What is with the annoying pop up ads
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stephen sawall
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It does make it kind of difficult to use the site. Not to mention none of them are guitar related.
YES! I started seeing these yesterday or the day before maybe. I don’t mind advertising but these seem almost suspicious like click-bait.
Maybe if I click “Nah” it will leave me alone...? :roll: No, I know better than that...
Any respectable advertiser would know that type of ad would scare actual potential customers away.
And it’s a pop-up, not just an in-line type of ad.
Very annoying...
Maybe if I click “Nah” it will leave me alone...? :roll: No, I know better than that...
Any respectable advertiser would know that type of ad would scare actual potential customers away.
And it’s a pop-up, not just an in-line type of ad.
Very annoying...
Every time you open a new topic, post a reply, try to read a topic, there they are. Right in the way. I wonder if anyone from Mesa has seen this. This has to be the worst case of pop up ads on any of the forums I gone to.
Ok, after doing a search to try to get rid of this annoying feature it appears to be implemented by the forum. So I guess they are aware of it. It’s bad enough that there are ads interspersed among a thread and you have to scroll past them, but every time a new page opens is ridiculous.
ned
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The site is bleeding money. The ads are an effort to get somewhat close to recovering the cost to keep the site alive. Right now it's a 14 day test.
Donations have basically dried up for the last year. Next alternative is to shut down.
Donations have basically dried up for the last year. Next alternative is to shut down.
Ned, I assumed that the site needed financing. That is totally understandable. On my PC the infolinks ads are not that distracting, they are a small rectangle at the bottom of the screen. On my iPad is totally different, the ads are 1/3 the screen size. They almost completely block the page when you consider the Forum's header is about 1/3 the page. Also you can't scroll like you can on a PC. Is there a way to keep infolinks, but have a much smaller popup?
ned
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Let me see if I can change the size for mobile.
On my iPad, in landscape orientation, the banner is about 1” tall. So maybe 1/7th or 1/6th of the screen so not too much of a problem. It is smart though and with the keyboard displayed, it moves up so when typing a post in, there is only about 2” remaining in view.
My complaint, initially, was more about the content those first two days. It was very shady looking loan and credit ads. But now, the ads all seem reasonable.. I even saw one for a California Tweed at some music store. And if it pays for the site, I can live with it.
My complaint, initially, was more about the content those first two days. It was very shady looking loan and credit ads. But now, the ads all seem reasonable.. I even saw one for a California Tweed at some music store. And if it pays for the site, I can live with it.
I did just see one of the “inline” ads (inserted between the posts and scrolls with them) that was about 1/3rd of the page!ranchak said:
But the pop-up window type that persists at the bottom is just about 1”. I tried playing with some of the text settings etc., but it didn’t seem to change for me. Having them as large as your situation would be difficult to work with.
jaslan said:
If I can find a way to post pictures I'll show you what I mean. I can understand the forum opting to have the possible additional revenue, but infolinks needs to make it so it is not as intrusive.
ned
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Had them remove the ads from tablets. Should be a better experience now.
ned
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Choice was either leave as is or remove from tablets. I had them removed from tablets so the experience isn't crappy 
