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murtoz · 28th Jan 2013, 09:23

Really bit-tech!?
I understand the need for ads / revenue and for that reason have you whitelisted on the ad blocker - but pop-up adds are in a league of their own. First full page adds, then the stupid inline adds, adds at the bottom of photo's in articles and now this...
You just lost a regular visitor. Thanks for the past 6 years, it's been good. But enough is enough.

theshadow2001 · 28th Jan 2013, 09:41

meh, just use an adblocker extension and problem solved. Theres already a thread dedicated to this in feedback.

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KidMod-Southpaw · 28th Jan 2013, 21:14

This has been going on for far too long, so we've stopped fighting and turned on adblock as the answer.

Teelzebub · 29th Jan 2013, 11:13

I wish there was a forum where all we could see was adverts... Oh wait

Pliqu3011 · 31st Jan 2013, 17:37

Adblock: everytime, all the time.

KidMod-Southpaw · 1st Feb 2013, 18:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teelzebub

I wish there was a forum where all we could see was adverts... Oh wait

The TV?

supermonkey · 1st Feb 2013, 23:15

Some additional feedback: I opened Bit-tech on my iPhone, the last device on which my bookmark pointed to the home page rather than the forums. Before the home page finished loading, I got a pup-up ad. I clicked the small 'X' to close the ad, and even though the ad closed, I was redirected to a new tab for another ad while bit-tech continued to load in the previous tab.

I'll give bit-tech the benefit f the doubt and presume that on the small screen of my phone I may have clicked the ad itself rather than the small 'X' to close it, but just to be safe I'm updating the bookmark to go straight to the forums. The advertising seems to have become awfully intrusive.

xrain · 1st May 2013, 03:16

The heck is up with this:

Do I really need to click 8 different x buttons of the same ad just to see the photos?

I've been regularly reading bit-tech for almost a decade, and I accept having ads, since I understand that it costs money to run a website and pay salaries.

However the number of ads lately has shot into the stratosphere, its on a whole different order of magnitude compared to how it has been for the last decade. It seems like every time I log into bit-tech I see a rash of new ads added to the site. Bit-tech has historically done very well on balancing the need for ads and the content on the site. It the site really in that dire of a situation where you are opening up the site wholesale to advertisers?

It is possible to have a balance between content and ads, why don't advertisers seem to understand the more intrusive they make an ad the more I do not want to have anything to do with their products.

To top it off, I also just got a pop up ad for a scam product. (a "free energy" device, sorry it doesn't matter how shiny the red box is or how many Ethernet ports you have on it, "Free Energy" doesn't exist)

cdb · 4th May 2013, 20:08

I've just had ie10 say it had blocked a pop up and then I got this pop up straight after.
http://c5.zedo.com//ads2/f/1542185/3...=;t=1367696166

Meanmotion · 24th May 2013, 19:24

Hi guys,

Just to say, I'm doing everything I can to get the more obnoxious ads removed from the site - yes even the green plague. Any time you see anything that's particular irksome, drop me a message and I'll feed it back to the advertising team.

Cheers,

Ed

28th Jan 2013, 09:23	#1
murtoz Busy procrastinating Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 201	Pop-up ads on the front page... Really bit-tech!? I understand the need for ads / revenue and for that reason have you whitelisted on the ad blocker - but pop-up adds are in a league of their own. First full page adds, then the stupid inline adds, adds at the bottom of photo's in articles and now this... You just lost a regular visitor. Thanks for the past 6 years, it's been good. But enough is enough.

28th Jan 2013, 21:14	#3
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29th Jan 2013, 11:13	#4
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31st Jan 2013, 17:37	#5
Pliqu3011 Opposing Coconut Reptile Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Koningshooikt, Belgium Posts: 1,163	Adblock: everytime, all the time. __________________ “Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” - Socrates “Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.” - Hippocrates

1st Feb 2013, 23:15	#7
supermonkey Deal with it Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 4,469	Some additional feedback: I opened Bit-tech on my iPhone, the last device on which my bookmark pointed to the home page rather than the forums. Before the home page finished loading, I got a pup-up ad. I clicked the small 'X' to close the ad, and even though the ad closed, I was redirected to a new tab for another ad while bit-tech continued to load in the previous tab. I'll give bit-tech the benefit f the doubt and presume that on the small screen of my phone I may have clicked the ad itself rather than the small 'X' to close it, but just to be safe I'm updating the bookmark to go straight to the forums. The advertising seems to have become awfully intrusive. __________________ But of bliss and of glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song. -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

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28th Jan 2013, 09:41	#2
theshadow2001 Ultramodder Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1,052	meh, just use an adblocker extension and problem solved. Theres already a thread dedicated to this in feedback. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

1st May 2013, 03:16	#8
xrain Supermodder Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska Posts: 368	The heck is up with this: Do I really need to click 8 different x buttons of the same ad just to see the photos? I've been regularly reading bit-tech for almost a decade, and I accept having ads, since I understand that it costs money to run a website and pay salaries. However the number of ads lately has shot into the stratosphere, its on a whole different order of magnitude compared to how it has been for the last decade. It seems like every time I log into bit-tech I see a rash of new ads added to the site. Bit-tech has historically done very well on balancing the need for ads and the content on the site. It the site really in that dire of a situation where you are opening up the site wholesale to advertisers? It is possible to have a balance between content and ads, why don't advertisers seem to understand the more intrusive they make an ad the more I do not want to have anything to do with their products. To top it off, I also just got a pop up ad for a scam product. (a "free energy" device, sorry it doesn't matter how shiny the red box is or how many Ethernet ports you have on it, "Free Energy" doesn't exist)

4th May 2013, 20:08	#9
cdb No comment Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: N Yorks Posts: 393	I've just had ie10 say it had blocked a pop up and then I got this pop up straight after. http://c5.zedo.com//ads2/f/1542185/3...=;t=1367696166

24th May 2013, 19:24	#10
Meanmotion Editor bit-tech Staff Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reading Posts: 764	Hi guys, Just to say, I'm doing everything I can to get the more obnoxious ads removed from the site - yes even the green plague. Any time you see anything that's particular irksome, drop me a message and I'll feed it back to the advertising team. Cheers, Ed