All Advertising Questions

robillionaire · Post #461 » by **robillionaire** » Wed Aug 6, 2025 1:55 pm

BobbySura wrote:yup these are the two I get also. It seems like it only triggers on the general basketball board.

Mine triggers everywhere even here and now as I try to post this comment

Post #462 » by **CR Reina** » Wed Aug 6, 2025 7:20 pm

robillionaire wrote:
BobbySura wrote:yup these are the two I get also. It seems like it only triggers on the general basketball board.

Mine triggers everywhere even here and now as I try to post this comment

Thanks for the additional information. We have everyone investigating and have blocks in place for those URLs, but they haven't been able to recreate it which is what they typically need to remove it permanently.

Kampuchea · Post #463 » by **Kampuchea** » Fri Aug 8, 2025 1:51 am

CR Reina wrote:
Kampuchea wrote:
CR Reina wrote:Sorry a few of you are having these issues. I haven't been able to recreate it. Can you send the URL of the redirect if it occurs again? This will help us investigate the source of the issue.

Here’s one just now. https://safecorex.info/avs/en/mob/global-bb.php?c=6qztd1j7z80z5&k=ec46e30c3aa9284842a499b137a15342&country_code=US&carrier=Verizon&country_name=United%20States&region=Texas&city=Houston&isp=Cellco%20Partnership%20DBA%20Verizon%20Wireless&lang=en&ref_domain=forums.realgm.com&os=iOS&osv=18&browser=Safari&browserv=&brand=Apple&model=iPhone&marketing_name=iPhone&tablet=2&rheight=0&rwidth=0&e=5

Thanks for sending and sorry for the issue. Our ad partners are continuing to investigate and it needs to be resolved immediately.

https://trojanwall.click/avs/en/mob/norton-1.php?c=6pz18fng2za6z5&k=15174428dc687e6118327beccd2c9487&country_code=US&carrier=Verizon&country_name=United%20States&region=California&city=Los%20Angeles&isp=MCI%20Communications%20Services,%20Inc.%20d/b/a%20Verizon%20Business&lang=en&ref_domain=forums.realgm.com&os=iOS&osv=18&browser=Safari&browserv=&brand=Apple&model=iPhone&marketing_name=iPhone&tablet=2&rheight=0&rwidth=0&e=5

Another one

Post #464 » by **CR Reina** » Fri Aug 8, 2025 3:51 pm

None of the folks trying to resolve the issue have been able to recreate it. Can you confirm whether you have adblock enabled?

Kampuchea · Post #465 » by **Kampuchea** » Fri Aug 8, 2025 4:30 pm

Wonder if it’s IPhone specific

robillionaire · Post #466 » by **robillionaire** » Sat Aug 9, 2025 10:36 pm

And now it’s this one.

https://virusblocker.life/avs/en/mob/global-bb.php?c=6pz190v25z7oz5&k=2f03b3505ec246dfbe92efc3d2431730&country_code=US&carrier=-&country_name=United%20States&region=Virginia&city=Norton&isp=Comcast%20Cable%20Communications,%20LLC&lang=en&ref_domain=forums.realgm.com&os=iOS&osv=18&browser=Chrome&browserv=139&brand=Apple&model=iPhone&marketing_name=iPhone&tablet=2&rheight=0&rwidth=0&e=5

XtremeDunkz · Post #467 » by **XtremeDunkz** » Sun Oct 26, 2025 6:14 am

I'm getting a full page Uber ad every 10 seconds. This is **** ridiculous. I really wanted to come back to this site but it's unusable. **** off.

Klomp · Post #468 » by **Klomp** » Wed Feb 4, 2026 9:28 pm

I've been getting an infuriating ad window that gets around my AdBlock and jumps the page around for the first 5-10 seconds after I load a page. It's right below the forums navigation bar at the top of the page, in a black box. Most of the ads that appear are vertical, so it really affects the page loading.

Spoiler:

Post #469 » by **Duffman100** » Thu Feb 19, 2026 3:58 pm

FYI, the header ad the last week has been awful for CLS (cumulative layout shift). It's bouncing the page up and down and causing me to misclick on links.

I have my ad blockers on but it's persisting through.

basically echoing what people above have said.

TMac Culloch · Post #470 » by **TMac Culloch** » Mon Jun 8, 2026 4:13 pm

This Mcafee antivirus ad you have is misleading, predatory, takes the full screen, and is making the website unusable

Sofia · Post #471 » by **Sofia** » Thu Jun 25, 2026 10:44 pm

New pop up ads on mobile site. Another fantastic new feature?

BBallFreak · Post #472 » by **BBallFreak** » Fri Jun 26, 2026 4:05 pm

Sofia wrote:New pop up ads on mobile site. Another fantastic new feature?

Upper right hand corner, on every page on the mobile site. Very annoying

MartyConlonJr · Post #473 » by **MartyConlonJr** » Thu Jul 2, 2026 8:29 pm

BBallFreak wrote:
Sofia wrote:New pop up ads on mobile site. Another fantastic new feature?

Upper right hand corner, on every page on the mobile site. Very annoying

Came here to say the same. Upper right hand corner, every page. Right in your viewing area. So annoying you feel like you have to close them, but the close button is fiddly and half the time I navigate to the ad.

Which I guess is the point, the ads are getting click throughs, Realgm is getting money from that, I am getting inconvenienced and having to navigate back and never once actually interacting with the ad in a way it would make the advertiser money.

MAQ · Post #474 » by **MAQ** » Thu Jul 2, 2026 11:19 pm

MartyConlonJr wrote:
BBallFreak wrote:
Sofia wrote:New pop up ads on mobile site. Another fantastic new feature?

Upper right hand corner, on every page on the mobile site. Very annoying

Came here to say the same. Upper right hand corner, every page. Right in your viewing area. So annoying you feel like you have to close them, but the close button is fiddly and half the time I navigate to the ad.

Which I guess is the point, the ads are getting click throughs, Realgm is getting money from that, I am getting inconvenienced and having to navigate back and never once actually interacting with the ad in a way it would make the advertiser money.

All of this. Please fix it.

miamiheat319 · Post #475 » by **miamiheat319** » Sun Jul 12, 2026 6:55 pm

The audacity of this site to ask me to turn off my ad blocker while delivering the most obnoxious, annoying, and inconvenient ads is shocking. Hmm I wonder why people would use an ad blocker here

Sofia · Post #476 » by **Sofia** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 12:17 am

miamiheat319 wrote:The audacity of this site to ask me to turn off my ad blocker while delivering the most obnoxious, annoying, and inconvenient ads is shocking. Hmm I wonder why people would use an ad blocker here

Yep, while saying they need to pay for the site but not considering alternate revenue options such as paid ad free memberships.

Post #477 » by **MickeyDavis** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 3:13 am

Most people have no problem blocking ads, either with extensions or using specific browsers. Paid memberships wouldn't be worth the effort to implement.

Dennis 37 · Post #478 » by **Dennis 37** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 5:21 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:Most people have no problem blocking ads, either with extensions or using specific browsers. Paid memberships wouldn't be worth the effort to implement.

Depends on the cost. CD's used to cost 15 to 20 dollars so people Napstered their music collection. Then Apple came out and charged $1.00 per song. They made a fortune.

Charge me $56 dollars a year, yah, no, the ad blocking will continue. Charge me $1 a month, then I would find that dollar to give to RealGM. RealGM's not making 12 bucks a year off me while I'm ad-blocking. Block users from certain features if they don't pay. Free account doesn't have access to the trade checker for example.

BBallFreak · Post #479 » by **BBallFreak** » Sat Jul 18, 2026 9:23 pm

MAQ wrote:
MartyConlonJr wrote:
BBallFreak wrote:Upper right hand corner, on every page on the mobile site. Very annoying

Came here to say the same. Upper right hand corner, every page. Right in your viewing area. So annoying you feel like you have to close them, but the close button is fiddly and half the time I navigate to the ad.

Which I guess is the point, the ads are getting click throughs, Realgm is getting money from that, I am getting inconvenienced and having to navigate back and never once actually interacting with the ad in a way it would make the advertiser money.

All of this. Please fix it.

So, we're just not gonna bother fixing this annoying as hell ad?

MAQ · Post #480 » by **MAQ** » Thu Jul 23, 2026 10:15 pm

miamiheat319 wrote:The audacity of this site to ask me to turn off my ad blocker while delivering the most obnoxious, annoying, and inconvenient ads is shocking. Hmm I wonder why people would use an ad blocker here

Crazy bold. Imagine my confusion looking at that pop up as it takes up only the middle portion of the screen - allowing the unblocked ads to still be seen.