Drop down Ads

[Johnny Best]

Does anyone else getting drop down menu coming down from the top on this website or it's just me. Is there someway to get rid of them?

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

I've seen the full page ones but not the drop downs. Get AdBlock plus

 

[Johnny Best]

On my IPad and DuckDuckGo everything is gone and no drop downs.

 

[Boudica]

I get huge ads all over the page between posts on my desktop. But on my phone, I just get the banner style ads at the top.

 

[netsol]

i can barely navigate the site with ipad.
very few ads but tons of problems with all 3 ipads
that's why i rarely post now

 

[netsol]

surface tablets are nothing but ads

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I have a dandy little pi that takes care of all that. Rarely see ads anymore on sites I go to. Nor even the banners that come up when the site is "aware" of you using ad-blocker.

I've actually had issues with this site using a tablet. Now it could have been the resolution of the screen being wonky for what responsiveness was setup for the site, but landscape view just bad. Portrait was fine, just not a fan of portrait view, not even with nvim.

 

[Stacey K]

Johnny - same here with DDG On my desktop at work I have DDG and hardly any ads. On my laptop the ads are darn near full page. I should download DDG I suppose...

 

[Pauly]

That's what happens when the owner just cares about revenue from forums and not the community.
S101 is unusable without an adblocker.

There's literally Ads in every location possible.

 

[SignosaurusRex]

...and here I thought I was on AdsGalore and responding to the pop-throughs in between the ads, popups and drop-downs. Go figure...

 

[Notarealsignguy]

I get them everywhere. There's a random gallery on the homepage but when you click a picture, an ad covers 3/4 of the picture up. The Tapatalk thing also is annoying. Sometimes I have to refresh the page multiple times to be able to click no on that one

 

[weyandsign]

I use Brave browser and have never seen an ad on this site before.

 

[garyroy]

That's what happens when the owner just cares about revenue from forums and not the community.
S101 is unusable without an adblocker.

There's literally Ads in every location possible.

And some of the ADs are pure trash.
I tried to click and report/remove and they keep coming up. A definite pain.

 

[chester215]

On windows we use the adblock plugin = no ads.

 

[Pauly]

And some of the ADs are pure trash.
I tried to click and report/remove and they keep coming up. A definite pain.

There's 2 types of ads,
Forum sponsors
& google ads.

Google ads usually targets your browsing history even if it's not relevant.

 

[Johnny Best]

There's 2 types of ads,
Forum sponsors
& google ads.

Google ads usually targets your browsing history even if it's not relevant.

So that’s why I get the porn ads.

 

[Bobby H]

In a normal web browser setup on a desktop PC (without a bunch of ad block add-ons) there is always some pop-up ad that rises up at the bottom edge of the web browser window. An arrow on the upper left corner of the ad can be clicked to make it drop down out of view. But if the page is refreshed or another discussion thread is clicked a new ad will rise up into view. Kind of annoying.

I guess there must have been quite a bit of backlash about all the ads polluting the list of discussion threads. The ads made the layout of discussion threads look absolutely disorganized. Just visually stupid. It seems in the last day or two that spam has disappeared. I hope it's not a temporary thing I'm seeing. If a forum is polluted with too much advertising, and the advertising literally makes it hard to browse discussion threads, I won't be sticking around.

 

[Johnny Best]

This is what Vegas looked like in the 60s, neon and signs everywhere. But this place has no action just quiet observation with whatever noise you have around.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

This is what Vegas looked like in the 60s, neon and signs everywhere. But this place has no action just quiet observation with whatever noise you have around.

yeah very much like vegas, I get ads for womans panties and makeup. Don't judge me either

 

[Pauly]

In a normal web browser setup on a desktop PC (without a bunch of ad block add-ons) there is always some pop-up ad that rises up at the bottom edge of the web browser window. An arrow on the upper left corner of the ad can be clicked to make it drop down out of view. But if the page is refreshed or another discussion thread is clicked a new ad will rise up into view. Kind of annoying.

I guess there must have been quite a bit of backlash about all the ads polluting the list of discussion threads. The ads made the layout of discussion threads look absolutely disorganized. Just visually stupid. It seems in the last day or two that spam has disappeared. I hope it's not a temporary thing I'm seeing. If a forum is polluted with too much advertising, and the advertising literally makes it hard to browse discussion threads, I won't be sticking around.

This is one reason why we've started putting together our own. Still working through stuff on it.
Same platform. Same add platform. So i know first hand the owner has put ads in every location.
It seems the ones in the post sections have finally gone.
Not only that, there's no effort into restricting ad size and proper layouts so it's not as intrusive.

This forum isn't about the community anymore, it's just ad revenue.