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Full Screen Ads now?
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Thanks for getting back, and glad to hear that this isn't supposed to happen 🙂
Anything we can do on our side (like click report ad or anything), or is reporting these in this thread when they happen the best thing?
kalsta
macrumors 68000
From time to time? I’m seeing multiple full screen Samsung Galaxy ads on every news article, and that’s pretty much the norm now. That, and the way the page moves around while you’re trying to read an article due to ad changes, is making MacRumors a far less pleasant read than it was years ago.
This McDonald’s full screen app is freezing the site for me. It takes up the whole screen, doesn’t allow you to close it for the first three seconds, then messes with the websites scrolling ability the rest of the time after it’s dismissed. Happening on my iPhone 17PM and iPad Pro. Literally can’t get past the second story before I have to leave the site.
Still an issue. Mostly I can't get around it on my iPhone so I just leave the site. Sometimes I get past it. Terrible site experience.
You can say that your own whips are beating you. You can't find a more insecure thing than a smart phone. There have been attacks on the winternet that are made through advertisements. The current ones, which cannot be closed before a few seconds have ticked, are aimed at destroying your last nerves. If someone thinks they can make advertisements that cannot be blocked, then it will lead about 90% of users elsewhere, as happened with one internet weather station.
It was Gismeteo, a service based on airports weather information. ca 90% of their users moved to yr.no. and a sobering scandal followed. I don't know what's going on at Gismeteo right now.
I'm regularly getting full-screen ads on iPhone. Just got a full screen ad on Mac (Safari 26) for the first time. It literally created a separate full screen space in Mission Control and shifted my Mac's focus to it. This is possibly the most obnoxious piece of technology I have encountered on the web. I shut it immediately and didn't even notice what the ad was for.
Time for Macrumors to find a new ad provider if they keep pulling this against your wishes.
Time for Macrumors to find a new ad provider if they keep pulling this against your wishes.
Here’s a full screen ad I just got on iOS. Location is Australia if that’s relevant.
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CharlesShaw
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I’m getting ads from Amazon like this one about every minute or so on the homepage and now in the forums. I close it, and it comes back rather quickly. Incredibly annoying. I’m on an iPad.
OP here, just got the same ads and I'm on a desktop.
It used to just be mobile for me, but now desktop 🙁 Please MacRumors, Full Screen ads should be a thing of the past, many companies don't do it anymore (unless it's for their own stuff selling their own product (like an e-commerce site) which makes sense).
Still getting full screen video ads every second or third time I visit the home page. This one on my Mac today. I have popups blocked. So ****ing obnoxious.
@arn time to find a new ad network? Apparently you're reporting it but they don't fix the problem. It's not just "from time to time" any more.
@arn time to find a new ad network? Apparently you're reporting it but they don't fix the problem. It's not just "from time to time" any more.
Apple_Robert
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I realize what is being spoken of here is frustrating and in some ways intrusive, in regards to messing with one’s browser settings and or action. I have no doubt it is frustrating for Arn as well as this repeated problem can turn prospective members or even current members away. I am not trying to make light of the frustration but, just wanted to remind people that when you become a yearly Contributor to MR, paid members don’t get banner ads, amongst some other privileges.
@arn Have you ever considered actively promoting membership and offering a discount on yearly membership for new members who sign up between x and x dates? I think a lot of members and visitors alike are unaware that there is a paid membership option with real benefits that would help to keep people visiting and not be turned away by annoying ads / and or an ad service that isn’t listening to their customer.
@arn Have you ever considered actively promoting membership and offering a discount on yearly membership for new members who sign up between x and x dates? I think a lot of members and visitors alike are unaware that there is a paid membership option with real benefits that would help to keep people visiting and not be turned away by annoying ads / and or an ad service that isn’t listening to their customer.
We are planning on promoting membership options more, and trying to provide added features for members. Currently an active project.
Apple_Robert
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