If you’re reading this, you may be using an ad blocker and possibly saw a message asking you to consider whitelisting TechSpot. If you have already whitelisted us, thank you for doing that. If you haven’t, let us explain why we hope you will, and offer you a couple of alternatives.
Browsing the web without advertisements is nice. We get that. But as you can imagine, TechSpot costs quite a bit to run – we're a small team of editors and writers, we buy hardware and software to put tests together, we send reporters to cover events on ocassion, pay for web development, online security, multiple servers (we like speed, too!), and so on.
Over 90% of our revenue comes from showing ads on the pages you read on TechSpot. When you visit our site with an ad blocker turned on, we cannot show the ads and cannot charge our advertisers. If we can’t show the ads, we earn NO revenue. And no revenue means no TechSpot.
Here's what we are doing about it:
- We have set our own guidelines about the advertising formats we use and most of the time you should see regular ads that are not overly intrusive.
- All ads are loaded asynchronously. They won't slow loading of content.
- We keep working with ad providers to improve delivery speeds further.
If you have a TechSpot user account and are logged in:
- By default you will see less ads (TechSpot accounts are free).
- You'll see zero, zilch, zip, nada, no intrusive ads.
- We won't receive any extra revenue, but we count on you visiting TechSpot more often, sharing our stories, and engaging more with our community, so we try to give back for your support in this way.
TechSpot Elite:
- Support the tech site you love with a small contribution (just $2 per month). We'll remove all ads plus offer a few extra perks. Elite has been on offer for some time now and many of regular readers have opted-in already -- TechSpot ad free and guilt free.
Thank you for your consideration.
- The TechSpot Team