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Post by G on Jan 9, 2010 0:24:17 GMT -5
Anybody know what is up with this? Is this permanent or just temporarily?
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 9, 2010 1:43:11 GMT -5
It started with a blog post at the beginning of December.
"Recently we have had a couple issues with advertisements being displayed on forums that violate our rules. In order to effectively stop these types of ads, we have added a new tool for you to report inappropriate ads on your forum.'
3 Days later they announced they were blocking all ads except Google. It looks like they are blocking Google now. Google used to do text-only ads. Google was changing their advertising model because they were losing ad revenue that was going to other search engines instead.
I think users are complaining that the ads are hijacking the screen, doing pop-ups etc. There are days that I wish the web was nothing but stupid html scripts like we had in 1997.
Defiant1
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Post by Wrecks on Jan 9, 2010 2:05:32 GMT -5
Anybody know what is up with this? Is this permanent or just temporarily? Was wondering the same thing myself. |
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Post by G on Jan 9, 2010 10:20:20 GMT -5
I can't see this as a good thing for proboards if they continue with it like this. I'm sure they used the ads from google ads to generate income to help offset the costs of running free message boards. While it may not have been much money, multiplied over thousands of sites, it could have been a little bit of change to them that they are now turning off.
I hope the next move or later on down the road isn't "we need money from you, or we are shutting your board down".
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Post by Wrecks on Jan 9, 2010 18:42:04 GMT -5
I can't see this as a good thing for proboards if they continue with it like this. I'm sure they used the ads from google ads to generate income to help offset the costs of running free message boards. While it may not have been much money, multiplied over thousands of sites, it could have been a little bit of change to them that they are now turning off. I hope the next move or later on down the road isn't "we need money from you, or we are shutting your board down". I hope that doesn't happen either. I know Patrick said he was going to be working on this. |
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Post by G on Jan 10, 2010 17:14:20 GMT -5
I see the ads have made a comeback.
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Post by Wrecks on Jan 11, 2010 3:52:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I noticed that too. Whoo!
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