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Since when did Spiceworks decide that giant ads should cover content on the page? Seriously need to rethink this. Some huge Adobe ad covered a big part of my page, AND it moved with me as I scrolled, just to be EXTRA disruptive and annoying.

Who approved this nonsense?

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I was going to comment on this as well. Scrolling down the page and the ad covers 1/4 of the page. It used to stay at the top and disappear when scrolling

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Same here, and its annoying when it auto hides it changes the location of post I was reading at the time it auto hid. At least it does on FF. If we have the huge ads that is part of doing business but don’t make it more difficult to use the forum at the same time, please “oh Spiceworks Gods…”

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Until advertisers learn to behave themselves properly, I will block them on every single site I go on.

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To be clear, we are talking about the billboard ads, correct?

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+1 for grrrrr at ads

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To be clear, I’m talking about the huge rectangular ad that appears at the top of the page, and then, when I scroll, it covers content on the page. I personally would not call that a billboard, because a billboard is a big sign that stays in one place. You drive by and it recedes into the distance.

This thing moves. It’s not a billboard, it’s a homeless guy walking up and shoving a sign in your face. It’s someone interrupting your conversation to ask you to buy something. It’s obnoxious.

A big ad that stays at the top when you scroll is fine. An ad that deliberately moves itself to cover the content you’re trying to read is just sleazy. Please don’t adopt the marketing tactics of illegal pharmacies and home refinance scammers.

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Yep, same thing. It explains more in this link why it is referred to as a Billboard ad:

… but the short version is that is what the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) labels it.

I also talk about the bug fix going out in that topic. Trying to consolidate them all into one topic so everyone gets the updates when we post them :slight_smile:

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Myself personally I can deal with the large ads (I don’t like, but everyone needs to get paid), but eventually they slide out of the way and cause my position in the thread to jump. If I’m responding to a post the scroll position in the thread will change and the edit area shifts off the browser window. I have to grab the mouse and rescroll the browser window back so I can see what I typed. It also happens when I’m reading a post. That part is a bit annoying.

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@sean-spiceworks Rather than just being annoyed I watched what it was doing. The banner ad slides down as I scroll down the page and remains at the top of the browser page. The banner add stays there for some period of time, then it slides up. Shortly after that the banner add appears in the body of the page pushing everything down the height of the banner add. If this banner ad would appeared in the body of the page right away AND as a slide down ad. When the banner add slid back up, just the banner ad would disappear without any new content being added to the html page. Another option would be to reserve the size of the inserted banner ad in the html body, so when it shows up after its little slide bit it doesn’t have to make room on the page.

I know I said a bit, if you don’t understand I can try to do a better job of it.