Full Screen Ads now?

[jeastwood1975]

It irritates me as, if I’m streaming music to the homepods, the ad takes over the audio and stops (not just pauses) the streaming music. I just close the site and leave it until later to come back.

 

[Howard2k]

These ads make the front page practically unusable. I guess MR wants me to get my news from elsewhere? That's absurdly intrusive. I don't mind ads when they're subtle and perhaps even in context, but that's silly.

 

[Chuckeee]

These ads make the front page practically unusable. I guess MR wants me to get my news from elsewhere? That's absurdly intrusive. I don't mind ads when they're subtle and perhaps even in context, but that's silly.


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Sure that an ad, not an editorial about M4 Macs? 😝

 

[7thson]

I think what really bothers me is that it’s a recurring issue. I won’t pretend I understand what it’s like running this website on the back end but it seems like it’s an issue that’s been baked in and can’t be easily fixed. It’s certainly not a good look for MR and I can’t believe admin is ok with it but it keeps happening. I could spend $50 to mitigate it I guess but I’m not that bothered by it I guess.

 

[Weaselboy]

ping @arn @WildCowboy

You should not be seeing those. I'll ping someone to take a look at it.

 

[7thson]

@arn, @WildCowboy
Another errant ad. Dismissed the full screen ad and a persistent banner showed up at the bottom.

 

[Augeas]

OMG, I get a damn full screen McDonald’s ad every 15 seconds while scrolling on the main page. Is this the answer to get yearly payment out of Macrumors readers? The only answer I have for this annoying and intrusive ad approach is 9to5mac and deleting Macrumors from my bookmarks.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

When did MR go from $25 to $50 a year for ad-free?

I feel like for $50 / year !!!! I should be getting better content, better forums, better out of of the MR product than just providing an ad-free experience. That's absurd.

The cost, I'm sure, is based on what they're going to lose from not being able to serve ads to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I agree, $50/yr is more than I'm willing to spend too - so I put up with the ads.

 

[The Phazer]

Getting nearly fullscreen (90% overlay) ads from Salesforce on the front page today.

 

[NoBoMac]

Please try to capture a screenshot of the ad, and if possible the URL it links to. That information lets admins ask the sites advertising agency to remove the ad.