ioi said:
Hapimeses said:
No offense taken.
As I said, I have no problems with adverts, but I do have problems with adverts I must interact with. This site has many, many adverts. I already have to be inconvenienced by them (although, if correctly targetted at me, they are far less of an inconvenience). However, if you are telling me that I will also have to deal with pop-ups that crawl onto my screen and cover content, or, worse, take my entire screen and demand I interact with them, then I do have an issue, and I will leave. I have no issues with pop-ups covering existing banners and the like (Kotaku do this frequently, for example), but full-page pop-ups, or the crawling ones really, really annoy, especially if I have to interact with them.
Also, what other select sites do with their adverts does not impact my opinion. I only care about the sites I visit. If I have to interact with adverts to visit your site, I'll simply go elsewhere.
Yes, I know I'm only one man, and I'll be in a minority, but I wouldn't be leaving as a form of protest, I'd be doing it because your site would no longer appeal to me as it once did. The content may interest me here, but I have no desire to click through adverts to access it; and I certainly won't pay to access an advert free version of it. Yes, I'm interested, but I'm not that interested.
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To turn this back onto you then - how do you expect a website like VGChartz to provide a service to you without paying for it in some way? If you're unwilling to pay directly and unwilling to accept the ads that are offered to you (except of course in the situations where they are malicious or cause a serious problem which is totally understandable) then how do you expect a site to run? As I've already stated, this isn't an issue that just affects VGChartz but just about every site out there.
Onto ads specifically, Kotaku has ads that expand out over the top area, Gamespot, Gamepro and IGN have prestitial ads that take you to a new page, IGN and 1up have takeover ads which actually take over the entire screen and stop you from browsing the site. My point is that we are doing nothing atypical here that you won't find on any major site.
On a side note, you mention popups that crawl onto the screen - I'm not really sure what you mean by this?
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I think you are conflating my issues with the issues of others here. I have no problems with adverts. I have no adblockers of which I am aware. I have problems with adverts I must interact with, or those crawl onto my screen and demand I click on them to get rid of them (I'll cover that issue in the next paragraph). So, adverts are not the problem for me, it's the type of advert that's the issue. Also, as I said, I'm not really bothered about what other sites do, I only care about the sites I visit. I visit here, so I care about what you do.
As for the adverts that crawl onto the screen: currently, for me, there are a bunch of adverts that scroll up from the bottom. On my small laptop at a low res, they are an absolute nightmare and cover a significant proportion of the screen until I close them (the hated interaction again -- I do not want to be forced to interact with the adverts; I am already forced to view them by dint that they are there, and that is enough for me. Interaction is a step too far). On my large laptop and desktop they are just a pain in the neck.
However, if forced interaction is the only direction you will accept for your adverts, that's fair enough. I won't be happy, but that matters little in the greater scheme of things.
