Annoying advertisements

[MLG]

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The pop up ad is the problem.

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As you can see in attachment, there is new ad type in mobile version, which blocks extra part of user screen in menus...
I have not seen it somewhere else.
Is there something to get rid of it at website side?

[orudge]

Hmm, I'll have a look at the ad settings and see if anything has changed, or if there's a way of customising this. Somebody else reported similar the other day too.

[Chrill]

Hi!

Starting today, I am met with a Russian ad covering the entire page which I have to click away before I can browse. Is there anything we can do about these to make sure they don't show up?

[andythenorth]

AdSense (I think) is serving interstitials currently.
Not frequently, but occasionally.

They're more annoying than the average ad, as they demand a click to dismiss.

If they're on CPC not CPM, they probably won't be earning much from EU traffic, as they're in Cyrillic

[ebla71]

AdSense (I think) is serving interstitials currently.
Not frequently, but occasionally.

They're more annoying than the average ad, as they demand a click to dismiss.

If they're on CPC not CPM, they probably won't be earning much from EU traffic, as they're in Cyrillic

Some of the ads are indeed quite ecentric, so to say

Some that I get shown are in Finnish or Estonian, so that's at least the right continent, while others I hope trace back to shared use of some computers with my wife, as that's not the stuff men normally wear

[MLG]

Necroed thread...

[orudge]

Ugh. Funnily enough I've just seen that too (and in Cyrillic too). I remember when Google Ads were just nice, unobtrusive text adverts... let me see what I can do.

EDIT: How kind, Google has automatically opted the site into an "experiment" to "optimise revenue opportunities". Let's see if I can turn that off.

[Chrill]

They seem to keep appearing. Unfortunately I might have to use Adblock for a bit, hopefully that will catch these even though it removes ad revenue for the site.

[orudge]

I think I've got them disabled now, though I don't know how quickly Google will respond to this change. Sorry for the annoyance!

[andythenorth]

Thanks