BirdsCanFly
Educated
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I disabled the blocking for you and it almost locked up my computer, crashing my firefox and slowing everything down to a crawl. Hopefully this was a one time thing.
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Ad Banners - About & Problem Reports
- Thread starter Taluntain
- Start date
HURRRR the first post on a thread page always shows some annoying ad video. This is irritating as fuck.
Jarl, check the first post in this thread, it's got info on how to report bad ads. I can't do anything with some vague reference to an ad that is somehow problematic - there are hundreds in the system displaying to people differently depending on their GEO location. I need specifics.
SoupNazi
Guest
This is a weird one, and it slows down loading my message box anytime it pops up. It's the last object that loads before the quick reply box, and takes ages. I tried blocking all ads which should stop it from loading but it doesn't, so it means it's a somewhat hidden ad (?) - I can't actually take a screenshot of it. All I have for you is www.game-advertising-online.com, and this screenshot:
It practically says "Requesting (URL)", and as you can see, it's processing that request at 3,2 kB/s. It takes roughly 30-40 seconds before it finishes, and only then the message box pops up. This is incredibly annoying.
Using Opera on Win7.
It practically says "Requesting (URL)", and as you can see, it's processing that request at 3,2 kB/s. It takes roughly 30-40 seconds before it finishes, and only then the message box pops up. This is incredibly annoying.
Using Opera on Win7.
SoupNazi
Guest
Hmm... it happens on other computers (happened at work), but only in Opera it seems. I just fired up Google Chrome and it works. I noticed someone else having the exact same problem in the "Forums are up..." thread though, so surely it can't be just my settings, right? More like sime kind of a coding thing incompatible with Opera or whatever... :/
Edit: in fact, Chrome seems to run the entire Codex about 60% faster than Opera. Which is hilarious, because everything else runs faster in Opera.
Edit: in fact, Chrome seems to run the entire Codex about 60% faster than Opera. Which is hilarious, because everything else runs faster in Opera.
pipka
Savant
Tribalfusion sucks for using swf for ads.
Possible to make it so that the advert doesn't appear in the first post of the thread?
Yeah, but only in the Playground. It makes LPs less guest-friendly.
chzr, it's explained in the first post what constitutes a bad ad. I don't get that one so I can't say.
And it probably would be possible to make the ads appear differently just for one forum (after the first post I guess), but it'd require some scripting... would need to look into it.
And it probably would be possible to make the ads appear differently just for one forum (after the first post I guess), but it'd require some scripting... would need to look into it.
yellowcake
Arcane
Question to admins: can you publish IP adresses of the ads services you use? I've been really pissed off by ads services slowing my browsing to a crawl recently and I decided to use custom "hosts" file to point them right up their asses. However it seem to affect the Codex as well and I would like to make an exception for it as this is the least I can do to support you. I can't donate ATM cause I got fired recently and have to count a penny. If you'd publish IP adresses I could remove them from my hosts file.
Can't do that unfortunately as we use a bunch of different ones and I've got no means of getting the IPs from them, especially not for all of their various ad servers (of which I'm sure there are plenty). Unless you're stuck on dial-up, it's highly unlikely that regular ad banners alone would be slowing down your browsing to a halt - must be something else as well. The easiest way to do what you want would be to scrap the hosts file and use a dedicated ad blocking program where you can exempt rpgcodex.net from ad blocking.
api.viglink.com/api/click
What the fucking faggotry is this shit, huh?
Don't tell me that I have to copy-paste links from Codex now, to avoid being flagged.
What the fucking faggotry is this shit, huh?
Don't tell me that I have to copy-paste links from Codex now, to avoid being flagged.
Privacy and paranoia.
Plus VigLink was blocked, which led to some interesting issues.
Plus VigLink was blocked, which led to some interesting issues.
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IE: Taluntain wants you to click on and follow the ad.
There's a CONGRATULATIONS, 100000TH VISITOR! type of ad that flickers as well. I'll try to post it when I catch it.
Really, really annoying.
http://ad.z5x.net/clk?3,eAGdjssOgjA...7cRFc-Bb1FRR2UqaDPEVTBXGf4t0g5z.f.oVhvADv6E8T,
Another ad of this type, slightly less annoying
http://ad.z5x.net/clk?3,eAGdjk0OgkA...hHqE3RBnpImyfIQY0xvaVIBiJn0.JcggrTXsDVRZPJg==,
http://ad.z5x.net/clk?3,eAGdjssOgjA...7cRFc-Bb1FRR2UqaDPEVTBXGf4t0g5z.f.oVhvADv6E8T,
Another ad of this type, slightly less annoying
http://ad.z5x.net/clk?3,eAGdjk0OgkA...hHqE3RBnpImyfIQY0xvaVIBiJn0.JcggrTXsDVRZPJg==,
At the risk of repeating myself for, oh, the 20th time in this thread...
I need 3 (three) things to be able to do anything about any problematic ad. Not 1 (one), not 2 (two). Three. 3. III. 1 + 1 + 1. 4 - 1. 2 + 1.
Here's the holy trinity of valid reports about problematic ads:
1. Take a screenshot of it.
2. See where the ad points to (target url), and copy the url. If you can't get the target url by right-clicking on the ad and Copying Link Location, click on the ad and copy the url that you land on.
3. Describe what the ad is doing that is problematic.
This is all written in the first post of the thread. PLEASE READ THE FIRST POST OF THIS THREAD BEFORE POSTING HERE FFSKTHXBAI.
I need 3 (three) things to be able to do anything about any problematic ad. Not 1 (one), not 2 (two). Three. 3. III. 1 + 1 + 1. 4 - 1. 2 + 1.
Here's the holy trinity of valid reports about problematic ads:
1. Take a screenshot of it.
2. See where the ad points to (target url), and copy the url. If you can't get the target url by right-clicking on the ad and Copying Link Location, click on the ad and copy the url that you land on.
3. Describe what the ad is doing that is problematic.
This is all written in the first post of the thread. PLEASE READ THE FIRST POST OF THIS THREAD BEFORE POSTING HERE FFSKTHXBAI.
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