This has to change NOW

[Ganoncrotch]

Cloudman said:

Ganoncrotch said:

It does, but if the site is unusable without it then the site is being hurt far worse by the ads.

I don't think that justifies using adblock, but if it is really that bad, then the staff should try to do something about that problem.

There was a post explaining it a couple of years back, basically it's not like ioi goes out and decides which adverts are going to appear on here, he just hands over a portion of the site for the advert place to use and then they fill that space with ads or allow pop ups, but again ioi has no input into what ads appear here really, it's a company which he leases out the space to decide what we the users of the forum would likely be interested in.

That said, naturally ioi could give feedback to the advertising company and tell him that many of the users of this site complain about the ads being posted and that they have installed adblock software... but then he would be telling the advertisers that the forum users here actively are already likely to block adverts put in place on the site and as such are less likely to want to hire the website space because of that.

It's sort of a no win situation for both sides, ioi needs cash to keep this site up, that much shouldn't surprise anyone and how he gets it is up to him, if it means his core users happen to not be a part of what pays to keep the lights on because they are rather painful I'm sure the money coming in from the one off visitor to the site on mobile who happily sits through the 7 or so pop ups to be able to see the front page on here make up for our adblocking actions. Otherwise it would be a better idea to enter into some sort of talks with the user base here with what is deemed by us to be acceptable and for ioi to still get revenue for it, honestly there are so many sites out there with decent advert space off to the site or on top of their sites, if done correctly adverts don't have to be annoying to the users of the site... if someone is annoyed by an advert they are far less likely to buy from the site or use the product being advertised as well.