Useless Bitching About Ads
9I know, we've covered this before. Recently, even.
The ad between the video of the day and the community links on the main sale page is doing one thing for me - making me leave the main page as quickly as possible. I'm skipping watching the video from the main page and just watching it in the thread. I'm missing the write up because I'd rather miss Toon's brilliant hilarity than have my eye twitch from the ad to the right.
I understand the need for eeking out as many pennies as possible, to give us the best deals and still keep the lights on. The current placement isn't working for me, personally.
/whining
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Solution: https://adblockplus.org/
@cengland0 Using it. kthx.
Did they just figure out how to bypass AdBlock Plus? This is the first time in a long time I've seen the ads on the right side of the page.
@KDemo If you still see ads, you can right click on it and then "Block Element". That ad shouldn't show up any longer. If you do it right, you might be able to select the DIV or SPAN that is enclosing the ad and it would always block any content that is in it.
Correction: To block an element like the DIV and SPAN, you need to click on the Ad Block icon then block element. Right click will only block the element you right clicked on.
@cengland0
sheepishly right clicks > hides element
Thanks dude. Can't believe I didn't right click...
I would rather have the placement be less jarring, so I can leave it up and see it when I scroll down, though.
@cengland0 - I owe you, thanks!
I don't mind this one so much. At least the dude drinking tea is SFW.
To remove the entire bottom advertisement section. Click on the Ad block plus icon and then select "Block Element". Then move your mouse to the left side of the ads until the entire section is highlighted in yellow then click your left mouse button.
You should then see this popup.
Just click ok
@cengland0 - I've only been seeing the middle ad on the bottom, not so annoying, but not sparking my interest either. Thanks for the instructions, I can usually use the help.
I started my clickface streak one day before you.
@KDemo I bought so many of the products since day-one and didn't know you should buy and click Meh too. I thought it was one or the other. So those days I bought something, I didn't click it. Then I realized they are mutually exclusive and I began clicking it every day regardless how good the deal is. My misunderstanding prevented me from getting a perfect streak.
Another correction. Don't click ok, click "Add". I need to learn to read the screens. Oops.
@cengland0 - Almost the same here - I found meh after the kickstarter, about a week in. Then took a few days to figure it all out as well. I have 305 total, but a 303 streak.
@cengland0 There have been countless occasions when I've read comments on this site and have thought to myself, "OMG, get a fucking life!" Tonight I felt compelled to actually write it.
I didn't really mind today's ad, other than they didn't tell me what it was for. I clicked it just to see what I could be getting 20% off of. They sort of hit their target demographic with me in terms of age and gender, but even with 20% off they're way out of my price range for anything I'd want.
I actually don't mind unobtrusive ads, because basically I don't see them. As long as they don't have pop-ups or animations. Sometimes I click on one just to increase the click count.
If meh gets paid and it costs the other guy, then fine. It's good for all of us.
If they're here to stay, I'd much rather see a (strongly) curated side deal. I'd hazard a guess that many Mehtizens would have the same preference.
As it is now, it just makes the page look like shit, IMO.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember it saying "sponsor" underneath that ad. I thought it said "advertisement" like the others along the bottom. Could this mean that the ad displayed there was directly from Meh and not from some faceless ad server? For that alone, I am perfectly fine with that ad being there.
Also, as I look at the source, the top ad is definitely not from adsense, and neither is the EFF.org one at the bottom. The EFF one is literally an imgur.com image.
@Willijs3 I think this specific ad is a sponsored one because they are offering a discount specifically and only to meh users if you use the code "meh" when you checkout. So it's not just a random ad using an ad service that looks at your browsing history to target you.
@Willijs3 I don't recall on previous days either, but so far, all were non-intrusive enough that I haven't felt the need to block them.
@narfcake My feeling exactly. Damn you for having the same opinion as me.
@Willijs3 you are correct, the bottom middle ad displays whatever we want and is currently linking to EFF.org. The ad below the video is usually a standard ad but we have the ability to change it to something specific like when we have a coupon code deal like yesterday.
@Thumperchick all love for you, but maybe it bothers you more than it should. :)
@kc5rbq Probably.
It's "eke," not "eek."
@darksaber99999 Perhaps, at that very moment, @Thumperchick saw a mouse?
@darksaber99999 I did not know that before. Thank you.
@Thumperchick @darksaber99999 I just assumed you were suggesting that they were doing it in an anxiously exclamatory fashion.
@joelmw Nope. Lack of knowledge. This small hole has been patched.
What is the deal with millennials?
Have they not developed the ability to ignore ads?
Do VMP members see those ads?
@Kevin I see the same ads before/after logging in, so I don't think VMP matters.
The real question is: Do Kickstarters see the ads? :D
@nadroj I might be misunderstanding @Kevin's point, but I think he means, the ability to virtually tune out those ads - they're still there on the page, but mentally blocked out.
@RedOak I parsed the first two sentences the same as you but thought the third sentence was a separate question. If not, mea culpa. (or do I blame @narfcake for that too?)
@nadroj Meh. Why not, right? Anyway, I see three questions.
@nadroj hah yeah, the VMP thing was a separate question. Maybe that could be an added feature of VMP. There might be some implicit cost that wouldn't make that work though.
@nadroj aha, yes, I see your (@Kevin's) point. Since the ads here are of such minimal impact to me, I don't see the value of "buying" them off via VMP.
@RedOak If Meh can convince someone to pay money for that ad, then good for them they deserve it. Over at Woot, you are utterly drowning in ads. I think the Meh ad has a lot more value than any ad on Woot.
@Kevin I rarely venture to the main side but at shirt.woot, most of the ads are targeted ones, Amazon being the majority (showing items I recently looked at). TeeTurtle tends to run more ads on shirt.woot whenever they're having a sale too.
@Kevin TL:DR Oooh, shiny things!
@Kevin In fainess (although it has been a long time since I regularly visited Woot), I did not find their load of ads to be over-bearing. But then, I tune them all out anyway.
I actually had to look for the ad to notice it so I think I might be the next level of human evolution or something with my own mental adblocking idk
@Lotsofgoats
@stoopkid - Wonder why I'm strangely craving a Coke?
In the world of not abusively plastering a page with ads, Meh is a winner. The minimalist ads on Meh bother me not. Not one bit. I "virtually" tune out almost all ads on Internet pages. Can't recall a single sponsor on Meh.
If ads make stuff free or cheaper on the Internet and they don't abuse my eyeballs, ears and mouse finger (Vibrating ads, Auto-play video - especially with audio, popups, Porn, etc...) then I'm perfectly OK with them. . . any of those abuses lead me to close the page immediately.
I've been using the Internet since the early days and have not felt a need to use ad-blockers.
@RedOak What is even more interesting is that the thing for sale is an advertisement itself! @thumperchick is complain about ads, but fails to see that there's always going to be at least one.
@Kevin Let's say you walk into a store to shop, but while trying to shop, you have random people trying to shove flyers for other stores in your face. How would that change your experience?
You've made several assumptions about me in this thread - my age, ability to focus, and apparently, to understand basic concepts. It's kind of weird.
Actually, @tHumperchick They have that currently... You don't get ads over the intercom interrupting your elevator music for Geico or progressive. The back of your receipts don't have coupons or ads? The coupon printers don't print out $19.99 oil change ads? I see this frequently in grocery stores and some others. I once had a job where I left my chilly state to visit the LA area and Seattle. What did we do? Install monitors and speakers on the ends of registers a Albertsons. Why? So they could play cleverly crafted ads. Why cleverly? They got the customer to think they were looking at a recipe for Cheese cake, but it was an ad for Philadelphia cream cheese... ETC... Also it made them not realize they were waiting in line for 30 minutes.
@Thumperchick "We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish."
Marshall McLuhan
I would be ok with some ads for pron I think. I wouldn't click on them, but I could fantasize about clicking on them.
@miko1 especially because
@miko1 But will they take off 20% with code "meh"?
@miko1 For some reason this is my favorite thing on the Internet so far today. Thanks for that.
I don't want to block the ads. I hope meh makes a fuck-ton off the ads and can give us even better deals on the day's sale!
@DaveInSoCal I agree. I don't mind there being ads, I simply dislike their current placement.
I bed Meh's advertisers really love how much attention the advertising is getting.
@stoopkid
@walarney - Mr Burns' voice will change: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/14/406685154/harry-shearer-voice-of-ned-flanders-and-mr-burns-will-leave-the-simpsons
@KDemo Wow, maybe you can keep the simpsons around with terrible writing, but you can't keep the simpsons around without Shearer. Same goes with Azaria.