Ad Blocker

Dave5Cs · January 03, 2020, 01:30:36 PM

Some times when you have a website and use ads your ad service picks them and you only get to check what type of ads you will host. When I had a website I used Amazon and they picked all the ads they put on my site and I could go in a refuse an ad but sometimes they kept right on sending the same ones and that depended on what was trending at the time.

chessie4905 · January 03, 2020, 04:45:45 PM

Hey, the Wish site ads here are offering deep discounts on male and female blow up dolls.😂 Seriously though, many ads are here pertaining to your web surfing results.

richard5933 · January 03, 2020, 04:54:26 PM

I could care less what the ads are about. But do they have to cover more screen real estate than the actual content on the mobile version?

bobofthenorth · January 03, 2020, 05:01:23 PM

Quote from: richard5933 on January 03, 2020, 10:12:25 AM
There is no longer a way to get rid of those three gray boxes. There was a small gray box you could click, but a few days ago it disappeared.

That's probably my fault. You were just trying to help me when you posted that but evidently some eagle eyed webbie spotted the loop hole and closed it. Sorry about that.

richard5933 · January 03, 2020, 06:42:13 PM

Confused by the Google ads though - they don't show for me on the desktop/laptop browser at all, but they are all over the mobile format.

chessie4905 · January 03, 2020, 07:13:36 PM

Everything is fine over on BNO, which is layed out similarly.

Krash · January 07, 2020, 03:29:19 PM

Just reading through this topic, I can see most (all?) of you are not thrilled by the recent addition of Google ads to the forum. Personally, I don't like Google, and I don't like ads, but accept the necessity of generating some income from this forum to help support BCM. We've tried to make the ads not too obtrusive, but formatting options are pretty limited. Those of you who are seeing grey bars or blank areas are using ad or tracking blockers. Don't know what you see on phones (I don't use a phone). I don't see ads in my primary browser (FF), I'm running several layers of tracking protection and security, been using IE to format the ads. Makes the forum smaller, but doesn't change anything functionally, the ads are placed in portal blocks outside the forum. The ads are supposed to be somewhat related to site content, so some of them may be of interest to some of you. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.

richard5933 · January 07, 2020, 03:37:14 PM

Quote from: Krash on January 07, 2020, 03:29:19 PM
Just reading through this topic, I can see most (all?) of you are not thrilled by the recent addition of Google ads to the forum. Personally, I don't like Google, and I don't like ads, but accept the necessity of generating some income from this forum to help support BCM. We've tried to make the ads not too obtrusive, but formatting options are pretty limited. Those of you who are seeing grey bars or blank areas are using ad or tracking blockers. Don't know what you see on phones (I don't use a phone). I don't see ads in my primary browser (FF), I'm running several layers of tracking protection and security, been using IE to format the ads. Makes the forum smaller, but doesn't change anything functionally, the ads are placed in portal blocks outside the forum. The ads are supposed to be somewhat related to site content, so some of them may be of interest to some of you. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.

On my Android smartphone, running a stock Chrome browser, the Google ads fill up far more screen space than the content. Here are most (but not all) of the ads presently showing.

With the number of duplicate sds, I'm guessing that there is a problem with the coding on this.

When Tapatalk support ended, it was still possible to use the forum through a mobile browser with relative ease thanks to the mobile formatting. With the addition of the Google sds, I would rate the site as no longer functional for those accessing via mobile.

Too bad, since that's often my only method of accessing the forum, especially when on the road in the bus.

Krash · January 07, 2020, 04:00:58 PM

Looking at it in FF mobile emulations, it drops all portal blocks to bottom of page, that's where the ads should be. You're seeing ads up top below forum header. I'd venture a guess they display differently on different phones. Makes formatting difficult if it's not consistent on different devices.

richard5933 · January 07, 2020, 04:11:25 PM

I get the same results in FF for mobile. Google ad at the top just under the two smaller ads (that have always been there), and then gobs of them at the bottom. The screen shots I sent were the actual things I'm seeing on my end.

None of the Google ads I'm seeing are relevant to the content or to my browsing history.
There is a mobile emulator available on Chrome.
Update:
Interestingly, I just switched my mobile FF to show me the desktop site. It showed as it should. Then when I switched back to the mobile version the Google ad at the top was not there and there were far fewer at the bottom. Strange since I purge the cache daily. Not sure what happened.

Krash · January 09, 2020, 01:36:41 PM

In pc view there should be three ads stacked in right sidebar, and one across bottom. FF mobile emulators show all four stacked at bottom. I don't actually see the ads, just the title bars, but they're all where they should be. I've found emulators to not be 100% reliable. There are several things in play here, including variations in browser renderings, quirks of the not very good responsive Curve mod, Google's persistent efforts to push their ads up front.

When I have some time, maybe I'll install a responsive theme and see how it works. That could solve a lot of problems.

buswarrior · January 09, 2020, 02:31:46 PM

Remind me again why tapatalk doesn't work with BCM?

BGM, BNO, my Ram forum, all do tapatalk?

My bet is a lot of members are trying to use phones, especially when on the road, uses less data...

The "reply" line is often staying at the top of the thread, and not at the bottom, after the lat message on my android powered Blackberry key 2.

Thank you for staying after this.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

Krash · January 09, 2020, 02:44:42 PM

Tapatalk works, but it's a huge security risk and not recommended for use with SMF.

richard5933 · January 09, 2020, 04:20:23 PM

Quote from: buswarrior on January 09, 2020, 02:31:46 PM
Remind me again why tapatalk doesn't work with BCM?

BGM, BNO, my Ram forum, all do tapatalk?

My bet is a lot of members are trying to use phones, especially when on the road, uses less data...

The "reply" line is often staying at the top of the thread, and not at the bottom, after the lat message on my android powered Blackberry key 2.

Thank you for staying after this.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

BGM just did a big update, and in the process support of Tapatalk was discontinued. They have a pretty good mobile theme available, but I miss Tapatalk...