# Your Ads **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 23, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494 "2016-12-23T23:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Lucky\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_Mike)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/1 "2016-12-23T23:30:47Z")
I am a guest, and I accept my position as a guest. I actually do not use ad blocker so that your advertisers get possible clicks and you get revenue… because I am a guest. But, do you realize your ads actually obstruct the entire right screen of your board, thereby making it impossible for me to read a thread? The ads on the right have no ability to close. You need to fix this. As I guest, I will accept the idiocracy level of ads as a response to my failure to pay for a subscription. But, do you really want to stop all guests from being able to read your board without an ad blocker? I hope you do not. Thanks for your consideration, Mike ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/2 "2016-12-24T04:23:05Z")
_In before the inevitable members fall over themselves suggesting the OP buy a membership so he won’t have to put up with ads, completely missing the point_ ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/3 "2016-12-24T05:50:05Z")
Mike, at least you didn’t get malware downloaded on your machine. Consider yourself … lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/4 "2016-12-24T15:52:51Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > _In before the inevitable members fall over themselves suggesting the OP buy a membership so he won’t have to put up with ads, completely missing the point_ Wait, so instead you rushed in to make the same point, but as a guest, so you could smugly beat the members who might have done the same thing? I’ll note that many of the ads I see when not logged in have an X in the upper righthand corner, so you can close them once they appear. And as for ad blockers, I’m seeing more and more sites that notice you’re running one and either nag you about it, or refuse to let you proceed with it running. (Forbes magazine, for one.) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/5 "2016-12-24T18:13:45Z")
I have been paying for a membership ever since the board went pay to post around 2004. I still get logged far too often and get the obnoxious ads that cover the right of my screen until I log in again. There’s got to be some sort of a happy medium. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/6 "2016-12-24T20:23:24Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I have been paying for a membership ever since the board went pay to post around 2004. I still get logged far too often and get the obnoxious ads that cover the right of my screen until I log in again. There’s got to be some sort of a happy medium. I never get logged off. Must be a different browser or OS. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Lucky\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_Mike)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/7 "2016-12-24T20:52:28Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Wait, so instead you rushed in to make the same point, but as a guest, so you could smugly beat the members who might have done the same thing? > > I’ll note that many of the ads I see when not logged in have an X in the upper righthand corner, so you can close them once they appear. And as for ad blockers, I’m seeing more and more sites that notice you’re running one and either nag you about it, or refuse to let you proceed with it running. (Forbes magazine, for one.) The ones on the bottom are ok, they have an X. The one on the right does not have one I could find. I actually accept the ones on the bottom as part of my free status and never x them out. It is the ones on the right (like the one that just popped up causing me to wonder if I spelled the words correctly which is unstoppable and completely obstructive. I really like this board, and if my failure to subscribe means I have to have this, then ok. I am just wondering if it is more reasonable to put them all around my usable interface rather than obstructing my usable interface. Seriously, make it like idiocracy where i have to look at it the whole time, just don’t obstruct my ability to actually interact with the site. That really does seem counterproductive. You want to DRAW people in by interacting with your site… not drive them away. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Lucky\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_Mike)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/8 "2016-12-24T20:56:34Z")
Oh, and Saint Cad, loved your post. i would quote you in my response but the ads on the right hand side block out the quote button. I got my first one in this thread before the adds went all rogue on me. I have accidentally clicked 3 ads in a row trying to reply to your post 🙂 I am guest, I get it, but seriously… come on Shelly. Come on. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/9 "2016-12-24T21:09:57Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I have been paying for a membership ever since the board went pay to post around 2004. I still get logged far too often and get the obnoxious ads that cover the right of my screen until I log in again. There’s got to be some sort of a happy medium. I don’t know. Looking like the sketchiest part of the internet that you’re afraid to browse has done wonders to recruit new members to our boards. Oh, wait, almost no one has joined over the last few years? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/10 "2016-12-24T21:29:14Z")
Yeah I’ve stopped visiting the site on my phone as every time I click a link to a thread, I get a popup ad and half the time something attempts to download. It’s annoying and concerning at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/11 "2016-12-24T23:22:33Z")
If nothing else, these ads are ensuring that this board gets to forever stay our own little secret, as nobody with a conscience would ever link to a thread here from another board, as a cite or for information. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/12 "2016-12-24T23:22:53Z")
Yeah that is very annoying having an ad blocking people posts and it seen like once you click on an ad to get rid of it that made it only worst ! I am seeing blank white space right now ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/13 "2016-12-25T00:42:30Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > There’s got to be some sort of a happy medium. You are invoking the Devil…a happy medium is a laughing witch. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/14 "2016-12-26T18:09:16Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I have been paying for a membership ever since the board went pay to post around 2004. I still get logged far too often and get the obnoxious ads that cover the right of my screen until I log in again. There’s got to be some sort of a happy medium. I pay and I use Adblock Plus. Even with paying, there are still two things to block. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/15 "2016-12-26T20:23:59Z")
whats worse is theve signed up with ad choice who at least is reputable but the side ad is over the sign in boxes … ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/16 "2016-12-27T00:01:45Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Mike, at least you didn’t get malware downloaded on your machine. Consider yourself … lucky. Yeah, if you see some moral in not blocking ads, then you really need up your security software in the process. Not here specifically, but in general. So many supposedly vetted safe ad companies have wound up eventually putting out scumware in a few of their ads that it’s simply not very safe to not use a blocker, even if it’s a site you want to support. Don’t get caught with your pants down. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/17 "2016-12-27T12:39:11Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I pay and I use Adblock Plus. Even with paying, there are still two things to block. What two things? I pay and never see any ads. But that’s not why I pay. I pay because I come here often and value the service. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/18 "2016-12-27T16:07:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What two things? Hell if I know. The little stop sign nearly always displays [sub]2[/sub] at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/19 "2016-12-27T16:17:30Z")
Offered without analysis, these are the 8 things that ublock origin blocks off my logged in member page. ```auto http://insight-s3.exelator.com/i200509.js http://tap-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/alice.js?pc=7184/13018 http://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js http://insight-s3.exelator.com/i200509.js http://tap-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/alice.js?pc=7184/13018 http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js http://cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js ``` None of these things really has a negative effect on the viewing experience that I’ve noticed, except vigilink which is really annoying. You can’t preview links you’re about to follow on mobile because it just gives you a vigilink string of nonsense instead of previewing the site the person is linking to, and trying to share a link with someone by right click copying a link will share the long vigilink stream rather than the link. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Lucky\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_Mike)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494/20 "2016-12-28T03:00:43Z")
Well, sorry all. I just cannot read around these ads without frustration. Once again, I appreciate your message board and respect your choice to make this a board exclusively for paying customers. It has been great, with the good and the bad, this is a pretty cool community. I appreciate the opportunity to be a guest. I wish you only the best in this changing information age where we have to find a balance between free and subscribed content. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ads/775494.md?page=2)