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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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  • August 22, 2017 at 12:47 pm #900471
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    Flying Scot

    i find my new Ipad Air

    i find my new Ipad Air handles it fine, bu the old Ipad 2 is completely flummoxed by the site.

    August 22, 2017 at 12:45 pm #900469
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    Tony Farrelly

    Hi Alan, 

    Hi Alan, 

    Thanks for taking the trouble to flag this up and believe me we share your pain on this – it’s a massive PITA. It’s something we’ve been aware of as a growing problem over the last few weeks and are working to solve – hence the Report an annoying ad page.

    We don’t like annoying our most loyal users and we don’t like stuff that brings the ad model for funding sites like this in to disrepute because it’s how we pay for the site and all the people who work on it.

    Annoying and disruptive ads are a problem that seems to affect mobile users more than desktop, but certainly rears its head on desktop too. The problem for us is tracking down the offending ad network – without proof that the ad was theirs they will all say it isn’t them.

    The redirects to the App Store or Google Play are even more of a problem because the ad that causes the redirect doesn’t fully load before the redirect kicks in. They’ve been a problem for a lot of sites at a low level for years now – and we’ve suffered with them from time to time before – but it definitely seems to have flared up particularly badly in the last few weeks. That said, it does seem to be something that affects some users a lot and others not at all – despite a great deal of trying we’ve never been able to get it to happen on one of our devices. Okay, except for once when the one person on the team who likes a bit of a flutter got a redirect, but we weren’t sure if that was down to the site or him.

    We do have some suspicions about where the problem – which may or may not turn out to be well founded – and to help us find out we’re pausing ads from one particular source to see if that has any affect on the problem. 

    simonmb yes an ad free subscription version of the site might be something we can do – obviously we’d need to work out how much a sub would be. We did look in to it in the about 18 months ago but when we asked people there didn’t seem to be much enthusiasm – of course things change so we could revisit that. 

     

    August 22, 2017 at 12:05 pm #900467
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    alansmurphy

    That’s way above the heads of

    That’s way above the heads of the people on site and probably a Google algorythm somewhere. You’ve looked for such products and they probably can’t confirm you’ve purchased, hence you’re in a loop!

    August 22, 2017 at 11:52 am #900465
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    Ramz

    I notice that most of the ads

    I notice that most of the ads I get are for products I recently purchased but have no intention of buying for another year or two. I think your ad provider could be ripping off the adverrtiisers.

    August 22, 2017 at 11:41 am #900463
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    alansmurphy
    Leviathan wrote:
    Isn’t it funny when sometimes you post something on the forum, then it quickly appears on the News page and you think ‘road.cc has stolen my thunder again.’

    http://road.cc/content/news/228051-how-report-annoying-or-intrusive-ads-roadcc

     

    Or you think, excellent customer service, thanks for listening!

     

    🙂

    August 22, 2017 at 11:40 am #900461
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    alansmurphy
    Yorkshire wallet wrote:
    Root or jailbreak your phones and put on a proper ad-blocker.

     

    And invalidate any warranty or insurance you have on said device…

    August 22, 2017 at 11:03 am #900459
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    Leviathan

    Isn’t it funny when sometimes

    Isn’t it funny when sometimes you post something on the forum, then it quickly appears on the News page and you think ‘road.cc has stolen my thunder again.’

    http://road.cc/content/news/228051-how-report-annoying-or-intrusive-ads-roadcc

    August 22, 2017 at 10:38 am #900457
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    MarRun

    The advertising funds the

    The advertising funds the site. I have no problem with that. My bugbear is when trying to load the homepage on a mobile and being redirected to download a betting app from a store without me even clicking on any advert. Having to exit and reload the site is annoying and as a result I view the site on my mobile much less frequently.

    August 22, 2017 at 9:33 am #900455
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    paulrattew

    It seems to be at its worst

    It seems to be at its worst when you have clicked through to road.cc from another site, such as road.cc links on facebook or twitter. It’s a pain in the arse. I have no problem with needing advertizing to keep revenue’s coming in (hey, its a commercial world) but the ones that push you through to the appstore everytime are really pernicious.

    August 22, 2017 at 9:10 am #900453
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    peted76
    simonmb wrote:
    Any possibility of an ad-free subscription option? A couple of £££s a month might be a price worth paying for some folk – although not for me.

    Like a streamlined, membership version… I’d actually be up for that.

    August 22, 2017 at 8:52 am #900451
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    Anonymous

    Root or jailbreak your phones

    Root or jailbreak your phones and put on a proper ad-blocker.

    August 22, 2017 at 8:31 am #900449
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    simonmb

    Any possibility of an ad-free

    Any possibility of an ad-free subscription option? A couple of £££s a month might be a price worth paying for some folk – although not for me.

    August 22, 2017 at 8:03 am #900447
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    brooksby
    hawkinspeter wrote:
    This is why people block ads.

    It’s not always that easy, though.  If you use Adblock on an iPhone on road.cc, for example, you use all of the sidebar menu functionality and (sometimes) the site just won’t open at all.

    August 22, 2017 at 6:58 am #900445
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    hawkinspeter

    This is why people block ads.

    This is why people block ads.

    August 22, 2017 at 6:54 am #900443
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    barbarus

    + 1. I don’t want my phone to
    + 1. I don’t want my phone to keep offering to go to the play store to download the Ladbrokes app!

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