All Advertising Questions

Post #421 » by **CR Reina** » Thu Sep 12, 2024 3:03 pm

Our ad partners are working to eliminate all the issues reported this week. We are continuing to send them your reports, which are helpful to identify and eliminate them as quickly as possible.

Post #422 » by **CR Reina** » Thu Sep 12, 2024 4:41 pm

ForeverTFC wrote:Ads within the thread in between posts is horrendous and makes the board borderline unusable. Please don't punish those of us that don't use Adblocks; it's a deliberate choice we are making to make sure this community remains viable. I don't know how much more of this I can take.

These ad types have been eliminated.

Post #423 » by **CR Reina** » Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:31 am

We've been told that all of the issues should now be resolved. Please let me know if you see anything else because they are on high alert.

Post #424 » by **BBallFreak** » Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:46 am

CR Reina wrote:We've been told that all of the issues should now be resolved. Please let me know if you see anything else because they are on high alert.

Thank you so much! It's great to feel listened to!

Post #425 » by **spykelee** » Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:49 am

The forms look miles better! Thanks CR

PerkinsFor3 · Post #426 » by **PerkinsFor3** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 7:36 pm

CR Reina wrote:
ForeverTFC wrote:Ads within the thread in between posts is horrendous and makes the board borderline unusable. Please don't punish those of us that don't use Adblocks; it's a deliberate choice we are making to make sure this community remains viable. I don't know how much more of this I can take.

These ad types have been eliminated.

Theyre still here.

https://streamable.com/vv8q1c

Dr Positivity · Post #427 » by **Dr Positivity** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 7:09 am

I know this is hard to control but as someone who watches games the next day RealGM ads are pretty brutal for spoilers right now, if you see a baseball player's jersey you know that team won that night.

Corinne · Post #428 » by **Corinne** » Thu Oct 31, 2024 9:14 pm

Hello Admins, currently there is a giant tiktok ad that takes up the bottom half of the phone screen, rendering the forum unusable unless you close and come back to the page, and even then it sometimes comes back. I've tried to include a screenshot . I'm using Chrome on Android.

https://ibb.co/sbBRXWR

Rasho Brezec · Post #429 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Fri Nov 1, 2024 8:19 am

Anytime I try to open this site. Took me 10 minutes to even post this:

ANTETOKOUNBROS · Post #430 » by **ANTETOKOUNBROS** » Wed Nov 27, 2024 2:11 am

extremely obtrusive pop under ads today never encountered this, “you have malware, download this”. I use adblockers and it was able to bypass.

HiRez · Post #431 » by **HiRez** » Wed Nov 27, 2024 2:38 am

ANTETOKOUNBROS wrote:extremely obtrusive pop under ads today never encountered this, “you have malware, download this”. I use adblockers and it was able to bypass.

Yeah, same. They are crazy aggressive and obtrusive. Will find another forum if these keep up.

Sofia · Post #432 » by **Sofia** » Wed Nov 27, 2024 10:58 am

Same old **** ads that keep popping up every other month

MartyConlonJr · Post #433 » by **MartyConlonJr** » Wed Nov 27, 2024 9:12 pm

Reading Realgm on the bus while on a new phone (so keep that in mind for a couple of reasons - fresh cache, cookies, unlikely to have malware etc).

I've got on 3 occasions an ad that takes up bottom half of the screen that has an 'X' to close, that when
I do it, takes me instead to another page with naked women on it. Sorry I wish I could have taken screenshots or given more detail but it was absolutely embarrassing to have it (the ad ;-)

) pop up on a bus with someone sitting next to me. I think one of the 'intro' ads that led to the site was about impotency if that helps.

This is the first time I've seriously considered adblocks. I can't be having porn pop up.

Quentin · Post #434 » by **Quentin** » Sun Dec 1, 2024 1:23 pm

Terrible to have a McAfee ad pop up on the lower right that says "McAfee antivirus Off", like it's installed on your system. Misleading ads are not cool RG.

sca · Post #435 » by **sca** » Sun Dec 1, 2024 7:25 pm

Yeah, these new ads are annoying. They look like something you’d see on a porn site.

P.S.: There are also popunder ads which make the site hard to follow.

Post #436 » by **G R E Y** » Sun Dec 1, 2024 7:32 pm

Flipcart pop ups start after Brave browser has loaded. So now even the cleanest browser is affected. FYI. Hope this gets fixed soon.

Post #437 » by **CR Reina** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 7:50 pm

We've been working to get these eliminated as quickly as possible. This should 100 percent not be happening. Please continue to send feedback here so we can pass along the details to help pinpoint how they are sneaking in.

Post #438 » by **G R E Y** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 8:36 pm

It almost feels like people in charge of these ads read these comments.

A day or two after Brave browser was heralded as clean, pop ups on Brave came up for the first time.

The only way I've found the pop ups don't appear at all after a page loads is if JavaScript is blocked (on Brave, go to Settings, then Site Settings to find it).

But then of course half of websites don't function well without it so...

Post #439 » by **CR Reina** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 8:48 pm

We were able to pinpoint the issue and believe it is isolated to people using adblock. This is why it took us longer to resolve. The source of the issue has been eliminated immediately on the non-forum pages and should also be removed from the forums shortly.

You can also turn off adblocker to stop this from running immediately.

MartyConlonJr · Post #440 » by **MartyConlonJr** » Wed Dec 4, 2024 6:28 am

Just to state, I've never used an adblock and was having the issue I described on this page. I even mentioned it may drive me to use one