A Very Irritating Advertisement Panel Down the Right Side of Screen
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From: Tracey Island
You say how you're blocking the ads, and you say this in public, and more to the point on a forum which the people running the site are likely to read, and surprise surprise that particlular blocking method stops working!
Well duh!!!
Well duh!!!
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Count yourself lucky!
The highly irritating and intrusive side bar adverts are still there, despite everyones' protests.
Why is nothing being done to respond to users' complaints? And no smug "It's his train set" bolleaux; without contributors, PPRuNe has absolutely no other 'product' to offer.....
How true!
The highly irritating and intrusive side bar adverts are still there, despite everyones' protests.
Why is nothing being done to respond to users' complaints? And no smug "It's his train set" bolleaux; without contributors, PPRuNe has absolutely no other 'product' to offer.....
How much milk do you get from a cash cow before you send it for beef?
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From: Twickenham, home of rugby
Beagle, the reality is that a very, very very,very, very, very, very, very small number of people have complained, compared with the total readership.
Are reader numbers declining? Quite simply - no.
Perhaps a vast number have had or now have adblocking in place. Perhaps the majority have huge widescreens in place that accomodate the ads with negligible side-effects (boom-boom).
Perhaps loads of people actually like the ads or find them useful.
I don't like the ads in the side bar - certainly not on thread pages. Nor do I like the google ads under usernames. But I simply block them all, now. I do not see a single ad, anywhere on the site.
Is that counter-productive by IB? Very possibly. But as far as I am aware, the ads are here to stay.
SD
Are reader numbers declining? Quite simply - no.
Perhaps a vast number have had or now have adblocking in place. Perhaps the majority have huge widescreens in place that accomodate the ads with negligible side-effects (boom-boom).
Perhaps loads of people actually like the ads or find them useful.
I don't like the ads in the side bar - certainly not on thread pages. Nor do I like the google ads under usernames. But I simply block them all, now. I do not see a single ad, anywhere on the site.
Is that counter-productive by IB? Very possibly. But as far as I am aware, the ads are here to stay.
SD
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From: Europe
Beagle, the reality is that a very, very very,very, very, very, very, very small number of people have complained, compared with the total readership.
It seems odd that such an obtrusive advert would be placed on every single thread page viewed. I personally echo the comments about it cheapening the look of Pprune
Official PPRuNe Chaplain
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From: Witnesham, Suffolk
Like SD, I don't see any of the ads, so I have nothing to complain about.
My PC blocks ads on ALL the websites I visit. Some sites insist that I have to enable stuff before they'll work. If it's javascript on their own website, fair enough. More than that = "No sale". If I was going to buy from them, I'm not any more.
Firefox with the Add-Ons has the added major advantage that there's a separate "sin bin" for the sites you NEVER want to be asked about. Google Ads and DoubleClick are in mine, along with a fair few others.
My PC blocks ads on ALL the websites I visit. Some sites insist that I have to enable stuff before they'll work. If it's javascript on their own website, fair enough. More than that = "No sale". If I was going to buy from them, I'm not any more.
Firefox with the Add-Ons has the added major advantage that there's a separate "sin bin" for the sites you NEVER want to be asked about. Google Ads and DoubleClick are in mine, along with a fair few others.
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From: Tracey Island
Did a quick survey (not scientific) at work and friends......28 people asked only one saw ads. All others used Adblockers. The one on his own now uses Adblocker plus with FireFox so that's 28 out of 28.
I think the main reason for no complaints is the fact that not many people see them. The answer is so simple I fail to understand the complaints anyway.....
) at work and friends......28 people asked only one saw ads. All others used Adblockers. The one on his own now uses Adblocker plus with FireFox so that's 28 out of 28.I think the main reason for no complaints is the fact that not many people see them. The answer is so simple I fail to understand the complaints anyway.....
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Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
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From: Chabanais, France
88 posts and 2312 views. A lot of people will have already had ad blocking in place whilst others will have now and most can't be bothered to post about it unless they have a problem.
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From: Green and pleasant land
Saab:
I don't like the ads in the side bar - certainly not on thread pages. Nor do I like the google ads under usernames. But I simply block them all, now. I do not see a single ad, anywhere on the site.
Is that counter-productive by IB? Very possibly. But as far as I am aware, the ads are here to stay.
I don't like the ads in the side bar - certainly not on thread pages. Nor do I like the google ads under usernames. But I simply block them all, now. I do not see a single ad, anywhere on the site.
Is that counter-productive by IB? Very possibly. But as far as I am aware, the ads are here to stay.
If an adblocker can be configured to work only on certain sites i.e. this one, then I'm going to install and use it. Even if that means missing out on those useful or interesting ads that I previously clicked on when visiting this site. Ho hum
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From: Nowhere
Count yourself lucky!
The highly irritating and intrusive side bar adverts are still there, despite everyones' protests.
Why is nothing being done to respond to users' complaints? And no smug "It's his train set" bolleaux; without contributors, PPRuNe has absolutely no other 'product' to offer.....
How true!
The highly irritating and intrusive side bar adverts are still there, despite everyones' protests.
Why is nothing being done to respond to users' complaints? And no smug "It's his train set" bolleaux; without contributors, PPRuNe has absolutely no other 'product' to offer.....
How true!
Mind you - you can used FF and Adblock and then there is *nothing* to complain about once you tell it to ignore them.
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From: ME
Saab Dastard, I migrated to FF plus adblocker for this site alone! I dont see any google ads, NOR the paid banner ads, therefore whats the point in someone paying to advertise specifically on PPrune to target an audience, if that audience is blocking out the ads?
Mutt
Mutt
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From: firmly on dry land
Like Banana no ads, I suspect he is using the same IE version and gateway that I, and many other ppruners, use.
Maybe there are lots of other companies out there with similar system-wide blockers so that corporate ppruners don't know there is a problem.
Maybe there are lots of other companies out there with similar system-wide blockers so that corporate ppruners don't know there is a problem.
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From: EGTT
That new advert size is just plain greedy. I am a website designer, amongst other things, and one thing you always have to consider is the resolution of your users monitors. Placing an advert in that position really screws people using smaller displays over. It intrudes on the viewing space far too much.
Doesn't affect me much as I'm using a 24" display, but I'm still blocking them, as it is just plain greed!
Doesn't affect me much as I'm using a 24" display, but I'm still blocking them, as it is just plain greed!
Psychophysiological entity
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
Just had another go at blocking the ads, when adblocker was first mentioned, I had a moment's success, then they were back to stay. There just don't seem to be that many tools that One could miss set.
The future is with minimal advertising. It's the future, not annoying the hell out of everyone.
The future is with minimal advertising. It's the future, not annoying the hell out of everyone.
Psychophysiological entity
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
First of all, the original attempt left me with an Ad block plus in my FF 3 0 3 tools. It seems to run, and shows several of these...
The Great Circle :: Aviation Pilot Supplies & Flight Training
They was just a string of code when I pasted it in.!
They are shown as enabled. One with many hits. There seems to be so little to go on as to what happens next.
Re reading, I assumed I should have created the directory in FF shown in the blog. Got nowhere with that. As follows.
I have to just be missing the point somewhere.
Well, the download that i get is ..... Refusing to be pasted in here! Just don't know why. Download_plus (lots of stuff then ).xpi
I was told to put it in Mozilla -- Extensions -- and a file that was named from their site, which was a long string. This won't copy and paste either but is similar to the other folder names in Extensions.
it doesn't have { } at the ends like the others.
Anyway, if I do this, it unpacks, but then asks for code word and subscriptions etc. No concept of where this codeword comes from and had assumed it was free.
The Great Circle :: Aviation Pilot Supplies & Flight Training
They was just a string of code when I pasted it in.!
They are shown as enabled. One with many hits. There seems to be so little to go on as to what happens next.
Re reading, I assumed I should have created the directory in FF shown in the blog. Got nowhere with that. As follows.
I have to just be missing the point somewhere.
Well, the download that i get is ..... Refusing to be pasted in here! Just don't know why. Download_plus (lots of stuff then ).xpi
I was told to put it in Mozilla -- Extensions -- and a file that was named from their site, which was a long string. This won't copy and paste either but is similar to the other folder names in Extensions.
it doesn't have { } at the ends like the others.
Anyway, if I do this, it unpacks, but then asks for code word and subscriptions etc. No concept of where this codeword comes from and had assumed it was free.