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Annoying advertisements

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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?
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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.
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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?
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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 :twisted:
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andythenorth wrote: 22 May 2023 18:15 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 :twisted:
Some of the ads are indeed quite ecentric, so to say :lol:

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 8)
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andythenorth wrote: 22 May 2023 18:15
Necroed thread...
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I don’t know about anyone else but I now seem to be seeing massive adverts interspersed in forum topic listings, on mobile at least. Sorry about this - I’m going to check what wonderful new feature Google has switched on this time. :roll:

EDIT: That's hopefully gone. Remember the days when Google's ads were simple text-based banners? I miss those days.
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