Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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https://road.cc/content/forum/subscriber-why-my-screen-full-adverts-285369
Mine looks like this now. Totally unreadable.....
And now I'm going straight to Malta!
This is exactly why you should be using an ad blocker. If a company can't control the ads they show on their website, then they can't control whether they contain malware or not. It's a basic safety and security issue.
Too many ads together old recycled and out of date content means it might be time to check out of Road.cc soon
This is what my screen looks like right now. I've tried 'reporting' the ads through AdChoices as 'Innappopriate', 'seen too many times' etc etc but keep getting the same ones.
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As regards adverts, if I use Edge browser without an ad blocker then my pages look like this:
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When more than half of the ordinary page are ads it doesn't make the site a pleasure to read. I spend less time here. I never clicked or would click on an ad for a Shark Vacuum or Guildwars2 or to apply to be a Prison Officer. At least the old ads stood a chance of beeing clicked on if I saw a deal on wheels from Chain Reaction, but come on... what is the point of selling out to third parties who have no interest in your business. Does it really drive more traffic? Well only you lot know, but I don't see how it helps your brand.
I turned off adblock for 3 days and had such a bad time I turned it back on. If you trust third parties you are trusting a huge range of dodgy actors and surrendering site control. Change your model to affiliate links transparently. And make sure external links to e.g. Tweets don't accidentally use the skimlinks model because you went for the easy option.
My "BT" page (can't remember if it was whilst browsing this site or another) came from https://eu <dot> attractionsdisneycollegeprogram <dot> xyz according to the browser URL bar. Yeah, right I'm sure BT would use that URL ... !
(edited URL to insert <dot>'s instead of the dots in the real address to make it non-clickable).
Is 'naghty' somewhere between naughty and nasty?
Started to happen on Saturday for me. I did use your link for bad Ad's but as it was a weekend, I suspect it wasn't checked to this morning. Hopefully it is sorted soon.
Same here, I was getting warnings, today was the first time of going to the "BT" page.
Seems better since this morning.
Well done.