Pop up ads

[Gasman]

Ok here are the quick statistics of the areas with pop-up advertising that I have had within the last 2 weeks.

WOW, shame on **********
The only one close (which is not close at all), is 3dgameman.com which I visit EVERY day, and it has blocked 3,215 ads.

Granted AVS is much worse, with every time you visit it will have 300 ads per visit.
I just do not visit there every day, only about 3 times a week.

Oh by all means I do know forums need revenue with advertising, so this is not a rant, just a quick showing of how much advertising there is.

And by no means is Audioholics the worst, actually they are on the lower end.

Another bad place with each time you click is HighDefDigest, with something like 180 ads blocked per single click.

LOL, come on Seth, retired or not I know you are dying to chime in on this.

See pic.

EDIT; my bad, it was 3,315 ads. (see second pic)

 

[Seth=L]

I do find it slightly annoying, but unless everyone agrees to pay dues to visit the forum they will be a necessary evil.

My last pre-retirement contribution.

 

[Gasman]

I agree, with the fee part (but not that EVERYONE should pay).
I am, by all means, happy to support a forum I visit.
As long as there is some advantages to the financial support I offer.

I am a paid supporter at 3dgame.com, and usually donate 10.00 a month (with 20.00 a few times).
It does not stop ads, but does allow me some mod privelages, that I have found useful. Like moving my own threads, or locking threads I started.
I by no means abuse these advantages, I have only locked my for sale threads (to keep trolls from posting in them).
And have only had to move 2 threads, 1 was a review for a water cooling setup, that turned into a project.
So I removed it from the review area, and put it into the project area.
The other was a server setup, thread I had..

But yeah, I feel contributers will be glad to support a forum (even just for less advertising, if not other advantages/privelages).

 

[Tomorrow]

Oh crap. YOU DID HAVE A THREAD ON IT....sort of the same topic. Sorry to steal your thunder, Gman. 'Twasn't my intention.

 

[Gasman]

LOL, thunder.... That is funny.

Yeah, I guess, I should have mentioned in the first post here.
I did not mean normal ads as a bad thing (actually I refered to that, when saying yes revenue from ads is fine with me).
But yep, the ads within text is the MOST annoying, specailly when the ad is right next to a link that you were about to click.
Because it pauses on that ad...

The pics I showed, do not take in account banner ads/text ads, it combines the total count.
The other number (FL) is FLASH ads, and those are not counted as flash advertising in the banner count.

 

[Audioholics]

Those stats are eye-opening... I guess the IntelliTXT link stuff now qualifies as pop-up ads? We certainly agreed never to have actual pop-up windows, but these new ads play video, etc... I'm going to contact them and compare our rate of income to the apparent inconvenience...

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Pop ups don't bother me as much as having double underlines stuck in every time I use a certain term, such as "music". This places emphasis where I didn't intend it, and therefore interrupts the flow of my sentences.

 

[Rickster71]

Does anyone else get a pop-up that asks you to take a survey?
When you click it, it disappears.

 

[annunaki]

Perhaps clicking on it is the survey itself???

Maybe they are trying to see how many hits those things actually get?

 

[Sheep]

I said this in the other ad thread, but Ill post it here too.

Firefox Adblock plugin = FTMFW.

SheepStar