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Ad intrusion on pfm
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blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
nowt here, son installed a blocking device somewhere, still ad free
flatpopely
Prog Rock/Moderator
You are aware this site relies on adverts to survive?
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
yes, i donate instead, and will not buy from amazon either, i will use them as a link on here, but not for me
manicatel
pfm Member
Think I had the same thing earlier today as well.
It looks very much like the same thing I get on the AOS forum.
Seems that Tony is on top of it & dislikes it as much as we do. I accept the need for ads, the ones at the top of the screen are accepted. The ones reported here were a bit of a PITA & hopefully gone now.
It looks very much like the same thing I get on the AOS forum.
Seems that Tony is on top of it & dislikes it as much as we do. I accept the need for ads, the ones at the top of the screen are accepted. The ones reported here were a bit of a PITA & hopefully gone now.
Tony L
Administrator
I don’t put anything on the site I’m not prepared to look at myself! It’s a shame I didn’t get fielded one as I’d have been curious to see it. The amount of advertising I’m running generates a decent income and there is very obviously a level where it becomes obtrusive and folk turn on ad blockers etc. It amazes just how ad-heavy some sites are, just unbearable, e.g. AllMusic.com winds me up as you get ads over the text etc that just don’t scale right. Not good to annoy members/readers IMO.
JensenHealey
pfm Member
Nothing here on laptop or Ipad, both up to date. Laptop using the new Edge these days, I quite like it.
Sloop John B
And any old music will do…
As I use an add blocker this thread just reminded me to check when I last sent a paypal to Tony.
June last year so what I hope is an adequate amount wending its way now.
I hate adds and always use an add blocker but don't mind paying on sites such as this which I would certainly miss if they disappeared.
Even my 3 kids (well young adults now) have heard of PFM.
.sjb
June last year so what I hope is an adequate amount wending its way now.
I hate adds and always use an add blocker but don't mind paying on sites such as this which I would certainly miss if they disappeared.
Even my 3 kids (well young adults now) have heard of PFM.
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Stunsworth
pfm Member
I use an ad blocker too, but PFM is one of the sites I have whitelisted, so I see the ads here.
Amber Audio
This is the Day
This is the exact Ad I saw here on pfm over on AoS just now
Tony L
Administrator
I’ve seen those elsewhere. Way, way too intrusive IMO as it actually disrupts viewing and breaks interactive flow. I totally get why some site owners do it, the increases in advertising I've implemented here over the years, e.g. moving from the very small colour-matched text ad on the banner to the fairly large full-colour stuff we have now has made a huge difference to site earning potential and therefore my ‘wage’. It, along with eBay and Amazon, has turned what was a hobby into a fully viable business, but there is a line of intrusion I will not cross.
I very deliberately don’t use an ad blocker myself as I view them in the same way as Napster or whatever (they are similarly piracy devices enabling the user to get paid content without paying), but that said there are sites that just irritate the hell out of me (Allmusic, some of the newspapers like the Independent, a fair few forums etc) where the ads break the browsing experience to such a degree I don’t want to stay on the site beyond following a link, doing some very specific research etc. There is certainly a lesson webmasters can learn here; that too much advertising actively forces users away or tempts them to use a blocker and therefore deny you all ad income streams (obviously unless they are regulars who donate). It surprises me how few seem to grasp this.
I very deliberately don’t use an ad blocker myself as I view them in the same way as Napster or whatever (they are similarly piracy devices enabling the user to get paid content without paying), but that said there are sites that just irritate the hell out of me (Allmusic, some of the newspapers like the Independent, a fair few forums etc) where the ads break the browsing experience to such a degree I don’t want to stay on the site beyond following a link, doing some very specific research etc. There is certainly a lesson webmasters can learn here; that too much advertising actively forces users away or tempts them to use a blocker and therefore deny you all ad income streams (obviously unless they are regulars who donate). It surprises me how few seem to grasp this.
Amber Audio
This is the Day
You have the trade annual sub of £50, even though I decided not to move into Audio full time and away from my IT business I still pay the sub as I’m happy to donate and find having the extra PM and Edit facilities valuable, maybe adding a Sponsor level sub could work as well as the donation model, it appears folk are happy to contribute but forget to do it annually? Then those folk can use Ad Blocking without worry.
Some sites are almost unusable these days due to Ads either slowing it down, intruding on the content space or making it impossible to read without scrolling down for ages through Ads breaking up the text into a sentence or 2 at a time. It appears to be getting worse over time.
AVForums detect if you have an Ad Blocker and stop you posting in Classifieds or replying to some PMs, so it must be a major income stream for them to risk putting people off visiting.
Some sites are almost unusable these days due to Ads either slowing it down, intruding on the content space or making it impossible to read without scrolling down for ages through Ads breaking up the text into a sentence or 2 at a time. It appears to be getting worse over time.
AVForums detect if you have an Ad Blocker and stop you posting in Classifieds or replying to some PMs, so it must be a major income stream for them to risk putting people off visiting.
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