Apparently not internet savvy (re: Freep links, "print" versions)
Hey guys. I'm just looking for exactly one response, and--for that--I apologize for being a dolt, but...
Apparently, I am not an aboverage internetter. Can someone please explain to me (and, sadly, I bet the explanation is very simple) how to transform a freep.com link for which the paper receives advertising money into one in which they don't?
I believe it has something to do with printing "/print" in the URL but I'm not sure where--nor am I sure if this is even right.
Ergo - I am a below your "not an aboverage internetter".
Yikes!
that I pray for the lad
Don't get me started on negbangable posts after yesterday's disaster.
??? Must have missed it.
Lost a few hundred points because I told a poster to 'go away' impolitely. The Manner Nazi's got all upset a dropped an atomic negbomb on me.
Just for future reference, stop posting after the mistake so that when you get negged on every post in the thread, there are fewer of them to neg.
I was hoping it would prevent further negs on the original post. Lesson learned.
Near the title of the article, there should be a "Print" link. Click on that, and it will open a new window.
If I do that, then it strikes me that--even though my friends' clicks on the URL[s] I henceforth copy and paste in message board posts/emails will be sans advertising moolah--I will have had to singularly provide them advertising moolah (via my original click, an original sin of sorts) in order to keep a large number of people from doing so.
I imagine there's a way to bypass that step. Right? Shouldn't I be able to modify the URL all old-school-like? For instance, with my keyboard and without my mouse?
I don't know what I'm talking about, do I? I worry I might not know what I'm talking about. At all. I'm eager to figure this out, though, in case that breed of perseverance counts for anything.
There's a way, but I don't know how to do it.
Well, you need the url of the article in the first place to do it.
Every freep url will look like this:
http://www.[thewebsite].com/article/[numbers1]/[section of paper]/[numbers2]/[numbers3]/[article title]
basically you paste that url and replace parts of it:
http://www.[thewebsite].com/print/article/[numbers1]/[section of paper]/[numbers2]/[article title]
Notable changes: "print" was added, and [numbers3] was removed.
I need to use a solid reference here, sorry:
http://www.freep.com/article/20100326/BUSINESS06/3260336/1320/Mich.-cit…-
same link, print-ified:
http://www.freep.com/print/article/20100326/BUSINESS06/3260336/Royal-Oa…
the print-ified article link still asked for a cookie save.
In my mind, if you did not block the cookies, that would still tag you as a new unique site visitor and therefore add to the site hit totals.
sure, for the freep's overall stats.
You won't register hits for the advertisements, all of which are either a) tracked by their origination point (ie, not on the freep domain) or b) sitting in one of freeps subdomains or folders and unaccessed by the page.
Regardless, I don't bother with the freep. Somebody asked a question and I answered it.
Cookies are not going to matter. Usually, once the page is loaded, javascript or flash code used to load the ads reports a hit back to the advertiser. If the freep were to keep track of their own hits for advertising revenue purposes, it would be done based on the number of requests as opposed to the number of times that they were able to successfully check if you had been to the site before.
for the site and NoScript block the scripts then the site (or Java loaded ads) would never know I hit the page?
The site knows you hit the page. Whenever you request data, they log it for personal records, like "Wow, every time we criticize UM even when its not true, we get 3x as many people visiting the site". The advertisers keep a separate tally from this for revenue purposes because they don't want to give money to the site if the ads are never even loaded.
All cookies do is store information from visit to visit. Usually it is just a session key and when they request that key from your browser, they can look up your user information in the database. That's what keeps you logged in or tells you the last time that you viewed the site. They could be used to tell you how many times you have visited the site, but they would never be used for statistical purposes because you can clear it out or never allow cookies.
are running the site will not gain any ad points because they never loaded, although the page itself knows it has been looked at. -(at)
Exactly.
you need to make sure everyone on MGoBlog is running firefox with AdBlock Plus and NoScript and then you make a freep link.
BTW, what position did your son end up playing?
when I posted that thread.
Practice doesn't start until the end of July.
You don't need to take the numbers out. Just adding in the print seems to work just fine.
Windows start key
"run"
type in "CMD"
type in "format c:"
- but seriously, stop reading the freep and you won't have to worry about it
You forgot to right-click and "Run as Administrator".
How much work do you think it would take from us to get this into the "Hot" section?
At least 114 replies.
Think we can do it?
Think
where your head is at.
That's what she said.
Monkey see
Monkey do
Quit monkeying around on this thread.
Yes we can, just don't actually go to the Freep links.
I really didn't read past the first line of the OP.
Wow.
If you are worried about giving freep dot com internet revenue by linking to the freep then I have a solution for you. . .
Don't link to the freep or even better how about don't read the freep at all!!!
2 minutes of my life lost and 20-IQ points I will never get back.
I'm not trying to be the grammar police, but it's a huge pet peeve of mine.
The question is "where is your head?" NOT "Where is your head at?"
There is no need for "at" i.e. Where are you?, Where is the car?
Just sayin'
at me?
I think that was a direct at at-tack at you.
that prepositions shouldn't be used to end sentences with.
SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
I'm not trying to be the grammar police, but it's a huge pet peeve of mine.You fooled me.
They sell advertising on their Print Page too, it appears. I get this weird "Kodak" printer type product placement on the print page feature. No doubt they are selling that. Just stop reading that rag, please.