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THERE ARE BANNER ADS ON THE FORUMS

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>he has no form of adblock

Mostly just a trial, to see what kind of revenue they can bring, I even have each on its own tag so i can track what ones bring what rev.

https://adblockplus.org/

If there is enough demand for it, I'll figure a way to make them disablable per forum account.

They've been up for a while, I would have made a thread but I wanted to see how long it took somebody to notice. Generally most people who care already use adblock.

dumb, I hate ads

>not using ublock

Mobile tho

But ain't the forums funded?

Incomptinence wrote:But ain't the forums funded?

Wouldn't hurt to squeeze an extra couple of dollars a month out of people who still don't have adblock in the year of our lord twenty eleven plus four.

Doesn't bother me brah.
It's non invasive, doesn't jam up the screen with a popup, and isn't retarded (Punch osama bin laden to win a FREE IPAD!)

Good news if you have android firefox can have the ad block plus addon

I decided to do the Right Thing™ and disable AB+ on here.

Praise me, for I have given you some pocket change maybe I'm not sure how much revenue ads generates per viewer.

Though, if I catch any sound ads it's going back on, as is my SoP.

don't disable add block, this jew mso doesn't need more of your money.

This is the plan of the MSOluminati you fools! First banner ads patreon, next its paid mods!

#Kavalooshwasrightaboutmostofit2015

These things suck shit, I keep getting the YOUR GALAXY S6 IS INFECTED tab spam.

Screen shot it and If its 100% shit, i can find and block it

I'll disable ABP as long as the ads aren't shit.

I was fine with the ads up until they started appearing mid threads. Currently some ads will appear between individual posts.
I use adblock at home, but this has finally made me install adblock on my phone too.

Annoying as fuck. Don't go full erro on us.

There's no need for ads. Doesn't change anything except some people's opinion of you possibly though.

Akkryls wrote:Currently some ads will appear between individual posts.

oh, so that's why I occasionally see a big white space between posts now, I thought the forum HTML was fucked up or something

To be fully honest I don't block ads so I can see the ones that are obviously related to some scam or other dodgy shit. Then I just sit there pleased with how much an unscrupulous apathetic dodgy individual the person running the adspace is.

I mean I got some "helpdesk support software" being advertised in this thread right now I sounds so legit I love it. "Try user friendly freshdesk(tm) In 2 minute you will set it up!"

I get to date Arab Women, in this very thread!

Great you said arab now the algorithm wants to lure me into going to Abu Dhabi.

Like I can't see enough desert in fucking Australia.

I get a lot of relationship and casual sex ads everywhere and it's like they aren't even really targeted at me because waifu 4 laifu baby

These ads make me feel like I'm on some shitty forum board, it detracts from the forum quality.

Steelpoint wrote:These ads make me feel like I'm on some shitty forum board, it detracts from the forum quality.

We aren't on one of those???

This is league ahead of other shitty forums that have ads plastered everywhere.

Incomptinence wrote:Great you said arab now the algorithm wants to lure me into going to Abu Dhabi.

Like I can't see enough desert in fucking Australia.

Literally just got an ad for package holidays in Australia thanks a lot

Time to fuck with everybody's ad suggestions?

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That feel when you did not even notice that the forum has ads on it. Seriously, Adblock is your friend. Make sure to get an anti-anti-adblock list so you are not triggering adblock detection code.

adblock plus has been good lately out of box about detecting adblock detectors.

But don't worry, anti-adblock will not be something i'll resort to (even thou the ad impression rate is about 30%, meaning 70% of page views are adblocked). In fact, the only way I could justify this to myself is because of adblock. The way i figured it, if you aren't using adblock, You don't care about ads anywho.

Or I'm on the phone

you can get web adblock for both android and windows mobile.

As to the other big name smart phone company. If you are using a phone that is known to have limitations placed on what kind of apps can run on it, "for your safety"(and their wallets) and find yourself unable to block ads, well gee. wonder why....

You support their power controlling model every time you buy an apple product.

I'm getting a mix of furniture and sex toy adverts.
Uh...

Well I guess I don't see a reason why I should continue to contribute to the crowdfunding if I have to put up with ads anyways.

Akkryls wrote:I'm getting a mix of furniture and sex toy adverts.
Uh...

so like, chairs with interesting holes and appendages?

Ricotez wrote:

Akkryls wrote:I'm getting a mix of furniture and sex toy adverts.
Uh...

so like, chairs with interesting holes and appendages?

Not furniture WITH sex toys.
Adverts for shit like Ikea and Oak warehouses, and then adverts for Ann Summers and Love Honey.

Ikarrus wrote:Well I guess I don't see a reason why I should continue to contribute to the crowdfunding if I have to put up with ads anyways.

I don't know why I was considering it now.

>click a google adsense ad that's advertising google adsense
>google chrome has blocked this popup from google adsense
yeah, okay

Ikarrus wrote:Well I guess I don't see a reason why I should continue to contribute to the crowdfunding if I have to put up with ads anyways.

"What is Adblock for 500"

What is commitment to a hassle free existence for 10000

All i'm asking is, if its easy enough to block, and those who choose not to block (like me on my work computer), it generates a small trickle of income for the server.

Also you literally have a advertisement banner for your website which you paid for on the home page. You're actually paying to be part of that "hassle". Unless its somehow different because it doesnt go through google?

His is different because you can't click it.

Well I guess I don't see a reason why I should continue to contribute to the crowdfunding if I have to put up with ads anyways.

If you care about ads, at this point you already have adblock.

If you don't because you use apple products, welp. I just, I can't feel sorry for you. Welcome to the walled garden, You gave up control over what you can run on your device to big A, and this is the consequence. Every time before now, when somebody mentioned this to you, you might have shrugged it off, "Oh, it does what I need, I don't need to use anything Big Brother disallowed, I'll be fine". Well, Mr 'Fine', meet the bed you made. Enjoy sleeping on it.

But it sure as hell isn't my fault nor the server's fault you decided to buy an overpriced piece of corporate control.

> macfags BTFO ITT

I find it funny how difference the ad quality is on certain pages.

Like here, this thread gets all the sleazy ads because we talked about them. but the index gets all the fancy ads, like denny's, ford, at&t, etc.

So I have ad-block turned off and still haven't seen any ads.

Really? I see em all the time when i surf mobile. Probably gonna put an adblock exception on the site too just so i can contribute a little until i have the money to help the patreon.



EDIT: Oh neato, i do all my research on this computer so my ads are about breakthoughs in protein stuff by thermoscientific. This is actually somewhat concerning, how do they mine this information?

You also have to turn off the adsense filter on ghostery

are you seriously comparing a donated banner image to an ad?

Oh neat, I just got a Thai dating service ad.

I always wanted a girl with a dick.