edwin_m
Veteran Member
While I don't object in principle to advertising on this forum, there are two ad-related behaviours that are worsening what a PR would probably call my "forum browsing experience".
Firstly, when returning to a forum after reading a thread, the list of threads appears and then about a second later moves down then up a bit as the banner ad is added (as it were) at the top. This usually coincides with the moment when I have moved the cursor to another thread and my finger is moving unstoppably towards the mouse button, and results in me going to an unrelated thread or to the member profile of a thread starter. So apologies to anyone who thinks I've been nosing round your profiles!
The other annoying feature is that some of the advertising (Pubmatic is one but not the only offender) inserts a new page in the history so the Back button no longer returns from a particular thread to the list of threads. Since the advertising changes with time it is always a bit random whether this happens or not.
The same seems to happen with either IE11 or Firefox. It isn't the end of the world, but are there any ways I can get round these inconveniences short of installing an ad blocker?
This doesn't really belong in general discussion, but I don't see any other place for reporting forum problems.
Firstly, when returning to a forum after reading a thread, the list of threads appears and then about a second later moves down then up a bit as the banner ad is added (as it were) at the top. This usually coincides with the moment when I have moved the cursor to another thread and my finger is moving unstoppably towards the mouse button, and results in me going to an unrelated thread or to the member profile of a thread starter. So apologies to anyone who thinks I've been nosing round your profiles!
The other annoying feature is that some of the advertising (Pubmatic is one but not the only offender) inserts a new page in the history so the Back button no longer returns from a particular thread to the list of threads. Since the advertising changes with time it is always a bit random whether this happens or not.
The same seems to happen with either IE11 or Firefox. It isn't the end of the world, but are there any ways I can get round these inconveniences short of installing an ad blocker?
This doesn't really belong in general discussion, but I don't see any other place for reporting forum problems.