Ads general [formerly ads feedback/Alistair]

[Sakkura]

That’s what you get with taboola.

[Heliocentric]

I have that panel adblocked, I suggest you do the same.

[Sakkura]

Or you can block taboola with noscript.

[sinomatic]

Okay, I’ll admit, I adblock (but I did become a supporter instead), and although I can suddenly see the warhammer ad for some reason, whether I block it or not the background has become white instead of black and it’s made the main site way too bright for me to look at. Is there any way to restore it to the nice, non-retina burning black of yore?

[alms]

Okay, I’ll admit, I adblock (but I did become a supporter instead), and although I can suddenly see the warhammer ad for some reason, whether I block it or not the background has become white instead of black and it’s made the main site way too bright for me to look at. Is there any way to restore it to the nice, non-retina burning black of yore?

That ad is displayed because it’s set as a background pointing at an image on EuroGamer’s image server. If you blocked the entire domain (instead of that individual image), you would not see any other image when visiting EuroGamer.

If you’re using Stylish, this sets the background to black and removes the background image.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);/* The Forums aren't ready yet
@-moz-document domain("www.rockpapershotgun.com") {
 */
    div#page-wrapper {
    	background-image: none !important;
        background-color: black !important;
    }

[sinomatic]

Ah, I can read the site again now! Alms, you’re an absolute star, thank you.

[alms]

Just something I cobbled together in five minutes.

I also looked into removing the link entirely… RPS is now using software that inserts a script in the page, which in turn injects the link, and does so to stop ad blockers.

That means there are two crude ways to counter it: first, disable Javascript on RPS. Second, for those using uBlock Origin or similar extensions, you can block jQuery entirely, which this script relies on to do this work.

This will very likely break things, but I haven’t checked what. As long as you’re simply reading, it should be OK.

[Thurgret]

I had an RPS subscription for two years, which expired in September. I’m not going to renew it while the website continues to circumvent my adblocker. If there was some guarantee that subscribers at least wouldn’t be subjected to adverts, some effort made in that regard, I guess I’d be okay with that.

[DarkFenix]

I had an RPS subscription for two years, which expired in September. I’m not going to renew it while the website continues to circumvent my adblocker. If there was some guarantee that subscribers at least wouldn’t be subjected to adverts, some effort made in that regard, I guess I’d be okay with that.

Pretty much this I’m afraid, cancelled my RPS sub the other day. I had it because I wanted to support RPS but didn’t want ads smeared across my screen the whole time, now RPS is circumventing ad blockers I don’t feel it’s a site worthy of such support any more.

[Mungrul]

Same here. And worse, as unblockable ads tend to drive me away from sites, I’ll probably end up not coming here as often.

[Heliocentric]

It’s probably becoming apparent to RPS that supporters are not sufficient for sustenance of the business, indeed, they are doubling down on ad revenue, supporters be damned. This raises some interesting wrinkles, RPS will be pulling many of it’s page impressions from migratory, disloyal and adblock less steam click throughs, but one might wonder as a compromised class of non utility browser (who enters their card details into steam browser ever?) that will mean a less attractive demographic data.

[LTK]

Does anyone else think it strange that I’m seeing ads on mobile for RPS… on RPS?

[Squiz]

Disabling javascript for rockpapershotgun.com worked, haven’t noticed anything breaking so far.

[spacedyemeerkat]

Oh, nice. Works here, too.

[alms]

Disabling javascript for rockpapershotgun.com worked, haven’t noticed anything breaking so far.

Your profile page won’t work at all with either Javascript disabled, or even just with jQuery turned off.

For those few who may be interested, I would suggest looking into the basic userscript discussed into the ad feedback thread. For mobile, I think userscript app/extensions should be already available on Android.

[Mungrul]

Okay, these background ads are ridiculous now.
When I open the site, because they take up such a stupid amount of top space, I have to scroll down to get to actual RPS content (beyond the highlight section, which again, is larger than it needs to be).

Let me put that in simple terms so you can understand it: I see more of an advert when I come to RPS than RPS itself.

If I pay a subscription, I expect to be given the option to disable ads if you’re going to circumvent my ad blocker.
I never click through ads, never have, never will, so as it stands, all you’re doing is hiding your actual content from me behind stuff I don’t want. May as well not come here.

[Thurgret]

Okay, these background ads are ridiculous now.
When I open the site, because they take up such a stupid amount of top space, I have to scroll down to get to actual RPS content (beyond the highlight section, which again, is larger than it needs to be).

Let me put that in simple terms so you can understand it: I see more of an advert when I come to RPS than RPS itself.

If I pay a subscription, I expect to be given the option to disable ads if you’re going to circumvent my ad blocker.
I never click through ads, never have, never will, so as it stands, all you’re doing is hiding your actual content from me behind stuff I don’t want. May as well not come here.

I emailed Graham about that and he explained that advertisements can’t be disabled in that fashion because contractual stuff. It was a bit more verbose than that, but I don’t like pasting the contents of emails in places.

[Mungrul]

Ugh, this is getting really stupid now. Let alone does the Black Friday article keep bouncing back to the front page in an effort to get me to buy stuff through syndicated links, the latest background ad that links to that article even gets through noscript.

[Internet]

I was actually able to turn ad-blocker off finally. The ads stopped crashing the browser, which is good!

[polarity]

I don’t have a problem with the background ad, I have a problem with how the area that activates the link extends way beyond the edges of the image.

I have multiple monitors, so I’m swapping between a browser on one and a game on the other, and the browser window is regularly losing focus. I click the big empty areas at the side of a web page’s content to return focus to the browser so that I can scroll with the mouse-wheel, or click on links just once for them to activate.

When I do that on RPS, what looks to be a blank area of the page turns out to be an advertising link.

Thankfully Greasemonkey can remove both the advert and the link with a simple script.

No more sneaky tricking me into accidental ad clickthroughs for you.