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Advertising like this really turns me off and right now I wouldn't go into an Ace Hardware store if they were giving away free stuff. I am sorry but if it continues, Instructables will lose me because it's no fun at all. There are too many other sites I can be spending time on.
As far as I know, HQ has set conditions on the kind of ads allowed on the site, including that they do not harm reader interaction or enjoyment of the site, such as pop-ups that cover what you want to read, or very loud adverts that play automatically.
An advert that actually stops the page and forces you to read it, as you describe, would also be a contravention of that condition, so I think you can take the credit for highlighting the problem to HQ, and having the ad removed.
Thank you.
That is bad, but being sorted.
Advertising is a necessary evil in funding a site like this, and going PRO is the solution, because as a Pro Member, you won't see even half of the advertisements (including the Ace Ad).
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The advertising in the past has not been an issue for me. This is!
I just opened another browser (where I was not logged in, so I was like a non-Pro Member), and surfed a number of Instructables, forum topics, the Q & A section and the home page, and didn't see any Ace Ad's or the timer issue you're referring to. So... I'm a little confused as to what you are seeing; but a screenshot might help.
Good news they are no longer showing up.
Pro-membership is out of the hands of many contributors and users here. Ads help fund the forum that we all adore. I don't even mind them. But ACE doesn't add anything.
Yes, I listened to the ad. Yes, I think Ace Hardware is just swell. But please do NOT boobie trap instructables.com pages!
Instructables.com is my most forwarded page. It unites and cross-pollinates newbies with veterans, engineers with artists, techies with hippies. Keep it up!
"Thanks for letting us know. Our advertisers sometimes launch things like this which is beyond what was agreed upon, we're fixing it as we speak!"
Requiring only a mouseover javascript event to trigger a new popup.
This is like the bad old days of the internet, before we figured out how to turn off pop-over and pop-unders using the new browser options.
I mean, even a lot of the scammy porn sites and fake anti-virus groups are more subtle than this.
the worst part, for me at least, is that the "close" button, at my resolution, and screen position, is RIGHT OVER THE AD. so it sets up an endless loop of video popups!
At the very least, downgrade the aggressive advertising to requiring a click, before launching obtrusive popup video advertising(I felt a great disturbance in the Net, as if millions of dial-up modems suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened)
I'm removing it unless this new Ad goes away. It's taking advertising too far.