Poll: Haven't you just had enough of these f*!@&ing popups?!
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I used to hate them the first few times I accidentally clicked them, and there was no way out of it without confirming that I was above 18, so I had to close my tab and navigate back to the page I was on.
I have, however, learned to avoid them, so now they're only a mild nuisance. It's the most annoying when I'm scrolling with my arrow-keys and they suddenly stop working.
I don't blame the escapist for it, but I sure as hell won't be buying any Dead space or Mass effect products now.
I have, however, learned to avoid them, so now they're only a mild nuisance. It's the most annoying when I'm scrolling with my arrow-keys and they suddenly stop working.
I don't blame the escapist for it, but I sure as hell won't be buying any Dead space or Mass effect products now.
PubClub gets a few dozen signups a week currently, which is respectable and helps us offset some minor costs (office supplies, paying some contract content producers), etc. To get anywhere to the point of "covering" our costs, it would need to be something like several hundred signups a day. While we love our PubClub supporters, and the money definitely has helped us pay some people who were waiting for money (and it is trending upwards, woo!), it is nowhere near to replacing the 5 to 6 figure checks that a one or two month ad campaign can bring in.Hammeroj said:
Buy PubClub memberships for friends! We have talked about a donate button before, but I'm not sure as to the exact reason why we don't have it. I think you can just buy multiple years on your own account for a lifetime of no ads or worrying about renewals.Patrick Young said:
I'll bring it up at our tech meeting tomorrow in case it's not easy to buy multiple years currently.
Ok after a bit more tinkering I was FINALLY able to see the Dead Space 2 popup. I had to use Internet Explorer to finally make it pop up. Needless to say I can see why people have a problem with those.
I've always been of the opinion if a sites goes as far as to solicit it's users to disable their ad blockers, as The Escapist does, then they should at least extend the courtesy of not being totally obnoxious with their ads in return. Let's face it with most browsers these days you have a pretty decent level of built in protection against ads and you have to manually shut that off if you want to support a site by enabling their ads.
I firmly believe that it's possible for a site to advertise on the site and not be totally in your face about it. Massive popups that cover a significant portion of the content you are attempting to view is not one of those ways.
I've always been of the opinion if a sites goes as far as to solicit it's users to disable their ad blockers, as The Escapist does, then they should at least extend the courtesy of not being totally obnoxious with their ads in return. Let's face it with most browsers these days you have a pretty decent level of built in protection against ads and you have to manually shut that off if you want to support a site by enabling their ads.
I firmly believe that it's possible for a site to advertise on the site and not be totally in your face about it. Massive popups that cover a significant portion of the content you are attempting to view is not one of those ways.
I was wondering how long it would be before this topic came up...
Just trying to get off the front page of The Escapist to read the first page of this thread has driven me to insanity, constantly causing my PC (which isn't that old, only a year or so) to freeze up for a good 5 minutes per advert.
*edit* - if it helps, the Dragon Age advert is perhaps the worst, as it can really slow down computers.
[sub]Its especially annoying because I already own the games they're advertising I play for free...[/sub]
I understand that the site has to advertise, but please bring this up.Kross said:
Just trying to get off the front page of The Escapist to read the first page of this thread has driven me to insanity, constantly causing my PC (which isn't that old, only a year or so) to freeze up for a good 5 minutes per advert.
*edit* - if it helps, the Dragon Age advert is perhaps the worst, as it can really slow down computers.
[sub]Its especially annoying because I already own the games they're advertising I play for free...[/sub]
Ok, why are there like ten people who have been suspended for mentioning that certain thing for that certain browser? Is the Escapist based out of China?
I understand not wanting people to mention it, but suspending them? That'll endear you to the forum community
I understand not wanting people to mention it, but suspending them? That'll endear you to the forum community
Course its annoying, just like watching any sort of advert, specially when your moving on from vid to vid having to watch the same ad time after time... Gets old quick. However I put up with it, it supports the site which means they can keep going and I can enjoy the vids. I'm getting these vids for free the least I can do is put up with a 30 second ad every now and again.
That and I use earphones so when the ad pops up, I just take them off put them on the side and maybe take a sip of my cupper. Wait for the ad to finish and get on with watching the vid. Its a mild annoyance sure but me'h, as said above.. I'm getting the vids for free, I get the enjoyment of watching the vids and thus I'll put up with the minor annoyance.
Also the pop ups that come on the side of the screen? I just ignore them. Barely notice them most of the time. They don't hinder me or my enjoyment so I honestly don't have an opinion on them.
That and I use earphones so when the ad pops up, I just take them off put them on the side and maybe take a sip of my cupper. Wait for the ad to finish and get on with watching the vid. Its a mild annoyance sure but me'h, as said above.. I'm getting the vids for free, I get the enjoyment of watching the vids and thus I'll put up with the minor annoyance.
Also the pop ups that come on the side of the screen? I just ignore them. Barely notice them most of the time. They don't hinder me or my enjoyment so I honestly don't have an opinion on them.
