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?
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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?
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the site aint free to host
becoming a member doesn't pay for the upkeep
ads are tailored to your browsing history
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.
dirty tactics to get more members
oh no
Nah. I was able to highlight it separately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Futz
I think when you log in it gets rid of the advert at the bottom of the page
not the top one
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 ^
Clearly not logged in, so whats the problem?
yes it says you are not loggged in wat
i played imvu once, it's completely awful.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by David
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.
disable the top one for members instead of the bottom and i'll turn adblock off :¬:Quote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
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 lolQuote:
Originally Posted by RyRy
And reduce the click rate per month? Yeah good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by David
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.
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.
i just disabled it can i have some vip
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.
www.stop.habbox.comQuote:
Originally Posted by Hayden
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hayden
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jin
Are you using Firefox or Google Chrome? This will most likely still apply:Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenMerc
adblock makes my life easier sorry
*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.
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 experienceQuote:
Originally Posted by Kyle
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 LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by lemons
OT: I don't mind the banners, don't really pay any attention tbh
what sites have you been visiting to get that..... :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by lemons
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.
frickQuote:
Originally Posted by Bolt660
i wonder what ive been searching
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jin
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
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!
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
IKR. its possibly the worst game ive ever played. (except for fantage, that was ******* awful)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyle
do it then you lose £15 a year in VIP m8Quote:
Originally Posted by Jin
how much does it cost to run habbox servers per month
how much do you currently get via advertisements?
Jin how much bandwidth does Habbox use P/M?
Lol http://i.imgur.com/XVW4MZG.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by Hayden
I just took off my ad block and got this. Main reason why i have it