New ad network - centralize discussions here

[Costello]

We have switched to a new ad network just recently. We're still working out the kinks, please bear with us until we're done

Known issues, which will be addressed by our supplier as soon as possible:
- bottom adverts on mobile are too big
- <please post in this thread if you are getting other issues>

On most ads you will also see a "report ad" button, please click it to report it, obviously. There's no need to report it again on the forums since we'll only tell you to use that report button.

Also, please keep in mind that these ads arent there just for the fun of it. We need revenue to keep servers going, to allow some staff to get (small) payments to keep the site alive, and ... competitions. A big one's coming up real soon, if you've been following the Switch forums you know what I'm talking about.

• Please contact our advertising representatives at Playwire for ad rates, packages and general advertising information.
• All display advertising on our site is managed by Playwire. If you would like to advertise please visit www.playwire.com or email [email protected].

 

[SG854]

GBAtemp page keeps on crashing on my laptop and phone. It has to reload the page. I think its because of the ads. It keeps saying this webpage is using significant memory. It never did this before.

 

[Costello]

GBAtemp page keeps on crashing on my laptop and phone. It has to reload the page. I think its because of the ads. It keeps saying this webpage is using significant memory. It never did this before.

have you tried disabling the video ads in your user preferences?
or the sidebar altogether?

 

[SG854]

have you tried disabling the video ads in your user preferences?
or the sidebar altogether?

Ya I did for the video ads. I don't know how to disable the side bar.
It really slows down my laptop after a while. Its only this site that does it. Sites like Youtube are fine.

 

[Costello]

Ya I did for the video ads. I don't know how to disable the side bar.
It really slows down my laptop after a while. Its only this site that does it. Sites like Youtube are fine.

try this option:

 

[grossaffe]

There's a video ad (appears to be Commodore 64 related?) that crashes my browser whenever it starts to play.

 

[KingVamp]

Yeah, don't like that the ads moved from the front page to the place it is now. I might have to disable it.

 

[Costello]

There's a video ad (appears to be Commodore 64 related?) that crashes my browser whenever it starts to play.

could you take a screenshot - if not of the ad itself, of the specific location, so we can report it?
the more info you give us, the more chance we have to tackle the issue.

KingVamp: use the option if you want, we added it for a reason

 

[nando]

i can't navigate on iphone at all. the ads are too big and hard to dismiss

 

[grossaffe]

could you take a screenshot - if not of the ad itself, of the specific location, so we can report it?
the more info you give us, the more chance we have to tackle the issue.

It's possible that there was just an outdated plugin, codec, browser, or kernel causing some problems with the video module. I started having problems with crashing in other places, though not as reproducibly as with that video ad. Anyways, I updated last night, and just now I've re-enabled the video ads to test for crashing and haven't had problems. Granted the video itself is different now, but I would place the update as the more likely reason for the crashing to have stopped.

As for the location of the ad, it was the auto-play video on the sidebar.

 

[SG854]

try this option:

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It’s still crashes. On my iphone it says an error has a occurred and it reloads the page. It does this a lot.

 

[Costello]

It’s still crashes. On my iphone it says an error has a occurred and it reloads the page. It does this a lot.

There are no video ads on the mobile version, so it can't be that.
You must be having another issue somehow. No changes were done on mobile for a long time. And our mobile traffic is very high.
Do you have any idea what might be causing this?
Try perhaps resetting your browser cache?

 

[SG854]

There are no video ads on the mobile version, so it can't be that.
You must be having another issue somehow. No changes were done on mobile for a long time. And our mobile traffic is very high.
Do you have any idea what might be causing this?
Try perhaps resetting your browser cache?

I have no idea. I’m using an iPhone 6s. But this problem happens both on my laptop and my phone. I’ll try clearing the cache.

 

[The Catboy]

I am still getting redirected without warning or being asked

This same redirect literally just happened again after I made this post

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Fucking hell. Fullscreen ad while browsing this thread. Had to tap the X to close.

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Ffs..it happened again, in a space of less than 5 minutes

 

[Chary]

Was messing around logged out, I didn't have any redirects, but I did get a full page ad once. Not sure if that's intended or not.

 

[Costello]

Was messing around logged out, I didn't have any redirects, but I did get a full page ad once. Not sure if that's intended or not.

definitely not, you'd need to hit the report button for that or post a screenshot and include the URL so we can report it.

these are getting more and more frequent I keep sending reports but nothing seems to be done sigh

 

[SecureBoot]

Now I understand that the temp is experiencing some growning pains with ads and how to introduce them. I understand why they're there and I don't fault them for being there, but on mobile they are getting more obtrusive by the day. It started with large scrolling ads in forums that you had to pass to read the next comment. Annoying, but tolerable. Then, we got those large ads across the bottom that you had to shrink. Now, we have full-page pop ups in the middle of browsing, seemingly at random. This is beginning to seem like a sketchy rom site with how these are popping up.

I know you're just trying to pay the bills. I don't blame you guys from trying new things but it really is starting to put a damper on my experience here.

Maybe just exchanging the full page pop ups for an unclosable ad on the side would make things better. It doesn't really matter how it changes as long as it becomes a bit more managable.

 

[MTSoph14]

Report here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/new-ad-network-centralize-discussions-here.517270/page-4#post-8341911

 

[SecureBoot]

-snip- either the site was bugging out or my thread was moved here. Either way, it doesn't matter.

 

[Costello]

Now I understand that the temp is experiencing some growning pains with ads and how to introduce them. I understand why they're there and I don't fault them for being there, but on mobile they are getting more obtrusive by the day. It started with large scrolling ads in forums that you had to pass to read the next comment. Annoying, but tolerable. Then, we got those large ads across the bottom that you had to shrink. Now, we have full-page pop ups in the middle of browsing, seemingly at random. This is beginning to seem like a sketchy rom site with how these are popping up.

I know you're just trying to pay the bills. I don't blame you guys from trying new things but it really is starting to put a damper on my experience here.

Maybe just exchanging the full page pop ups for an unclosable ad on the side would make things better. It doesn't really matter how it changes as long as it becomes a bit more managable.

Could you please take screenshots and post them here, use the report button that's under the ad banner if possible.
We are aware of issues but since everyone gets different content based on their location, we can't magically guess where and what the problems are unfortunately.

We're taking this seriously... you may not be aware of it but we have switched ad networks 3 times over the past year already to get rid of those issues, but sadly it keeps hapenning. I am feeling a bit powerless right now, what else can we do but continuing to report issues? we can't disable ads altogether as without them the site wouldnt run at all. Switching ad networks? we've tried that 3 times within a year already.