The ads.. out of control?

[Taiki420]

Now I know ad blocker exists etc, but I can never configure it to not block all sorts of things I WANT to see. Plus ads aren't always terrible, but sometimes I have a few pages open and I'll hear crazy noise, look around the room, then find it's my speakers, then I have to go through searching every tab or just closing them to make it go away, and it's usually MMO-Champ.

Plus that huge Star Wars one on the front page is a bit of ridiculous..

Probably won't be addressed but meh...

[Krios]

Yeah that popup ad for SWTOR is pretty damn annoying.

[Krimzinfate]

Ya no shit. Every 5min or when you reload a page is getting out of hand.

[Azuri]

The reason for these adds are a source of revenue for this site. Advertising targeted at a MMO audience for an MMO makes good business sense.

This has been addressed just yesterday btw:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...-you-sell-out!

[Huntaer]

Give this thing a go. Nobody cares about the ads, and this way the website is nice n clean

[Stevoman]

So yes, I'm not one to complain about a free service and usually keep my mouth shut on ads, but thought I'd chime in.

I can bear with every form of internet advertising except for overlays, ESPECIALLY ones with auto-playing video/audio content. That is enough to make me dump a site and find an alternative, as I have done many times, mostly because it's not safe to browse from work any more once a site reaches that point.

[Tribunal]

AdBlock for Google Chrome works great with MMO-Champion right out of the box. Doesn't block any actual content that I've found.

Regardless, those adds of the front page don't look that bad from the screenshot. And if ads are auto-playing sound you can report them, although I do realize that's a bit of a pain. The point is that they're not supposed to do that, unlike many other sites that are a-ok with that stuff (and pop-ups, pop-unders, expanding/floating ads, etc etc).

[Llunai]

I've never seen an ad on this site in the several years I've been reading it.

Try grabbing an ads-blocking HOSTS file and you should be set.

[Nonfictionless]

Can we just not have the ones with sound? You could line the sides and fill the top and bottom with ads for all I care I just don't want ads that auto play sounds.

[Pendragon]

I've never seen an ad on this site in the several years I've been reading it.

Try grabbing an ads-blocking HOSTS file and you should be set.

Definitely. Adblocker addons are fine and all, but an ad-blocking hosts file will get rid of them all. I haven't even seen an ad on Youtube in a long time.

[Evolixe]

Whats an Ad?


No serious ive been browsing with a blocker for 3 years now.. and the last time i saw an Ad was... 3 years ago.

[Tribunal]

Can we just not have the ones with sound? You could line the sides and fill the top and bottom with ads for all I care I just don't want ads that auto play sounds.

Ads with auto-play sound aren't supposed to happen and can be reported as bad ads.
They can tell their ad network not to send auto-play ads, but sometimes it still happens.

[Exodeus]

I don't like blocking adds on pages i frequent but that overlay pop up of that over hyped crap star wars game made me wanna delete the bookmark for MMO champ.

[Elysia]

The audio ones are a known issue. All we can do is report them. From the thread where you're supposed to be reporting these ads to:

We're trying to get rid of whatever's causing the audio ads.. reported them several weeks ago, and sent another mail about it this weekend. Our ads people are trying to track down the source so we can get them removed.

Sorry for the delay!

We hate them too, and we've reported them repeatedly requesting them to be removed. It seems like they keep coming back anyway.

We sent yet another request today, so hopefully some good stuff will happen. :/

I'm not completely sure, to be honest. Curse manages the ads on the site, so we let them know when there are bad ads, and they contact whoever needs to be contacted.

It sucks that it's indirect, but at least we don't (usually) have to worry about any of that ourselves.

And to everyone feeling the need to gloat about using adblock:

I'm going to close that thread now, since it's pretty much only spam and people chestbumping about adblock. As I always said, I'm not going to hate you for using it, but the site wouldn't be here without the money the ads bring in. I'm not asking you to care, just to think about it every once in a while.

[mastertroll]

you can also try Noscript

[Kaneiac]

I whitelist this site to give you guys support, but these are damn annoying, hehe.

Ads are fine, place them all over the place. However, when there are overlays and auto-playing ones, you're asking for them to be blocked.

The ads keep the place running, don't go overboard and block everything, guys.

[Pendragon]

Give us non-intrusive ads and I'll definitely support the site by allowing them all.

[Tyrianth]

The audio ones are a known issue. All we can do is report them. From the thread where you're supposed to be reporting these ads to:

And to everyone feeling the need to gloat about using adblock:

I'm going to close that thread now, since it's pretty much only spam and people chestbumping about adblock. As I always said, I'm not going to hate you for using it, but the site wouldn't be here without the money the ads bring in. I'm not asking you to care, just to think about it every once in a while.

That was valid before mmo-champion was bought by curse. I was more than happy (as I'm sure many others were as well), to white list mmo-champion from adblock when the ads consisted of one non-obnoxious banner and one non-obnoxious block ad. Since the Curse take over the ads take away from the browsing experience. Furthermore Curse has other means of revenue.

[Boubouille]

The SWTOR ad campaign was a mini-screw up, it shouldn't have lasted that long and the capping (amount of times you see the ad in a day) didn't work properly. It was way more aggressive than intended.

That was valid before mmo-champion was bought by curse. I was more than happy (as I'm sure many others were as well), to white list mmo-champion from adblock when the ads consisted of one non-obnoxious banner and one non-obnoxious block ad. Since the Curse take over the ads take away from the browsing experience. Furthermore Curse has other means of revenue.

Bla bla bla, we had more ads slots under MLG and tournament streams embedded on the front page, and when I was still running the site by myself I screwed up on ads a couple of times, you can't visit a site every day and just expect everything to be happy puppy all the time.

[VenomousCarnage]

Yea noise making ads that are part of the page are worse then pop-up spam. It's insane how out of control websites are letting them become