Deffenerst said: haha lol I have never had those type of ADs in MAL , I have porn Advertisements in porn pages just as it should be ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Meanwhile in MAL I only have lolis with insane big tits or kawaii stuff ADs ,I turned off Adblock like 4 month ago but it's too much ADs for me . gonna enable it again :( I always get those as well, evri fecking tiem. |
| I re-enabled AdBlock on this site today after I was redirected to a semi-malicious webpage in the middle of writing a forum post. Lost all of what I had typed. Hadn't clicked on anything. This has happened a couple of times on the MAL homepage where it just redirects me on its own. When that doesn't happen anymore, I'll disable it again. I don't have a problem with MAL ads until they're directly interfering with my business. |
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Ari_the_Lioness said: Also, if they turn this site back into a LISTING site, you know a LISTING site that MyAnimeLIST was before, and get rid of all these damn streaming videos and other useless shit no one asked for then maybe then the server wouldn't be so expensive to host. Yes, somehow anidb works without any annoying ads. |
niliyonca said: I whitelisted mal because the new banner was kawaii & called me senpai =3 Frezlaj said: I don't know what is more annoying, the ads or those anti-adblock messages everywhere. Now I have to choose: ANN, AniDB, Anime-Planet, HummingBird or AniList. Google doesn't need ads, they get paid to put sites at the top of specific search terms. |
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| • What is your biggest complaint with MAL's advertisements? They're unrelated to the site content / ruin the mood. • Which aspect of MAL's ad experience do you think doesn't need improvement (i.e. is good as it is)? Their level of intrusiveness is fine. Not good. But fine. They don't overrun my music or flash hovering over the top of what I'm reading. • Are there any pages on MAL where you don't mind the ads? Are there any pages where you really mind them? No opinion on the matter, so long as they're consistent. • Would you prefer well-placed, in-content advertisements? Or advertisements on the top, sides, and end of the page? Static ads in the page design is the lesser evil. • Which kind of advertisements do you like to see? And conversely, don't? Ones that make sense in the context in which they are shown. Seems straightforward, but.. ya'know. Supporting anime and manga creators might also include advertising their stuff. The products of your partner Tokyo Otaku Mode. Maybe even education institutions offering art/voice-acting courses. Really just anything you could validly-claim has any relevance to the user-base of this site. • If there were an option to subscribe monthly/yearly (by paying money) to both hide advertisements and support MAL, would you? There is, at the time of writing, and I will. • Please let us know your country (or NA/EU/AS, if you don't want to say). Australia. • Any other comments/concerns/suggestions? Reddit is the only site I currently pay for and have my adblocker disabled on at the same time, with the setting set to still show ads. Why would I pay for a site to remove ads only to reenable them? Because I have a genuine interest in supporting that site, and all their ads are in-house and actually of use to me. I don't look away from them, I look at them. If AnimeLab had the option to show ads after paying, that'd be the second such case, because all their ads are for the physical releases of the things they stream, which helps their parent company, Madman, and is of immediate interest to the viewer. I pay for my membership to both mentioned sites annually, because I like the discount, and because I like the feeling that I'm helping secure a more sustainable future for the things that are a part of my daily life. Bear with me. There is a point to this story. I joined MyAnimeList yesterday. I am quick to observe and judge, and in this time I've already made a lifetime commitment to what you're trying to accomplish here. That means, when funds allow, I will commence becoming a MAL Supporter. Permanently. This is to lessen my guilt for cutting your operating income with my adblocker, and to secure your future, in some nigh-insignificant way. Not only that, I like your site so much I'm pretty sure I'll use it every day, and I've already told four people about it IRL since joining yesterday. People who watch anime. But why stop there? If the ads on this site were of use to me, I'd even keep them on after paying (if there was an option). You'd be getting my money, and money from the people you're advertising for. |
Felkyr said: Ones that make sense in the context in which they are shown. Seems straightforward, but.. ya'know. Supporting anime and manga creators might also include advertising their stuff. The products of your partner Tokyo Otaku Mode. Maybe even education institutions offering art/voice-acting courses. Really just anything you could validly-claim has any relevance to the user-base of this site. One of the best things anyone's said in this entire thread. If MAL really thinks keeping ads is that important for the site, doing it in a way like this would be great for everyone involved. |
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| @articshadow561 Mobile or desktop? On all pages or only certain kinds (e.g. anime/forum/news)? And could you please tell me your country. |
| I'm on a Desktop running Firefox, I tried disabling my AdBlock for MAL over the last couple days I've noticed it makes the page lag horribly. The page is constantly refreshing because the ads change and many are video or flash based ads that just eat up bandwith. Many of these ads aren't relevant to the site, like auto ads and the like. I find this is pretty consistent through the entire site which is why I haven't filed any direct ad complaints. I think specialized banner ads that are not intrusive and don't run on scripts or flash based programs are better. It works out just fine for Anime News Network. I'm a subscriber there and I still keep my ad blocker off because their banner ads are actually relevant. |
| My Channel Anime Reviews, Unboxings and More Drak Shadow For LetsPlays and Movie Vlogs |
| I'll actually consider unblocking ads on here if 1) the ads are screened. 2) they aren't links that lead somewhere or flashing or huge 3) they are anime related non hentai ads. I'm the kind of person who clicks around all fast on the computer for no reason, I don't want to accidentally click on an ad that leads me to a porn and/or malware site. I would rather not have to remove viruses from my computer brought on by ads. Thank you. |
| Ads are good |
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| The SmartAds advertisements that constantly load in the background sometimes significantly slow my computer. If it's a poster-type ad that just sits there, I'm not really bothered by the content, subject, color, etc. but when the site freezes for 1-2 seconds multiple times in a minute b/c it's having trouble loading an ad, it makes my experience a lot worse overall :( I overall love your approach to ads, however! |
| Ads are still shit. Unblocked MAL on a whim today and got overwhelmed by the fugly sidebar things. And you expect me to fund this? |
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Saw this while in iPad also, this doesn't show when adblocked so could be a risky click. |
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| God what happened to my old simple anime website where adds didnt even exist lol... |
| i do not have a smartphone but does MAL mobile ads do pop-ups? if so then MAL should removed those since Google will punish them Google will soon start punishing mobile sites that show hard-to-dismiss popups https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/23/good-riddance/ |
RemoveOnlineInfo said: DoctorMole said: Super Annoying huh?Where do I pay to disable it? Come on, these boxes are annoying more than adverts. :o Not just annoying. It's also risky despite all the "measures" MAL tries to take. Once in a while, a shitty ad will get added and if you accidentally click it, gg. Just adblock 24/7, you can't go wrong. |
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| I don't mind ads if they are integrated well into the site. Square boxes in the middle of nowhere is just plain stupid looking though. There doesn't seem to be any structure in where you put them, how they are sized or even what content they contain... |
| @nieknooijens Well said. I think you will like uMatrix as well. Have you tried it yet? I let uBO handle url filtering and use uMatrix to dynamically block domains. It's made by the same developer. |
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| They changed the anti adblock banners from blue to green. @nieknooijens: You are not paranoid by no means. You are just taking step to protect your privacy. I'm going to put Ghostery on my computer with my adblock so it can disable trackers. |
ArillionDec 11, 2016 4:37 PM
| • What is your biggest complaint with MAL's advertisements? The ads are in-content and in the middle of pages • Are there any pages on MAL where you don't mind the ads? Are there any pages where you really mind them? I don't mind them on any page except for viewing lists. • Would you prefer well-placed, in-content advertisements? Or advertisements on the top, sides, and end of the page? in-content advertisements are absolutely horrible. Please put them at the bottom or sides (not at the top either) so that they don't get in the way of the page content. • If there were an option to subscribe monthly/yearly (by paying money) to both hide advertisements and support MAL, would you? If I could pay like 1-2 dollars for -just- removing advertisments (I don't care about any of the extra benefits) I would, but the current price is too much for me for something as simple as advertisements. • Any other comments/concerns/suggestions? Remove in-content ads. • Please let us know your country (or NA/EU/AS, if you don't want to say). US |
| i have adblock on both my desktop and mobile devicese and until fairly recently, i had whitelistwoed MAL from the blocker to support the site even tho the ads are irritating (if i had more money i would donate instead) unfortunatly ive had to completely remove MAL from my list of whitelisted websites on my phone (iphone 7) becuase the ads were so egregious that it rendered the forums completely unusable as i would be redirected to an ad site every time i tried to load the page. |
| The new amazon links for each anime aren't region-friendly and since amazon.com don't deliver to the UK 90% of the time it's useless for me. I wish there was a way to selectively unblock image/link ads but keep blocking flash/script/iframe ads. |
| Better than to get Ads for hentai and lube. Sorry but I don't want to have that sort of shit while I browse. I would rather have a nice green box telling me to cough up money than to see egregious ads. |
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| I've been wanting to whitelist MAL for a while, but there were some adds that annoyed me. I tried pausing it every 2-3 months to see if it was ok, and this was the first time that I didn't find some extremely annoying adds, so I'm whitelisting it. Keep up the good job :D |
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Don't you think auto-playing two same YouTube ads at the same time is a bit excessive?  |
| Signature removed for being too dank. Please follow the signature rules, as defined in the Site & Forum Guidelines |
| What is the point in using this website now if you can no longer show your stuff safely to anyone who doesn't have adblock? -_-; |
| On every page where it's possible I have adds telling me to become a MAL supporter when I already am. Also what's the point of being a MAL supporter if I'm going to see that stupid Managa translation winners banner everywhere. ///paid for no ads still need ad block O.o |
EbianFeb 2, 2017 11:32 PM
Lewd said: On every page where it's possible I have adds telling me to become a MAL supporter when I already am. Also what's the point of being a MAL supporter if I'm going to see that stupid Managa translation winners banner everywhere. ///paid for no ads still need ad block O.o just block it myanimelist.net###headerSmall > .banner-header-anime-straming |
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| I whitelist MAL on my PC, but for some reason when I browse via mobile, my home page doesn't fully loaded if I disable ad-block. Sorry if it keeps going, I'm not disabling it. |
| The mobile ads are really pissing me off. Constant redirect really makes the site unusable. Least on nyaa the ads are relative to the site demographic, ad server must be really shitty for it to be this bad like the JavaScript clickjacking. |
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