January 16th, 2023 -- by Bacchus
Overspray: Double Facial Cumshot
One of the trickiest points of etiquette when a mortal man fucks two nice ladies at the same time is: how to share the scarcest resource (male orgasm) fairly? This fellow grapples with it by means that I can only describe as the “enthusiastic spraying” of his vital essences:
His enthusiasm, at least, is understandable:
Scenes are said to be from My Best Friend’s Boyfriend, produced by X-Art.
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Produced by whom?
X-Art, as linked!
No link visible.
“produced by .”
Huh! I don’t know what to tell you. This is what I see as a logged-out user in Chrome: screenshot
My best guess is a misconfigured ad blocker?
Firefox or AdBlock Plus seems to be hiding the link to adultempire dot com, I can see it on View Source. I don’t have Chrome installed on any of my boxes so I can not compare.
Experiments seem to show that it is Adblock Plus which hides the link. Perhaps it falls under the category “block sites known to spread malware”? I have not known ABP to be hostile to the sexy Internet, but their documentation is poor.
I hope their pre-sexy-times chat included a discussion of who is going to pay to launder that sweater! A post-coital shower and shampoo can be fun.
I have no experience with adblockers because I need to see exactly what the “standard” surfer will see at the links I share, so I’ve never installed one. However, I do know that many of them block affiliate links as a class, because of their commercial nature. That link would be blocked if your adblocker works that way, but so would many other links on my site.
I commented before on the default Opera adblocker doing this. You can switch it off, but not on a site by site basis, though you can hack the config for it, it reloads the config whenever you blink.
It objects to adultempire affiliate links specifically, not adultempire the domain, having a pattern for links to that site.
The injected css contains
… :root a[href^=”http://www.adultempire.com/unlimited/promo?”][href*=”&partner_id=”], …
{
display: none !important;
}
A problem here is that the link text vanishes as adblock is hiding the entire anchor tag. Which means that as you embed links inline ‘tidily’ the text vanishes and suddenly you get sentences that make no sense with missing content. A way round that would be to put informative text (here X-Art) and follow that with the anchor tag containing the words “external link”. That complies with best practise by informing the user the link takes them away from the site, and prevents the informative text vanishing if adblock objects to the link, retaining the sense of the post, if not all the content.
The specificity of the blocker is very tight, though adding a style element to the link works locally
… 5″ style=”display:block !important”>X-Art
as does adding
:root a[href^=”http://www.adultempire.com/unlimited/promo?”][href*=”&partner_id=”] {
style=”display:block !important”
to the page element, which could be added to every page harmlessly.
And yes, I know you’d rather people didn’t run adblock. I’d prefer it if the advertising industry respected users and the many established mechanisms for telling them to butt out, or failing that were at least regulated such that adblockers were unnecessary, and badly designed opiniontated adblockers like this didn’t exist, but we live in an imperfect world.
Hope that helps.
to the page element
should read
to the head element
and opiniontated is overly rich in Ts. Sorry. I’d run out of milk and was under quota on teas here…
lets try the style block again… mangled slightly, though hopefully less than above.
lt style type=”text/css” gt
:root a[href^=”http://www.adultempire.com/unlimited/promo?”][href*=”&partner_id=”] {
display:block !important;
}
lt backslash style gt
optionally add the partner id to the css selector
:root a[href^=”http://www.adultempire.com/unlimited/promo?”][href*=”&partner_id=77856935″] {
which will make it more specific, though perhaps not enough to allow loading from an external css file. That might need an id or class adding to the link to make the selector more specific than the blocker selector.
That’s all well and good, and I do appreciate the explanation, as will some of my readers. But, yes, at the end of the day, I do think it’s unrealistic for people to expect free web content to be presented for their amusement while running special software to make sure they won’t see the links that support the work.
I don’t make very much money from affiliate links. If people want to support my work and this site, my Patreon is both cheaper and more efficient. However I do find the “I’ll drink the free coffee but only after wrapping the cup to make sure I don’t see the logo so I won’t even risk being tempted to buy some more like it” attitude to be curiously entitled.
That said, what I think about it isn’t important, IMO, compared to the systemic effect of it. If you won’t allow free sites to advertise to you, then eventually there won’t be any. That’s the choice people are making when they run ad blockers.
I’d also like to point out that two different commenters missed the blocked content enough to comment on the fact that it was missing. That’s what I mean by “misconfigured” — they are running software that’s actively interfering with them seeing stuff that they wanted to see and that they missed when it was gone. The software isn’t serving them, it’s harming them.
1) I’m a patron, 2) many ads don’t support the content, they go directly to third parties (eg. ads on ‘free’ blogs or social media sites or demonetarized YouTube videos),and 3) ads are a massive security and privacy risk to my machines, which belong to me (as well as costing my bandwidth, which I pay for, over cell phone networks). Not coincidentally, NoScript has arrangements to allow ads through which do respect security and privacy (although I disable scripts by default anyways).
Out of curiosity, I created a HTML file with everything from div class=”mainpost” to end post div. The affiliate link shows up fine. So the problem may be how some of the active scripts (which I also block by default) try to interact with it.
I do appreciate your patreon support!
As for the rest, I’m genuinely NOT trying to tell anybody what software to run on their machines. Everybody can make their own choices based on their own needs, risk profiles, and values. I just feel like a lot of the people who are most enthusiastic about their ad-blocking software are completely missing the bigger picture about the catastrophic fiscal ecology of the open adult web.
I know you’re not trying to tell us what to do, I’m sincerely trying to help you to avoid the consequences of bad adblocking systems by suggesting ways to carry on showing your affiliate link despite the ‘adblocker’. Which despite the enthusiasm of some people for having them, may be being used naively by some of your users.
I can and have written essays on advertising on the web, some of which have prevented good people making bad decisions. Ultimately the current situation is a mess and the fortunes earned by bad actors finance their lobbying to avoid legal consequences. At your and our expense in the short, medium and long term. Which is heading towards politics. Suffice to say we all know who the bad actors are, Adblock Plus doesn’t stop them.
Bacchus, from my point of view as someone who runs a few websites its about ten years since that ship sailed, disappeared after calling Mayday, reappeared in Mombasa wite new livery, and was subject of a lengthy lawsuit. It turns out that surveillance advertising is not a good way to fund words and pictures on the Internet, because its really expensive to generate and deliver (website obesity) and subject to massive fraud. The only creators I know who still make significant money from leaving spots on their website which third parties fill with targeted ads are vloggers, and just like everyone else they find that ad revenues keep shrinking as it turns out that targeted ads on this type of site don’t work ten times better than targeted ads on that type. That is unfortunate, but we tried the experiment with targeted advertising to fund creative work, it did not work, and we had to move on to things like subscriptions, advertising our own products, and sponsored posts.
Finagle, the economics simply don’t pencil out. Trying to get on the endless treadmill of CSS tweaks to “get around” the adblocks, only to have them change technologies so that I have to respond with another tweak, ad infinitum, just doesn’t make sense to me. There’s not enough money left in affiliate advertising in this space to justify joining that arms race or spending the least quantum of my limited time and energy on that. I’d rather serve the cleanest HTML I know how, in support of the open web and its fans. I’m just philosophically opposed to departing from that to instead make life easier for the subset of my readers who want to see my content but aren’t willing to be exposed to my extremely modest advertising. I know your suggestions are well-intentioned but they simply don’t align with my motives for doing what I do, if that makes sense?
Vagans, I definitely started cackling at “..reappeared in Mombasa”, thank you! You’re not at all wrong about the sorry state of the open web. But I am, if nothing else, stubborn, and I think my twenty-year track record proves that. I will probably die stubborn and broke, but if that’s my fate, then so it is.
That said, the standard affiliate link in the adult space — like the one that stimulated this much more interesting conversation — is not really surveillance advertising as I understand it. I’m not saying such links are free of surveillance — without a minimum of it, no affiliate would ever get paid for the traffic — but they aren’t what’s turning the typical open-web experience into a frustrating game of whack-a-mole with content-obscuring boxes showing you pictures of the last three things you bought on Amazon. All of the worst such offenders I know of are mainstream adtech stacks that don’t even allow porn into their networks.
So, yes, I am unapologetic about my affiliate links. They are the least of my income streams these days, but I’m not so prosperous that I can eschew them for that reason alone.
And finally, I think you may have underestimated the value of affiliate links in my particular publication as an attributive mechanism. There is a whole ecosystem of nested recursive licensing and permissions (both formal and informal) in the porn space, such that there are many things I can safely publish with an affiliate link that might be more problematic to publish without one.
I don’t object to affiliate links either, but I am very satisfied with my decision ten or fifteen years ago to install ad blockers and disable active scripts by default and start donating an hour or two’s wage a month spread across my favourite sites. While ad blockers and whitelisting scripts occasionally cause issues like this time, they avoid many more issues.