It is an experiment started yesterday. I am sorry you think it's spam. I experiment with lots of new things, almost every week. Some things come and go, others stay. 

Spam is probably too blunt a term. But I did have to look at it three times to see what was up when I saw Peter Reader recommending investing in US stocks in an unrelated thread.

And you will notice the messages are different each time. Although @michaelmurfy suggested I should put more intelligence into PeterReader's to make it related to each sub-forum - like it is done with some topics he put his valuable opinion already.

It's not spam, it's inline sponsored content - just like the "news articles" Stuff have on their page about weight loss pills and how we won't believe what a certain child actor looks like now until we click through 30 pages of ads.

Cheers - N

Talkiet:

 

It's not spam, it's inline sponsored content - just like the "news articles" Stuff have on their page about weight loss pills and how we won't believe what a certain child actor looks like now until we click through 30 pages of ads.

 

Cheers - N

 

At least it's explicitly marked as "Affiliate link" and it goes directly to what it says - no clickbait 30 pages of ad scrolling on that.

But how does PeterReader get past the Captcha?

frankv:

 

But how does PeterReader get past the Captcha?

 

I am friends with Google and Cloudflare.

Looking like advertising to me. Thought one of the reasons for paying for membership was no advertising (apart from the terrific company and advice of course...)

rb99:

 

Looking like advertising to me. Thought one of the reasons for paying for membership was no advertising (apart from the terrific company and advice of course...)

 

You should not be seeing the posts as your account is set to not show adverts - unless you visited the page without being logged in.

freitasm:

 

rb99:

 

Looking like advertising to me. Thought one of the reasons for paying for membership was no advertising (apart from the terrific company and advice of course...)

 

 

You should not be seeing the posts as your account is set to not show adverts - unless you visited the page without being logged in.

 

Oops, yes. Saw the posts then logged in to comment on them. Typical me.

An alternative, personal, viewpoint from me is that I was OK with ads on previously, but I find these peterreader in-line 'ads' a bit distracting.

MadEngineer: Can we have +1 votes on its advert links?

Or at least be able to quote his replies and make sarcastic and witty comments factual observations

BMarquis:

 

An alternative, personal, viewpoint from me is that I was OK with ads on previously, but I find these peterreader in-line 'ads' a bit distracting.

 

freitasm:

 

You should not be seeing the posts as your account is set to not show adverts - unless you visited the page without being logged in.

 

I'm seeing them. Is that a settings change I need to make at my end?