Why am I suddenly seeing ads when I access GZ??

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#2918166 24-May-2022 21:31

A heads up for those complaining a bit. Just signed up a nice campaign that will see pretty much all forums pages exclusive to one company for a few months. This means pretty soon you will only see one ad per page, nothing else for a few months.

As I said, I am trying as hard as possible to get things worked out. Always working for our users.

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#2918499 25-May-2022 16:24

freitasm: So you folks think Geekzone is worth visiting and participating, but not worth a subscription if you are going to use adblockers?

That's why we can't have nice things.

I don't think that's quite correct. Personally, I would rather use the site with ads than have a subscription - for me it's better that way, but I appreciate others pay a sub because that's better for them. Each to their own. However, part of that is that @freitasm is very responsive (thank you, it's appreciated) to constructive feedback about the site, be it problematic ads, or some other issue.

The ad position in question floats over the top of the content, interfering with the page being properly read. If you close the ad and report it for covering content it respawns about 5 seconds later in the same spot. I expect people are commenting on it because it is much more invasive than the usual advertising.

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#2918504 25-May-2022 16:26

And that's why I made a point of hiding the ad when you scroll the page. As you get to the bottom it disappears. It is not there all the time.

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#2918507 25-May-2022 16:36

I don't know if there's something else going on, but I don't see any ads on this page except for the single affiliate link above the first actual post. Do see ads on https://live.geekzone.co.nz/

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#2918517 25-May-2022 16:49

Adblocker?

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#2918559 25-May-2022 18:15

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#2920281 30-May-2022 08:32

RunningMan:
freitasm: So you folks think Geekzone is worth visiting and participating, but not worth a subscription if you are going to use adblockers?

That's why we can't have nice things.

I don't think that's quite correct. Personally, I would rather use the site with ads than have a subscription - for me it's better that way, but I appreciate others pay a sub because that's better for them. Each to their own. However, part of that is that @freitasm is very responsive (thank you, it's appreciated) to constructive feedback about the site, be it problematic ads, or some other issue.

The ad position in question floats over the top of the content, interfering with the page being properly read. If you close the ad and report it for covering content it respawns about 5 seconds later in the same spot. I expect people are commenting on it because it is much more invasive than the usual advertising.

Ok, put me in the camp of users that find this wide ad at the bottom of the page incredibly annoying… I’m a subscriber but have been happy until now to have ads displaying as a way of supporting the site. However, this ad placement is just irritating and too dominant. Has any thought been given to toning it down/allowing it to be dismissed/even removing it?

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#2920282 30-May-2022 08:33

jonathan18: Has any thought been given to toning it down/allowing it to be dismissed/even removing it?

Yes, and that's why we are running this experiment.

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#2920294 30-May-2022 09:15

I don't know what happens but my Ad blockers get turned on again for GZ. I've disabled them again...
The only ad that is really annoying is the one at the bottom (i'll be honest....almost enough to make me turn the blocker on again). It isn't disappearing when I scroll down. Idk maybe it is a firefox thing.

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#2920364 30-May-2022 13:31

freitasm:

And that's why I made a point of hiding the ad when you scroll the page. As you get to the bottom it disappears. It is not there all the time.

For me it only disappears only when I reach the rock bottom of the page - is this the intention. So while in a thread I have to scroll past the page numbers and also gone past the top 20% of the "quick reply" box for it to go away.

Chrome101. Ad blockers off.

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#2920456 30-May-2022 15:56

I will be sending out emails with an invite to a survey. It will go out to current users that have the option to receive communications and have visited Geekzone over a certain number of times.

If you want to fill it now: https://forms.office.com/r/DBXQvMG62i

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#2920523 30-May-2022 16:49

sparkyred:[snip]

For me it only disappears only when I reach the rock bottom of the page -

On some pages it disappears if you scroll all the way to the bottom - eg https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums_unread.asp? but on this page (the thread you're reading) the only time it goes is a brief blanking period as the ad changes. It's covering most of the footer when scrolled all the way to the bottom.

EDIT: and just to prove me wrong, it's disappearing on this page now too.

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#2932973 22-Jun-2022 08:49

@RunningMan:

The ad position in question floats over the top of the content, interfering with the page being properly read. If you close the ad and report it for covering content it respawns about 5 seconds later in the same spot. I expect people are commenting on it because it is much more invasive than the usual advertising.

Question to everyone. Would you prefer to have an interstitial ad (a full-page ad that appears when you browser from one page to the next) that appears once a day only or the ad at the bottom of the page?

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#2933007 22-Jun-2022 09:20

Thanks @freitasm My preference would be to cover the entire page, as long as it is limited to once per day.

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