[Camp Comic] Thursday, January 28, 2016 - Pervasive Advertising

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[Camp Comic] Thursday, January 28, 2016 - Pervasive Advertising

Pervasive Advertising

http://campcomic.com/comic/285

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kram1032

Great work on those expressions once again!
So who are SK and BD?

briguy

Enforcer Brian.
Be a shame if something happened to those legs before you made it to the library.

PAX_Skeletor

Great Kitty. I too wonder who SK and BD are. @Briguy?

KatieJRice

WHOOPS!!! This comic was supposed to go up Friday, but I screwed up the scheduling. Don't tell anyone! ;]

AdamRW

@KatieJRice You are so fired.

briguy

SK+BD assuming name, going through potential names

SK:
Steve
Steven
Seventeen

BD:
Brian
Braden

That's all I can think of at the moment (tired, but I think I got all of the B and S names). But there's quite a few campers we don't have names for and the camp itself was previously abandoned so it could be from a past generation.

Dublin

@AdamRW and @KatieJRice:

Please, don't fire each other! We need you guys!

mturner23462

Sneaky kitty indeed. I was starting to think that it was caught off guard by the early posting and had missed its cameo.

LieutenantDan

@KatieJRice You guys *obviously* have time to make another strip each week. ;D

techofthegods

SK + BD is probably a reference to Katie's other comic characters Skadi and Bushbeast Diseasoid. http://skadicomic.com/

briguy

techofthegods wrote: »

SK + BD is probably a reference to Katie's other comic characters Skadi and Bushbeast Diseasoid. http://skadicomic.com/

This makes sense.

hajen

weren't there any better PR firms around? having a known non-bookreader as one of your spokespersons seems an especially egregious oversight by the HR department of said PR firm ... and I suspect she has never stepped inside the establishment being shilled, seeing that it has a well known paucity of sticks.

I love this bit of whimsy, even if it did discombobulate my brain - I thought I had somehow sideslipped into Friday, especially as I had just read the expected update over on Skadi.

metfansc

I don't see a comic, was the Friday one posted early then removed?

Pharylon

Yeah, it's invisible now for some reason.

Pssst.... http://hw1.pa-cdn.com/camp/assets/img/katie/comics/224_pervasive_advertising.jpg

btsfh

It looks like the _advertising. in the filename may be hitting a default Adblock filter. Not sure if that's the issue or something else

Finnish_Line

I hope I remember tomorrow is Friday and actually go into work.

Jachra

Thanks for reminding me to take adblock off for this site! I should have done it a long time ago but I forgot.

AstralMuffin

Yeah, for all those having problems, just disable Adblock

wisdomgiver

I keep hoping one of the campers says that Malachi's terrible jokes and constant talking drove people away from the library in the first place. Haha he's so oblivious.

TrueLink

Great kitty hiding skills.

Maiti_dukku

I bet the book is upside-down .

Found the cat, you need a well calibrated screen to do it.

DJFlare84

HAH! Disable your ad-block to show this ONE strip about advertising!

Brilliant!

R3test

The ads are playing videos with audio. This is exactly why I have adblock. You are encouraging its use by preventing it.

briguy

I am 99% sure it's due to this particular comic being uploaded early.
It's happened before. I don't think they are intentionally hiding the comic from Adblock users.
Something with how they website is setup and works through PA is probably causing it.

DJFlare84

Oh, well... I was gonna say, that'd have been a really clever meta thing to do.

briguy

DJFlare84 wrote: »

Oh, well... I was gonna say, that'd have been a really clever meta thing to do.

Haha yeah.

I was just thinking about the people mad about Adblock. I don't think they're intentionally trying to block them.

AdamRW

Katie and I are not technologically savvy enough to do anything to anyone's adblock ever. And it's apparently something that people are very passionate about, so even if we did know how to screw with it, we never would.

giwayume

Add this line to your custom adblock filter list to prevent this from happening again.

@ @||pa-cdn.com/camp/assets/img/katie/comics/

(Remove the space between the two @ atpersands, I had to put that there so the second one would show up in this comment...)

Kevin McClure

Thanks GIWAYUME. Worked like a charm. Thanks Katie for the comic and known it was not intentional.

Sarge

People, I know you all hate ads (I do too) but ads generate revenue, revenue that helps pay this bills for this website. It's a fact of life for any website these days.

K^2

I've been able to navigate around adblock traps (intentional or otherwise) on most sites using dev tools. It's usually easier for me to disable a portion of the page script once per visit than mute annoying advertisements ten times. When I hear the word from the other side that people have learned to use only non-intrusive advertisements, I'll stop using adblock. It's an arms race, and it is unfortunate that people who deserve advertising revenue lose it as a consequence. But we didn't start this.

Calamity001

I do strongly dislike audio or video advertising when I'm reading an article or looking at pictures, but if it comes up I either close the page or mute the tab.

Personally, I don't want to use adblock. The way I see it, I'd be cheating people who make something I like and give it to me for free. Content creators getting some kind of compensation for their work is worth a little inconvenience on my end.

Dublin

I have disabled AdBlock for this website. I felt like it was the right thing to do...­ I may be a bit naive, but still. I can live with a few ads if it helps the creators!