And yet, the clicks read by the beancounters, by Nielsen, etc. — those clicks don’t carry a home address tacked on to them. Clicks are clicks. Page views are page views. You don’t want pageviews? And then you turn around and say you want to get more online advertising?

Something just does not add up.

Just due to proximity probably, I chose the SacBee story. Living three hours south of Sac in Fresno, I thought of clicking on this story first.

And your link to the story or front door to the warehouse worked.

What happened next was wrong and not your fault.

Before I was allowed into the warehouse to stroll the aisles and view the beautiful content, a giant bouncer stopped me in my tracks at the door and demanded that I fill out a login survey and divulge personal information on myself.

The SacBee warehouse won’t let me anonymously visit their store.

I know this is a common occurrence at newspaper Web sites across the country, but it still annoys me to no end.

I can buy their print version from an anonymous vending machine in thousands of locations in and around Sacramento. In fact they encourage this.

Because of their bouncer, I will not visit their story. And since I will not be viewing their story online, I won’t ever see any of the ads their customers paid for to be hosted on the site.

I was annoyed by the SacBee enough that it made me turn around and leave their warehouse before I ever saw a product or service from a single vendor that paid to attract my eyes.

Ok. Enough is enough.

I feel better now. Thank you.

On to shopping at a different warehouse. I’ll try the other links.