Changes to Advertising on the site

ozmo

Ok - no blockers for IPhone called BlockAda - only Blokada which is some kind of pay to use and with only one review that says it doesnt do anything :/

Not installing that.

DeepBlue

You can just delete the boards cookies from your browser and say no to the prompts to allow cookies.

No need to install anything that you don't necessarily trust.

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120575010#Comment_120575010

https://community.blokada.org/t/where-can-i-download-blokada/372

Free version is fine on Android anyway

ozmo

According to their blog - it used to be free - but due to change with apple - they need to rely more on servers to do the work rather than the phone - so they need charge Apple owners - also does that mean your web traffic, forms, ,passwords etc. is being scrubbed on some server remotely...

https://community.blokada.org/t/blokada-for-ios-is-paid-now/18526/95

Nah - Ill try the cookie trick. Or wait til boards fixes the issue - they said above they were looking into it.

JayRoc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120575010#Comment_120575010

Apologies, I misspelt. Blokada is what I have been using.

I never paid for it and it has always worked for me (on Android).

Jeff2

I'v no other reason to post this other the amount of sh1t advertising that totally doesn't match me.

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573787#Comment_120573787

This is doing my head in, on my phone now can't scroll down as half way up page instead of just at bottom but what is worse is 99% when I go to close the ad with x it clicks onto it instead because its so awkward where it is.

The full page ads bad enough but at least can close easy this is just head wrecking.

smuggler.ie

Did i mention to see post #261 ?

dulpit

Whoever suggested to delete cookies and then not accept them when you reload is a legend.

Vicxas

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Is this the alternative to full screen ads? Jesus Christ lads….

L'prof

What in the name of god is going on with the ads??? I have 2 ads on nearly every page.

Type 1 has been around for a while and is more tolerable as it’s in a fixed position

Type 2 is an absolute abomination! I can’t get rid of it and if I scroll the opposite direction it takes up nearly half the page

Something needs to be done, the site is close to unusable now. Horrendous

passatman86

The ads are ridiculous, ruined the site. My page always moving to accommodate the ads is very annoying

Melodeon

On Android mobile, I use Chrome for pretty much all my internet browsing, except for Boards.

Boards gets viewed on the Brave browser, which appears to do an excellent job of stripping out all the things other posters here are having issues with.

Pedro K

The ads on mobile are absolutely pervasive. They pop up from the bottom and take up a third of the screen. It causes your screen to jump, and it causes you to accidentally click on the ad. It is ridiculously bad.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120589432#Comment_120589432

There are no post numbers on mobile

Cushtie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120595187#Comment_120595187

Thanks for this. 👍👍👍

nullzero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120595219#Comment_120595219

The new pop up ads are making using the site almost impossible. We understand ad revenue is important but christ it's way OTT right now. Every page you navigate to has the same annoying pop up.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Here, mods, admins, whoever makes decisions on things like the banner ads on the bottom of the screen, just stop. Either shut the site down or stop making it worse. You've made a utter **** mess of this site.

namloc1980

The new ads are close to the final straw. The site went down hill big time with the switch to vanilla but these ads are just ridiculous. Popping up on nearly every page taking up a chunk of the screen and you can't even dismiss them fully. And they are for stuff I have zero interest in. Dreadful.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120595187#Comment_120595187

If you're gonna use a different browser, you may as well use Firefox so you get dark mode as well. I use it specifically for boards.ie.

Dark Reader extension + uBlock Origin / Blokada.

Esel

Brave Browser has a dark mode...

If using Brave, lock down all the superfluous stuff in Settings.

ohnonotgmail

This is what I have just seen. This is ridiculous. Any comment on this @Boards.ie: Odhran ?

Arghus

These new ads on mobile are a complete joke.

So from my understanding, they've offloaded their ads to Snigelweb and have lost control of quality etc. It's like neither the page's content or our own browsing histories matter and we're just served garbage based on IP maybe.

I have a bunch of Chinese ads and a handful of Vietnamese ones.

A lot of the ads themselves are malware and hovering over them shows adnxs coming up, which a quick Google shows as absolute shlt. Everyone should as a rule be using an ad blocker on boards.ie to protect themselves from this stuff that is only there to infect our computers.

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/ib-adnxs-popup-virus/

https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/13llzk/need_help_removing_ibadnxscom/

boards.ie really needs to stop serving malware ads from shltty ad companies and just serve actual google ads. This site is behaving like a Russian porno website instead of a respectable Irish forum. It is literally stupid to browse this website without an ad blocker.

Unearthly

New large ads on mobile are a disaster. Please get rid

cunnifferous

Agreed the site is unusable on mobile using Chrome browser. Other browsers seem ok but who uses them?

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120598362#Comment_120598362

This is the best post I've seen since the ads went mad (well, even madder than they already were, which was mad enough).

Has there been any reaction from the site admins/managers/owners?

I've said it before (and it's still admittedly from a position of ignorance of the technicalities of these things), but it is just utterly bizarre to me that a site would just abdicate all responsibility for what is appearing on the site, annoying users beyond belief, and rendering the site practically unusable by the sounds of it for the last months or more (I use an ad blocker on both mobile and desktop, and have stopped feeling even slightly guilty about it.)

"Oh, X supplies the advertising, we have no control over it" just sounds beyond ridiculous tbh - if the advertising suppliers turned out to be absolute out of control amateur cowboys (which they appear to be), why would you not fire them summarily and find someone who actually knows what they're at, and won't destroy your site before your very eyes???

I just cannot get my head around the whole thing!

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120600415#Comment_120600415

Not a peep from anybody running the site. I even tagged Odhran and no response from them either.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

DEAFENING SILENCE

I'm here TWENTY ONE YEARS. You'd think you'd have some respect for long term boards contributers, nah, nothing. Pathetic little site run by morons.

Revert to the old site or nuke it.

rob316

I downloaded brave it got rid of the ad but those are absolutely ridiculous. I get it's a free site but the contempt towards long term members and absolute failure to address the issues is galling. Not long left in boards