Do the ads get gradually worse?

[Anonymous]

I understand the need for the ads and I’m generally in favor of them. However, they’ve recently become so intrusive that I can’t read an entire thread without losing my place with all of the ads. They constantly reset the screen just in time to post a huge, screen-sized ad for me to scroll past to, once again, try and find my place in the thread. It’s become so difficult to read that I am dissuaded from seeking out other pages-long threads.

It makes me wonder if they promise you one thing then, when the complaints stop, they throttle you with more intrusive, harder to remove ads for each thread.

[Anonymous]

Yeah and now they're creeping in from the sides and there's a lot of movement and flashing.

[jsteele]

I am in constant discussions with our ad partner to maintain ad quality. I have another call scheduled for next week. These issues are a major concern for me and one that I will keep making a top priority to address.

[Anonymous]

I am getting a slew of pop-ups from my work's microtrend malicious content spam blocker while browsing DCUM... all the binging pop-ups from the microtrend spam blocker; combined with the rapid-fire, flashing, moving, bouncing advertising pop-ups are really harshing my "quiet Friday at the office" Zen Zone.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I am getting a slew of pop-ups from my work's microtrend malicious content spam blocker while browsing DCUM... all the binging pop-ups from the microtrend spam blocker; combined with the rapid-fire, flashing, moving, bouncing advertising pop-ups are really harshing my "quiet Friday at the office" Zen Zone.

I discussed the bouncing around problem with our ad partner and they should be looking into it now. We don't allow pop-ups, so any of those are malicious and unauthorized. But, without any other reports of pop-ups, I wonder if your Microtrend is getting false positives?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I am in constant discussions with our ad partner to maintain ad quality. I have another call scheduled for next week. These issues are a major concern for me and one that I will keep making a top priority to address.

Thank you. I am still experiencing the same, like OP.

[Anonymous]

Yes they’re getting worse. Now massive ones I have to scroll past plus the ones that jump and make me lose my place on the page

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Yes they’re getting worse. Now massive ones I have to scroll past plus the ones that jump and make me lose my place on the page

Just a reminder that if you encounter a large ad, especially one that blocks content, you can add "#audit" to the end of the URL and an overlay should appear over the ads saying "Report". Then you can report the ad. Otherwise, you can take a screenshot and provide it to me.

I had a conversation about the jumping around issue with our ad provider and they should be looking into that now.

[Anonymous]

I don't know what kind of shady advertisers are posting to this site, but my antivirus software goes nuts every time I'm on DCUM.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what kind of shady advertisers are posting to this site, but my antivirus software goes nuts every time I'm on DCUM.

My guess is that something is wrong with your antivirus software. We are working with a very reputable ad provider who works with thousands of other websites. While nothing is every perfect, that chance of getting a virus from our ads in very, very low.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what kind of shady advertisers are posting to this site, but my antivirus software goes nuts every time I'm on DCUM.

My guess is that something is wrong with your antivirus software. We are working with a very reputable ad provider who works with thousands of other websites. While nothing is every perfect, that chance of getting a virus from our ads in very, very low.

Except it doesn't happen when I'm on other ad dependent sites. Go figure. I use Bitdefender, if it matters.

[Anonymous]

They are definitely getting worse for me. I actually had the thought tonight that I might need to quit using the site on my iPad in the evenings.

[Anonymous]

Just now I got ads on almost every (not quite) every post on a single page. Is that intended?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1179199.page

[Anonymous]

It's soooo annoying how they always lay over the content. Makes it difficult to use the site.

[Anonymous]

Is the problem the ads, or the forum software having bad layout/CSS?

YouTube is covered in crazy ads but the layout still works for accessing the page content.