The 'why are the ads now in such an annoying place' whinge thread
 

Title says it all.
It was fine when they were down the very bottom in each thread page, but why are they now jumbling text to fit them within posts?

Agreed.

Stop it.

And allowing ghastly intrusive pop-up adverts too !

Sooner or later, PPRuNe is going to drive away all its users, what with intrusive advertising and unstable hosting that's always crashing.

What's an ad?
(FF + Adblocker = never, ever see an advert.)

Popups are not permitted -- if you see one, please screenshoot it and post it or PM me and I will have it blocked.

As to the ads within posts, they are being moved out. If you log in, you ought not be seeing them in the meantime.

Best,

Paul

Same here :)

I am using an ipad and every time I open a page on pprune, the ipad diverts to the App Store and opens on the page of the advertised App.

It's rendered the site all but unusable. Anyone else suffering?

There's a separate thread about the iDevice ad issue:

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ing-forum.html

Paul

Same issues with the ipad displaying the adverts here. Really annoying! :mad:

If you see this issue again, please report it as soon as possible. We're going to be testing to see where the ad is coming from, and timing will be crucial.

Thank you for your help with this!

Paul

Exactly, FF plus Adblocker plus Ghostery equals no adverts-EVER.:D

I would remind you that this is a free site, because it is advertising-supported. Viewing -- and occasionally clicking on -- the ads helps keep it that way. Any technology used to subvert this can and does interfere with site functionality and is not condoned. Thank you :ok:

This is the advertising arms race. First we[*] had some relatively unobtrusive banner ads, then they started flashing and distracting us, then we got pop up/under ads. When the adverts are irritating people more than selling to them, it's not a good thing because either people pointedly ignore them, or look at them enough to see whose ad it is so they can avoid the company in the future.

It's interesting to note that Adblock Plus acquired an "allow unobtrusive adverts" option, presumably in an attempt to get advertisers to behave and halt the arms race. I suspect it was becoming popular enough that some in the ad industry saw that compromise was needed.

It comes down to the fact that if you allow adverts that annoy and distract me, and in some cases eat up my CPU bandwidth for no good reason, don't be surprised if I take measures to block them. It's also not unknown for ad servers to deliver malware courtesy of scripts, so if it's not a static image then some other part of my browser security is likely to take it out to avoid that happening. Flash-based ads are another level of evil (also see bandwidth comment) given the holes in Flash and the Flash cookies that get set and can be used for tracking.

This site already tracks outbound clicks via viglink, and there's the mysterious ibpxl.com, the name of which gives the impression of being there for tracking purposes. The ibsrv.net site appears to host the scripts needed for the forum to work, then there's scorecardresearch and doubleclick for general tracking and adverts. It's interesting that you don't seem to have succumbed to Google analytics, at least not on this page.
[*] The general 'we', not picking on any particular website here.

This is a tricky one. I do use AdBlock. There is, however, a facility for suspending it for individual sites. I was so asked to do on the Rain Alarm website and have done so. But on Rain Alarm the ads are not obtrusive; they simply appear on the RHS of the screen in a column and do not interfere with the viewing. Now I have noted our Administrator's comments - and I do really enjoy Pprune - I will suspend AdBlock on Pprune and see if they are so intrusive that they interfere with my viewing.

For our part, we do not allow popup/under ads, ads that automatically play video or audio, or anything else similarly obnoxious. If you see such ads, or anything with objectionable content, please let me know and I will have them blocked. Usually our ad ops team will need a screenshot and/or a link to the ad so that it can be targeted.

Bear in mind that we do not and in fact cannot vet every ad that is served, before it appears on the site. Ads appear differently for everyone as well. So often, it will take a member spotting and reporting it before we can nix it.

I have not seen anything bad here yet. At the moment I am seeing a static banner for Hyatt at the top, and a static Marriott banner at the bottom.

Ken,

Is the problem on any and all websites, or just pprune?

This thread is specifically for problems with ads on pprune.

SD

[Sorry, also posted this on 'ipad problem' thread. Didn't notice at first that I was supposed to post here.]
Just happened to me. Happily browsing a thread. Suddenly the ap store opened at "Game of War". I've never visited that site (in fact, I don't do any games). Frustrating....

IB admins are monitoring this thread, so your comments should be noted.

SD