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Annoying advertisements
Posted: 23 Sep 2021 14:53
by gebik
As you can see in attachment, there is new ad type in mobile version, which blocks extra part of user screen in menus...
I have not seen it somewhere else.
Is there something to get rid of it at website side?
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 24 Sep 2021 13:58
by orudge
Hmm, I'll have a look at the ad settings and see if anything has changed, or if there's a way of customising this. Somebody else reported similar the other day too.
Aggressive full-screen ads
Posted: 22 May 2023 11:29
by Chrill
Hi!
Starting today, I am met with a Russian ad covering the entire page which I have to click away before I can browse. Is there anything we can do about these to make sure they don't show up?
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 22 May 2023 18:15
by andythenorth
AdSense (I think) is serving interstitials currently.
Not frequently, but occasionally.
They're more annoying than the average ad, as they demand a click to dismiss.
If they're on CPC not CPM, they probably won't be earning much from EU traffic, as they're in Cyrillic
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 22 May 2023 20:55
by ebla71
andythenorth wrote: ↑22 May 2023 18:15
AdSense (I think) is serving interstitials currently.
Not frequently, but occasionally.
They're more annoying than the average ad, as they demand a click to dismiss.
If they're on CPC not CPM, they probably won't be earning much from EU traffic, as they're in Cyrillic
Some of the ads are indeed quite ecentric, so to say
Some that I get shown are in Finnish or Estonian, so that's at least the right continent, while others I hope trace back to shared use of some computers with my wife, as that's not the stuff men normally wear
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 23 May 2023 05:28
by gebik
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 23 May 2023 08:53
by orudge
Ugh. Funnily enough I've just seen that too (and in Cyrillic too). I remember when Google Ads were just nice, unobtrusive text adverts... let me see what I can do.
EDIT: How kind, Google has automatically opted the site into an "experiment" to "optimise revenue opportunities". Let's see if I can turn that off.
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 23 May 2023 12:33
by Chrill
They seem to keep appearing. Unfortunately I might have to use Adblock for a bit, hopefully that will catch these even though it removes ad revenue for the site.
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 23 May 2023 13:15
by orudge
I think I've got them disabled now, though I don't know how quickly Google will respond to this change. Sorry for the annoyance!
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 24 May 2023 08:54
by andythenorth
Thanks
Re: Annoying advertisements
Posted: 27 Mar 2024 18:44
by orudge
I don’t know about anyone else but I now seem to be seeing massive adverts interspersed in forum topic listings, on mobile at least. Sorry about this - I’m going to check what wonderful new feature Google has switched on this time.
EDIT: That's hopefully gone. Remember the days when Google's ads were simple text-based banners? I miss those days.