Hi Everyone,
You may have noticed the recent appearance of Google Ads on the site. Â No this is not an early April Fools joke, more an experiment to look at ways to help the site reach a break even point.
I will be leaving them on the site for the month of April, and then will evaluate how they’ve gone, and whether or not I’d like to continue with them. Â Reader feedback is always appreciated in these kind of issues, as adding advertising that decreases the enjoyment of readers is definitely something I would avoid.
Those of you using Adblock won’t notice of course. Â You guys may want to consider a donation instead 😉
Of course, at the end of April, I may well discover there’s no money in hosting ads (I suspect this is likely to be the case) at which time  I will most likely remove them anyway.
In other revenue raising schemes, I’ve been looking into Fourtheye T-Shirts. Â I’ve got one design so far (Update: now several!), which may give you a laugh. Â Feel free to buy one. Â I get aprroximate US$2 for each one sold! Â Anyone who wants to design a Fourtheye shirt for sale, let me know, because I’m not much of an artist!
Cheers,
Hellboy
Hmm, I disabled adblock plus on this domain so I could click one of them, but I still don’t see any. It might well be noscript blocking googlesyndication.com, sorry but that crap will remain untrusted. I remember you had quite a few cool designs t-shirt designs a couple of years ago. They still floating around on a hard drive somewhere? Just got my student centrelink stimulus bonus, might swing a few dollars your way when I find my debit card (it’ll be here somewhere). Don’t visit the site much anymore, but still getting all the updates via rss. Traffic has… Read more »
[quote comment=””]Hmm, I disabled adblock plus on this domain so I could click one of them, but I still don’t see any. It might well be noscript blocking googlesyndication.com, sorry but that crap will remain untrusted.[/quote] I wouldn’t encourage anyone to make any changes to their Adblock or Noscript settings. I sure won’t be! Thanks for the feed back. I have a few of the old designs lying around, and will probably do something with two of them (one is already on the shop site). I will be looking into an Australia partner though, as the site I’m using at… Read more »
I hate the google ads, personally. I’ve never liked them on any site.
But, the shirt made me laugh. xD I’d buy one if I wasn’t broke.
Pretty funny shirt design.Â
How about something with the 4th Eye logo?
hahahaha.. best tool fan site t-shirt ever made!!….  gimme gimme!! hahaha….
the fourtheye logo would look good on a t shirt… or even a tattoo…jojo
dude,
hillarious shirt! don’t have money for it, but am sending a few bucks your way – awesome job on the site and thanks!
The ads are barely noticeable, especially when compared to other sites. So its a no worries! This is a great site, I wish I could contribute, but funds are poor. Hope it helps you to keep it going.
Idea for a t-shirt: A really obese man (i.e. http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/60/60641/folders/32250/989523FatManAtComputer.jpg) with the caption “FourthEye.net gets my juices flowing. Oh, baby.” Don’t know if it’ll be a seller though….??
Greetings from Canada! We have been reading Fourth Eye for some time now. I gotta say… the shirt is kinda cool – you definitely have a point there – hence the reason why I visit this site and ToolShed before all else. I love Tool and I think Blair is pretty cool but come on, who wants to sit there trying to decode that sh*t? The Google Ads thing is also interesting… I have AdBlock but didn’t think that many people had really caught on to it. I do wonder what the future of online ads will do. I am… Read more »