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Fair enough, I know STW need to get income, but the ads, ads, overlaid ads and yet more ads, along with auto-play video ads is making this forum utterly unusable.
You know the answer.
There are ads?
I don’t see any
I wonder why that is?
My landline has been down for the past week so I've been forced to view the forum via mobile. Ads are horrific on mobiles, and why the hell do those little x have to be so bloody small.
Start a thread whining about it. That'll fix it and it's never been mentioned before.
C'mon dude, really? Free websites have really annoying adverts, film at 11. They have to make money somehow or they'll disappear. Suck it up or get your hand in your pocket.
Came hoping for sepultura, leaving disappointed
Why did Max Cavalera lose his job as a ship's captain? He just couldn't stay away from the keeeelar reefs
Anyway, hate to say it but it works. The ads trash the forum to the point I'd never use it, and I'd miss it, but adblocking would imo be wrong and the digital subscription is too expensive becase digital magazines don't exist, and I don't really want to subscribe to the mag just for the mag but I will just barely subscribe for the mag AND the forum, because of the ads.
They have to make money somehow or they’ll disappear.
Fair point but I am not sure that putting off potentially new customers with an excessive amount of ads, which makes the forum difficult to use, is the way to do it.
There does seem to be an exceptionally high number of in your face ads ATM, as I discovered when I couldn't be bothered to login for a while.
The adds are annoying and I can honestly say that I have never and will never buy directly from one and they put me off a subscription too.
In your account preferences tick the disable videos
Why do we now need a ruddy pop-up when we click profile icon to log-in!!!? 😡
Thanking you Bruneep!
You know the answer.
Posted Directly above one of the Autoplay Videos (paid up and logged in member here) 🙂
I don't get Ads, but I wish I knew how to turn of those videos.
Edit: Just worked it out Account > Preferences > Disable Videos tick box.
Yay!
I also turned off the "sticky banner" to make stealth Forum browsing at work a shade easier...
Thanking you Bruneep!
It was TJ who pointed it to me out on another thread
The ads are bizarre I find but ultimately I accept them, it's part of the deal of free membership. My only annoyance is that they always seem to work when the forum doesn't. Currently logged in , but it's 50/50 as to whether I can open a thread without going out and back in to the forum at least once.
I always wonder who watches them, I know I'm not the target but who is? They become rain on the windscreen, I know they are there but I don't see them anymore and look through them. My shopping habits are bike and outdoor shops, chain saws and healthy eating. But never any adverts for those very things I might be interested in
Currently logged in , but it’s 50/50 as to whether I can open a thread without going out and back in to the forum at least once.
I suspect this may be because you can't open a thread until the ADs have finished loading, giving the impression that the forum is broken, when in fact it's a slow loading AD that's causing it.
Ah that would make sense, hadn't thought of that
I hate Ads in general tbh.
If i want a thing, ill research a thing, choose the thing that suits me best, and buy that thing. Surely no ones has ever watched a TV advert and immediatly thought, "crikey, i simply must have a Muller Yoghurt, right now"
No, but the next time they're in the supermarket buying yogurt they might recognise the brand and be (subliminally?) attracted by the marketing.
Ads work. Not on everyone and not all of the time, but enough of the time that it makes a difference if you can hit enough eyeballs frequently enough.
You know the answer.
Mine lapsed last month as the card it was paid on expired. Trying to cut back on screen time so didn't put the effort in to renew it.
Even as a paid up member though, the auto playing videos and adds before you logged in (because the forum wont let you be logged in on your phone and a PC at the same time) meant STW alone was using more of my mobile data than Spotify! I'm fine with adds, just wish they were a bit less data hungry (especially as its the same few on repeat, surely the same 120x240 video can't be re-downloading every page click? All this bandwith must cost STW a fortune in hosting?
the forum wont let you be logged in on your phone and a PC at the same time
I'm logged in on several devices concurrently.
(because the forum wont let you be logged in on your phone and a PC at the same time)
Yeah, that's absolute bollocks.
concurrent login disabled?