Offensive Google ads..

[Jamo]

You can't have something for nothing, there was a big debate back in the day and one ad top and bottom is a small price to pay for a free forum.

If you look at some of the other sites their ads are hideous!!!

I think there must a problem with the bottom ad targeting as we had teething problems but Greg fixed them, Sonic your 1st task is.............

[Sonic]

My first task is to get the car specs back up and running - pending a quick run through of the system from Greg

[S2_Dave]

Some firewall software allows you to block ads by image size, 720x90 pixels in this case.

Anyone know if you can do this in McAfee SecurityCenter? I'm not a fan of ads either, especially when I'm at work (forum sponsors excluded).

[Greg_S]

Im not exactly sure when they were added, i just remember seeing them one here one day, im assuming they were added for forum revenue purposes.

I know with google adaware the ads are generated based on the page content - so if there is a page with the word BMW on it alot then you are likey to get ads that are BMW related.

Yup I tweaked them to help with revenue for PLI, which is quite expensive and will need a bit of work for next year to bring the premium down a bit. Will talk to mods about that offline.

I have added the BMW company to the comptetive ad filter so there ads shouldnt display anymore (I hope).

I have tried to keep the ads relatively discreet and to a minimum. As has been said they are a necessary evil for the site and revenue is used to move the forum forward. They were changed from purely text ads to image since they actually get a decent revenue where as the text ads didnt.

[shark_90]

Completely understand the necessity of the ads and that wasn't in question at all.. I'm just glad it's not that godawful 1 series any more!

Thanks guys!

[BRY]

Agnitum Outpost. If you use Firefox, the addon called Adblock Plus fix it for free.

Thanks, they were really starting to get on my ****.
All gone now.