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Why are there ads on the forums?
Why are there ads on the forums?
#1
I thought Bob was paying to avoid having ads in the forums, but I see Google ads beside the first posts in each thread.

So, shall we boycott whatever's advertised over there? ----->

Edit: Looking through some of the longer threads, I see it isn't just the first post that has an ad next to it now...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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#2
hmm, I'm not seeing google text ads in the box (one of the few things I will tolerate) I'm seeing rather annoying flash 'games' from places
like:

admeld.com

adnetinteractive.com

contextweb.com
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
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#3
Maybe one of those half-dozen "sets identifiable information without user consent" cookies that Yuku drops on my machine every session is telling
them I disabled Flash in my browser...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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#4
I want them gone gone gone gone gone.

Can I gives moneys to kill ads?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#5
I'm not seeing any ads or games... Geeze, time to go yell at the support people again.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#6
Thirded, fifthed, whatever -- VERY annoying, including that seizure-inducing punch-the-monkey style 'jiggle' class of ads.

They weren't there last night, and now they're here this morning. I call shenanigans!

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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#7
Call to declare shenanigans seconded!

--Sam

"Okay, culture... show me where it hurts!"
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#8
Oh my god, it's getting worse. Three of them in this thread alone (so far).

Edit to add: and it's taking five times as long as it should to load while it contacts "partners.googleadservices.com" (the only one I've
seen so far, but I'm sure THAT redirects too) and waits for a response, AND, the badly-written Flash crap is stealing my cursor.

Bob. Please. Make it stop!

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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#9
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!?!?!?!

BOB!!!!

*Points at the ads, hands Bob a nuke*

Advertisers. High Orbit. Extreme prejudice.

Go. Hunt. Kil ads.
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#10
Argh! I've just figured it out! They're no longer on a calendar subscription model, but a page-view-count model. And mine just ran out without any warning, dammit.

Give me a couple minutes to pump some money into the board. I don't know how fast this will take, but hopefully it will be immediate.

ETA: Or maybe it wasn't without warning. I just realized that I use a SpamGourmet address as my contact addy for the boards, and it had ezBoard.com as an exclusive sender -- which meant that any mail from Yuku bounced automatically. I've fixed this. I've also just put in an amount just about equal to my old six-month subscription cost, which apparently netted me 765000 page views, according to the screen I saw. That's if I haven't dropped a zero there.

I also suspect that they're not expecting people to make such "big" contributions -- the system also apparently gave me a premium with the purchase -- over 25 months of some kind of help service. I should have paid better attention but I was hurrying through the process.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#11
Bob, do you have the capability of receiving moneys via Paypal? I desire to give you moneys.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#12
I certainly do, WG. My initials rms, on my eclipse.net account, will be the thng to send to.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#13
Oh, and let me know as soon as it makes a difference, okay?

Thanks.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#14
's fixed now.

stupid jerks.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#15
Nyyarrgh.

So, is there a way to send monies to a PayPal account without yourself having a PayPal account? 'cause after my last run-in with my own PP account
(wherein they tried to charge me $14.95 -- which was the cost of the item -- plus $1.65 million in sales tax), I don't have one and don't intend to
sign up again.

Plus they seem to require your bank account info, which I'm reluctant to give out.

Or possibly I am stoopid. That's always likely too.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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#16
1.65 _million_!?!

that's breathtakingly stupid..
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#17
Spud, there ought to be a community chest icon somewhere on the main screen for the boards, where you can contribute with a credit card or other non-Paypal
manner.

Let me go check that it's actually turned on. It's supposed to be. Then again, I was supposed to know when my gold status was in danger of running out,
too.

ETA: Community Chest was apparently old-school. It's now a "Contribute Now" link at the top of the screen, right under the grey bar where it says
"Drunkard's Walk Forums". It takes four credit cards or Paypal.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#18
The adds are still showing up, but only if you log out of your account. Once I log in the adds vanish.

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Epsilon
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#19
Quote: Wiredgeek wrote:

1.65 _million_!?!




that's breathtakingly stupid..



What's worse? The rep (when I finally got through to someone live) insisted that it had to be correct, because it's "what the computer
shows". >_<

Now, I didn't have to pay it, obviously, but still... that level of dumbassery is enough to convince me to take my business elsewhere, heh. Besides
which, last time I logged on to that account -- more out of curiousity than anything else -- it was still there. Le Sigh.

Bob: if it's all the same to you, I'll take Wire up on his offer and route it to you via a money order to him -- or if you'd prefer, I'll send
the money order to you directly. I'd prefer to put money in your hands rather than in Yuku's.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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#20
However you care to -- I'm not hurting because of this, so there's no rush. I will note that apparently between now and the last time I got a payment
via PayPal, the payment process has changed -- I had to pay a couple bucks' processing fee on the contribution someone was so kind to send my way last
night. That was an unpleasant surprise.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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