+FloatingFatMan Subscriber¹ Posted Monday at 12:52 Subscriber¹ Share Posted Monday at 12:52 For the last few days, more and more ads are appearing between posts in threads. Is this a bug or a policy change, because this is so damned annoying it's making me want to turn the ad-blocker back on and I don't want to have to do that... hellowalkman 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Edouard Subscriber² Posted Monday at 14:18 Subscriber² Share Posted Monday at 14:18 Interesting. I'm not experiencing that here down under so perhaps it's a regional bug. I hope it's not a policy change for subscribers as you mention though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted Monday at 14:59 Subscriber² Share Posted Monday at 14:59 I doubt it's a policy change - especially during the term of a subscription! That would be a bait and switch. I'm more likely to suggest a bug. As for regional - I'm not getting it (UK) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thexfile Subscriber² Posted Monday at 14:59 Subscriber² Share Posted Monday at 14:59 No ads here with uBlock Origin turned off. Southern Indiana, US. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Posted Monday at 15:12 Share Posted Monday at 15:12 (edited) I have been getting them and i don't use a ad blocker with neowin. It really is annoying. I am in the northeast US. Edit: Here you go. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Edouard Subscriber² Posted Monday at 15:50 Subscriber² Share Posted Monday at 15:50 On 07/04/2025 at 15:12, Xenon said: I have been getting them and i don't use a ad blocker with neowin. It really is annoying. I am in the northeast US. Edit: Here you go. Expand You're not a subscriber though. Subscriptions offer ad free browsing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Posted Monday at 15:51 Share Posted Monday at 15:51 On 07/04/2025 at 15:50, Edouard said: You're not a subscriber though. Subscriptions offer ad free browsing. Expand Oh. I didnt think of that. That would truly suck. +Edouard 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FloatingFatMan Subscriber¹ Posted Monday at 16:08 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted Monday at 16:08 I'm not an ad-free tier subscriber, but up until a day or two ago I never got ads mid-thread like now; just at the top and the bottom. It's not the browser (Brave) either as Chrome and Edge are doing it too... Xenon 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Edouard Subscriber² Posted Monday at 16:31 Subscriber² Share Posted Monday at 16:31 On 07/04/2025 at 16:08, FloatingFatMan said: I'm not an ad-free tier subscriber, but up until a day or two ago I never got ads mid-thread like now; just at the top and the bottom. It's not the browser (Brave) either as Chrome and Edge are doing it too... Expand Oh, my bad. I thought all subscriptions were ad free. hellowalkman 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiltshireHam Posted Monday at 16:41 Share Posted Monday at 16:41 I've also noticed the huge increase in ads, maybe 2-3 forum posts, then an advert. It is really annoying. Hopefully this is a temporary thing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted Monday at 16:42 Administrators Share Posted Monday at 16:42 Hi Guys, No, this is not normal or intentional. I have a new contact person at our advertiser and I am not sure if it is even related, but since having a new agent ads have been misbehaving and getting added to member views. I submitted the requests a week ago for them to fix it and they still haven't. It is making me think I need to turn ads off until they fix it. It is even worse in Guest view with ads doubled up in the viewport. Needless to say I am very disappointed with the turn around time. They fix one thing and then suddenly another ad that is not supposed to appear at a certain place appears! Ad heights are all screwed up too, so there was tons of empty spaces around ads, days of sending screenshots and complaining about it have not helped much. Xenon, +Edouard, WiltshireHam and 5 others 2 6 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FloatingFatMan Subscriber¹ Posted Monday at 16:49 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted Monday at 16:49 On 07/04/2025 at 16:42, Steven P. said: Hi Guys, No, this is not normal or intentional. I have a new contact person at our advertiser and I am not sure if it is even related, but since having a new agent ads have been misbehaving and getting added to member views. I submitted the requests a week ago for them to fix it and they still haven't. It is making me think I need to turn ads off until they fix it. It is even worse in Guest view with ads doubled up in the viewport. Needless to say I am very disappointed with the turn around time. They fix one thing and then suddenly another ad that is not supposed to appear at a certain place appears! Ad heights are all screwed up too, so there was tons of empty spaces around ads, days of sending screenshots and complaining about it have not helped much. Expand Kinda looks intentional on your ad providers part, probably trying to rake in extra cash. Obviously I have zero idea what kind of agreement you have with them, but personally, if I wasn't getting the service I contracted them for, I'd consider that a breach of contract... Steven P. and Xenon 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted Monday at 16:51 Administrators Share Posted Monday at 16:51 It started happening last Wednesday, and I have been on them every day since about it. I asked them to disable the dynamic ads (ads appearing in between content) until they can fix it properly, lets see how long that takes. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FloatingFatMan Subscriber¹ Posted Monday at 16:55 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted Monday at 16:55 On 07/04/2025 at 16:51, Steven P. said: It started happening last Wednesday, and I have been on them every day since about it. Expand My programmer's mind suggests they either changed something in their API etc and didn't tell you OR, they're doing it intentionally... hellowalkman 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted Monday at 17:01 Administrators Share Posted Monday at 17:01 On 07/04/2025 at 16:55, FloatingFatMan said: My programmer's mind suggests they either changed something in their API etc and didn't tell you OR, they're doing it intentionally... Expand Yeah they did. It is why I have been giving them the benefit of doubt. They switched from "Dynamic ads" to "Inteliigent Ad Insertion" last week, but clearly it still needs work. I have been working with them to remove some hardcoded CSS we did ourselves to fix page jump with ad heights with our fixed ads, and the old Dynamic ads, but they want to manage that all themselves now, and sadly it is not yet fixed across the whole site as well. This is also why some fixed ads are no longer left aligned in the side rails, if I try to inject our own CSS to fix it, it breaks the ad code, causing a bunch of garbled text to load before an ad does 😂 +FloatingFatMan and hellowalkman 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FloatingFatMan Subscriber¹ Posted Tuesday at 05:13 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted Tuesday at 05:13 Looks like it got fixed! Thanks Steven. Steven P. and Xenon 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1453408-mid-thread-ads/#findComment-598978784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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