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bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	Sep 9 2009, 7:45am Anchor
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	Alright, so first off there's the adverts that are on the video player. Now, I understand that advert help pay for ModDB's bills, but an advert plays for every single video played. Sometimes it gets to a point where I don't feel like viewing the rest of a person's media all because of a very persistent advert. Maybe ModDB can use a system similar to what GameSpot does, where they randomly select to display a advert or not (or they show a advert after every 5 videos, I don't know, I'm not the coder for that stuff). Now, I'm sure some people wouldn't mind the adverts playing in the video player, but there's another kind of advert that just completely gets to me. On the side bar an advert would start playing it's music without any input from myself, I believe it was some movie trailer. This kind of advert just annoys the heck out of me because I don't want sound randomly playing out of my speakers when I'm browsing through ModDB. Maybe I'm just annoyed from seeing too many instances of the same advert within a short amount of time, but I really don't think an advert should inject it's own audio without any input from me. Edited by: bluefire40
lodle I am Lodle I pwn Henley.	Sep 9 2009, 8:11am Anchor
lodle I am Lodle I pwn Henley.	The problem is that most the moddb team lives in Australia and we get a different set of ads than the states. We have told the advertisers that we dont want audio ads (and annoying ads) so if you see any can you please take a screen shot and the url the ad points to so we can get it removed. Contact us using the link at the bottom of the page. -- "To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off."
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	Sep 9 2009, 9:17am Anchor
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	Personally, I'm also finding the adverts before videos a little annoying too. Some videos (for example, a demo walk-cycle) are around fifteen seconds long. Some of the adverts are as long as a minute. I don't want to watch a minute long advert for every fifteen seconds of actual content - in fact I'm finding that I've not watched any videos on the site now for quite some time - nor uploaded any.
kinesis916 King Of My Bedroom	Sep 9 2009, 11:31am Anchor
kinesis916 King Of My Bedroom	Wow I must be lucky, I have yet to get an advert before a video. As a whole though the only ads that I find annoying are the flashing ones. Aside from being distacting, most of them are just plain naff. -- Portfolio Give me a job, NOW! Please.
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	Sep 9 2009, 12:13pm Anchor
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	I'm also laughing at an advert in German right now. I'm in England. Stayfriends: Schulfreunde wiederfinden!
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	Sep 9 2009, 12:27pm Anchor
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	You ever had a time when you mention something that happens a lot around you, and when you try to show them it, it never comes? Yeah, that's kind of happening to me right now. The advert was for the DVD version of the Wolverine movie or whatever. That was the one that played it's audio automatically. Maybe if I stop searching for it, it'll pop up again... -- Generic linking to my mod, In Development.
O N L I N E metalspy \m/	Sep 9 2009, 12:34pm Anchor
O N L I N E metalspy \m/	bluefire40 wrote:You ever had a time when you mention something that happens a lot around you, and when you try to show them it, it never comes? Maybe if I stop searching for it, it'll pop up again... Haha that happens to me a lot! I always have an ad of some kind of online casino or something, it makes a little sound which I got used to.. but the first couple of times I kept searching where that sound was coming from -.- I don't have vid-ads yet A while ago I read that people from other countries also get ads on YouTube before they could see their video, while I never had any... and the same week I did have one. Blah it's annyoing as hell. --
Midnitte Visual Prophet	Sep 9 2009, 1:36pm Anchor
Midnitte Visual Prophet	ORIGINS LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE Yea, annoying could describe it. -- \|Apex\|Email\|
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Sep 9 2009, 8:40pm Anchor
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	the ads on youtube are bloody annoying too because the coders screwed them up, so when you go fullscreen the advert doesn't scale properly and ends up cutting out the middle of the damn video you're trying to view, even worse it reappears when you close it. however some of the companies that advertise on this site are really strange, you'd think more "Game" companies would advertise here. --
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	Sep 9 2009, 10:58pm Anchor
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	I finally found the advert! It doesn't link to anything, but is just a collection of movie previews. Here's another pic of it actually showing a video. -- Generic linking to my mod, In Development.
lodle I am Lodle I pwn Henley.	Sep 10 2009, 7:00pm Anchor
lodle I am Lodle I pwn Henley.	Ill talk to scott about it, if you can could you also grab the link next time. -- "To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off."
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	Sep 10 2009, 7:44pm Anchor
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	lodle wrote:Ill talk to scott about it, if you can could you also grab the link next time. I did actually click on it, it didn't go anywhere. Just played videos and such. -- Generic linking to my mod, In Development.
INtense! Change the game!	Sep 10 2009, 10:49pm Anchor
INtense! Change the game!	Ok both of these issues should not be happening. No ad should play sound without "asking" so i have requested that ad be removed. Unfortunately these annoying ads do seem to slip through the cracks occasionally. As for videos, well the ads should be capped so you only see 1 a day. I've asked for this to be investigated and if it cannot be resolved I will consider reverting back to the old ad-free video system. -- Scott Reismanis SUPPORT US: Store \| Blog \| Jobs
B.Makura	Sep 30 2009, 10:19pm Anchor
B.Makura	I'd like to complain about the adverts before the videos too. I see that you said they should be capped at one per day, I hope it's fixed soon. It wouldn't even bother me except for the fact that every one that I see is an advertisement the same advertisement for Halo ODST. The same advertisement over and over and over is kind of annoying. The ODST commercials aren't even that bad but...I've seen them enough.
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	Sep 30 2009, 11:17pm Anchor
bluefire40 Only speaks when it's necessary	It's gotten to the point where I've memorized the freaky chanting in the background. Truly, some kind of action must be done. -- Generic linking to my mod, In Development.
INtense! Change the game!	Sep 30 2009, 11:50pm Anchor
INtense! Change the game!	As I keep saying that should not be the case. I've asked again why this is, can you please let em know in a few days if this is still continuing to happen? -- Scott Reismanis SUPPORT US: Store \| Blog \| Jobs
TwwIX Potential Candidate	Nov 2 2009, 6:36am Anchor
TwwIX Potential Candidate	There's a 30 sec video ad on every video. This is beyond annoying. I don't even bother watching them any more because of this crap.
tnathan475	Nov 2 2009, 9:52am Anchor
tnathan475	I don't ever see any adds at all on moddb on my computer. Not even before videos. Guess I am the only one. --
Faparith Mapper and modeller on Flaming Ice.	Nov 2 2009, 11:00am Anchor
Faparith Mapper and modeller on Flaming Ice.	I don't get any ads on the videos but I get the normal ones on the web pages, but still none that play vids, so I don't mind. It must depend on your location.
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	Nov 2 2009, 1:03pm Anchor
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	It does; the adverts are delivered based on your location as determined by your IP address. Try connecting through some random proxies, and you'll get differing adverts
tnathan475	Nov 2 2009, 1:18pm Anchor
tnathan475	ambershee wrote:It does; the adverts are delivered based on your location as determined by your IP address. Try connecting through some random proxies, and you'll get differing adverts The computers at the college I attend have some adds, the themes bar on top of the page has an add, and so does the box on the right on the frontpage, none on the videos. At my home the themes bar on top is black, and the add on the homepage is black and i have no adverts before videos. I Guess I am just lucky. --
Spector WWIII	Nov 2 2009, 1:20pm Anchor
Spector WWIII	tnathan475 wrote:I don't ever see any adds at all on moddb on my computer. Not even before videos. Guess I am the only one. Are you using an ad blocker by any chance? Because that would do it. -- snetErz.com - Web Design Some guy in the space time continuum.
tnathan475	Nov 2 2009, 1:25pm Anchor
tnathan475	Spector wrote: tnathan475 wrote:I don't ever see any adds at all on moddb on my computer. Not even before videos. Guess I am the only one. Are you using an ad blocker by any chance? Because that would do it. Even before the videos? --
Spector WWIII	Nov 2 2009, 1:27pm Anchor
Spector WWIII	tnathan475 wrote: Spector wrote: tnathan475 wrote:I don't ever see any adds at all on moddb on my computer. Not even before videos. Guess I am the only one. Are you using an ad blocker by any chance? Because that would do it. Even before the videos? Yes on this particular website an ad blocker like ABP will block the adverts before the videos. Some sites the adverts will not be blocked before videos, some will. -- snetErz.com - Web Design Some guy in the space time continuum.
TKAzA Eats Polygons	Nov 4 2009, 6:57am Anchor
TKAzA Eats Polygons	No the front page isnt broken nor is it a naughty advert that snuck through, its supposed to look like that, more info will be released soon. Edited by: TKAzA -- TKAzA moddDB Content Manager Mod & Group issues PM me. Portfolio Looking for part time modeling in a indie project. (no mods please) Jimi wrote:I doubt that many hippies would fit in my shower