Some users have complained about the handy ad banner taking up space.
I have already said my piece here: https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/advertisement-at-top-of-page
I am hosting an eroscripts specific adblock list you can use to add to your filters: eroscripts (54 Bytes)
You can add this link to your filter list:
I donât understand the logic behind officially saying to use an adblocker but not making it dismissable directly in the discourse UI like some other banners are.
Surely, either the Handy paid you to have it visible all the time, and then just telling your users to use an adblocker is quite unfair to the contract you have with them, or they didnât and then thereâs no reason to not make that dismissable.
I say that as someone who doesnât use adblockers and has already pledged to their kickstarter.
If I do advertise this way in the future, dismissing it will not persist.
This banner wasnât made to be an ad. Itâs a general purpose
element that I have used in the past just to put some static elements in it was originally designed to persist until I disabled it. Making it dismiss now would be hacky and probably not work well.
Even if I could make it dismissable with my skillset, I think making it dismissable is âtoo easyâ for an end user. Iâll elaborate on this:
Imagine the first scenario, where a user is just mildly annoyed by the advert, they might decide to click and buy but not at that moment. They dismiss it, and later forget about it because the banner wasnât nagging them. If the banner was there it would remind them. If they really didnât want to see it anymore and had no plans to buy it in the first place they could consider a more permanent solution.
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The user has already purchased the handy 2 and no longer wants to see the ad. Itâs not dismissable but there is an adblock filter available to hide it so it doesnât nag me
The idea is that the adblock filter provides enough friction to deter a user from removing it when they might not actually want it to be gone forever, and if they do, the option is there.
I want to be fair to both the user and the handy team. I think this is the best way to go.
This banner ad barely even registers. Thereâs so much more obnoxious advertising on most other sites, even ânon-adultâ sites are getting to be a jungle. Hell, You-tube is more annoying by far, especially on a TV.
The damn Apple store now has ads pretending to be the app you searched for, in that fake, misleading, âclick here to downloadâ button that appears on so many fileshare sites.
Hopefully the Handy banner ad helps offsite the time and the hosting costs.
And on that same note, its an ad that suits this site perfectly well. In case anyone new without device would visit this site, that ad could help a lot.
Being able to add this to the filter list is nice. Although i do wonder, will each ad replacement have to be added again or not? Since i can see several arguments why you would want to do that.
For example now with the handy, for OSR users it might be obsolete, but who knows which ad might be used at some point instead, maybe that one is relevant. If thats only like a new ad once per 3 months, it might give some inconvenience if you have to edit it every time, but at the same time its not that often its realy a problem. As long as the ads remain relevant i dont see an issue there if you occasionaly would see a new one.
Unlike youtube which spams ads these days in such way that without adblocker youtube is unbearable. TV channels arent even allowed to show that many ads here.
Its not the ad, i dont mind it, small on my screen.
the issue i have is the themes banner that takes up 1/3 of my screen and the x doesnt work to close it.