Dodgy ads?

simon field · Apr 9, 2021

Are the ads that appear on this site real? Here’s the latest one:

Are you satisfied with Boris Johnson's decision to face the current situation?

Yes
No
I don't care...
Participate & you might win a voucher for a supermarket of your choice!

What does it even mean? Who decides which ads are good or bad?

WaveJumper · Apr 9, 2021

Not sure on the content as mine seem too .... surprise surprise follow anything I happen to be looking at else where. So I assume logarithms are working overtime somewhere ........ the other day I could not get away from adverts selling houseboats.

I do find the pop out ads that come out the right hand of the screen on this forum really annoying they cover up what you are trying to read. Is there anyway of stopping these?

DontAsk · Apr 9, 2021

Ad-Block Plus in Chrome seems to do a good job. I don't see any adverts.

WaveJumper · Apr 9, 2021

DontAsk said:
Ad-Block Plus in Chrome seems to do a good job. I don't see any adverts.

Cheers going to check that out now

simon field · Apr 9, 2021

I’m sure it’s something @Ozzy will have on his to-do list. It’s not a massive problem but it doesn’t seem trustworthy sometimes! Who knows.

JEREMY HAWKE · Apr 9, 2021

One of the ads blocks half the forum when using a telly and keyboard in Devon
Im at my wits end

japancool · Apr 9, 2021

JEREMY HAWKE said:
One of the ads blocks half the forum when using a telly and keyboard in Devon

This also happens in Yorkshire.

Fagin2021 · Apr 9, 2021

simon field said:
Participate & you might win a voucher for a supermarket of your choice!
What does it even mean? Who decides which ads are good or bad?

1. It means that if you participate you've given away your contact details.
2. Google does.

paulears · Apr 20, 2021

The pop ups now appear at the bottom too - clicking on six in the past few minutes really, really annoys me now. Using the forum is getting unpleasant - the constant adverts are a real pain.

simon field · Apr 20, 2021

paulears said:
The pop ups now appear at the bottom too - clicking on six in the past few minutes really, really annoys me now. Using the forum is getting unpleasant - the constant adverts are a real pain.

Adblocker seems to be the answer, although I don’t suppose that’s what the forum gods would want!

Ozzy · Apr 20, 2021

simon field said:
I don’t suppose that’s what the forum gods would want!

Perfect world scenario is to not have the ads appear like this on the forum; but if I fess up my CTO has now banned me from touching any of the code on this forum as I've broken them twice since taking them over. So no more tinkering from me, but I think the slider in from the right has now gone (I don't see it).
We do need to have some for a little while as it pays for these forums, but in the future there will be a redesign which will not have all the pop-over stuff and these forums will have transactional services on offer to pay their bills rather than ad revenue. Still finding our feet with them for now though, a lot has changed since I sold them originally back in 2007.

WaveJumper · Apr 20, 2021

Ozzy said:
Perfect world scenario is to not have the ads appear like this on the forum; but if I fess up my CTO has now banned me from touching any of the code on this forum as I've broken them twice since taking them over. So no more tinkering from me, but I think the slider in from the right has now gone (I don't see it).
We do need to have some for a little while as it pays for these forums, but in the future there will be a redesign which will not have all the pop-over stuff and these forums will have transactional services on offer to pay their bills rather than ad revenue. Still finding our feet with them for now though, a lot has changed since I sold them originally back in 2007.

Yep the right hand slider has now gone

Paul Norman · Apr 20, 2021

WaveJumper said:
Not sure on the content as mine seem too .... surprise surprise follow anything I happen to be looking at else where. So I assume logarithms are working overtime somewhere ........ the other day I could not get away from adverts selling houseboats.

I do find the pop out ads that come out the right hand of the screen on this forum really annoying they cover up what you are trying to read. Is there anyway of stopping these?

This is none of my business, of course, but did you buy a house boat?

WaveJumper · Apr 20, 2021

Paul Norman said:
This is none of my business, of course, but did you buy a house boat?

No but my brother in law is currently living on one and what with this conversation it got me looking at adverts. I prefer my boats to be a little bit faster ......... hence the name

Fagin2021 · Apr 20, 2021

Ozzy said:
Perfect world scenario is to not have the ads appear like this on the forum; but if I fess up my CTO has now banned me from touching any of the code on this forum as I've broken them twice since taking them over. So no more tinkering from me, but I think the slider in from the right has now gone (I don't see it).
We do need to have some for a little while as it pays for these forums, but in the future there will be a redesign which will not have all the pop-over stuff and these forums will have transactional services on offer to pay their bills rather than ad revenue. Still finding our feet with them for now though, a lot has changed since I sold them originally back in 2007.

That's fair enough but I agree that the ad at the page bottom is a recent innovation that's really irritating. It's quite possible to get rid of it and leave the others.

japancool · Apr 21, 2021

I saw two ads layered on top of each other at the bottom of the page today - which seems to defeat the point of showing one of them!

Ozzy · Apr 21, 2021

japancool said:
I saw two ads layered on top of each other at the bottom of the page today - which seems to defeat the point of showing one of them!

I've just seen that too, I've taken a screenshot and forwarded onto the company that runs these ads to sort it owt.

Paul Norman · Apr 21, 2021

WaveJumper said:
No but my brother in law is currently living on one and what with this conversation it got me looking at adverts. I prefer my boats to be a little bit faster ......... hence the name

I did, for a short while, own a cabin cruiser. I still don't think it would have been quick enough to warrant your chosen name! It could manage 27 knots on a calm sea!

Mark T Jones · Apr 22, 2021

japancool said:
This also happens in Yorkshire.

Third world problems

AllUpHere · Apr 22, 2021

https://ibb.co/HHtKGqN

That's what I see on my phone in landscape. Bit daft now

Ozzy · Apr 22, 2021

AllUpHere said:
https://ibb.co/HHtKGqN
That's what I see on my phone in landscape. Bit daft now

Yes that is daft, although not the words I used when I opened up that image.
I cannot replicate that on my phone and I only see one tiny ad at the bottom on my iPhone. I'm happy if you want to DM me your phone model and browser your using so I can take those details and pass it to the ad management co to deal with.

AllUpHere · Apr 22, 2021

Ozzy said:
Yes that is daft, although not the words I used when I opened up that image.
I cannot replicate that on my phone and I only see one tiny ad at the bottom on my iPhone. I'm happy if you want to DM me your phone model and browser your using so I can take those details and pass it to the ad management co to deal with.

Hi.
That was on a Huawei P20 pro running Android version 10. Browser is Chrome.
It also often shows the 'accept cookie' page every single time a page loads, which is quite annoying.

Ozzy · Apr 22, 2021

I'm led to believe the issue you mention @AllUpHere was fixed yesterday; are you still experiencing this Ad within an Ad issue?

AllUpHere · Apr 22, 2021

Ozzy said:
I'm led to believe the issue you mention @AllUpHere was fixed yesterday; are you still experiencing this Ad within an Ad issue?

It seems to be behaving itself now. It wasn't the ad in an ad issue though, it was the ad at the top, meeting the ad at the bottom, slap bang in the middle of the page.

Alan · Apr 22, 2021

I'm going to have to install an adblocker - the bottom pop up is just intolerable

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