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Originally Posted by KillerGremal  Sadly the ads here are really aggressive meanwhile and so i am considering to abandon this forum. |
I'm sorry to hear that you feel that way. If I could keep the site up and running without advertising, I certainly would. That's just not the reality of the internet, though.
Personally, I don't think the advertising here is any more invasive than many other gaming sites. GameSpot, IGN, and GameSpy have a whole assortment of ad campaigns running - popups, takeovers, roadblocks, rollovers - while also implementing a full skinning advertisement almost every month. That's on top of the ads in their newsletters, online services, and all the monthly subscription fees they're charging their premium members.
GameBanshee (and every other website working with UGO) only displays a fraction of those. If it wasn't for these ads, I would have been forced to take the site offline years ago. Sure, some annoying ads sneak through every once in awhile, but UGO is pretty good about getting them pulled from our rotation.
If there's a specific ad that you're annoyed with, please let me know and I'll contact UGO about it. If you're just growing tired of the leaderboard ad across the top, though, I really can't do anything about it without negatively affecting the website.