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mmorpg.com doing pop-ups now?
Dvora
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So is anyone else getting pop-up adds here on MMORPG.com now? Just had one, almost a full screen sized add from comcast/xfinity. Could be I have some adware/malware I guess but I havent gotten these anywhere else. I won't be following any site that allows popups, so I hope this is not something new intentionally added by the staff here.
Edit, discovered what it is... certain ads here do pop ups if your mouse hovers over it too long, whether or not you click. Only one confirmed is the xfinity one... Not a true pop up but I despise and distrust anything that pops up or executes any script without clicking. You're not gaining anything by doing stuff like this, and only irritating people. If people want to click they will click. Please stop this crap...
Edit, discovered what it is... certain ads here do pop ups if your mouse hovers over it too long, whether or not you click. Only one confirmed is the xfinity one... Not a true pop up but I despise and distrust anything that pops up or executes any script without clicking. You're not gaining anything by doing stuff like this, and only irritating people. If people want to click they will click. Please stop this crap...
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The add appeared to the right of the recent posts on the main home page for me. Havent seen it in a little while.
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I have a Comcast/Xfinity ad now and tried mousing over it, but nothing happened. Also, the ad is probably in Spanish and definitely not English, for no discernible reason. Not that otherwise inert ads bother me just because of a foreign language, but I think the advertiser is wasting its money.
The business model that many web sites have come up with is that they give away content for free and then make money by displaying ads. If you block the ads, they don't get any money. If everyone blocked all ads, that model would completely collapse and most major web sites would have to shut down unless someone was willing to pay a bunch of money to keep them running.
Some sites are responsible about displaying ads, including this one. They'll show ads because they need money, but try to keep them tame enough that the site still works if you don't block the ads. If they're going to go to all of that work to provide content that I like for free while making it easy for them to make a little money off of me, then I want them to make that money because I want the site to keep running.
And some sites aren't responsible about displaying ads, whether due to auto-play videos with audio, giant ads that move around and hide the site's content, cryptojacking severe enough to lock up your browser, or allowing ads that auto-forward you away from the site you were trying to view. I absolutely do block ads on sites like that, as the site basically doesn't even work if you don't. And in many cases, just stop visiting the site altogether. If sites that are reckless about ads have to shut down for lack of revenue, that's no loss; maybe it would encourage other sites to be more responsible about displaying ads.
If you want to block ads on the latter type of site, go right ahead. But don't be a freeloader on the more responsible sites just because some clickbait sites don't care what they do to your computer. Finding another business model isn't necessarily practical. Would you really be willing to pay $1/month for access to every site you visit even occasionally? Most people wouldn't, as that could easily run into the hundreds of dollars per month. That's why that sort of business model wouldn't work for most sites. Besides, I don't want a future in which I can only see a handful of sites (excluding those that exist to sell products, which have their own viable business model) because I'd have to pay separately for each site that I visit, even if I only spend five minutes per year reading an occasional article there.
What I'm against is people trying to systematically block all ads, including simple pictures without audio that don't affect the site's functionality.
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Regular adds can be a bit annoying when you get too many at once and I do use an addblocker at some sites (not this one) that annoys me too much. Sites do need income like everyone else but when you get more add then the actual site they desrve a block.
But in the late 90s you could sometimes get 20 or more popups at the same time and I hated them ever since. Just set your browser to block them, nothing good ever comes from a popup.