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Originally posted by Danny252@Oct 2 2005, 06:30 PM
What about people with ad blockers?I have some sort of one on my other pc and I dunno how to turn that off.
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Hi everyone!
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Phew, 19 pages of discussion and I was seriously wondering what it was all about.
Ads? On Abandonia? No, had never seen one or at least couldn't remember. So checked again the main page and the forum, but no signs of something missing. Neither experienced a broken layout, nor found any "[AD]" substitutions by any popup blocker.
I'm using Firefox 1.5 and/or IE without additional extensions/plugins.
The only popup blocker that I have is built into my firewall (Outpost). But this one usually replaces advertising images with the mentioned "[AD]" text. Also there is a whitelist to exclude trusted sites and I had previously added abandonia.com to it!
By disabling the popup blocker or removing "googlesyndication" from the blocklist the ads would eventually show up. So obviously both the whitelist and the text substitution failed.
This is too bad because the only solution seems to be to permanently remove "googlesyndication" from the blocklist. That means that those google ads will chase me everywhere I go not only on Abandonia... Sigh, I don't like that! Hopefully I will find another solution for that problem soon.
To sum it all up: More and more "internet security" solutions have built-in popup blockers. Many user don't even know and care about this as long as everything works fine in automatic mode. I don't think that you can do anything about it.
But as those blocked ads literally vanish without any trace, it would help to know when and where those ads have actually been removed.
So is my suggestion: enclose all ads in a visual frame, add a border or something. Just enough to clearly show the visitors/users if the content (i.e. the advertising image) is missing!
To be honest: I read those hints ("Please support us by donating or clicking on the ads above!") on the download page but I skipped with the notion of it just being some sort of left-over from past times as I did't see any ads... Shame on me!
Anyway, keep up your great work!
As a big and long-time fan of classic gaming, I will look to how I can support you in the future. :bye: