Annoying *banner ad* on this forum

[bradzx]

How I can get rid of stupid pop up that I go everywhere on this website. I close and i go other place, it back. Who create this moron pop up ad?! Tell this person remove it already. It really annoying and lag a bit for loading.

 

[Zerosuit connor]

I get ads on every page when not signed in on IE9

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Gbatemp must've been compromised or intentionally added them.

IMO, it's quite annoying...

Some of these ads were probably intentionally added. If you'll recall we had ads on GBAtemp before we made the forum upgrade. They're a necessary evil when trying to run a free forum of this scope.
However there probably shouldn't be any popup ads, and there certainly shouldn't be any mature ads.
We've had trouble with ads before, so this is not a huge surprise.
We'll have it sorted out as soon as possible.

 

[Nimbus]

Hey guys, just a reminder.

We have an option to disable them still when we're logged in. Make use of it.

*Scrounges around*

Now if I could only figure out where you moved em to in V3!

 

[jamesaa]

I have adblock enabled on this site to remove the "Like this" buttons, but when disabled I get the same pop-up, apparently i've won an iphone...yay

Using Chrome and GBAtemp dark theme if it makes any difference.

 

[Costello]

1) the adverts are here intentionally of course.
they only appear for:
- guests
- newcomers (users with < 100 posts)
- banned people & blacklisted traders
regular members dont see them

2) ads are targeted to peoples interests. if you see sex ads, you probably visit porn sites too much. nothing we can do about it...
but it's funny to see who are the pervs on that site, hah

3) ads are the only source of income for our site, so bear with them
you dont get charged with a membership fee, you dont get annoying pop-ups or "layer" ads, you can even "close" the bottom banner.


edit-- though after seeing that picture http://i55.tinypic.com/jhuiwp.png it does look like theres too many banners. I'll remove some.

 

[Costello]

this is what I'm seeing from IE 9, not logged in (ie. visiting as guest)



not so bad really especially since you can close it.

 

[Zerosuit connor]

You can close it

Also nice job on the mobile site, cept its really buggy on a dsi

 

[RoMee]

they only appear for:
- guests
- newcomers (users with < 100 posts)
- banned people & blacklisted traders
regular members dont see them

I still see them, even when logged on.
But it's not a big deal for me, adblocker plus is doing it's job (logged in or not) and I hardly visit this site anymore so it doesn't bother me.

 

[Costello]

they only appear for:
- guests
- newcomers (users with < 100 posts)
- banned people & blacklisted traders
regular members dont see them

I still see them, even when logged on.
But it's not a big deal for me, adblocker plus is doing it's job (logged in or not) and I hardly visit this site anymore so it doesn't bother me.

nope, you don't see them when logged on.
you must be mistaken

 

[Bobbyloujo]

Links behind the transparent parts of the ad don't work. So, say the 'post' button is behind the transparent part at the bottom of the screen that the ad doesn't fill up, you can't click it even though you can see it.

 

[Costello]

Links behind the transparent parts of the ad don't work. So, say the 'post' button is behind the transparent part at the bottom of the screen that the ad doesn't fill up, you can't click it even though you can see it.

thats the way its supposed to be, actually the original ad tag had a black background but i asked them to make it transparent, so that we could at least read the parts behind.

 

[.Chris]

this is what I'm seeing from IE 9, not logged in (ie. visiting as guest)



not so bad really especially since you can close it.

Sometimes it doesn't close when I press on "Close".

 

[Costello]

then just log in and you wont see the ads anymore...

this thread is getting really annoying with all sorts of whiners

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