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man-bear-pig on 12 June 2013

I use my iPhone for browsing VGChartz and for the past ~2 months there's been a pop-up for a game in the App Store called "close up pics", which covers about 1/3 of the screen and has to been manually x-ed out of...and this appears every single time a VGChartz page is loaded. About a month ago I got tired of it and downloaded it from the App Store hoping that it would make the ad go away, but it's still ducking there! HELP



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

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KHlover on 12 June 2013
man-bear-pig said:

I use my iPhone for browsing VGChartz and for the past ~2 months there's been a pop-up for a game in the App Store called "close up pics", which covers about 1/3 of the screen and has to been manually x-ed out of...and this appears every single time a VGChartz page is loaded. About a month ago I got tired of it and downloaded it from the App Store hoping that it would make the ad go away, but it's still ducking there! HELP

Does AdblockPlus not exist on the iOS store? I imagine it would help.



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Conegamer on 12 June 2013

It is so damn annoying! It seems to load only after you've clicked as well, so too many times Ive clicked on a thread to only be redirected to a mess of HTML for the ad.



 

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man-bear-pig on 14 September 2013

Yay! It's finally gone



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

snyps on 14 September 2013

in never noticed an ad since i got the gamepad


but i'm glad that awful thing is gone.



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the_dengle on 14 September 2013

It's been replaced by an even worse ad for me, one that takes up the bottom 20-25% of the screen and can't be closed, and messes with scrolling a lot. Scrolling is slower than it used to be, and the screen fluctuates weirdly. It's hard to describe, but it makes using the site on a mobile device damn near impossible.



DamnTastic on 14 September 2013

when I use Opera mini it doesn't pop up.



blkfish92 on 14 September 2013
man-bear-pig said:
Yay! It's finally gone


Hooray!



           

man-bear-pig on 15 September 2013
spurgeonryan said:
So that means you are back? We still have some horrible grafiti ad, with music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ICtCO8TCw



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

joesampson on 29 September 2013

The bottom of the page ad is gone but now an almost constant redirect to download the app is happening. It's time to report this app and block the redirect to the App Store that keeps occurring on the ipad. If I didn't download this shit app the first 30 times it redirected me to the App Store I'm not doing so the next 30 times. What's wrong with the people who run this site? Why would you have such a blatant poor user experience?