| I'd like to disable, because I get it... So I just did, and suddenly a man in an ad I couldn't immediately find started hollering... For me this is a larger issue than usual. Is there a way to allow ads but not sudden noise from them? |
jc9622 said: Haha you want me to disable my Adblock just to support your shitty ass site? No way in hell. I'll keep using my Adblock and you can't stop me! wait until you see a girl who is stuck in a wall hole getting raped banner ad |
| Sincerely, I want to support the website and I HATE ads, so please give an option to contribute, I will follow <3 |
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| I have it disabled for mal but can we get rid of the hentai ads. They are annoying. I would much rather have a donate button where I can donate money to MAL directly and not have to see ads. Mod Edit: Merged duplicated posts; please use the edit button. |
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| Adblock has a feature that doesnt block non intrusive ads. Since all of them are still blocked on my browser, im guessing they are probably annoying and intrusive as fuck. |
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| One ad per page, and it should be at the bottom of the page and only then we might discuss about turning off adblock. And the most important thing, they mustn't install COOKIES. I turned off adblock and reloaded this page and... Surprise! 200 cookies installed in my browser. Thank you for selling my privacy to unknown ads companies. |
You know what, forget that! what is this?! NSFW shotacon whatever I've seen literal 12-13 y/o kids use this website so you may want to do something about this. |
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Daw11 said: One ad per page, and it should be at the bottom of the page and only then we might discuss about turning off adblock. And the most important thing, they mustn't install COOKIES. I turned off adblock and reloaded this page and... Surprise! 200 cookies installed in my browser. Thank you for selling my privacy to unknown ads companies. are they really selling us to japanese hentai sites lol |
| I won't ever allow Ads on any Page on my Windows Computer for Security Reasons (see Malvertising), but I don't mind having them displayed on my Iphone, as it's much securer due to having sandboxed Apps and being a Niche System. The only Thing that needs Improvement from my Point of View is to get rid of every Redirect Ad. |
ultravigo said: Daw11 said: One ad per page, and it should be at the bottom of the page and only then we might discuss about turning off adblock. And the most important thing, they mustn't install COOKIES. I turned off adblock and reloaded this page and... Surprise! 200 cookies installed in my browser. Thank you for selling my privacy to unknown ads companies. are they really selling us to japanese hentai sites lol They know everything! http://mybrowserinfo.com/detail.asp |
| Yeah, uh, ads + cookies is a very bad mix. No thanks. worldeditor11 said: I refuse to support. Not because I hate ads, because the people I am supposedly supporting cared virtually nothing about me. And the need to hire devs for both site maintenance and development is flimsy at best. One must realised there are MAL users who are willing to submit their codes for free in both past and present. The profile page with users submitting content fixes within hours since announcement. User scripts that make the site more bearable to use. The ever useful MALGraph with its own server cost. They are all free and done in most cases, by one user in the site. Yet, they are brushed off like dust on the floor. Completely agree. I've said multiple times I'll fix all the database errors (I have a list!) amongst other things but no. That's apparently not good enough or something. It's not like there's any incentive for users to not block ads, either. We're not getting anything out of it. |
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| You know what? Your blue thingy is still less irritating than those stupid ads, popping up everywhere. So I will still use adblock, and will try to get used to these new "clever" innovations of the MAL staff. |
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worldeditor11 said: I refuse to support. Not because I hate ads, because the people I am supposedly supporting cared virtually nothing about me. And the need to hire devs for both site maintenance and development is flimsy at best. One must realised there are MAL users who are willing to submit their codes for free in both past and present. The profile page with users submitting content fixes within hours since announcement. User scripts that make the site more bearable to use. The ever useful MALGraph with its own server cost. They are all free and done in most cases, by one user in the site. Yet, they are brushed off like dust on the floor. +1 Plus most of the time the stuff they spend so much time developing is worthless or even unwanted by the majority of the users. If they want our support, then they have to make us feel like our input counts, not just when it's convenient for them. |
NarmyMay 23, 2016 3:49 PM
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| The side banner ads that push the whole website in a little are annoying and so are the autoplay video ads that say shit I don't want to hear in an incredibly choppy and annoying way. The ads telling me where anime DVDs and figures when I go to their page are fine. |
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worldeditor11 said: I refuse to support. Not because I hate ads, because the people I am supposedly supporting cared virtually nothing about me. And the need to hire devs for both site maintenance and development is flimsy at best. One must realised there are MAL users who are willing to submit their codes for free in both past and present. The profile page with users submitting content fixes within hours since announcement. User scripts that make the site more bearable to use. The ever useful MALGraph with its own server cost. They are all free and done in most cases, by one user in the site. Yet, they are brushed off like dust on the floor. Very well written, completely agree by that statement. But alas MAL don't care about feedback, if they have a goal in mind they will go through it without any of our concern, their way or the highway. |
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korogoro said: You know what, forget that! what is this?! NSFW shotacon whatever I've seen literal 12-13 y/o kids use this website so you may want to do something about this. Good taste tho, Higuma draws the best shota doujins. |
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| I would be fine disabling adblock if there were no side ads and the hentai ads were removed. I really cannot understand how mal staff expect me to disable ads if I run the risk of seeing pedo-ish skeevy doujin ads everywhere. |
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| The reason I got an adblock was because of mal. I got sent to a malware site once, and lots of the other ads are intrusive. If MAL makes its ads more user-friendly, then maybe I'll white list it. Smaller, less intrusive ads are the way to go. No NSFW, intrusive, or unintelligible things. Ads are supposed to make people want to buy something, if somethings's in Japanese or looks sketchy where I won't click on it, then no one is going to benefit from it (I think ads give revenue when someone clicks on them?) |
YokuneSanMay 23, 2016 4:09 PM
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| Spamming the site with ads is just stupid, you should instead do what you did with Crunchyroll and Hulu and integrate an ads that links to a legal way to purchase the anime and manga we are curently browsing on this site. Can't you make a deal with Amazon or some other big manga and anime seller? If someone go to amazon from a link on MaL and buy a manga or anime from it then you get a bit of money. |
Daw11May 23, 2016 4:47 PM
Daw11 said: Spamming the site with ads is just stupid, you should instead do what you did with Crunchyroll and Hulu and integrate an ads that links to legal away to purchase the anime and manga we are curently browsing on this site. Can't you make a deal with Amazon or some other big manga and anime seller? If someone go to amazon from a link on MaL and buy a manga or anime from it then you get a bit of money. While I think this is a good idea in theory, wouldn't it be hard to tailor it to a user's specific country? In some countries anime/manga aren't widely available either. I know you could track someone's IP address, but I mean more finding a service that's available as worldwide as possible. |
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| If you're coming in here to ask how to disable the "new boxes", don't. This thread isn't your support board. There's a support board already with people posting such stuff. |
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worldeditor11 said: I refuse to support. Not because I hate ads, because the people I am supposedly supporting cared virtually nothing about me. And the need to hire devs for both site maintenance and development is flimsy at best. One must realised there are MAL users who are willing to submit their codes for free in both past and present. The profile page with users submitting content fixes within hours since announcement. User scripts that make the site more bearable to use. The ever useful MALGraph with its own server cost. They are all free and done in most cases, by one user in the site. Yet, they are brushed off like dust on the floor. well i do not completely disagree but MAL is affected by business politics i bet so they do not take a lot of feedback from users and development help from users as well if only MAL is still owned by Xinil himself then im sure user feedback and programming code feedbacks will still be considered more |
| Nope, I as a consumer choose to enable ad-blocking. MAL isn't immune to the crappy ads that infest like other websites, especially on mobile devices where it redirects to the app store and goes one popup after the other. I have no websites on the whitelist, if websites block me from accessing content just because of my adblocker being on like Forbes, Fuck You I'm leaving. Call me selfish but that's my stance. |
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| I don't mind ads as long as they aren't annoying. My biggest problems are the ads on the mobile site that send the page through multiple redirects (forcibly leaving the MAL site) ending in some kind of android malware popup. This usually happens in the discussion forums and I am forced to close out the page and try going there again hoping for normal ads. |
| Looks like it is time for my to edit my adblock to block those Notice us senpai things. I've been a member since 2008 and I haven't seen why I should disable my adblocker since 2009. Thanks for adding something else for me to block. |
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Zazie122 said: Daw11 said: Spamming the site with ads is just stupid, you should instead do what you did with Crunchyroll and Hulu and integrate an ads that links to legal away to purchase the anime and manga we are curently browsing on this site. Can't you make a deal with Amazon or some other big manga and anime seller? If someone go to amazon from a link on MaL and buy a manga or anime from it then you get a bit of money. While I think this is a good idea in theory, wouldn't it be hard to tailor it to a user's specific country? In some countries anime/manga aren't widely available either. I know you could track someone's IP address, but I mean more finding a service that's available as worldwide as possible. Amazon is pretty worldwide, they are alredy localizing with the IP chrunchyroll and Hulu's videos. I'm sure that a big BUY IT! button inside the details page of the anime and manga will push more people to legally purchase them. |
Daw11May 23, 2016 4:34 PM
| I had it enabled because safari on my iPhone would crawl to a stop due to some big ads on individual show's pages. They seem to be gone now though Added to whitelist |
• What is your biggest complaint with MAL's advertisements? The amount. • Would you prefer well-placed, in-content advertisements? Or advertisements on the top, sides, and end of the page? Doesn't matter for me if the ads are well-placed or in-content with the page. I'd rather only have ads at the end and top. Click the spoiler to see what I would prefer. !!WARNING, BIG PICTURE!! • If there were an option to subscribe monthly/yearly (by paying money) to both hide advertisements and support MAL, would you? Depends on how much. • Please let us know your country (or NA/EU/AS, if you don't want to say). Sweden. |
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| I am agreeing to what the other people are saying, that we are getting those Japanese ads that is very NSFW, ads that play sound (Febreze is the last thing I remember), and eating up so much space. Having a lot of ads also slows down the loading time of the page, and they will always load before we see the content that we want. MAL, just like what other sites is experiencing, should focus on improving the user experience instead of spamming almost every page here in MAL with ads. Ad blocking software are used by a lot of people, and people who generate business with ads should also adapt. I am not saying ads are bad, but if that is always what we see first before the content that we want, it can turn a lot of people away and just use ad block. For placement, it should always be placed at the bottom, but if bottom is not enough, it should be placed in non-obstructive position, like the one in the panel page on right hand side. Til then, my adblock stays in place, the blue banners that became placeholders for ads is still way better to see than seeing ads. |
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| Oh wow those video ads aren't actually gone lol. Just encountered one and it immediately started slowing everything down until the page froze. Sorry but I'm either using Adblock or just leaving the site entirely and using anidb instead. Not sure which you'd prefer. |
| Banners ? What banners? *blacklists banner elements* |
Fiji said: That's strange. I've tested multiple pages and the ads are always the last thing to load for me.I am agreeing to what the other people are saying, that we are getting those Japanese ads that is very NSFW, ads that play sound (Febreze is the last thing I remember), and eating up so much space. Having a lot of ads also slows down the loading time of the page, and they will always load before we see the content that we want. MAL, just like what other sites is experiencing, should focus on improving the user experience instead of spamming almost every page here in MAL with ads. Ad blocking software are used by a lot of people, and people who generate business with ads should also adapt. I am not saying ads are bad, but if that is always what we see first before the content that we want, it can turn a lot of people away and just use ad block. |
| I would have considered disabling it, but since you instead chose to clutter my screen with annoying banners, then it'll remain enabled for good. This is not how you force a change. |
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| I'm not going to risk getting viruses and malware just to support MAL's unnecessary website changes. Sorry. I've already had to sacrifice a laptop over shitty ads in the past. |
| I don't usually allow ads since it is a vector for attack (i've gotten fake "your Nexus 6p is infected with a Virus!" pop ups in the mobile page from this site more times then I can count). Offer a premium account option for like 20 bucks and id be game instantly, especially if it covers your login for the mobile page (which is traditionally more trouble then its worth to block adds on). The only way I view ads are when they are custom ads hosted by the specific site like how MMO Champion does it. They find a partner and make a background image themselves and host it on their site. Adblockers wont even block those as it is custom site specific content. Its not that people don't want to support your site, and its not that they don't trust you. People just don't trust 3rd party add networks that are in total control of the content they can display on your page without your approval first. Seriously, let people give you money for premium access/site support. Then anyone not supporting the site and still blocking adds you will have every right to be mad at. |
BaronKrauseMay 23, 2016 5:52 PM
| Yeah, pissing off people with your "Pl-please disable ads" banners is surely going to make them stop using adblockers... I won't take adblock off since these banners are still better than the ads, kek.  |
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| • What is your biggest complaint with MAL's advertisements? This isn't about MAL in particular, but ADs that load from third-party domains have a greater chance of being unsafe and are used for tracking purposes. I use adblockers not only because of annoying ads, but for a safer and more privacy aware browsing. Now, as for MAL in particular, this website does have a bad history of being repeatedly hacked and exposing users to risk, so all the more reason to. • Would you prefer well-placed, in-content advertisements? Or advertisements on the top, sides, and end of the page? Top, sides and end for reasonably sized screens. • If there were an option to subscribe monthly/yearly (by paying money) to both hide advertisements and support MAL, would you? Depending on price. • Any other comments/concerns/suggestions? Suggestion: instead of placing these big blue boxes with a warning all around (which can and will be just as easily blocked), message members who are detected to be using adblockers with a well made description of why it is important for users to unblock ads, why MAL needs it (with numbers, i.e. how much are you spending and how much you need to make to keep this site afloat and staff paid). Seeing MAL has monetized on other areas lately (i.e. streams), users may not feel like you really need ads to run this in the first place. Remember, trying to shove ads (or annoying, intrusive warning boxes) onto users is a lost battle, so try persuading them instead. Lastly: host ads yourself. Any safety aware user who blocks 3rd party js by default will not see ads as it is here. • Please let us know your country (or NA/EU/AS, if you don't want to say). SA |
| I've been getting redirected a lot recently (like every other page I visit sometimes) when I browse with my phone. This happens mostly when I'm on club pages and their comments sections. I can't see why you guys are asking for this when your ads are being shoved down my throat. I would seriously like to see something done about this. |
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| Obnoxious banners don't make me want to turn off adblock, especially when they're better than the ads anyway. |
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| Just asking, how exactly does MAL make money off ads? Do companies pay via number of clicks or do companies just pay a set fee [The amount of clicks is irrelevant, they're paying for being exposed on a popular website]. If the first, I don't know how many people would actually click on these ads for MAL to make enough money. I would doubt it's enough. If the latter, then it should be OK to use adblock. |
| “Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete..." -Alphonse Elric "Then and now, what I protect has never changed!" -Sakata Gintoki I'll take anything like The Pet Girl of Sakurasou. Anything as good as that. |
korogoro said: You know what, forget that! what is this?! NSFW shotacon whatever I've seen literal 12-13 y/o kids use this website so you may want to do something about this. Now I kind of feel like disabling adblock... |
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