I also noted the new advertisng pop up and find it annoying.

However, this “free” website which I find interesting in general must carry significant costs to produce and maintain  At the moment I accept the advertising to have access to the forum.

I’m sure I’m not alone in this view.

Jim

You don’t have to put up with irritating popups – I use Firefox with an adblocker add-on and I don’t get any of them.

Hi, while averts are needed, they should relate to the hobby in my opinion, but these pop-ups that keep coming up in the replies at the bottom are getting really annoying, and I think it will put off a lot of people from posting, including myself, please take them off before it destroys the forum altogether. My add blocker doesn’t seem to stop them.

Regards Nick.

Thanks, Michael, I’ll give it a go later, though whether it will work with Firefox or just Safari is a moot point.

John

A lot of the pop-ups from the bottom appear to be pure “click-bait” rather than adverts.

Robert.

You can tell Google it is “inappropriate” or simply close it, but I think Google just ignores us.

Yes, the site and its host needs an income but at least let’s have advertisements relevant to to the site generally, not idiocy about toilet-rolls and scam Korean dating-sites.

I regret to say Google does not take any notice of your choices. Thus left with only one choice I shall visit the site even less.

Regards

Gray,

Given that the site hosts need income from advertising, can they be asked to provide only engineering-themed ones? Not necessarily only model-engineering suppliers, as I doubt most of them could afford it anyway, but least the larger stockists of tools and materials. The larger fasteners and transmission-parts retailers, for example, as long as they sell to private customers, not only the trade.

I’d rather see an ad even for, say, B&Q, ToolStation or Halfords than the idiocy some clown in California wants publicised.

Also, if we use advertisement blockers (which will affect our legitimate suppliers as well as Goggle’s inane rubbish) does that affect the site’s income? We don’t want it starved of cash, but do want the choice of not being shown ads for ready-mixed concrete and the wrong sort of “models”.

Just as I typed “clown in California” that stupid thing about bog seats appeared again. It does not matter what response you give to stop it, Google is too arrogant and cowardly to accept your request. Oh, it’s just switched to an ad for Starlink… I selected the ad’s three little dots sign. It opens a page supposedly offering you the choice to block that ad, but that itself is a lie. One sentence later and we’re back to a strange thing supposedly about IQ Tests. May be the actual IT test is whether you are foolish enough to open it…..

Although my Adblock has, so far, protected me from this assault … I am disgusted to learn that Kelsey is hosting adverts for [as Nigel puts it]  the wrong sort of “models”

This is surely supposed to be a family-friendly hobby, and the website should reflect those values.

Wake-up to what you are doing, Kelsey Media Ltd !

MichaelG.

Terms written presumably by some cowardly, £1000-an-hour solicitor to avoid any responsibility and even to avoid caring about the site’s users. I do not believe it impossible for Kelsey Media to choose what ads it will accept, and to control the third-party links it allows.

It is impossible to blank these ads out without a blocker that will also of course block the ones we may want, such as that for Amadeal presently displayed below this reply panel.

Google has no shame whatsoever. If you choose any of the four “feedback” options it offers, it not only refuses to obey your request, it responds with “Ad closed by Google” (it will re-appear ere long), and:

  Thanks. Feedback improves Google ads.

meaning, “We will continue to plaster your site with whatever irrelevant rubbish we want because we don’t care about you, only about making money for us”.

Who are Kelsey? It is a British firm (makes a change!), and Companies House tells us:

Nature of business (SIC)
58110 – Book publishing
58142 – Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals
93290 – Other amusement and recreation activities not elsewhere classified

Perhaps Number 93290 covers the wrong sort of models….

Yes, I get the advertising argument – the bit that I object to is that my subscription seems to be helping to platform businesses making money from sexual exploitation.

Maybe it is the time of day some people visit as I have not see ones that offend. I don’t visit in the middle of the night like some here, infact I usually switch the PC off just before 9.00. These adds are time specific so quite possibly you are seeing content that just like the TV is after a watershed.

It is also possible to personalise what Google serves up to you so maybe try doing that and see if any offending content stops or at least reduces.

I also mentioned in another thread that Google can serve ads based on your own web activity.