Just for fun...

[PedalUma]

With the new adverts I am signing off. I will check back the third week of September, once, to see if it has cleared. I am not about to create free content & be subjected to ads. One or the other. Find me on Google Maps with the word eBike. I am 35 miles north of the GG Bridge.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

That big and totally opaque "Activate your account now" ad taking up half of my phone screen at the top of nearly every page makes EBR look like a trap. Horrible optics.

If I were coming to the forum for the first time now, I'd turn tail and run.

I wouldn't mind more ads if that's what it takes to keep the EBR forum alive, but they signed up for the most obnoxious ads imaginable. Hope they can tone it down — WAY down.

 

[Tars Tarkas]

Seems like slow motion suicide for the forum. I'm not leaving yet but I'm already enjoying it a lot less

TT

 

[BlackHand]

That big and totally opaque "Activate your account now" ad taking up half of my phone screen at the top of nearly every page makes EBR look like a trap. Horrible optics.

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If I were coming to the forum for the first time now, I'd turn tail and run.

I wouldn't mind more ads if that's what it takes to keep the EBR forum alive, but they signed up for the most obnoxious ads imaginable. Hope they can tone it down — WAY down.

Hmm, I must have already activated my account, I'm not seeing that one

The ads are annoying. I get that they need to keep the lights on, but this is just going drive eyeballs away, and then they'll have to put in even more ads to up the $/eyeball. I don't mind static header/footer ads but if I have to scroll past an ad or it is injected into the content then I'm a LOT less likely to spend time on the page

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Hmm, I must have already activated my account, I'm not seeing that one

Interesting. The forum still recognizes me as always, so no clue as to what account needs activating. I thinks it's just some kind of trap.

Maybe the Google Ads engine thinks I'm just the sucker to fall for it.
;^}

 

[DaveMatthews]

I use Brave browser on my PC and phone because it blocks ads by default.

 

[PCeBiker]

I use Duck Duck Go that blocks ads and app trackers, but I'm getting the ads now.

 

[DaveMatthews]

I use Duck Duck Go that blocks ads and app trackers, but I'm getting the ads now.

In Brave I use Duck Duck as the search engine.

 

[PCeBiker]

In Brave I use Duck Duck as the search engine.

I've got everything turned on in Duck Duck Go.
It used to block everything, but the ads are getting through now.

 

[DaveMatthews]

I've got everything turned on in Duck Duck Go.
It used to block everything, but the ads are getting through now.

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Try adding uBlock Origin as an extension.

 

[Roamers]

Finaly, a fortune cookie with an actual fortune.

 

[Roamers]

 

[Chargeride]

I appreciate advertisers know their stuff, but it doesnt line up with any approach I have to purchasing.
If an ad annoys me , I mentally associate the vendors with complete shysters and would never do business with them.
If it just quietly scrolls by locked into the page, I might well read it as it goes by, but it doesnt trigger my auto block mode.
Im probably a salespersons nightmare, if they even look at me I go into no buy mode .

If something interesting is in the add, I click on it and it goes straight to a simple page describing the product and its specs, price and delivery options...fine.
If it goes to a page with popup chat boxes that bob around ss you scroll and headers like Discover, Lifestyle.
I'm like ffffff off will ya

 

[Art Deco]

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Finaly, a fortune cookie with an actual fortune.

"With a fortune guaranteed to come true"

 

[Tars Tarkas]

Knock on wood - the ads seem to be gone! Or is it just me? I hope it's not temporary.

I get the idea that there's overhead to run a forum like this but the recent ads were about as annoying and cheap click-baitish as possible!

TT