| @bennyw01 cheers Benny, the main ones that bother me are the "'Bizarre' Online Trick" and "The Best Way to Make Extra Money" type ones, surely they're just actual spam. If people want to read about "Artists Who Just Aren't Cute Anymore" then fair enough (but REALLLLLY?). |
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DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI am ashamed to admit I clicked on a couple today...one was reasonable useful though, a Dales blog post/advert for bike lights. -
@monkehhh
It is a case of being a new provider here - hasn't been installed long and it is still in its optimisation stages.
Takes a short while for us to filter out the crap and start recognising stories that may be of interest to our readership.
Please bare with us, I promise it will get better soon! -
Nazo 1,953 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI keep getting ads on the mobile site that say "Genesis does what Nintendon't"
Genesis?! This is EUROgamer ffs. -
PearOfAnguish 7,573 posts
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Registered 17 years ago"Child actresses who shockingly grew up to be good looking"
This is some top-grade link bait bullshit. Not only am I going to continue using an ad blocker, but I'm going to go through the minor hassle of manually blocking this absolute bollocks as well. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThose fucking ads are horrible, every site seems to be infected with them now. -
rudedudejude 2,374 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThey are the new scourge of the internet. These shitty DailyMail / Heat articles on every website, combined with fucking lame arse newsletter signup overlay (POPUPS).
We are fucking regressing back to an older time of frenzied pop ups rounded off with 'how my 5th son was a mouse' housewife stories.
Noooooooooooooooooo. -
They really are like the Daily Mail's side bar of shame, only on every site on the Internet. -
@TarickStonefire Cheers! .gif)
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@everyoneelse... yeah, sorry... It's the way of the world (at the moment) I'm afraid. -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoIs there a reason they take up more space than 90% of articles when viewed on the mobile site? -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI don't object to them being on the mobile site, but I'd much prefer it if the Comments button was above them, rather than having to scroll past loads of them after reading an article to click the Comments button. -
Can't you just do all this for free Rauper ffs -
mothercruncher 19,478 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIf you're paid per view, rather than click (yay!) can't you just hide the fuckers beneath all content? Or would that be seen as taking the proverbial? -
The location dictates how much you get paid - if you put it completely out of the way, the visibility is lower, and therefore not as valuable. And of course the more visible, the more likely to click... so it all sort-of comes back to clicks in the end (even if not paid per click). Banners work the same way, and in fact 'viewability' is one of the new things the industry is focused on - as it can now be measured - so the days of spamming loads of ads at the bottom of pages (which don't get seen or clicked on) are quickly disappearing. -
neilka 24,026 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYou Won't Believe How One Website Owner Monetised Jeffrey Matulef -
Load_2.0 33,583 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYou Won't Believe How Long These Suckers Waited For Portable Mode! -
Jetset_UK 3,578 posts
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Registered 18 years agobennyw01 wrote:
In the mean time people install adblock.
@monkehhh
It is a case of being a new provider here - hasn't been installed long and it is still in its optimisation stages.
Takes a short while for us to filter out the crap and start recognising stories that may be of interest to our readership.
Please bare with us, I promise it will get better soon! -
mothercruncher 19,478 posts
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Registered 15 years ago@rauper Bum. Fair enough. Shame that. -
These new Daily Mail-esque, Taboola adverts are a disgrace.
Browsing an article on my phone waiting on a (female) mate to come back from the bathroom, one of them with a pretty obvious picture of someone's "generous" cleavage (with the headline along the lines of "the most cringeworthy prom photos we've ever seen" - because that's what I want to be reading). Friend comes back, sees over my shoulder "fucking hell man, what are you looking at?".
Cheers EG.
I've them permanently blocked on my PC now. I'll unblock when ye get some relevant ads up, not this absolute bottom-feeder bullshit. -
"Just looking at schoolgirl tits. Right, dinner?" -
Skirlasvoud 4,039 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI'd love to turn Addblock off for Eurogamer. In fact, ever since I started using Addblock the site has been looking a little too bland. I wouldn't mind *turns Addblock off* background advertisement like "Life is Strange" or the Guild Wars tournaments to brighten my browser again. Whenever I see Masterchief, Bayonetta or Mario, I get the feeling back that I'm actually feeling a gaming site and most of them are very well done.
I also really appreciate that the more of us block adds, the more you need to rely on even better paying adds and aggressive ads for those that don't to make a living Rauper.
However you're right in your opening posts by referring to adds as "impressions". Like as in things that impress upon me.
And motherfucking Tabolaa is not okay Rauper! It's the visual equivalent of me coming home from a long day at work, sitting down to relax by starting up the browser for eurogamer, but then you carefully opening the door to my room and slowly pushing in a blaring one-year old in a coaster towards me with a 12 foot pole. Not okay. I don't want that impression. I don't want to have it impressed upon me while I'm not willing. Addblock has ruined me. My mind has been unspoiled by that trash for 6 months too long. I've felt incrementally smarter, healthier, happier, more focused and a better human being for it ever since. I don't want the hit. Seriously fuck Eurogamer if adds like buttfucking Taboola are the sacrifices I have to make. Ban me and my account right now if you need to.
I wish that Addblock were more user friendly and that I can simply target and banish certain adds with a right click of a button upon Eurogamer.
Right now however the process is laborious and I don't know how to code for exceptions within addblock.
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Dirtbox 92,600 posts
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Skirlasvoud 4,039 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDoes anyone know how I can make a general exception for eurogamer, but STILL make the abolishment of Taboola (and adds like that) be the number one priority? Right now I can't seem to do both.
Rauper, it'd be great if there would be lists available that I could import into my addblock, that give you maximum add revenue and safeguard my state of mind both.
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@Skirlasvoud you could try Ghostery (dunno if that's Chrome only), it'll let you block certain things like Taboola / Outbrain / etc and keep ads, whitelist sites, etc. -
I've turned adblock off and I'm still getting no ads, at least on the forum. Maybe NoScript is doing a job here, although I can only see it blocking crazyegg.com and google analytics & services. Ho hum. -
Skirlasvoud 4,039 posts
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Registered 11 years ago@monkehhh
Seems like they have a Firefox version. I'm more than willing to tinker with it for the next hour for Eurogamer's sake and see if I can make it work.
Maybe I can tell Addblock to except Eurogamer from everything else and tell ghostery to hunt down Taboola within that exception. Now I just need a third program and fourth program to...
Thanks! -
arkham23 1 posts
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Registered 9 years ago@rauper i feel like I'm being forced into the ads on this site now, I'm checking out soon if this is the way the site is gonna be run, it's lost it's way a bit since the reshuffle, sorry for being a downer man. -
@rauper
What the hell is going on with the Cities advert?! I want to read the content on EG, but I can't get past the fucking subtitles. Gahhh.
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