Why

[Jordan]

I'm not really understanding why this is being advertised at the bottom of the forum when regardless with a HabboxForum account you still have to view adverts?

http://oi57.tinypic.com/1tl9j5.jpg

[Futz]

the site aint free to host

becoming a member doesn't pay for the upkeep

ads are tailored to your browsing history

[Jordan]

I'm more on about how it's misleading to guests thinking they can remove them than anything. Didn't know if there was a reason why it was being done when you can't remove the adverts unless you use Adblock.

[David]

dirty tactics to get more members

[Futz]

oh no

[Jordan]

that's part of the advert isn't it

Nah. I was able to highlight it separately.

[Futz]

I think when you log in it gets rid of the advert at the bottom of the page

not the top one

[GommeInc]

It is probably a standard advertising ploy that doesn't apply to Habbox that IMVU are using, rather than Habbox actually lying to guests. Or as above ^

[GoldenMerc]

Clearly not logged in, so whats the problem?

[Kyle]

yes it says you are not loggged in wat

i played imvu once, it's completely awful.

[Mr-Trainor]

When viewing as a guest, does it say that on the adverts at the top of the page? If not then there's no problem with it imo.

[xxMATTGxx]

Because when 50% or more of you are blocking our adverts which REALLY do help our hosting costs then we have had to deploy more adverts. One way of doing that was loading those adverts at the bottom of the forum for guests. If you register or are logged in then that specific advert will disappear.

It's a decision by the owners of Habbox and will most likely stay.


dirty tactics to get more members

We could turn the forum off all together for guests or have guests only see X amount of threads before they have to join if we wanted to gain more members.

[Jordan]

jeeessssus guys i was only curious. i think i understand that by me being logged in i dont see it. i just wanted to know.

[David]

Because when 50% or more of you are blocking our adverts which REALLY do help our hosting costs then we have had to deploy more adverts. One way of doing that was loading those adverts at the bottom of the forum for guests. If you register or are logged in then that specific advert will disappear.

It's a decision by the owners of Habbox and will most likely stay.



We could turn the forum off all together for guests or have guests only see X amount of threads before they have to join if we wanted to gain more members.

disable the top one for members instead of the bottom and i'll turn adblock off :¬:

[RyRy]

Imagine if you were allowed to directly contribute to hosting costs.

lol jk

[David]

Imagine if you were allowed to directly contribute to hosting costs.

lol jk

didnt hffm do that by asking people for money in a thread lol

[Jin]

disable the top one for members instead of the bottom and i'll turn adblock off :¬:

And reduce the click rate per month? Yeah good one.

Well actually I am considering having interruptions to forum browsing for adblock users instead. So every 1 in x page requests results in an x second interruption.

[Kyle]

i suggest u all delete adblock and be thankful that haabbox doesn't have those super annoying autoplay ads for toilet bleach and stuff that some other sites have.

[lemons]

i just disabled it can i have some vip

[MKR&*42]

Plz do tht thing again where u forced people with adblock to turn it off in order to get onto the site, pmsl that was disgraceful.

[David]

Plz do tht thing again where u forced people with adblock to turn it on in order to get onto the site, pmsl that was disgraceful.

www.stop.habbox.com

[Jin]

Plz do tht thing again where u forced people with adblock to turn it off in order to get onto the site, pmsl that was disgraceful.

It will make a come back. A month ago I was secretly logging the accounts of those who used adblock on our sites and found about 60% of users block our advertising.

Our advertising is a massive contributor to our running costs, the donator etc is there to support us when times are a bit dry but realistically 90% of our income is from the advertising. We have one banner, no sounds, or annoying crap just one banner. That one banner keeps us going.

So, yeah if I need to take extreme measures to ensure we have sufficient income coming in I will and it won't be up to the members to decide otherwise.

Things that have been considered is placing blocking members into restricted usergroups, interrupting page loads. Scaling advertising based upon the monthly earnings.

Since the introduction of the extra non-member advertising 2 months ago we have been hitting our monthly target.

[GoldenMerc]

It will make a come back. A month ago I was secretly logging the accounts of those who used adblock on our sites and found about 60% of users block our advertising.

Our advertising is a massive contributor to our running costs, the donator etc is there to support us when times are a bit dry but realistically 90% of our income is from the advertising. We have one banner, no sounds, or annoying crap just one banner. That one banner keeps us going.

So, yeah if I need to take extreme measures to ensure we have sufficient income coming in I will and it won't be up to the members to decide otherwise.

Things that have been considered is placing blocking members into restricted usergroups, interrupting page loads. Scaling advertising based upon the monthly earnings.

Since the introduction of the extra non-member advertising 2 months ago we have been hitting our monthly target.

I got adblock because 90% of the Habbox community are immature and spam images 200x like lemons; I don't actually know how to remove Habbox from the filter...

[xxMATTGxx]

I got adblock because 90% of the Habbox community are immature and spam images 200x like lemons; I don't actually know how to remove Habbox from the filter...

Are you using Firefox or Google Chrome? This will most likely still apply:

Chrome:

To disable adblock on Chrome for Habbox you first need to go into your adblock options/settings. After doing click the 'Whitelisted domains' tab and, in the first box, add the following sites (one after another):

www.habbox.com
www.habboxforum.com
www.habboxwiki.com
www.habboxlive.com

An alternate way of doing this would be to click the adblock icon with your middle mouse button when browsing one of our sites and untick the option "Enabled for this site".

Firefox:

To disable adblock on Firefox for Habbox you first need to click Tools (in the menu bar), hover over Adblock and click 'Filter Preferences'. Then when the pop up opens use the shortcut Ctrl+R (or Cmd+R on Mac) to open the advanced section. Then click 'Add filter' and add the following rules in seperately:

@@||habbox.com^$document
@@||habboxforum.com^$document
@@||habboxwiki.com^$document
@@||habboxlive.com^$document

An alternate way of doing this would be to click Tools, Hover over Adblock Plus and click 'Disable on [habbox site URL]'.

[Jurv]

adblock makes my life easier sorry

[MKR&*42]

*Well gl getting any new members who come to the site, they'll see they can't access it without turning off adblock and then leave and never return 99 percent of the time. Sure you'll get some of the current members turn it off, but you are never going to see large user increases if you block all access to the site for anyone using adblock.

*That's if you re-enable stop.habbox.com.

[Kyle]

frankly I really don't understand why people can't just disable ads for habbox. it really does not harm your experience

[lemons]

frankly I really don't understand why people can't just disable ads for habbox. it really does not harm your experience

sights like these harm my experience
http://i.imgur.com/AqsIllB.png

[Martin]

sights like these harm my experience
http://i.imgur.com/AqsIllB.png

I'm sure someone told me once that the adverts are aimed at the user and relate to what they have searched for in the past etc LOL


OT: I don't mind the banners, don't really pay any attention tbh

[Storking]

sights like these harm my experience
http://i.imgur.com/AqsIllB.png

what sites have you been visiting to get that..... :drool:

[MKR&*42]

I disabled it for 2 seconds. I reloaded twice and saw 1 advert about some dating site and a charming innocent imvu advert

http://i.imgur.com/7j2shyP.png

This is why I keep them off.

It also actually slows down loading of pages for me rather noticeably (i live in a really crappy internet area js).
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You can also disable customised adverts iirc.

[lemons]

I'm sure someone told me once that the adverts are aimed at the user and relate to what they have searched for in the past etc LOL
frick

i wonder what ive been searching

[Chippiewill]

It will make a come back. A month ago I was secretly logging the accounts of those who used adblock on our sites and found about 60% of users block our advertising.

FYI on 90% of pageloads my ads don't display despite the fact I don't even have adblock installed. Seems isolated to Habbox for some reason.

[GoldenMerc]

I have disabled adblock on forum, I won't and don't plan to do it for;
Habbox.com
HabboxLive.com
HabboxWiki

Mainly as I don't use them, HabboxWiki is pretty pointless, should be merged into Habbox.com (Also notice that Wikipedia doesn't even have ads, It has "contributors")
HabboxLive should of been merged into Habbox.com, Although the new site is better just looks like the black market site's radio version lol

[lawrawrrr]

I still think that anyone who's blocking ads is rather selfish but it's nice to see that some members have now turned them on! I barely even notice them now. I didn't know that the whole guest thing was a feature but I wouldn't even NOTICE if there was one at the bottom so I doubt it'd stop them signing up!

[FlyingJesus]

idgi even on a small screen the adverts don't take up like any space at all, no need to block them

Also dunno if it still does it but for a while I was using Google DNS because I was having some problems and whenever I had it connected through that I got the AdBlock message thingy on the forum which was odd

[KingEvan]

yes it says you are not loggged in wat

i played imvu once, it's completely awful.

IKR. its possibly the worst game ive ever played. (except for fantage, that was ******* awful)

[scottish]

And reduce the click rate per month? Yeah good one.

Well actually I am considering having interruptions to forum browsing for adblock users instead. So every 1 in x page requests results in an x second interruption.

do it then you lose £15 a year in VIP m8

how much does it cost to run habbox servers per month
how much do you currently get via advertisements?

[GoldenMerc]

Jin how much bandwidth does Habbox use P/M?

[!x!dude!x!2]

I disabled it for 2 seconds. I reloaded twice and saw 1 advert about some dating site and a charming innocent imvu advert

http://i.imgur.com/7j2shyP.png

This is why I keep them off.

It also actually slows down loading of pages for me rather noticeably (i live in a really crappy internet area js).
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You can also disable customised adverts iirc.

Lol http://i.imgur.com/XVW4MZG.png
I just took off my ad block and got this. Main reason why i have it

[Chippiewill]

how much does it cost to run habbox servers per month

This is a complex question because the server Habbox runs on also runs other stuff, one of the big costs that Habbox doesn't really have a need for would be the cpanel license which on its own costs in the region of $400 per year.

[GoldenMerc]

This is a complex question because the server Habbox runs on also runs other stuff, one of the big costs that Habbox doesn't really have a need for would be the cpanel license which on its own costs in the region of $400 per year.

since when did habbox have cpanel, it used to use free software

[scottish]

Then get rid of cpanel lol

Curious for Matt or Jin to share costs with us.

[Chippiewill]

since when did habbox have cpanel, it used to use free software

It's used cpanel for at least 2 years, probably a lot longer.

[xxMATTGxx]

Jin will have to answer any cost information if he wants to.


since when did habbox have cpanel, it used to use free software

Habbox has used cPanel for a long time - Ever since I've been in General Management anyway.

[Plebings]

understand if people have it up to block other website's ads, but the people who seem to use it specifically to give the middle finger to habbox is really frustrating. we are all here on this site because it's either entertaining and useful, we would all be a little worse off without it and to continually disadvantage habbox just to "stick it 2 da man" is pathetic.

[Sharon]

tbh i have never seen the need to block and never have, didn't even know they contribute to funds lol im so out of the internet world but if u know it does and still have it turned on ur a bit selfish

[The Don]

Jin will have to answer any cost information if he wants to.



Habbox has used cPanel for a long time - Ever since I've been in General Management anyway.

I've disabled adblock on this domain yet it still says please stop using adblock :( where the banner should be.

[Chippiewill]

I've disabled adblock on this domain yet it still says please stop using adblock :( where the banner should be.

It's really buggy.

[The Don]

It's really buggy.

Well at least I tried to support Habbox

[Chippiewill]

I'm having this issue personally:
http://i.imgur.com/1CGZKBg.png

- - - Updated - - -

Could I suggest that Habbox switch to the async version:
https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/3221666?hl=en-GB

[GoldenMerc]

chippiewill's coding, perfection at hotelusers best

[Chippiewill]

chippiewill's coding
What

[Zak]

I don't even really notice the adverts

[Adam]

I don't understand why people don't disable adblock for the sites they use almost daily... if it wasn't for ads you wouldn't be able to use those sites. What is so hard to understand?

Anyway, even if you block users from accessing the site with adblock all they'll do is disable it, come on here and complain and ***** and post a load of ****e, giving HxF more pageviews and more ad revenue. It's genius.

[Zak]

I always get the ad at the top. I feel well special that I don't have any of this adblock stuff :P

[nvrspk4]

This, which someone posted earlier, has financials on it for those who were asking: http://www.stop.habbox.com/

May not be the full picture, but provides some context.

[IzzyUhh]

Idek what happend to my adblcok though just one day I logged on and every site had adds on it again and had this stupid bar on the side of every site and a pop up in the corner, stuff I usually got on internet explorer so didnt really expect it on chrome, so I disabled those ads that were just popping up everywhere like 1 by 1 and idk how to get rid of them now or stop youtube ads cri

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[Americanozz]

I just get ad's for american apparel, new look, etc. And most of the time they show clothing I like so it doesn't bother me xD

[Chippiewill]

I just get ad's for american apparel, new look, etc. And most of the time they show clothing I like so it doesn't bother me xD

Targeted advertising as it's meant to work.

[Kyle]

I used to get hot indian dating sites now i get oak furnitureland :(

[Adam]

Targeted advertising as it's meant to work.
Exactly. So people who get Indian Dating.com and complain about it... we pretty much know your search history.