Pop up ads on Crackberry - Page 2

jhimmel · #16 12-26-2011, 04:17 PM

Are you guys kidding me with these ads??? Sometimes I'll open a number of tabs and have to close the stupid pop up add on each and every tab before I can read anything. On my desktop, I guess I could resort to third part ad blockers, but I can't believe that it is Crackberry that is so utterly obnoxious that this is the first time I have considered doing this since I started using Firefox many years ago. And what about my Playbook? Guess there is not much I can do there. Right now, Crackberry is easily the most annoying site I have ever used on a regular basis when it comes to pop up ads. Sad

Kevin Michaluk · #17 12-27-2011, 12:00 AM

Hey Jhimmel,

Thanks for posting. Sending an email to our ad partner right now to see what's going on here.

Popup ads should only serve once per day to a user, which I think is acceptable. If you're clearing your cookies on every visit or visiting from multiple computers/browsers you might get served more than once, but on a computer in a browser session it should be once per day only.

Thanks for the patience. We're ok with having ads on the site obviously, but our intent isn't for it to turn off people.

jhimmel · #18 12-27-2011, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin Michaluk

Hey Jhimmel,

Thanks for posting. Sending an email to our ad partner right now to see what's going on here.

Popup ads should only serve once per day to a user, which I think is acceptable. If you're clearing your cookies on every visit or visiting from multiple computers/browsers you might get served more than once, but on a computer in a browser session it should be once per day only.

Thanks for the patience. We're ok with having ads on the site obviously, but our intent isn't for it to turn off people.

Thanks for the reply, Kevin. What was happening is, I will open a group of tabs containing the Forum area's that I am most interested in. As I go to each tab to read that forum, I would be faced with the giant in-your-face ad (that I can't imagine ANYONE would want to do business with) that I would then close. Then it's there on the next tab, and the next one, and the next one... I'm not sure why the ads on this site are getting past the normal pop-up blockers in Firefox, but I do not seem to have this problem on other sites. I'd rather not have to employ a third party tool for just this site alone. I'll be watching to see what your contact with your partner will result in. I hope it helps. I don't think you want CrackBerry to become one of "those" sites.

What's worse, the SAME thing was happening on my PlayBook tabs.

Personally, I think pop-up ads are intrusive, annoying, and I hate to presume "unnecesary", but 99% of the sites I visit seem to do just fine without them. I wish you would reconsider that practice entirely. CrackBerry is easily the most comprehensive site on the net for all things relating to BlackBerry. The intrusion in recent months of users with questionable motives and intent is bad enough - and a struggle that I can certainly understand the complexity of, but the pop-ups are a REAL shame to see here. Just voicing my opinion, for what it's worth.

Great job otherwise, and thanks so much for your attention, Kevin.

SlcCorrado · #19 01-24-2012, 08:00 PM

Little late on this thread, sorry, but the ads plastered all over the forums are seriously obnoxious. I understand that this is a business, but isn't there some way to offer "premium" forum access that isn't riddled with ads?? It really has gone over the top since I started coming here... Just sayin

rrrebo · #20 01-24-2012, 09:08 PM

As Kevin stated, the pop-ups are set to only appear once in 24 hours. Do you stay logged in? I don't see pop-ups much at all. PC, PB, or BB. Not sure why this is still an issue.

SlcCorrado · #21 01-24-2012, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by rrrebo

As Kevin stated, the pop-ups are set to only appear once in 24 hours. Do you stay logged in? I don't see pop-ups much at all. PC, PB, or BB. Not sure why this is still an issue.

I've only seen a pop up once. My problem is with the chunks of ads in the forums between posts. It's just annoying. I'd pay a couple bucks to not have to look at that crap.