Ads on this site

[bigspark17]

The ads on this site now are rediculous! Its made a great site very poor! I say this in hope to make the site great again and a fun place to visit. At the moment it is not!

 

[7029 dave]

Yeah it is a pain, but suppose they got to pull some money in to keep the site free.

 

[pc1966]

The point is the in-line ones really disrupt reading of the material, and are often utterly irrelevant. For example I have been seeing guitar lessons of all things, and I am devoid of any musical ability! (NOTE when logged in as a paying member I don't get them)

While I get it that the site largely depends on advertisement for working out, it has to be careful not to "kill the golden goose" by driving away regular contributes, who are not paid, but provide the value that this site offers to the world+dog.

Side-adverts that are electrically relevant, fair enough. But as regulars will see the same stuff over and over again, it won't get click-throughs that matter. All it will do is drive folk to use ad-blocking plugins for their browsers, or just f-off out of disgust.

 

[OnlQQker]

They could at least be a little more interesting!

 

[Dartlec]

Adblock Plus does a good job of keeping most of them down - every so often I open the site in my other browser and wonder what the hell is happening.

I imagine the Covid situation hasn't helped and it's always hard to find a balance. The google ad ones that follow you are just annoying though and usually trying to sell me something I bought a few days ago

 

[DPG]

Perhaps it's a way to push people into paying their membership.

It's certainly knackered the forum when using it on a phone.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

I wonder what @Dan has to say about it? Perhaps he has it in hand and this is just a blip?

 

[loz2754]

I'm using the new Microsoft Edge browser with the inbuilt ad blocker turned on, which seems to block most of the ads. I only ever browse this site on my Samsung Galaxy Note 9.

 

[mattg4321]

Any recommendations for an adblocker for safari on iPhone?

 

[Phil L]

Ad blocker pro seems to of done the trick for me on my iPhone and ipad

 

[Mike Johnson]

Four adds all the same one after the other this morning, that was beside the normal proliferation of adds.

 

[C19rta]

This site is unusable on my phone. The amount of ads is shocking

 

[Mike Johnson]

This is getting silly, is Dan following this?

 

[C19rta]

Extremely difficult to even find your post then mike

 

[Mike Johnson]

Pardon, sorry I just stumbled across this by accident.