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Sorry, I couldn’t find the self-deprication emoji.
If @The Chairman doesn’t immediately know about this, and it seems that he doesn’t, it’s probably something that his ad supplying network decided to change. I’m getting them as well. I am way, way too lazy to dig into minified JavaScript, but most likely the ad content network has gotten clever.
At least, I’ll give Pete the benefit of the doubt…
But I am with everybody else: I don’t use an ad blocker, but those type of pop-ups are enough to get me to find one, or to greatly lessen my use of SB. But something tells me Pete already understands all of that.
As advertisements go, I think scuba board is way on the less annoying side. Like others have mentioned, there could be room for more and more effective ads, if that actually brought value to the board. I too am willing to scroll past an in-thread ad or two — if that would actually bring in actual money. But not new-millennium pop ups. I’ve walked away from many a site that gives me more than one of them in a session. I’ve already gotten a half a dozen from scuba board....
Pete is spending lots of monies to make this problem go away.At least, I’ll give Pete the benefit of the doubt…
Yeah, once popup blocking became default and flash went away spammers moved to HTML5 Interstitials. So much for one of the more touted virtues of HTML5.Thanks, I never knew the name for these annoying buggers: Wikipedia: Interstitial webpage
I agree, not Pete's fault. Probably some advertiser managed to slip something in that violates Google's advertising policy. Pete and his users are the victims.I am way, way too lazy to dig into minified JavaScript, but most likely the ad content network has gotten clever. (And this type of “innovation” by ad providers happens all the time.)
At least, I’ll give Pete the benefit of the doubt…
Pete is spending lots of monies to make this problem go away.
The responsible party may be a bot in Lithuania.I would hope the responsible party is paying Pete lots of monies for creating it to begin with.