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Road CC and your ******* adverts!

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  • August 21, 2017 at 10:40 pm #27535
    alansmurphy

    I’d like to side step the ban hammer and I appreciate content is partly driven by advertising revenue BUT

    Your site is becoming unusable on mobile devices. Your shitty adverts keep opening themselves and playing, or I get half way thru articles, comments or bashing out my wisdom (steady) and the page goes up to and freezes on a piece of shit advert (ironically for a car half the time… I think, shows the bods how impactful their ads are).

    Please please please make it ******* stop!

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  • February 22, 2019 at 9:31 am #900501
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    barongreenback

    The swipable version is

    The swipable version is terrible.  Den of Geek use the same underlying tech and it is so difficult to use and navigate (on ios).  I’ve stopped visiting unless I’m on a desktop.  Don’t care so much about the ads as you guys need to make a living but you need a different architecture.

    February 19, 2019 at 11:56 pm #900499
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    RoubaixCube
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    Sorry you’re having a bad time with the site on mobile RoubaixCube, which version of the mobile site are you talking about – the swipeable one, or the classic version?

    The classic one has the ad at the bottom, but it’s hardly ad dense compared to the majority of sites. Granted there’s probably more on the swipeable version of the mobile site, but again by the standards of the web it’s not crammed. There aren’t supposed to be any intrusive ads, popups, autoplay video or the like so if yo get any of those we always want to know about it. 

    Problem with sponsored content is that IMO most of it sucks the fat one, and it doesn’t pay well enough either. We do some sponsored stuff  if we think there’s an editorial benefit but we also don’t do a lot because frankly it boils down to companies wanting us to write their ads for them or indeed be in their ads – a not very healthy blurring of the lines. Plus if someone is writing a piece of sponsored content it means they aren’t writing something else. If we needed to power the site that way there wouldn’t be room for anything else. 
      

     

    Classic version. I wasnt very much a fan of the swipe version because of the privacy popup that kept popping up on every page – admittedly that was probably a few months ago and already delt with but im still a sucker for the classic layout, it just feels more intuitive and i know where im going with it when browsing.

    Is there no way of scaling back with the ads a little for a more pleasent mobile browsing experience? even getting rid of the ad at the bottom of the screen thats awlays there would be welcome change. you have 4 or 5 other ads that show up on the page anyway as you scroll through an article anyway

     

    February 19, 2019 at 9:01 pm #900497
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    Tony Farrelly

    Sorry you’re having a bad

    Sorry you’re having a bad time with the site on mobile RoubaixCube, which version of the mobile site are you talking about – the swipeable one, or the classic version?

    The classic one has the ad at the bottom, but it’s hardly ad dense compared to the majority of sites. Granted there’s probably more on the swipeable version of the mobile site, but again by the standards of the web it’s not crammed. There aren’t supposed to be any intrusive ads, popups, autoplay video or the like so if yo get any of those we always want to know about it. 

    Problem with sponsored content is that IMO most of it sucks the fat one, and it doesn’t pay well enough either. We do some sponsored stuff  if we think there’s an editorial benefit but we also don’t do a lot because frankly it boils down to companies wanting us to write their ads for them or indeed be in their ads – a not very healthy blurring of the lines. Plus if someone is writing a piece of sponsored content it means they aren’t writing something else. If we needed to power the site that way there wouldn’t be room for anything else. 
      

    February 19, 2019 at 6:16 pm #900495
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    RoubaixCube

    I appreciate the work Road.cc

    I appreciate the work Road.cc does and i dont mind having ads so long as they are not intrustive. but when im trying to browse on mobile and i have 5 ads on the page as i scroll through and another at the bottom of the screen that is ALWAYS THERE like turd in your arse that you cant squeeze out Im just going to download a browser that does have an adblocker and block EVERYTHING

     

    This needs to be addressed. Maybe have a deeper look at having sponsored ads or articles rather than a page full of flash ads.

     

    I have been on a lot worse websites though but browsing this website is almost giving my eyes cancer.

    August 25, 2017 at 9:35 pm #900493
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    srchar

    The mobile site is unusable.

    The mobile site is unusable. No matter where I tap, I seem to get redirected to the app store to download a betting app. The solution is to block ads (in my case, by using ad-blocking DNS). I don’t care if ad blocking deprives a site of revenue when that site has made design decisions around their ad implementation that leave the site in a mess.

    August 24, 2017 at 1:33 am #900491
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    dottigirl

    An autoplaying ad at the

    An autoplaying ad at the bottom of the right column (I think?) has been pissing me off today. I don’t even know what it’s for (so as an ad, it’s pretty bad!). I’ve paused it, but even ‘paused’ it there are still sounds.

    August 23, 2017 at 6:14 pm #900489
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    IanEdward

    I had the same issue and

    I had the same issue and emailed the admin team (thanks for the reply Tony).

    For what it’s worth, the ad that kept grabbing my screening and preventing me reading threads or responding to them (probably for the best…) seemed to be for Renault? It kept getting as far as talking about fuel injectors or something that were the thickness of a human hair, blah blah blah.

    All seems good today though D’OH! Literally as I was typing this reply, my screen gets grabbed by an advert for some Intel nonsense…

    The Private Eye has a fairly regular feature on how online advertising is getting mis-sold to advertisers (e.g. an advert is classed as having been ‘viewed’ if 50% of the pixels are visible on a screen for a surprisingly short amount of time…). Makes for interesting reading but unfortunately without them we all end up paying for the sites we’re pathetically addicted to…

    August 23, 2017 at 2:31 pm #900487
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    gonedownhill
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    gonedownhill wrote:
    Not bothered by the advertising as such but I keep getting a problem with the page scrolling up/down against my will. Had it on both chrome in windows 7 and chrome in Android on a mobile. I think the page seems to be auto-reloading on the former, the icon on the tab keeps flickering.

    Hmm there is an ad that’s been complained about that forces the page to scroll down to it – for Shell Diesel (or something like that) not heard to the site doing it by itself before though. 

    How often have you had that happen?

     

     

    Only in the last week. Pablo probably described the issue better than me for the mobile .

    August 23, 2017 at 10:54 am #900485
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    andsaw

    One way is to download

    One way is to download Firefox on a moby and download adblock plus and read Road.cc on the browser, thats the only way for ad free, not sure about apple stuff but works for android.

    August 22, 2017 at 4:39 pm #900483
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    Yorkshie Whippet

    With regards to redirect to

    With regards to redirect to App Store. It’s every day and seems to be random when on my SE. Sometime I need to load a page three or four times.

    At the moment it’s to Skybet.

    Doesn’t happen on Fantasy Team side of things.

    August 22, 2017 at 4:13 pm #900481
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    pablo

    On android I get a really
    On android I get a really annoying icon appear at the top of the page now that the browser constantly reframes on. I scroll down it scrolls back up.

    August 22, 2017 at 4:13 pm #900479
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    pablo

    On android I get a really
    On android I get a really annoying icon appear at the top of the page now that the browser constantly reframes on. I scroll down it scrolls back up.

    August 22, 2017 at 4:01 pm #900477
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    Dnnnnnn
    gonedownhill wrote:
    Not bothered by the advertising as such but I keep getting a problem with the page scrolling up/down against my will. Had it on both chrome in windows 7 and chrome in Android on a mobile. I think the page seems to be auto-reloading on the former, the icon on the tab keeps flickering.

    Yes, quite a lot of repeated jumping to the foot of the page for no apparent reason.

    August 22, 2017 at 4:01 pm #900475
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    Tony Farrelly
    gonedownhill wrote:
    Not bothered by the advertising as such but I keep getting a problem with the page scrolling up/down against my will. Had it on both chrome in windows 7 and chrome in Android on a mobile. I think the page seems to be auto-reloading on the former, the icon on the tab keeps flickering.

    Hmm there is an ad that’s been complained about that forces the page to scroll down to it – for Shell Diesel (or something like that) not heard to the site doing it by itself before though. 

    How often have you had that happen?

     

    August 22, 2017 at 3:24 pm #900473
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    gonedownhill

    Not bothered by the

    Not bothered by the advertising as such but I keep getting a problem with the page scrolling up/down against my will. Had it on both chrome in windows 7 and chrome in Android on a mobile. I think the page seems to be auto-reloading on the former, the icon on the tab keeps flickering.

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