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Subject: New Style Ads
Posted by: alan56
Date: Nov 10 23
The new style of adverts that have been implented recently are a total pain. They are embedded as banner ads at the top of pages and in some rare examples in between questions in the actual quizzes. The problem is when your mouse moves across the ad it triggers the ad to expand and fill the whole page totally obscuring the questions. Now I know this post is going to trigger a flood of responses saying to become a Gold member and do away with the ads, but my point is it seems an odd marketing strategy to use ads that make the games virtually unplayable. It is more likely to drive people away and leave you with fewer players on the site which will reduce your advertising revenue as you are reaching less people. The worst advert for this is the one for a certain pizza company that has the same name as a game played using wooded blocks.
Posted by: alan56
Date: Nov 10 23
The new style of adverts that have been implented recently are a total pain. They are embedded as banner ads at the top of pages and in some rare examples in between questions in the actual quizzes. The problem is when your mouse moves across the ad it triggers the ad to expand and fill the whole page totally obscuring the questions. Now I know this post is going to trigger a flood of responses saying to become a Gold member and do away with the ads, but my point is it seems an odd marketing strategy to use ads that make the games virtually unplayable. It is more likely to drive people away and leave you with fewer players on the site which will reduce your advertising revenue as you are reaching less people. The worst advert for this is the one for a certain pizza company that has the same name as a game played using wooded blocks.
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Mark2617
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As you can see if you are a 'with-ads' player, a lot of time has been spent to get you to opt out of privacy tracking.The easiest way is to just ante up the monthly fee. I assume there is a question to explain this as a definition of capitalism. Reply #41. Mar 05 24, 4:42 PM |
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I just replaced the consent management provider with another one -- one that hopefully will be more usable. Let me know if things look better now —- And yes: FunTrivia would not be running without Gold Member support. If you care about the site and want to see it online for years to come, I highly encourage you to become a GM. At the current rate of ads becoming more annoying for less pay as online publishing dies a slow death, I can envision a day where we are forced to go subscriber only. Note that this is not planned and I’d like to avoid it, but it is the model that web publishing is going. Reply #42. Mar 05 24, 4:52 PM |
10Basic7
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In my case, this site has gone from an ad-free experience, despite my being a "free" player, to a site that pops up a cookies permission form with every logon. I never had this form in the past. I'm in favor of a site having ads to keep it running. I oppose a site that makes said ads too much of a hindrance. I come from the pre-Internet era, where TV ads during programs were the norm. They were annoying, sometimes entertaining. But I don't recall them popping up in the middle of Archie Bunker's face. Okay....the new logon ad permission alert box is here to stay. Fine. But the day it expands beyond that is the last day I log on. Reply #43. Mar 06 24, 7:20 AM |
| Terry
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"that pops up a cookies permission form with every logon" Is this still happening to you today? Right now? Try clearing your browser cache, quitting your browser, and coming back. It's not supposed to be doing that. Reply #44. Mar 06 24, 10:34 AM |
Stonecreek
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It does it to me the first time I visit the site on my laptop every day, for the past two or three days now. And, after I clicked permissions on that, a video ad popped up in its place. C'mon! Reply #45. Mar 06 24, 11:38 AM |
LadyNym 
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A couple of days ago I logged out by clearing my cookies after having replaced a photo in a photo quiz template, and got the Privacy/Cookies box as soon as I opened the Login window. As an experiment, I just did the same now - and got the box once again. Not that it bothers me at all, as it is much more invasive in other websites, but it had never happened to me before. Reply #46. Mar 06 24, 2:29 PM |
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It should ask you once, and once only when you login from a new device for the first time. It should not appear on every page load. Reply #47. Mar 06 24, 4:08 PM |
| Stonecreek
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Currently, there is a super annoying ad, and it's problematic for a couple of reasons. It's for Bovada, which is a sports gambling site/book, which seems to not be in the best taste for this trivia site where there's no actual wagering (fantasy KO brackets are the closest to that). It also is a video ad which loads in automatically playing, and it you stray your cursor over it at all (say, to click the close button at the top right) the video ad then expands to take over your entire screen, plus also starting to play sound at high volume. Most ads I can look past, or cost negligible time on the hourly games where they appear. This one takes 3-5 seconds each time to run its course, and I am literally getting it on every other page load (like I'll get it starting an hourly game, then get a static ad at the top of the screen while looking at my results, then get the same Bovada ad going back to the main game screen). Can something please be done about this? Other ads (static, not video) are far preferable to this particular, nearly predatory ad. Reply #48. Mar 15 24, 2:11 PM |
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