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Let's talk about AdBlock... • Page 8
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Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI still think we should get t-shirts. -
@rauper They just appeared. I noticed them during my lunch, before you had even mentioned them. -
brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
Mee too, they seem to work without Ghostery being switched off for this site so that's good.
I see them. EGX ones. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOh there it is, I've got no problem with that sort of thing.
Unless it starts turning into a Flash nightmare at some point in the future. -
@rauper I can see the new (acceptable) ones at work, so it's just your old ones someone in IT decided were evil .gif)
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MMMarmite 1,659 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'm seeing the EGX ads now and these I don't mind at all!
No video, no audio just plain simple ads that do what they need to do. -
PearOfAnguish 7,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNothing here, but then Adblock Edge doesn't support them far as I know. -
@Whizzo They actually aren't allowed to -- every ad has to adhere to that template, so no feature creep is possible. It actually makes our jobs easier as well because we can say "no" to advertisers (because we can't say yes!) -
@PearOfAnguish Yep, it's just ABP. -
AcidSnake 8,461 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYep, they started appearing...Quite decent colour scheme, not annoying at all... -
Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThis is just UK based I guess? I'm getting some muppet holding a basket of groceries to advertise Delhaize, a local chain of supermarkets. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoSalaman wrote:
Well as I'm already going to EGX that would be more likely to get a click out of it from me!
This is just UK based I guess? I'm getting some muppet holding a basket of groceries to advertise Delhaize, a local chain of supermarkets..gif)
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Vortex808 15,598 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI have the new ads now too. They're ok, but quite noticable at the top of the page. When we move to a new building next year and I end up in an open-plan cubicle farm for office space I may have to revise my EG reading at work. 
There's always lunch time I guess!
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doctor_nick 237 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI can absolutely see EG's point from the ad revenue side of things, but it's a hassle (as a user) to manage different settings for different sites you visit. So for me some kind of blocker is either on or off entirely - and once you've turned it on you just forget there were ads in the first place. (A work mate saw me using Yahoo mail for something and asked what it was - they'd stopped using it as the ads were so annoying there. I can't remember when I last saw any.)
It's also not great for every other bit of code to try to be grabbing your browsing history or activity: I've left EG open on just forum pages since about 10am and have so far blocked over 230 trackers... -
mikew1985 15,598 posts
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Registered 14 years agoThose ads are fine by me, very simple and unobtrusive. -
@rauper rauper wrote:
Sorry, are you saying that using this version of AB would make your site admin less problematic? I turned off AB for EG recently, so having the site owner say 'turn AB on' seems a bit surreal. : )
@Whizzo They actually aren't allowed to -- every ad has to adhere to that template, so no feature creep is possible. It actually makes our jobs easier as well because we can say "no" to advertisers (because we can't say yes!) -
@Bremenacht Hehe, no, no... Not adblocking at all is the best scenario (for us) by a long way, but if you insist on blocking, AdBlock Plus with Acceptable Ads enabled is better than a complete block or using other adblockers that don't allow Acceptable Ads.
Edit: missing "than"
Edited by rauper at 15:08:04 22-09-2014 -
dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI find these ads great.
A question: what's the story with the mobile site and ads? I have adblock disabled on EG, but I use the mobile site on the computer, since I find the HD one way too wide for my taste and I get no ads at all. OTOH, I do get ads on the iPhone.
Oh, and you know what you/we really need? You know what. -
mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years ago@rauper where does the Android app lie in all this? (ed: muttler mentioned this)
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@dominalien Not sure why you don't see them on desktop...
@mrpon Plenty of things ahead of that on the list of priorities I'm afraid! But new apps for both iOS and Android are things we've talked about recently. -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI have the Witcher in the forum and that punching idiot on the front page. -
mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agorauper wrote:
I was meaning freakybuns (unofficial) app, it'll still work then?
@mrpon Plenty of things ahead of that on the list of priorities I'm afraid! But new apps for both iOS and Android are things we've talked about recently. -
@mrpon no idea, sorry!
@Deckard1 are you running adblock plus or a different blocker? -
I use AdBlock too and I don't mind these ads at all.
I suspect only a small section of AdBlock users is plain opposed to any kind of ads, just the very intrusive or shouty ones. This is a great compromise. -
JonFE 2,071 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSame here, I won't mind these ads, as long as they stay simple and clean. -
SuperCoolEskimo 11,892 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI don't know if it is the ads but on my iPad pages jump a lot when first loading. Of course, I'm not using AdBlock. -
For anyone else having trouble seeing them, I had to whitelist all the eg.net stuff, ghost.gamer-network.net and ajax.googleapis.com before anything would show.
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