StrategyWiki:Staff lounge/2015/August

Pop-ups
Several times now, when I go to SW, I see large, window-filling Flash-based pop-up advertisements. What's more, the "close" buttons on the ads don't always work (in which case I must refresh the webpage). I have seen the "Dominion" ad on the main page, and a video game ad on the sign-in page. Prod, Procyon, is there anything you can do about this? Thanks! Wjk (talk) 18:47, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We will investigate it and do our best to stop it.   Pro  cyon  23:50, 1 July 2015 (UTC)


 * ...and it's still happening, today with a Jeep ad on the home-page. (Note that I was logged out at the time it happened; maybe this has something to do with it?) Wjk (talk) 00:49, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * And it is still happening, again with the Jeep ad on the homepage, even when logged in. Wjk (talk) 00:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * , some of these we are aware of, and we are contractually obligated to display them. We don't love them either but unfortunately, they keep the site in business.  The ads are our single revenue source since we don't charge anyone anything to access the content on the site.  Without them, we wouldn't be able to pay for the server hosting fees.  We try to keep pop-ups to an absolute minimum, but sometimes you have to agree to a certain amount, or the ad server companies aren't interested in working with you.  Please understand that for the site to stay alive, they are necessary, but we will do everything we can to keep the annoyances to a minimum.   Pro  cyon  01:12, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * We don't have any ad-related customization for logged-in vs. logged-out so that won't change what you see. I'm not sure how much we can do about popups, but if you see interstitial ads please let us know. If you can get us a screenshot of what you're seeing and upload it, I can ask. -- Prod (talk) 13:37, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Do pop-ups have to display for StrategyWiki to get money? I have Adblock Plus and don't get any. Flufftailer (talk) 14:49, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Technically, if the ad server is unable to deliver the code to your browser to display, they don't count that among the impressions that they owe us money on. I'm not going to say what our users should and should not do.  I will simply say that using ad blocking software reduces the amount of money we earn to fund the site.   Pro  cyon  15:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)