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COKTOE on 27 November 2020

Site has been very slow while using my PC, so figured I'd try mobile. The ads are just atrocious. Same stupid ad played 4 times in a row in a span of about 2 minutes. Good. Night.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

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DonFerrari on 27 November 2020

On Android phone the worse add have been dove that auto pops up and come back and forte using like 80% of reading space.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

theRepublic on 29 November 2020
The_Liquid_Laser said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

The bareMinerals ad is covering the scroll bar. I can't scrll down the page.

I think there are 3 ads that are preventing scroll down.

Bare Minerals at Sephora (Macy's)
Potenza RF Microneedling
Flexsure

I'm on Windows 10 using Chrome.  I get these ads on the front page, on the forums page and in every individual thread.  These seem to be the ads I get the most at this point.  I can refresh several times and these ads still come up preventing me from scrolling down.  I really can't seem to use this forum anymore.

This is still a problem.  It has been about a week now.  This is an absolute disaster.  Makes the website almost completely unusable.



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DonFerrari on 30 November 2020

The ad from sephora now is showing like 10 refreshes in a row.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Signalstar on 30 November 2020

The ads were so bad they made this site unusable on desktop. I literally could not scroll or navigate the web page. My ad blocker was ineffective. I finally buckled and became a supporter. I am not proud of it though. This site has the worst ad experience on the internet that I have encountered by far. I know none of the active staff have any control over the ads but I just had to vent and get it off my chest.

Last edited by Signalstar - on 30 November 2020

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COKTOE on 30 November 2020
Machina said:

Some positive news: Brett has given us the go-ahead to reach out to the ad provider and work with them to either fix or remove ads that break the site, like many of those listed in this thread.

That's great. I'm not keen on installing adblock just for VGC, and am trying to get a few months of non-supporter usage under my belt + waiting for the Platinum and Onyx tiers to be added. Once I'm the king of supporters you'll see......You'll ALL SEE.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

DonFerrari on 01 December 2020
Machina said:

Some positive news: Brett has given us the go-ahead to reach out to the ad provider and work with them to either fix or remove ads that break the site, like many of those listed in this thread.

Great. Don't know if you already contacted them, but today I haven't had a site breaking ad so far.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

only777 on 02 December 2020

I don't know if its just the way my chrome displays it, but the actual amount of on-screen content vs adverts is not optimal.

I'd say the screen space is like 80% adverts to 20% site content.

It's fair to say I think this needs adjustment



Sony want to make money by selling art, Nintendo want to make money by selling fun, Microsoft want to make money.

jlauro on 02 December 2020

That is the way it's formatted. You can hold + in chrome (or hold and use scroll wheel) to make the content bigger and drop the borders. I think the site is optimized for smaller monitors so larger monitors get more ad space.



DonFerrari on 02 December 2020

A new culprit for breaking ad arrived, and this time it even have ad over ad.

Chrome on Windows 10.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."