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Banner Adverts - Changes

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The company that has been providing our banner ads (Switch Concepts) has gone into administration so I have moved to Snack Media who specialise in online advertising to Sports fans. You will thus see some changes with the banner ads (and the GDPR consent).

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Any chance you can put in a placeholder for the ads before they get loaded, to stop the page jumping around?

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I've got a huge advert at the top of the screen and a huge advert at the bottom of the screen.

All my text has become centralised too

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Me too (on Android, Chrome)

Some ads are big squares
All text centralised

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I'll see what can be done about a placeholder and the centralised text when the square ad is displayed on a mobile.

Any further issues please let me know the specifics incl what browser and device you're using.

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The text align issue is now sorted.

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Do we really need them at the top AND bottom of the page? Virtually no space in the middle.....

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The site is practically unusable today because of the adverts.

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OK, Brazil play Uruguay at the Emirates on Friday, I get it... don’t need it popping up covering the bottom of every thread I click on!

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Large ads are occupying a quarter of the screen and appearing on top of Fiso editorial, posts etc, making the site unreadable. I clicked on Ad Choices and chose never show these adverts, but ads obscuring Fiso editorial are still appearing. I'm using a desktop computer with firefox.

I've no problem with ads appearing on Fiso, but not if they obliterate everything else!

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I'll test with Firefox on my laptop tomorrow. The banner ad code is not working correctly on FISO yet and hope to sort it tomorrow.

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Billy Whiz wrote: 14 Nov 2018, 22:47 Large ads are occupying a quarter of the screen and appearing on top of Fiso editorial, posts etc, making the site unreadable. I clicked on Ad Choices and chose never show these adverts, but ads obscuring Fiso editorial are still appearing. I'm using a desktop computer with firefox.

I've no problem with ads appearing on Fiso, but not if they obliterate everything else!
I've tested with Firefox on my laptop and the larger ads stay in there place above the 'View Latest: etc' link. Are you still finding the ad interferes with the forum content?

It's defintely a problem on mobiles and I'm looking into how to resolve this.

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admin wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 09:43 It's defintely a problem on mobiles and I'm looking into how to resolve this.
An adjustment has been made to the size of the mobile ad.

Please let me know if this hasn't resolved the issue (and what device and browser you're using).

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Still huge on iPad, two giant flat caps obstructing the current posting box... and sodding Brazil v Uruguay still at the foot of every page.

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Tapatalk on my phone is thankfully unchanged and fully useable. Ads are annoying but predictable and consistent from being placed using professional well thought out and implemented software. Unlike the current mess on my PC.

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forestfan wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 18:54 Still huge on iPad, two giant flat caps obstructing the current posting box... and sodding Brazil v Uruguay still at the foot of every page.
Is that on Safari? Is it still a problem after clearing your browser cache? Please confirm and I'll test tomorrow on an iPad.

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murf wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 19:55 Unlike the current mess on my PC.
What browser do you use on your PC? In what way is it a mess? You can always email me a screenshot if easier.

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Still problematic on my iPad as well
Brazil Uruguay now a turn off not a promotion
Up top here’s an example screen grab showing how the top ad covers all the options
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Here’s mine on iPad using Safari. The ad is way too wide for the screen, and also covers the top Few topics.
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This footer banner is awful, can we have it laced into threads as a break instead?

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Just curious but do the ads actually bring in any revenue for FISO? if not, why not simply have an ad free site seeing as at present they are quite problematic for a number of users?

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admin wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 20:36
forestfan wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 18:54 Still huge on iPad, two giant flat caps obstructing the current posting box... and sodding Brazil v Uruguay still at the foot of every page.
Is that on Safari? Is it still a problem after clearing your browser cache? Please confirm and I'll test tomorrow on an iPad.
Exactly as the other examples posted below...

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morganb wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 22:03 Just curious but do the ads actually bring in any revenue for FISO? if not, why not simply have an ad free site seeing as at present they are quite problematic for a number of users?
They do but unsure how much it will be under the new ad provider, Snack Media, who also say they will provide content services to fiso as well. Aim is to sort the ad display problems one by one following the change in ad code.

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forestfan wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 22:46
admin wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 20:36
forestfan wrote: 15 Nov 2018, 18:54 Still huge on iPad, two giant flat caps obstructing the current posting box... and sodding Brazil v Uruguay still at the foot of every page.
Is that on Safari? Is it still a problem after clearing your browser cache? Please confirm and I'll test tomorrow on an iPad.
Exactly as the other examples posted below...
Will look at sorting the Ipad Safari ad display issue as soon as we can.

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Cleared the cache on my ipad mini 4 - still pretty bad.
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Still awful on my laptop - Chrome.

Don't use any other device.

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Hope it's getting sorted soon as currently it makes me feel like not using the site.

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The big bustard at the top seems to have gone... still get the annoying pop-up one at the bottom of the screen.

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Dennisthemenace wrote: 16 Nov 2018, 17:03 Still awful on my laptop - Chrome.

Don't use any other device.
In what way 'awful?

Have tested using latest Chrome on my Windows 10 laptop and adverts behaving correctly.

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admin wrote: 16 Nov 2018, 18:02
Dennisthemenace wrote: 16 Nov 2018, 17:03 Still awful on my laptop - Chrome.

Don't use any other device.
In what way 'awful?

Have tested using latest Chrome on my Windows 10 laptop and adverts behaving correctly.
The top advert covers all the left hand text from 'view' down towards where the time is. It also covers the very top thread i.e when using the latest topics, the very first one in latest topics. There is no X to make it disappear.

The bottom advert has an X which when clicked, doesn't make it disappear. I have to press the second X to make it disappear.

When I switch to the next page, both adverts are back again.

Basically the same as the ajcairns and BSpittles' screenshots above

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