Still a huge problem in Chrome as well.
This is my first time chiming in and believe me I’m all about SRK doing whats best for itself on the financial side and everything (while still maintaining the original purpose and integrity of the site), but the ads are only getting worse for me. Pop-ups that keep reopening even when I close them, tons of ads with sound… it really feels like a different website with all of the intrusive ads, and not in a good way. Eventhubs has bullshit pop-up ads, too… I like Eventhubs as well but SRK is my home in the FGC and you guys can do better than this.
IMO, it’s time to write these new ads off as a failed experiment and move on to a new ad company/lay-out/whatever. Not at all hating here, I love this site to death (like I said I’ve met some of my best friends here) - it’s just the truth as I see it.
Edit - on a side note, Bud Light Platinum tastes like Bud with less “beer” flavor (not necessary a bad thing) and more alcohol flavor (not necessarily a good thing). For like 30% more ABV, it’s a pretty good trade off. Just felt the need to comment on it since Bud Light Platinum is taking up half of my browser window on a regular basis.
These drop-down ads are annoying as it is, now the forums aren’t even loading in Firefox.
this line right here will probably sell more bud light platinum than these ads
Adds are still covering the top box in google chrome, and some of them I can’t even minimize.
Edit: And the videos keep auto playing and unmuting themselves still. This shit is getting fucking retarded.
You gonna get banned nigga
I just had multiple adds all autostart on load, and then another one popped over the window on mouse over when I tried to mute them… Technically that qualifies as hacking.
Not like I was likley to, but I guess I’ll never buy Buttwiper platinum.
:eek: Things have been noticeably better over the past few days.
Ad problems are all fixed on my end. Tested it on both Firefox and Chrome. Now I just pray I don’t scroll up near the top and bottom of the pages in order to get the ads to take up 50% of the screen.
Problems fixed? I’m using Firefox…everytime I click into the forums, the adds to the right now come in pairs, sound and all. It shows a pause button but I can’t actually pause them. The gigantic adds at the top too. I click the Close X, and can’t even move my cursor off the X before the damn thing reopens. C’mon man…
the top ads keep crushing the recent news articles and recently viewed threads boxes of the forums page on my pc. its weird as fuck.
for the past 3 months I havent been able to log in to this website without it freezing every computer I log into.
Going from one page to the other always takes forever…
Those ads are getting a little out of hand dont you think.
I want to support SRK, but can we at least be able to surf the forum without having to deal with that obnoxious budlight ad :sad:
:eek: Looks like it’s just Bud Light that has a problem with me browsing SRK lately.
If you guys make a platinum themed forum skin, maybe the ads will finally behave?
#makeitplatinum
that budlight one is fucking ridiculous, it blocks alerts and causes random popups. You know what’s funny? The popups are caused by scrolling right over the box above alerts (of all places).
Also happens when you try to click on ‘log in’. So I have to make a detour around the ad just to sign in, and Lord help me if I accidentally hover over it. The ad pops up in my face, and if I try to close it by clicking on the X in the top-right corner, when it closes, I’m about 2 pixels away from hovering over the same ad again.
Shit sucks and its EVEN MORE annoying to come here!
plus its shit that I don’t even care about!
- A LOT of crap I don’t care about
Budweiser, seriously?
-Fucking shitty rapper ads?
Heaven forbid I want to scroll w/o using the scroll wheel
-Roll over the ad about 4-5 times
-collapsing doesn’t help
-Its most of the ads are all over the place and bigger than SRK label, lmfao
sometimes I can’t even close mine, the site just freezes and I have to open up another tab which is EXTREMELY annoying.
so is it a money issue here? Because footing the bill for people to even use the site is understandable, but when the site is constantly on “fuck you” mode it’s like why bother you know? SRK needs better marketing. We need more people to subscribe to premium deals but we have to give them more of an incentive (and bonuses) to actually being premium. People can say bad things about Rep and Galaga Shields and all that other crap, but when they were there we had NO ADS options because the site was making money like crazy! Now all we get is some crappy avatar boost that no one cares about!
I’m fine with ads, and I’m all for Wizard and the rest of the Evo crew making money for all the hard work they’ve put in over the years. I would prefer if it wouldn’t interfere with the functionality of the SRK in any way.
I opened a page. Not one, but TWO video ads, one under the other, came up and played. This is including the blocking of stuff that the ads normally do. So is there anything actually being done to fix this or is this fucking thread just for rants?
Happens to me too…but for me it’s only when I go to General Discussion.