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I get you, I really do. I used to work at a tech/gaming/stuff news site, and as you've probably guessed, the tech/gaming/stuff-news audience are ahead of the curve on pretty much everything. Ad-blocking is no exception.

 

I just got my supporter status, mainly because I bloody love this site, but the thing which triggered it was the auto-redirecting ads. And yeah, it is ENDEMIC. Never reported anything though, "why would I"? Suddenly finding myself on fornicating aliexpress every second visit is not a lot of fun. It even prompted me to reinstall Windows, just to be sure it hadn't infected me with something, as well as install an adblocker plugin for the first time (outside my mobile - it's vital there, but on my PC's I like supporting sites I visit).

 

And yeah, I really do like supporting the pages I visit. Sometimes the ads are even relevant. I actually do turn it off the adblocker for quality sites like this, but the alibaba etc. hustlers make it too risky. Damned if I know what other scrips they might decide to run on my machine, you know?

 

That said, people who refuse to pay will always find a way. My old job tried blocking adblockers, found they switched to adblocker-blocker-blockers, developed new blocks and so on, which only led to phrases like "nice new adblocker-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker, how long till it's been breached?"

 

I could always find a way to block ads here, and so could anyone else. I finally decided to buy my way to supporter status for now, maybe I'll go premium later. That's because you're good people, giving us a good service. I was an unregistered lurker for ages, and I've been a freeloading registered user for a while. But I would have been happy seeing ads, even if that meant getting lower download speeds and otherwise cruising by. That doesn't work anymore, though. Even if 1/100 are of the non-approved sort you outlined in your post, that disrupts your whole business model, as it incites people to find a way around it.

 

Actually taking a serious stance against redirecting, script-using, aggressive and malicious advertisers, that's prolly the most profitable thing any ad-supported site can do. I hope you mean it when you say you're serious about it.

 

I honestly hope you can get enough users to fork up the dough to keep the place running, growing and improving. The Nexus is, after all, just that – a nexus for us poor, huddled millions of people who routinely fork over hundreds of dollars to AAA developers, only to be disappointed that whatever they made can be made better by a bunch of volunteer modders contributing for free. s#*!, I even hope people end up donating more to the modders; I've only done so once myself. But we need this site. The alternative is some kind of bloody geocities-lookalike hellscape. Nobody wants that.

 

TL;DR: Fork over some money, people, but fear the malicious Chinese.

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Alas, one cannot properly convey tone in text, especially on electronic media. I'm not mad or hostile, it's 75% sarcasm and 25% me being tired of my own bullsh*t.
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I don't think that anyone mentioned this already, but download speeds are still 1024 kb/s for supporters in NMM. If 1.5mb/s does not apply for Nexus Mod Manager, then there is hardly any usage for this boost at all. Either way, 2 euros I paid won't be missed because I enjoy this site a lot.

 

Cheers.

 

Edit: I might have read it wrong, since it says "We’ll likely wait a month or two to release this new Adblocker incentive". But I don't quite understand if You are talking about Ads reporting or "users tiers", so I am not sure if I should expect speed increase now or in two months. :)

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I became a supporter because I value the services provided by the Nexus. That said, I use an adblocker on the rest of the Internet for two reasons. Number one is malware prevention. If I don't see any ads, I can't be infected or hijacked by any bad actors. Number two is because of the flippin' video ads. They slow my browser to a crawl, or even crash it, and make navigating websites a nightmare (I'm looking at you, Wikia.) If these two problems could be solved somehow, then I'd consider ditching my ad blocker and support websites. I know this is a moot point due to my supporter status, but I present these thoughts to help the managers of the site understand what motivates Adblock users.
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See my reply above. There's not bitcoin payment at this moment.


You're worried about security and you have a bitcoin account?

The irony
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1pound 29pence to become a supporter member. How much is a cup of coffee in the UK (I live in Australia)? I became a Premium member when I first started using NEXUS and feel it was well spent. There is no site that can run for nothing and seeing how much it costs you each year I can not see how anyone should balk at paying a little bit to help you.

 

Thanks for the Service that NEXUS supplies to all gamers. :)

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There are no advertisments for http://forums.nexusmods.com
he said forum reply text box (but I don't know if they actually mean on a forum thread).
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Thank you for noticing this problem with the ads. I have been reporting all the auto-playing ads for three weeks before this post and was using your ad report system. One good thing about the old reporting system before this post was, once you reported an ad a pop-up came up thanking us for the report and the ad box was removed from the page. Now under your new report ad system, When I report an ad I get pop-ups stating: 'Thank you for reporting ad" "Ad already reported (even though it is not the same ad)" " (something along the lines of a server error)". In addition, under the system, the ad box is removed but the ad continues to autoplay, and not only that ad, but another after that, and after that, and so on. Unfortunately, you can not report those ads as that ad box is gone, along with the report link. Just typing this message I am now on ad#5 auto-playing.

 

It seems the ad agency is combating you with more auto-play ads then before I started reporting three weeks ago, there is now an auto-play ad every page click so far (three: one for a hot mod, back to main, then to your latest new page to read up on skywind, back to main, then to here to type this comment.

 

Apparently, it has now stopped auto-playing as I have silence.

 

I understand you need ads for revenue for the site. I understand you have auto-playing ads to annoy me to buy your membership. Trust me it is working (auto-play ad #6 now...), I will buy a premium membership when the Canadian dollar comes back up (auto-play ad #7 and #8) so the exchange doesn't rape my bank account so hard (auto-play ad #9 and #10).

 

But please return to the old reporting system so I can still remove auto-play ads every page, so I can wear my headset to talk to my pals on steam while surfing your fine site.

 

I promise to buy your premium membership once the dollar goes back up! Pretty please bring back the old system (auto play ad #11) I can not even think for anymore words (auto-play #12).

 

Osidious

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Just wanted to throw out there (I realize there is a dedicated forum for this, but it is kinda on-topic so here goes) that I had to donate 3 times over the course of about 8 months before the site finally recognized that I had done so. Might want to double-check your supporter system; I'd be very surprised if I was the only person who had this experience. Not that I wouldn't have donated 3 times regardless... ;)

 

For people using Adblock on Chrome (not sure about other browsers) you can choose to have Adblock permanently disabled on this site without it being turned off for other sites. I highly recommend this route for active users of Adblock Plus on Chrome.

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