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Gravity advertising 

Post#1 » by [GR] » Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:26 am

I opted-out but it still shows up. It's a nuisance, and disrupts posting. Why isn't it going away?
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Post#2 » by microfib4thewin » Sat Aug 17, 2013 2:22 am

Where is the option to disable it anyways?
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Post#3 » by Fat Kat » Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:22 pm

I'd also like to know how to disable it.
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Re: Gravity advertising 

Post#4 » by Scase » Sat Aug 17, 2013 6:21 pm

It only opts you out of it being personalized for you, as far as I know you can't disable it entirely. It's a horrible advertising scheme that breaks useful extensions like FastestChrome/Fox and their endless scrolling.

Quite frankly this site is damn near unviewable without adblock plus.
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Re: Gravity advertising 

Post#5 » by [GR] » Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:03 pm

microfib4thewin wrote:Where is the option to disable it anyways?

You have to go on the gravity website. I just typed gravity opt-out in google, but apparently it only de-personalizes it, but doesn't remove it from the website.
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Post#6 » by microfib4thewin » Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:43 pm

Ah right, Adblock. Didn't think of that.

[GR] wrote:You have to go on the gravity website. I just typed gravity opt-out in google, but apparently it only de-personalizes it, but doesn't remove it from the website.


Sucks, at least it wasn't as bad as those malware ads that popped up in the past.
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Re: Gravity advertising 

Post#7 » by J~Rush » Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:48 am

The gravity advertising seems pretty tacky. At the very least there should be a "Sponsored Content" header over the non-realgm articles.
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Post#8 » by HiMyNameIsTrey » Tue Aug 20, 2013 7:52 pm

Yup, very tacky.
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Re: Gravity advertising 

Post#9 » by BadMofoPimp » Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:22 am

We are talking about thousands of dollars a month in revenue. Ya'll should be clicking all those links to make RealGM money!
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Post#10 » by dream34 » Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:06 pm

I think we are still in a trial period of using it.
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Post#11 » by BadMofoPimp » Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:19 pm

Like everything else, it is irritating at first then you get used to working around it. It ain't that bad and if people click on some of the links if an article catches their eye, RealGM makes money which keeps up the good work they do. As long as it isn't pop-ups or browser hi-jacks, then I am fine.
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Re: Gravity advertising 

Post#12 » by Howard Mass » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:04 am

Sounds good.
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