| My anti-virus blocked about 10 simultaneous threats while I was loading between pages with adblock on. O.O! This is the second time it happened (the first time it blocked 19 simultaneous threats) and this has only happened while loading pages on MAL. I think it's because I'm clicking on the empty spaces while the page is loading that it thinks I'm clicking the ad URLs before adblock fully kicks in. |
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| I'm not sure if this is really an ad since none of the MAL ads I've seen have done this but it opened a new page. I can't give many details right now since I closed it quickly due to the location I was in. It seems like it was a hentai website and was prompting me to join. I can provide the url later on tonight but I was wondering if this has happened before or if it was random (or even if it somehow isn't MAL related, though I find it unlikely considering this is only site I was on and I know it's not a virus or something). Please let me know, thanks. Edit: I don't know if this is the right topic to post in or if it should be in the specific ad thread but I figured I'd post it here first to get some feedback as to whether what I saw was actually an ad or something different. Page I was on: Transfer Student Storm Bringer Page that opened: It also seems like I might have jumped to a conclusion stating it is about hentai from the images shown but it may just be an explicit site. |
CrocrossAug 17, 2016 7:03 PM
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| I'm gonna be bluntly honest with you here, The ad placements, the content, and the amount of ads are completely bull shit, because not only does it take longer for MAL to load for some, It just honestly paints you guys bad. I'm fine with ads that aren't intrusive and that actually is targeted for the demographic of MAL, EX. Ads for places to buy anime & manga, and other things of that nature, Or hell maybe actually implicate an ad that recommends show/manga and by someone clicking it, it links the person to the actual MAL Page of that show/manga. The placement of ads are horrible, you don't place ads in between content, it just pisses off people. You don't need 4 or 5 ads on a single page. If you do a subscription based way of getting your income, you don't offer anything as incentive to actually sign up, Hummingbird was smart in that regard, because they have a whole lot of incentives to actually make it worth signing up for their membership for $3.99/m. MAL by itself to me isn't worth subscribing to because I can literally document what i watch on another site thats completely ad free like anidb, anilist, etc. Until you bring something worth paying for that others don't offer you won't have my subscription and many other members subscription. You could also do fan funding ask for donations, set a goal for each month and when that goal is reached do a vote, listen to the community and implicate features that they want. That way you meet you requirements for income, and the rest of the Community is happy. Also Merchandise is also a good way to generate income, If you have the right merchandise people will buy it, if you sell MAL related t shirts, if they support the site they'll buy it. So no I won't be disabling my adblock because the ads you put out are shady as fuck. Also it helps to have Mods that specifically specialize in community feedback, thus it would make it a whole lot easier to relay messages from community to Moderators/Admins, I'll even volunteer myself as tribute. TL;DR - There's so many ways of generating income besides ads, If you guys spent time actually thinking of what the best way of going about monetization, instead of putting a shit load of ads that do nothing for the user that only just annoy us and potentially are loaded with viruses etc, you could've been fan funding, added a subscription with benefits, or maybe rolled out some merch. |
whoishellionAug 17, 2016 7:33 PM
ChrisAhoy said: TL;DR - There's so many ways of generating income besides ads, If you guys spent time actually thinking of what the best way of going about monetization, instead of putting a shit load of ads that do nothing for the user that only just annoy us and potentially are loaded with viruses etc, you could've been fan funding, added a subscription with benefits, or maybe rolled out some merch. Community funding would have been perfect. One word - transparency. If they showed how much money they need and for what specifically, and set a target goal for each month/quarter/year, I'm pretty sure people would donate without any qualms. But who wants to be transparent? Adding another ad to the site doesn't require much work... |
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| I've just re-enabled adblock because an ad has just opened in a new tab to some spam website. I'm fine with the little ones on the website itself but I won't tolerate those annoying automatic/random on-click ones that redirect you. If you want me to put up with your ads, get rid of these. I came here to make a general complaint because I don't know how to successfully report an individual ad. It was some porn/hentai site that it redirected me to. |
Mako said: ChrisAhoy said: TL;DR - There's so many ways of generating income besides ads, If you guys spent time actually thinking of what the best way of going about monetization, instead of putting a shit load of ads that do nothing for the user that only just annoy us and potentially are loaded with viruses etc, you could've been fan funding, added a subscription with benefits, or maybe rolled out some merch. Community funding would have been perfect. One word - transparency. If they showed how much money they need and for what specifically, and set a target goal for each month/quarter/year, I'm pretty sure people would donate without any qualms. But who wants to be transparent? Adding another ad to the site doesn't require much work... Thus is why I believe there should be community moderators, that focus solely on getting feedback and being transparent with the the community, It's not hard to fill those roles if you actually get people from the community that actually care about the site wanting to do well. Social Media and Forum mods, are specific mod roles that includes listening to the community, but the reason why this happened is because no one is listening, So community mods probably will have to be a thing in the future for this site, due to the lack of communication. If they did community funding and were transparent, and let us know what updates are to come, or maybe even doing a vote on getting features actually implicated when the goal is met, i'm sure people would support, It's just a matter of the admins understanding this, If you're transparent about what you're going to do with the money and follow through there's no problems. |
whoishellionAug 18, 2016 5:21 PM
| @ChrisAhoy My thoughts exactly. Thank you! So nice to see someone speaking the same language ^^ |
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| Just adding something to this already long list of complaints: Not even Buddha would manage to browse MAL on mobile without losing his patience. You're constantly being redirected to another sites and ads, but they take so long to load that by the time it actually happens you're in the middle of reading comments or writing already, so you end up having to go back and find where you stopped all the time. |
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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. I could not agree mmore with what you've said here. I've never clicked on an ad in my life not going to start now |
| http://cdn.ad4game.com/469272828b012f5dcaee9cd870fe001c.jpg SLUTS GALORE.. So damn annoying  that's why i will use adblock, however, if you run a wikipedia style donations request we'll gladly help out a bit. mind use anime folk are usually poor as well ahha. |
| I think the main issue with the ads on MAL is the content; not only is most of it not directly anime-, manga-, or voice actor-related, but some of them are...well, not exactly suitable for minors. Yeah, I know that sounds ridiculous coming from an average MAL user, but think of the children. This isn't helping MAL's image as it is. The idea of offering some sort of premium subscription does sound enticing, though I'd be at least somewhat concerned about where the money will go, and not too many users would actually use it anyway. |
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| And this is the reason why adblockers are so popular so many popup ads, flashy ads that are literally in your face and the worst of them all are ads that redirect you even when you dont click on them especially for phones because they always use the same tab to redirect you which takes you away from the MAL website. The most annoying ads i have seen on mobile are ones that make your phone vibrate and say random stuff like "A virus has been detected download so and so antivirus" throught your own phone speaker/headphones i mean who in the right mind would allow web browsers to accept vibration functions from random websites! |
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Tulicloure said: Just adding something to this already long list of complaints: Not even Buddha would manage to browse MAL on mobile without losing his patience. You're constantly being redirected to another sites and ads, but they take so long to load that by the time it actually happens you're in the middle of reading comments or writing already, so you end up having to go back and find where you stopped all the time. Just use mobile for updating your list. That's what I do. |
Drunk_Samurai said: Tulicloure said: Just adding something to this already long list of complaints: Not even Buddha would manage to browse MAL on mobile without losing his patience. You're constantly being redirected to another sites and ads, but they take so long to load that by the time it actually happens you're in the middle of reading comments or writing already, so you end up having to go back and find where you stopped all the time. Just use mobile for updating your list. That's what I do. Yeah, I don't even use mobile stuff much. It just happens that sometimes I see an interesting link in MAL's facebook page, while idly scanning through my feed, and fail to hold myself from clicking on it. Instant and certain regret every time. |
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| Yeah sorry but 2 video ads and a flashy huge side panel ad sucking up bandwidth isn't my idea of "fun". I use the internet to get away from everyday ads you see on TV, Newspapers, and Billboards.. Why must why the internet must have ads too? And if so why ones very unnecessary at unnecessary moments? I don't need a hot Russian milf who wants to fuck in my area, when my niece is sitting next to me wanting to look at the computer... |
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| By a huge margin, my problem with your ads is performance. When I disable ad-block, my browser gets brought to its knees. Frequent warnings about Flash or scripts not responding. Just unbearably slow performance. It makes the site almost unusable. Firefox ver. 47.01 with Win 10, running on Core i7 @ 2.7GHz |
| I'd rather pay $1 every month but I don't want to see a single ad. Please give us some kind of possibility to disable ads without using ad-block. I know maintaining a site is not free and working on it takes time too (and as we all know, time = $$$), so that is why I'm asking you guys to come up with some kind of "support us with some money so you won't see ads on the site" solution. |
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| Srry Senpai. I just have it on for utube ads and annoying pop up ads. Cant be bothered disabling and enabling it again :3 |
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| It's been three months. When are you going to realize that there are many people in this thread wanting to give your their money and open up a donations system so you don't need to resort to these clearly unwanted ads? |
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| I keep getting redirected to a new page on my mobile every 10 seconds. Ruining my experience on MAL. |
| 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. And maybe people will also be more inclined to help you out and unblock ads if you actually start listening to us. Like a lot of people want their profiles back to how they were before or at least have the option of turning it back, but you guys aren't listening but you expect us to unblock ads on our computers to support you? Yeah, sorry, that's a no. What's the point? They ain't coming back to this thread. |
| • What is your biggest complaint with MAL's advertisements? I had disabled adblock for about 2 months. Honestly the ads themselves were fine but the overall performance of my browser was really rough. Any page I was on was frequently refreshing, and other tabs or windows actually became laggy. I've turned adblock back on and performance overall seems to have improved. My pc isn't top of the line but was built about 6 months ago with fairly powerful parts (i5-6600k, 16GB ram, 500GB SSD, Radeon R9 390). So the fact that MAL's ads had that much of an impact is really impressive. • Which aspect of MAL's ad experience do you think doesn't need improvement (i.e. is good as it is)? I didn't really mind the ad's themselves. And I do think they were at least somewhat targeting the user base relatively well. • Are there any pages on MAL where you don't mind the ads? Are there any pages where you really mind them? Probably the #1 place I don't want to seem them is on the actual Anime List and Manga List. A lot of people put a lot of time into customizing and designing those lists, and any ad would really detract from them. I don't really mind seeing them anywhere else really. • Would you prefer well-placed, in-content advertisements? Or advertisements on the top, sides, and end of the page? Eh no real preference. • Which kind of advertisements do you like to see? And conversely, don't? Like to see something relevant. Don't like to see something distracting. • If there were an option to subscribe monthly/yearly (by paying money) to both hide advertisements and support MAL, would you? Possibly. Depends on the price, and what all is included in the subscription. But I wouldn't mind contributing to MAL in some form if it meant keeping the lights on. 8 years of use is a long time. • Any other comments/concerns/suggestions? You fix the performance issues and I'll whitelist MAL again. I'll try it out every couple weeks to see if there are any improvements. • Please let us know your country (or NA/EU/AS, if you don't want to say). NA |
worldeditor11 said: Guys, you can stop complaining now. By coughing up 3 dollars per month you can get an ad free site and more! https://myanimelist.net/membership Finally! |
worldeditor11 said: Guys, you can stop complaining now. By coughing up 3 dollars per month you can get an ad free site and more! https://myanimelist.net/membership Brilliant, thanks for the link! As an aside, I've been getting some redirect ads on the mobile version of the site over the past week or so: basically I'll load a page on MAL, and then after about 2 or 3 seconds, without pressing anything, I'll start getting stuck in a redirect chain of ads. Probably happens with about 1 in 20ish pages, as a rough guess. Has anyone else experienced this? |
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Fasolt said: worldeditor11 said: Guys, you can stop complaining now. By coughing up 3 dollars per month you can get an ad free site and more! https://myanimelist.net/membership Brilliant, thanks for the link! As an aside, I've been getting some redirect ads on the mobile version of the site over the past week or so: basically I'll load a page on MAL, and then after about 2 or 3 seconds, without pressing anything, I'll start getting stuck in a redirect chain of ads. Probably happens with about 1 in 20ish pages, as a rough guess. Has anyone else experienced this? Yeah, I mentioned it in the last page (#1091). And that one wouldn't be solved for me if I decided to pay for membership, since I only access the site from mobile once in forever from a Facebook link or something, so it wouldn't keep me logged in. |
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 I remember why I turned it on on MAL now. Ill keep it off just to support you but am I the only guy who doesnt like how russians look? |
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Tulicloure said: Fasolt said: As an aside, I've been getting some redirect ads on the mobile version of the site over the past week or so: basically I'll load a page on MAL, and then after about 2 or 3 seconds, without pressing anything, I'll start getting stuck in a redirect chain of ads. Probably happens with about 1 in 20ish pages, as a rough guess. Has anyone else experienced this? Yeah, I mentioned it in the last page (#1091). And that one wouldn't be solved for me if I decided to pay for membership, since I only access the site from mobile once in forever from a Facebook link or something, so it wouldn't keep me logged in. Ah, sorry, I haven't been keeping up with the thread in its entirety. I definitely think that redirect ads should be a no-go, for all members regardless of supporter status; they cross the line from annoying to making the site unusable. I probably use the site more on my mobile than laptop, so I don't have a problem with not being kept logged in, but this really is something that needs to stop for all users. Redirect ads are the worst. |
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Fasolt said: Tulicloure said: Yeah, I mentioned it in the last page (#1091). And that one wouldn't be solved for me if I decided to pay for membership, since I only access the site from mobile once in forever from a Facebook link or something, so it wouldn't keep me logged in. Ah, sorry, I haven't been keeping up with the thread in its entirety. I definitely think that redirect ads should be a no-go, for all members regardless of supporter status; they cross the line from annoying to making the site unusable. I probably use the site more on my mobile than laptop, so I don't have a problem with not being kept logged in, but this really is something that needs to stop for all users. Redirect ads are the worst. No need to say you're sorry, lol. It's a 23-page thread, so I wouldn't expect people to read all of it. |
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worldeditor11 said: Doesn't solve the issue of MAL not giving a damn about placing virus infested porno ads on their site for everyone not logged into a 'subscription-paid-account'. Making a membership like that only fixes the issue of adding more money to MAL, but nothing about the issues brought up about the adverts that are obviously here to stay. So majority of users will still have to use adblock to prevent being riddled with viruses.Guys, you can stop complaining now. By coughing up 3 dollars per month you can get an ad free site and more! https://myanimelist.net/membership MAL still needs to ensure their ads are safe and virus-free, safe for work, don't play loud sounds automaticcally, and don't redirect you to other sites. |
KobySep 16, 2016 7:33 PM
| God, mobile site is atrocious, one redirect after another. |
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Feniksrises said: Ublock origin: 149,636 network filters ＋ 63,427 cosmetic filters including adblock warning removal list and anti-adblock killer. Would you like to play a game of global adblocking war? I'd rather play some chess. |
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| Thus far, ads are fairly non-intrusive on Edge browser. I've noticed some blank spaces instead of ads though so I think some are being blocked. As well as pop-ups. I don't mind the split ad on the left/right edges of the screen, in fact I like that because it makes it easier to read. I haven't encountered any explicit or video ads yet, although I did only just update to Windows 10 so the browser probably needs a while to try and track me down first. |
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| Like I said in the other thread. I can't even go an hour without getting bombarded with a malware ad. It's been months since you posted this thread and the same reported ads are still causing problems. Another major issue is pages force refresh everytime I go back to that tab and that is completely unacceptable. Webpages in 2016 are already bloated and slow enough but when ads make the page even slower that's a problem. |
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 :( |
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