Full Screen Ads now?

[mattaaron]

Not sure if this has always been a thing or just recent, but I just got my first full screen ad on MacRumors.com, about 2-3 seconds after scrolling down the homepage.

I hate being all negative and bitching, the site has bills to pay and what not so I get it, but I really feel Full Screen ads are thing of the past, does MacRumors have to do this?

If so, I get it, I'm not going to boycott MacRumors or anything, it's just a minor annoyance, but an annoyance enough to create a thread to see if I'm alone here.

 

[Born Again]

Yes they’re super annoying

 

[mattaaron]

Yes they’re super annoying

Agreed, I mean I understand the logic if it’s an e-commerce site or something and it’s to get a weekly newsletter, new product, monthly sales/deals, etc. It’s annoying but at least it’s somewhat related to what some might want.

But if it’s an AD it’s a different story, I haven’t seen a full screen ad on a website in a long time, and I think it’s because a mass majority are like us, find it annoying and developers/companies have listened… so yea this caught me off guard

 

[floral]

I haven't seen any full screen ads... in fact barely any ads at all, weirdly

 

[svenmany]

For a few weeks last month I wasn't a paying member, so I saw ads. I never saw a full page ad.

 

[roland.g]

For a few weeks last month I wasn't a paying member, so I saw ads. I never saw a full page ad.

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.

 

[svenmany]

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.

I'm a legacy subscriber, so I pay $25. I've renewed twice at $25 when it was advertised to me as "legacy". So, it's been more than a year at the high price.

 

[MacNut]

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.

Back in the day the perk was the private forums. Those don’t seem to be worth it anymore.

 

[rm5]

I just had a full-screen ad pop up on my phone. First time that's ever happened on this site.

 

[7thson]

Four times in 20 minutes this morning this has taken over my screen:

I have to say it feels punitive. It’s been happening on my iPhone, which how I primarily access MR. I’ll see if it replicates on my iPad.

 

[rm5]

Four times in 20 minutes this morning this has taken over my screen:
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I have to say it feels punitive. It’s been happening on my iPhone, which how I primarily access MR. I’ll see if it replicates on my iPad.

Yup! While I fully support the idea of having advertisements to support MacRumors’ funding, etc., full screen ads like this are a bit annoying to me.

 

[7thson]

Yup! While I fully support the idea of having advertisements to support MacRumors’ funding, etc., full screen ads like this are a bit annoying to me.

I haven’t encountered this blight when using my iPad so it might be an offending ad taking an advantage of MR and their mobile website. That’s the most charitable reasoning I can conclude but it’s been going on for over a month so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[arn]

Not supposed to be full screen ads. Looking into it

 

[arn]

this should be resolved. Lemme know if you see it again

 

[romanof]

In a moment of relaxing from a bout of bug hunting, I looked over the stats of several web-sites. One that stood out was MR. It will load up to 92 trackers on a single page. That doesn't bother me since I have this site trusted to allow ad support, but the 50 second load time per page does. And I am definitely not on a dialup line, so that huge time segment issue is not on my end.

I was going to capture the list for show, but it scrolled off the bottom of the screen faster than I could move the cursor.

I understand that a free web site has the need to pay the bills, but 90 + trackers per page?

 

[iStorm]

This just happened to me a few times today. The ad took over the whole window for a few seconds. The white/orange part would eventually move off screen and could read the article again, but still had the banner ad spanning across the bottom of the window (which I haven't seen before).

 

[arn]

This should be taken care of

 

[TechRunner]

My power company (FPL) has an ad that opens and defaults to a new tab at random times. Is this expected behavior too? It started doing it a couple weeks ago, and it's really jarring while reading.

 

[chrono1081]

I'm seeing full screens pop up again (today one just popped up).

 

[sman789]

@TechRunner and @chrono1081, are you two experiencing this on mobile, iPad or on Mac? I'm trying to see if I can recreate it and see which specific ads are the culprit.

Also, does it happen on both the forums and main news site?

 

[TechRunner]

@TechRunner and @chrono1081, are you two experiencing this on mobile, iPad or on Mac? I'm trying to see if I can recreate it and see which specific ads are the culprit.

Also, does it happen on both the forums and main news site?

On Mac, and it's anywhere I go on the site. Sometimes it's so bad three or four will pop open and default to a new tab in less than a minute. It typically only happens before 6:00AM (I'm an early riser, up by 4:00AM). Thanks for looking into this!

Edit: I use Safari, if that matters.

 

[chrono1081]

@TechRunner and @chrono1081, are you two experiencing this on mobile, iPad or on Mac? I'm trying to see if I can recreate it and see which specific ads are the culprit.

Also, does it happen on both the forums and main news site?

Mine was on the Mac on the main site. I’m not seeing it anymore though. Next time it happens I’ll be sure to see what ad it is. I just remember it was yellow.

 

[7thson]

Another one, iOS 17.4.1, Safari:

 

[TechRunner]

Update: Whatever you did @sman789 fixed my issues with the ridiculously aggressive ad from my power company. Very much appreciated!

 

[sweetandsour1]

It's just happened to me for the first time today. Ad went fullscreen and then dropped to a full width bar across the whole page. Every 10 or 20 seconds the bar opened up by itself to take over half the page. EXTREMELY annoying.

Safari, MacBook Pro, in one of the main news article sections on MR. Don't remember the ad exactly, but it was for a commercial AI application.