Intrusive ads? Post here!

Eleo · Dec 7, 2018

Oswald Boelcke said:
In order to end on-topic: I realised that the possibility to donate to become add-free isn't available (or at least not shown) anymore. I remember that you could donate to get another user or yourself add-free.

You still can do that on XDA ad-free link for yourself or gift it to anybody:
https://xdaforums.com/ad-free/
And as per usual, the "gift ad-free" appears to only the posts that got at least one thanks button. Maybe you were watching posts with no thanks

Oswald Boelcke · Dec 7, 2018

@Eleo: Upps... Absolutely correct - and that includes your assumption. For some reason I immediately connected it with the new style.

GuestD0932 · May 14, 2019

This one is so intrusive, I can't even use the breadcrumbs…

knyghtryda · Aug 6, 2019

Been seeing this before the ads actually load. It's apparently an image from an Indian news site, but I'm wondering why it's showing up before every ad.

J.Michael · Jan 3, 2020

obnoxious pop-ups

I don't care about the content of the ads, I can put up with the animated ones, but I absolutely despise the pop-up that tears the focus away from the text window into which I am typing. (I don't mean it distracts me, I mean I am suddenly not typing in the text box anymore.)

Something is determined to pop up at the bottom of the browser window. Dismissing it just makes things worse: If I miss the big "X" at the upper right that cleverly overlays another ad, I get yanked over to that ad. If I succeed in dismissing the ad that was blocking my view, another pops up in its place.

J.Michael · Jan 7, 2020

fake links to ads

Frank Castle
Today, 13:32 |#3

Originally Posted by J.Michael

I wish you would stop making random words in posts look like links. These "links" really pop up ads that have nothing to do with the linked word -- just using the word as an excuse to shove an ad up my nose. In addition to being distracting, just mousing over the link seems to be enough of an excuse to pop up the ad, which then blocks my view until I dismiss it or it times out.

I see you have already posted here, no need to make new threads.

https://xdaforums.com/sho...696660&page=57

I didn't think this was quite the same issue.

Thanos
Today, 02:44 |#2
This is specific to the 2015 theme, I'm pretty sure. You can try using one of the older themes like 2013 and I believe the in-line ads are no longer present.

I found a place to change the default Forum Skin from Forum Default to XDA 2013. I noted a fake link in a post before making the change. When I view the same post after making the change, there is no link. On the other hand, in the thread I started about this, the second time my original post is quoted, the word "view" becomes an ad-popping pseudo-link. (The place where I was able to change the Forum Skin *did* warn that some forums might temporarily override my choice. When I refreshed the page, the fake link no longer appeared.)

When I first read your response, I couldn't find a fake link to watch to see if changing the skin would eliminate the link. At the time, I was using a tablet. I'm not sure I ever saw such links while using the tablet. I don't know if it's the browser itself, or the user-agent string, or some other magic.

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like it will at least cut down on the fake links.

rcky844 · Apr 17, 2020

The ad down in the bottom makes settings and logout impossible without the old F12 trick

Eleo · Apr 17, 2020

TipzTeam said:
The ad down in the bottom makes settings and logout impossible without the old F12 trick

They probably didn't consider that long "my devices" list

BTW are you snooping on @xanthrax?

Sent from my Google Pixel 3a XL using XDA Labs

Oswald Boelcke · Apr 17, 2020

Eleo said:
They probably didn't consider that long "my devices" list

BTW are you snooping on @xanthrax?

Sent from my Google Pixel 3a XL using XDA Labs

I've to admit that at least from my point of view this problem really persists - however only on style XDA 2015. I don't have the issue in my default style XDA 2013 beta - 1024.
And your observation regarding xanthrax is interesting.

Have a good night and a nice weekend.
Stay safe, stay healthy, stay at home.
Regards
Oswald Boelcke

rcky844 · Apr 18, 2020

Eleo said:
They probably didn't consider that long "my devices" list

BTW are you snooping on @xanthrax?

Sent from my Google Pixel 3a XL using XDA Labs

I just have a lot of phones, a few isnt even here!

J.Michael · Dec 21, 2020

Please stop pinning ads.

It's bad enough having ads between posts, jerking the screen around as they figure out how big the ad needs to be.

When you pin an ad to the screen, you permanently deprive me of part of my screen. It doesn't help to click the "X", hoping it will close the ad without giving someone an excuse to pretend I agreed to something: After a few seconds, another ad appears, also pinned.

At least let me scroll past an ad. I've already lost a third of my screen to the permanently pinned site header.

J.Michael · Dec 27, 2020

You seem to have half stopped pinning ads to the bottom of the screen. Now I'm getting a semi-transparent block pinned to the bottom of the screen. It's still eating a fifth of my window, a third of what was left over after the pinned header. Please stop.

While typing this I saw an ad pop up in the semi-transparent block. After a few seconds, the ad went away, leaving the semi-transparent block pinned to the bottom of my window.

This is in Firefox, under Windows, on a desktop computer.

J.Michael · Dec 29, 2020

Ad for Dr. Fone claims "root any Android device with one click". That can't be true.

J.Michael · Dec 30, 2020

I just dismissed the obligatory pinned-to-the-bottom-of-the-page ad, and it was immediately replaced with an ad that did *not* have a "dismiss" button in the usual place. I took a chance and clicked on the "X" right next to the "play" button, and the ad disappeared, with the space still reserved for Google to whine "why don't you like this ad?"

When I went to the next page of the thread, there was an ad that was *not* pinned to the bottom of the window. Instead, it overlay the middle of the first post. I could not read the first post. Scrolling the page did not move the text of the post past the ad. The ad stayed right where it was, obscuring the middle of the first post.

Yes, reloading the page did change the ad placement, so I could now read the first post.

GeTex · Jan 10, 2021

In post ad's grabbing text and making hyperlinks seems extremely dangerous considering the nature of this forum. Users are taken somewhere they do not expect, also creates some performance issues in very long guide posts, it's terrible on mobile

mstn1985 · Jun 11, 2021

Dear Sir, when i want to view and visit the xda Forum post there’s many more ads disturbing. Please let them check out do something.
Thank you

J.Michael · Jul 16, 2021

Often, when I click "next page" (as in I got to the end of a 20 post page and I want to see the next up-to-20 posts), my screen is commandeered by an ad. The ad does not fill the screen, but it makes sure what little isn't filled is blurred. It doesn't have an "X" in the upper right corner, I have to pay enough attention to find the buttons, one to close the ad, one to get dragged further into the process of desperately trying to separate me from something of value.

I hate it. Please stop.

mobbdeep · Nov 18, 2021

I've been getting several intrusive ads for a long time now, especially when using my inbox which is what I use 98% of the time I'm on this forum. I get them at the top, middle, and ones that force me to watch them before I can dismiss it. Often times, I also get ones where the entire background of the forum is an ad and no matter where I click on my screen, it redirects me to the website for the ad and the only way out of it is closing the tab or browser entirely.

Here are some examples..

shanxybeast · Nov 20, 2021

I understand the needs for ads for the site, that's not the issue, but when I'm clearly telling it to f*** off and it's purposely still displaying and taking up half my screen where I can't actually read the content, it becomes intrusive and makes me not want to come back to the forums.

sibsoner · Aug 22, 2022

J.Michael said:
Often, when I click "next page" (as in I got to the end of a 20 post page and I want to see the next up-to-20 posts), my screen is commandeered by an ad. The ad does not fill the screen, but it makes sure what little isn't filled is blurred. It doesn't have an "X" in the upper right corner, I have to pay enough attention to find the buttons, one to close the ad, one to get dragged further into the process of desperately trying to separate me from something of value.

I hate it. Please stop.

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