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chrisc90
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Yeah, same as me Wouter if I turn adblock off.

Sometimes its a small banner, sometimes its a large square advert.
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chrisc90
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On mobile full screen adverts aswell that require tapping off the advert to get past it
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organic
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Yes I just got a full page advert on my phone that pops up when I try to navigate around the site that I had to tap close to get through. Imo this level of advert is not acceptable

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Steven
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Sigh.

Sorry! Working on it...

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chrisc90
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I know it’s getting worked on, but this is today and over weekend



Just a update
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Wouter
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chrisc90 wrote:
05 Jun 2023, 11:28
I know it’s getting worked on, but this is today and over weekend



Just a update
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Over here everything is back to normal.
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hollus
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It is being worked on and feedback is more than welcome.
I get both of the things mentioned just above, full screen ads or virtually no ads, depending on the type of post.

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henry
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On iPhone/safari I’m getting an ad before the thread title, another in line after the thread title and a smaller fixed ad at the bottom of the screen. Not unusable but not convenient
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hollus
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Much better on desktop, where the ads only appear around the edges (but still left, right AND low).
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RZS10
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The formatting of the site is all messed up and the ads appear with a delay of several seconds (usually 5s +)

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the upper box/container for the ads has a minimum height of 250 pixels, so even if a slim one is being shown there's just a lot of empty white space around it (here the actual ad banner is 90 px high)

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and the massive white space is still being shown with ad blockers on.

It alternates between ads and sometimes just spams three of them:

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It's not any better on mobile

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Stu
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I’m getting the same as the above.
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chrisc90
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It’s absolutely brutal trying to browse on a mobile device.

There’s probably more ad space than content
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Wouter
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Here we go again.
This is all I can see on my screen on my laptop. Also at "active topic", "unread posts", etc.
Every few seconds a new ad appears.

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Big Tea
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Related to this, I have a couple of times lately had an 'accept our conditions' type approval screen which did not have a one-shot reject all option and the 'box-by-box' tick chart was not very clear either.
I did seriously consider not accepting (the modified) item, and TBH, if it was any site except this one, I probably would not have.
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Big Tea wrote:
15 Jun 2023, 11:20
Related to this, I have a couple of times lately had an 'accept our conditions' type approval screen which did not have a one-shot reject all option and the 'box-by-box' tick chart was not very clear either.
I did seriously consider not accepting (the modified) item, and TBH, if it was any site except this one, I probably would not have.
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