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I’m fine with the way you’re doing things now, except now I’m wondering if the Ukranian brides are into cars…
Honestly, I’d go further. Drugs & Supplements as well as Get Rich Quick don’t seem like lovely categories to me.
I think y’all are being prudent.
The only criticism I have for the ads is that occasionally I get a Jackery ad that is so wide it blocks the texts of the article, and that’s with my Velour membership. Usually I refresh until I get an ad that doesn’t block the text of the article.
Weirdly, I’m seeing two “Chumba Casino” ads on this very story.
Is there an ad-free subscriber tier? I can’t quite tell based on the descriptions.
If there isn’t, I would be willing to pay for one.
Ads detract from the experience, period.
I just bought an Apple TV 4K because Roku started playing video ads on the Home Screen.
I will go to lengths to avoid ads.
This, 100%.
I think all political ads would be welcome to stay away. I am sick of everyone, red or blue. But I would love to know the movers and shakers in the gambling buttplug utility world.
The real money is in selling batteries to those movers and shakers.
Reminds me of something a professor I had said. The good business isn’t in mining, but selling the equipment to the miners.
Said in a whisper…”_batteries_”
I’m an equal opportunity ad ignorer. Put whatever you want up there, my eyes will go right past it.
Did you guys change the settings? I just saw an ad for Chumba Casino.
No interest in gambling, but if you keep political ads off the site, that’s all I care about.
Also, there are some ads that require you to ‘scroll past’, and take up the whole page. I have to hit them with a “running start” or I get stuck on them for a while.
I bet Chumba Casino tries to sneak by as a game rather than gambling. I’ll notify Matt.
The scroll past ads that take up the whole screen on mobile have been a bit intrusive lately, if I’m being honest.
I appreciate the blocks you guys have but I should mention that more than once I’ve been reading an article and the page will suddenly redirect me to some spam site. I’m never sure which ad it is behaving badly though so I haven’t reported it.
I’ve been having this issue for about a week as well.
my page is constantly blocked by full page bullshit T mobile ads every damn day…not a good look guys.
Same here. It’s a fake “Verify you’re not a robot” thing.
Wow that’s terrible! I was musing in an earlier comment about how these kinds of ads pretty much guarantee malware will be served to your users over a long enough timescale. Sounds like it’s already happened!
I find it funny you allow ads for politics but not for sex. Either way we are getting screwed.
I think you guys do a good job managing the ads. I would prefer seeing more different ones than the same ones 3 times in a story. I mean I look at them and if needed would buy one. If you are going to do the Ukraine brides can we get the pictures before we enter all our information? Asking for a friend of course.
I don’t think you guys are prudes.
Why, just earlier today you featured a topshot that said something about Peeland. Not my thing but it seems you were pretty open-minded about it.
These “programmatic” ads are, of course, one of the top justifications for ad blockers.
It’s only a matter of time until a site that uses this technique serves up malware since even the site owners don’t know what’s being shown. It happened to Forbes famously.
Yes, please enable the ads with references to sex. I still haven’t found a penis enlargement pill that works and I need more suggestions. If I don’t find one soon, I may have to buy a Corvette, and I hate white shoes and plaid shorts.
And white belt
Can we trade sex for politics?
I’ll take “Sex over Politics” for $1000, Alex.
You have it correct.
I’m with Torch at the end their, they need husbands! You’re denying them a valuable resource!
Yeah they need husbands, but from this crowd? Haven’t they suffered enough?
Get a free Trabant with every Russian bride!
This deal gets better every minute!
“I came to the US to get _away_ from obscure broken-down Eastern European cars!”
Wow, what an embarassing typo from this guy. It’s THERE, not THEIR.
I’d neither withdraw my support based on ad content nor increase my contribution to stave off the smut. I appreciate that you asked.
Jason, no-one wants a ‘pop-up’ butt-plug.Nevermind, forget I said anything.Wouldn’t be the first time a picture of a butt plug showed up on this site.
I’m imagining something like the button thing when you cook a turkey.
I don’t pay much attention to the ads, though I did notice a bunch of ads for Corvettes at Carmax after I was there looking at what a used C8 costs. Otherwise, the ad content doesn’t really matter to me. If I’m not interested in something, I just don’t click. I almost never click. I don’t know how many children frequent this site. Dildo ads could be an issue if there are any young ones, but I don’t think adults really care. Same with references to sex and dating. I have moral issues with casinos, but it wouldn’t make me feel negative toward the site. Advertising for all these things seems to be everywhere, so why not get your cut?
The gambling ads are something I struggle with all the time.
Part of me wants to set up a website for addicts, liberally slather it with those ads, and then use the revenue to pay for folks’ treatment. I’m not sure whether you’d have a net-positive or net-negative impact, but the saturation of that industry is absolutely insane.
Sounds like we both watched John Oliver this week.
Really good podcast I was listening to for the past few weeks: https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scratch-win
I too think the pop up virus ads are worse than dildos, but I prefer neither!
Two things. First is that Footloose does not hold up, but it is peak 80’s. Second, as a neighbor in my work complex is Ukrainian I can say the women don’t ever look like what is displayed in those ads. I think the ads would be OK if they had the disclaimer of “your results may vary”.
It’d be nice if the filter was more granular, like are social casinos like Harrah’s blocked? Or more like gaming apps that ruin families? Not that Harrah’s can’t also ruin families. Even if it’s all of that still should be fine, every other youtube ad I get is for stupid pay to win games anyways.
I will say some of those if not all may get the site blocked from corporate filters for people perusing at work so may actually cost traffic.
I hadn’t thought of the filters since I never use my work computer for personal things, but a lot of people do, so that’s a good point.
Yeah if they open things up I might never be able to be on here.
What I meant to say was, of course I’m not on Autopian at work.