We now have Ads!

coliver

Are the ads live? Or am I being a bad member and blocking them?

Minion Queen

They will be up today. You aren't missing anything yet.

brianlittlejohn

They are up now!

scottalanmiller

Yup and @nic has confirmed that AdBlocker is catching them

coliver

There they are. Still not a fan of how it offsets the conversation to the left side of the screen but I will get used to it.

Jason

@coliver said:

There they are. Still not a fan of how it offsets the conversation to the left side of the screen but I will get used to it.

Yeah it feels to squashed.

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

There they are. Still not a fan of how it offsets the conversation to the left side of the screen but I will get used to it.

Fixing that might be in the cards. I am assuming that we can do something with CSS to adjust that. We won't look at that till 0.9.0 rolls out, though.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

There they are. Still not a fan of how it offsets the conversation to the left side of the screen but I will get used to it.

Fixing that might be in the cards. I am assuming that we can do something with CSS to adjust that. We won't look at that till 0.9.0 rolls out, though.

Thanks for looking at it though. Like @Jason mentioned it even with one ad it does feel a bit squashed.

Nic

Woot! Turned off my adblocker for ML and they showed up.

Jason

@coliver said:

Are the ads live? Or am I being a bad member and blocking them?

Sadly they aren't hosted on a ad site so ad block plus don't work.

coliver

@Jason said:

@coliver said:

Are the ads live? Or am I being a bad member and blocking them?

Sadly they aren't hosted on a ad site so ad block plus don't work.

You can manually block them (but why wouldn't you want to support ML). It doesn't fix the squashed to one side look though.

Nic

@Jason said:

@coliver said:

Are the ads live? Or am I being a bad member and blocking them?

Sadly they aren't hosted on a ad site so ad block plus don't work.

uBlock was blocking them for me. Not sure if they base it on content or some other metric, since it isn't using a standard ad server.

scottalanmiller

@Jason said:

@coliver said:

Are the ads live? Or am I being a bad member and blocking them?

Sadly they aren't hosted on a ad site so ad block plus don't work.

Some adblocking does work. Maybe not all. I have no idea how some detect it as an ad since it is all hosted inside the application.

Nic

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@coliver said:

Are the ads live? Or am I being a bad member and blocking them?

Sadly they aren't hosted on a ad site so ad block plus don't work.

Some adblocking does work. Maybe not all. I have no idea how some detect it as an ad since it is all hosted inside the application.

It could be using algorithms, like looking for the "sponsored by" text, or comparing the image against a database of other ads.

scottalanmiller

It looks like an ad form factor, has ad location placement and links to another site. Wouldn't take much to guess. I wonder if it blocks if it doesn't link anywhere?

gjacobse

dafyre

It turns out I've had AdBlocker off for this site for a while now, lol. The ad doesn't appear to cause any issues for me on my Office machine. I'll check my laptop tonight and see.

RojoLoco

Adblocker on = I'm still seeing ads And every time I go to a new page, it reappears.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

It turns out I've had AdBlocker off for this site for a while now, lol. The ad doesn't appear to cause any issues for me on my Office machine. I'll check my laptop tonight and see.

Been nothing to block other than a few hours of testing a few weeks ago.

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco said:

Adblocker on = I'm still seeing ads And every time I go to a new page, it reappears.

Magic.