sc.adobe.com/sc
Will you allow this connection?"
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boogie said 1:09PM on 1-03-2008
OMG, so now this bloated Adobe Reader will be even more slow? Nice...
More plugins -> more disk space -> more memory usage -> less effectiveness in what it was meant to do - view PDF files.
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Hostgold said 10:17AM on 1-04-2008
Hospedagem de sites é na Hostgold
http://www.hostgold.com.br
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scrap104 said 1:26PM on 1-06-2008
I will continue to use Foxit.
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Cynthia Tillo said 7:07PM on 1-21-2008
This dialog will not appear when you are reading this PDF in-browser. I have more clarification about the purpose of this dialog and when it appears in my blog post:
http://blogs.adobe.com/AdsforAdobePDF/2008/01/the_mysterious_network_connect.html
Cynthia Tillo
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