Pop-up ads

[Darth Zenemij]

Click on automaticly sign me in or something like that. Tis a cookie that keeps you logged on until you delete it.

[Minerva]

Just to add.

I am getting this Batman Returns ad in every single page I see in forums today, even the "reply to thread" page.

I am happy to accept the needs of ad if it keeps this great site going, but every page I turn is bit too much!

[BuckGB]

I noticed a few quirks with some of the more interactive ads too, but like Xandax mentioned, all of the ad serving is handled by a third party (UGO). I will let them know about the issues, though.

[Oskatat]

cant they use on-screen adds insted of popups? I'm getting rather annoyed of clicking the batman thingy away all the time, especially since I click faster than the add appears, so I always click on the add

[Xandax]

Well - they could... but one needs to understand and accept how the Internet works and especially seen in the light of the history of Internet.

With the amount of pop-up blocking and add-blocking which exists, naturally advsertisment companies will be more agressive in their advertising. It is the same with television, magazines and all sort others.
There are even pop-over advertisment which prevents you from navigating a site until you've pressed "close" or something - truely annoying, but "unfortunally" it is a natural development of Internet.
The only current alternative to supporting a website of larger magnitute is pay-to-use which goes against the "free-to-use" history and expectation of the web.
So where an add.company could use less "intrusive" and annoying advertisments, most people/browsers automatically block these, then it is logical that they'll use more intrusive one. But now we see automatically pop-up killers in almost all applications (browsers, firewalls and what not), I'm affraid we'll see a movement towards others even more intrusive advertisment.

It is how the Internet works. Pay to use or live with adds. Sites are expensive and advertisment revenue is not very high anymore - like it was in the golden dotCom days.

[BuckGB]

Xandax is correct. You can thank popup blockers for the steady increase in more obtrusive and annoying ads. Unfortunately, it's only going to get worse before it gets better.

Websites cost a lot of money to run... typically much more than advertising revenue brings in. As long as the internet is free and bandwidth prices continue to rise, advertisements are not going away.

[Rob-hin]

I have no problems with adds, without it where would GB be today?
But this is not the topic to bedate the uses, pro's and con's about adds is it.