Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I wanted to post this one while it was still fresh, even though the automatic QotD entry for this morning was already posted:

"But it's a bit surprising that SUP doesn't seem to realize that all advertising on the Internet is now essentially free advertising for ad-blocking software." -- flying_blind, 2008-03-13

[Context: While this is something I probably would have added to the quotes-queue anyhow, folks reading this entry on copies of my journal other than the LJ one may be interested in the background that made me want to post it while it's still topical. SUP, the company that bought LiveJournal from Six Apart, removed the ability to select "free, no ads" when creating a new journal, and buried this in yesterday's News entry with only an oblique reference to the account-creation page having been 'streamlined'. This was done despite the advice of LiveJournal creator/former-owner and (invited by SUP) "LiveJournal Advisory Board" member Brad Fitzpatrick -- brad -- (who, in his entry about the situation, made some of the same points about content and content-creators that I've outlined in various conversations and had been meaning to get around to discussing in a journal entry at some point).]