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> Please tell me how I can make the ads less intrusive. Can you show me the visual demarcation on your page between the ad and your content? > > Do note that

by k3n 13y ago

> Please tell me how I can make the ads less intrusive. Can you show me the visual demarcation on your page between the ad and your content? > > Do note that imgur doesn't have any ads on imgur.com. > ...yes they do. My mistake, one of my extensions blocked it. However, a few things to note about their ad vs. yours, which contributes to my perception of your page being confusioning (and making it look less reputable): * imgur's ad is below-the-fold, while yours is not. That inherently makes theirs more of a 2nd-class citizen, while for yours the ad is a 1st-class citizen. * imgur's is in it's own, well-defined UI element; a bounded box clearly separated from all other content on the page. As hinted above, yours allows the ad to flow into the rest of the page, and it even borrows the main color (blue) that your page uses. Any demarcation is only virtual, as there is no visual distinction, and I'm not sure if you could blend the ad into the page any better if you tried... * imgur's even says "advertisement" underneath, so as to remove practically any chance of confusion. Yours has "click here to disable ads", but that alone doesn't explicitly call out the content as being an ad. Please don't take my criticisms personally.

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
I can look into making the ads more obviously ads. There's not really another place to put them in our layout, though. And for the record, we have a button that makes ads go away forever. I think that nullifies anything about ads being 1st class citezens.
- k3n 13y ago
  Does everyone get the ad that I did? I think what confused me was that it blended into the site so unobtrusively, and I know that's a fine line and hard to work with. Overall though, the rest of my experience was solid. It's really cool that you can disable ads, and that it's open-source to boot. Best of luck and good weekend!
  - Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
    It's Google Ads. We aren't entirely in control of what ads you get (we hope to move to our own ad system in the future, but we aren't big enough). By the way, I pushed some updates today, including one that makes ads more obviously ads. Tell me what you think, and a good weekend to you, too!

by k3n 13y ago

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago

I can look into making the ads more obviously ads. There's not really another place to put them in our layout, though. And for the record, we have a button that makes ads go away forever. I think that nullifies anything about ads being 1st class citezens.

k3n 13y ago
Does everyone get the ad that I did? I think what confused me was that it blended into the site so unobtrusively, and I know that's a fine line and hard to work with. Overall though, the rest of my experience was solid. It's really cool that you can disable ads, and that it's open-source to boot. Best of luck and good weekend!
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
  It's Google Ads. We aren't entirely in control of what ads you get (we hope to move to our own ad system in the future, but we aren't big enough). By the way, I pushed some updates today, including one that makes ads more obviously ads. Tell me what you think, and a good weekend to you, too!