Constructive criticism

[**claire**]

Come over to the Gold side - no issues with ads at all then, and you can still use the forum!

[The Other Steve]

Disclosure: I'm in charge of advertising technologies for a major UK publisher.

You have probably set something on your phone to refuse 3rd party cookies on your browser. All ads rely upon these cookies (or localStorage) to help minimise the impact of how often they are shown and to help limit the annoyance factor. Believe it or not advertisers don't want you to get annoyed with their brand in this way.

If you are blocking 3rd party cookies (Safari on iPhones do this as default) then these 'interstitial' style ads can not be frequency capped (as they would be normally). You could try turning on 3rd party cookies, you should then see this less frequently.

[Guest]

[Pinhead]

[suzie sue]

I think that some small subtle ads maybe in between posts could work better and not make me hate the product and make more money for efests

[scaryclaireyfairy]

thanks, Ponyegg. i'll give that a shot.

[CHRLY]

I am on ihpone 5 and in no way did the Sam smith as make it 'impossible' to use. You just have to wait a few seconds longer then press 'X' then it disappears from the screen.

[eFestivals]

I think that some small subtle ads maybe in between posts could work better and not make me hate the product and make more money for efests

and you'd be wrong.

My preference is to have no ads. If I was making as much as minimum wage from running this website, I would and could reduce the amount of advertising.

The ads aren't here because I'm greedy, there here as an absolute financial necessity.

[Mr Splodge]

It's Neil's website at the end of the day and you have 3 choices.

1. Put up with it.

2. Become a gold member.

3. Bugger off and find a alternative.

The choice is yours.

Haven't we been here before. Bangs head against a brick wall.

[Trebor]

I am on ihpone 5 and in no way did the Sam smith as make it 'impossible' to use. You just have to wait a few seconds longer then press 'X' then it disappears from the screen.

[Trebor]

It's Neil's website at the end of the day and you have 3 choices.

1. Put up with it.

2. Become a gold member.

3. Bugger off and find a alternative.

The choice is yours.

Haven't we been here before. Bangs head against a brick wall.

[stuartbert two hats]

Speak for yourself mate, besides, those saying it was making life difficult were on 5S, maybe the slight difference in screen size means it's not the same for you.

[ThomThomDrum]

Hmmmmmmmmm

Let me see? What could you do to stop the ads??

Hmmmmmmmmmm

[Spindles]

Buy some mugs.

</subliminal advert>

[jeffie]

Perhaps this?

In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas's daughter turns to a statue when he touches her. Illustration by Walter Crane for the 1893 edition.

[Trebor]

It's the same size+resolution screen. The size changed between 4s - 5

[CHRLY]

Speak for yourself mate, besides, those saying it was making life difficult were on 5S, maybe the slight difference in screen size means it's not the same for you.

[Trebor]

Like I've ALREADY said, I'm not bothered about adverts on the site, I fully understand the situation and the fact some are an inconvenience on some phones etc is the way it is. But the two latest ads were the worst I've yet seen for affecting my phone so I came on here to see if there was a workaround, which someone suggested thankfully, so that's that as far as I'm concerned. So you and some of the others can stop being so frigging uppity about it all. I've not attacked Neil's principles as far as the ad situation goes, I don't use adblocker etc, so save the nastiness for someone else, eh?

[eFestivals]

I came on here to see if there was a workaround

there is. Don't buy Apple, it's much shitter than you want to believe it is.

[CHRLY]

I think you're overreacting a little but there, I was asking you why you thought it made it nearly unusable, can't see anything nasty there but if it annoyed you that much sorry.

[autoinflate]

How silly to make a post complaining about adverts on a website, on a website with adverts.

It would be much better to find a quality festival website without adverts and post a message about how much you like it....assuming you can find such a site. If you can't, make one, it's not expensive to make a website. Once you start getting lots of traffic and hosting costs you might need to run adverts.

Oh shit the bed.

[scrippit]

Frankly, there are no other festival websites that can justify a charge - but this one can. £8 per year is peanuts for what you get in the run up to, and post festival. No ads either. Just get Gold.

[Ponyegg]

Is that "Do Not Track"?

[scrippit]

Frankly, there are no other festival websites that can justify a charge - but this one can. £8 per year is peanuts for what you get in the run up to, and post festival. No ads either. Just get Gold.

[stuartbert two hats]

Great question, no it's not, it's a separate mechanism.

DNT indicates your preference to a website/service where-as changing your cookie settings is something you are setting directly on your browser/client.

There are no legal or other requirements to honour the DNT settings of any user though (it's more a statement of your preference), so don't rely upon this if you want to control your data-footprint online.