Change of Ad Provider

[uzetaab]

I use an ad blocker, but have it turned off by default and only turn it on for sites with bad ads. I'm sorry to say that I did have it turned on for nexus.com. I have now turned it off again, so far it looks much improved.

[jeyjs]

In response to post #38619910. #38642965 is also a reply to the same post.

bben46 wrote:

It is tremendously naive to insist that all problems are solved with an ad reporting tool.
I cannot risk the safety and performance of my computer when ad providers - all of them have proven themselves unscrupulous and unwilling to police their own content.

Not just the virus risk, but intrusive popups and videos as others have said.
I've supported the site when I could, but that's about it. I can't remove adblock until there are some solid guarantees of safety and reliability.

As a supporter you should not be seeing ads even with your adblock turned off. That is one of the perks of supporting Nexus. Once you support Nexus, either by getting premium just once or by getting Supporter. When a premium runs out, you are automatically moved to supporter status. Supporter never runs out. and as a supporter, the perk is no ads forever. And last time I checked, forever is a long time. :tongue:

Castornebula wrote: I actually din't know that as I don't turn adblock off due to paranoia (justified in that I've experienced some real bad infections in the past due to ads) But that's nice to know.

Obviously I don't blame anyone at the nexus for the sorry state of internet advertising, after all if I did I would never be a supporter. I just take exception to someone calling using adblock piracy. I call it a very needed shield against the scumbags trying to waste our time with intrusive ads and malware.

Adblocker saved my pc too, its not piracy, thats just uneducated pc nerds being uneducated pc nerds. adds are never safe, they are always a huge risk, there are no safe add companys, if there was, then addblocker woul not exist.

[malibular3]

Thanks for sharing

[xPsykes]

It is tremendously naive to insist that all problems are solved with an ad reporting tool.

I cannot risk the safety and performance of my computer when ad providers - all of them have proven themselves unscrupulous and unwilling to police their own content.

 

Not just the virus risk, but intrusive popups and videos as others have said.

I've supported the site when I could, but that's about it. I can't remove adblock until there are some solid guarantees of safety and reliability.

No one is gonna confirm that it seems..... I've posted on the forum tried to get a support ticked and even contacted an admin who is on top of this stuff usually and haven't gotten a reply back from any staff members. It seems so long as they are making money they won't care.

[xPsykes]

Props for actually admitting a big reason why people use adblock. The most important part is the malware and viruses. Most people get viruses and malware these days through infected advertising. Most providers just don't care, and too many sites don't care either so long as the money keeps flowing in.

 

The only way to make advertising work for people is to crack down on dangerous, as well as annoying ads. And to not pester people about using Adblock. AdBlock Plus has an automatic whitelist feature people can enable that sites can sign up for. If they meet strict criteria, they get on the whitelist. That's an important thing that needs to be made more of a thing. It can help reign in bad ads, putting strict quality controls on that you need to adhere to while still letting people use AdBlock for non-compliant sites.

 

Nexus should aim to get on that list. I think it'll help a lot. For one thing, you need to stop spamming people who choose to use adblock with messages pleading with them not to. You'll never get on the list if you do that. Keep on this track with cracking down on bad ads. And make sure ad placement stays reasonable. Details about it, and how to apply to be on the whitelist, are on the acceptable ads page on the AdBlock Plus website.

I haven't been told if nexus is even doing anything about the problem yet, I've posted on the forum and tried to get a support ticket..... and haven't gotten a single reply from a staff member

[Bonebullet]

Before the Ad's were giving me so much trouble i had to disable them, so far it's working much better now, Sorry for having to use the ad blocker. What do advertisers hope to achieve by making such malicious ad's anyhow? It's not exactly the best sales pitch.

[Daunlouded]

In response to post #38591030. #38604190, #38619630 are all replies on the same post.

cousingh wrote: fully agree. videos are a curse. Banners, ok, but NO VIDEOS. they'll lock up firefox in about 30 seconds, or if I'm lucky will only make your site laggy as h****. i hadn't even finished reading this article when firefox locked up. a window popped up saying "unresponsive script"
a) continue: no way
b) debug : you're joking me right?
c) stop script: clicked on that again and again and NOTHING HAPPENS. it just keeps popping up again and again and again.

Had to Kill firefox.
" script: http://us-ads.openx.net/w/1.0/afr?auid=358757&cb=42408679:0 "

and I'm in CANADA! WFT do I want American ads for?

Percephere wrote: I'm a Firefox user too, and I can confirm 100% that bad ads can completely lock up a browser. I'm on a $2,000 gaming PC with 16GB of RAM and I still get hit hard by some ads.

barnardm71 wrote: Two words...Ad Block

One word: Opera.

[RS13]

I'd like to support the nexus. But everytime I turn my add blocker off, I'm immediately flood with talking ads. So, ad block goes back on.

 

It was some truck ad this time.

Edited June 1, 2016 by RS13

[Aerethiel01]

I'd also like to support nexus but for some reason, when my adblock is off on this website, firefox keep stuttering and sending me notifications that ad-related scripts are stalling my ressources (even on a 6 cores 3.1 Ghz, 8 RAM.. hard to believe). That problem only started a few weeks back.

[Aerethiel01]

In response to post #38591030. #38604190, #38619630, #38743885 are all replies on the same post.

cousingh wrote: fully agree. videos are a curse. Banners, ok, but NO VIDEOS. they'll lock up firefox in about 30 seconds, or if I'm lucky will only make your site laggy as h****. i hadn't even finished reading this article when firefox locked up. a window popped up saying "unresponsive script"
a) continue: no way
b) debug : you're joking me right?
c) stop script: clicked on that again and again and NOTHING HAPPENS. it just keeps popping up again and again and again.

Had to Kill firefox.
" script: http://us-ads.openx.net/w/1.0/afr?auid=358757&cb=42408679:0 "

and I'm in CANADA! WFT do I want American ads for?

Percephere wrote: I'm a Firefox user too, and I can confirm 100% that bad ads can completely lock up a browser. I'm on a $2,000 gaming PC with 16GB of RAM and I still get hit hard by some ads.

barnardm71 wrote: Two words...Ad Block

Daunlouded wrote: One word: Opera.

Same problem here.