There’s a new ad banner?
Must be I’m so used to ignoring them, I missed it.
Or my pop-up blocker got a bit more aggressive finally…
I use Ad Block. No cost. It annoys many online places. Some will not let me read. Tough. Advertising is really getting annoying lately.
Rich
You do relizae that no ads, no money, no money, no forum. By killing the clicks you are killing the forum!
I use Chrome, because it works…with everything.
Yes I have ads above and to the right below the profile menu, etc.
I just ignore them. They do not make the font smaller or effect the screen view for me?
Most of my time on here is using my desktop, with a nice big monitor, but even on my tablet it is not a problem. And on my tablet I also use Chrome (Samsung S4) view the desktop site.
Sheldon
This is only partly true. Nobody minds the ads Kalmbach or any other company catering to our hobby places on the forum pages. It´s those unwanted ads that Google puts in any “free” space they seem to detect on these pages, which are unnerving. This is like someone dumping all of his unsolicited mail in your mailbox.
The “home forum”, of which I’m a member, is privately-owned and has no ads whatsoever, and allows photos as attachments.
Unfortunately, activity is down, likely due to members being drawn away by sites such as Facebook, etc.
I don’t have too much difficulty ignoring the ads here, but google searches are often overrun with them, prompting me to disengage.
I find google searches to be getting less and less effective, too, almost a complete waste of time, despite using very precise search parameters.
Wayne
Part of the situation is that the content in the right bar is being ‘served’ by googleads as a permitted service by Kalmbach, but the content is derived from doubleclick, the result being that I will never, ever, ever click on anything no matter how attractive or relevant it may be: I will open a separate window, do a Google search, and make sure there’s no advertising swill if I see an attractive product or service. I don’t mind Kalmbach knowing that, either. I do encourage them to change serving providers as soon as practical.
Understood. However, I neither subscribe to MR nor click on any ads I might see on the forum - i.e. if they were visible. Therefore advertising is a waste of time in either case.
I prefer a cleaner interface when browsing a website and will almost always walk away from those sites that try to force me to “unblock” them to accommodate their advertisers - even if the website has information that I’m looking for. Thankfully MR hasn’t gotten to that point yet. Should that change in the future, however, I’ll have some considerations to make…
Tom
Maybe I don’t spend enough time on the web, or maybe its the kind of sites I go to, but ads are just not a problem for me.
I never click on ads, most of the ads not related to the topic of the site, are for stuff I already bought, I don’t need more…
I read this forum, I read a tractor forum that is a user owned, paid subscription with no ads.
I go to manufacturer and retail web sites for my work, or to purchase stuff, amazon, Lowes, Home Depot, speciality old house sites, etc.
I pay my bills.
That is about it, I have better things to do, except on my tablet I play Roblox with my 8 year old grandson…I’m not very good…
I don’t see many ads…
Sheldon