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Mar 14th, 2022 - 9:36 PM
Nr. 1 #44108
okay, i have to ask this... is anybody else having trouble with pop-up ads here?
i don't mean the ads that run along the top and side of the main bits. i mean the last couple of days, this annoying and intrusive pop-up ad thing has appeared. and it's driving me bats. i'll be trying to do something and Every Blinkin' Time the page refreshes, that stupid thing gets in the way!
do you have any idea how many times this site refreshes its pages? answer is A Lot. you change one thing on the search filter, it refreshes. you go to add something more to the filter, it refreshes.

~btw, why doesn't it just let you tweak your filters in a go and Then refresh? like if i want to filter placed items, i have to submit that command before i can add the filter of whatever specific thing it is i want to filter... i would think it would be more efficient if we could do more than a filter selection at a time. and would create less drag on the site/servers in the process...~

i enjoy spending casual play time on here. but it's getting to the point where i feel less and less like i Am spending Casual play time on here. i will be the first to admit that the ad thing isn't the Whole problem. i have a fair share of things going on at my end irl that is threatening my good time. but the ad thing... it's just one more thing i Don't need.
so if this pop-up ad Is a site decision and not a hiccup somewhere... i don't know how much more i'll be on here.
please tell me it's something that can be fixed.
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Mar 14th, 2022 - 10:00 PM
Nr. 2 #44110 1
I suggest getting an adblocker of some kind to mitigate the problem entirely. Adblock Plus is my adblocker of choice, and I’ve found it to be a very useful tool in combating obtrusive advertisements. Only problems I’ve had with it are on sites that ask for you to turn off your adblocker like anyone with an adblocker ever does that. To get rid of that problem, there are several programs that block those popups like Anti-Adblock Blocker.
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Mar 14th, 2022 - 10:14 PM
Nr. 3 #44111
Hey there @GeistStorm, that's pretty strange. o_o; There shouldn't be any pop-up ads on Pixpet. If you can get a screenshot of the ad for us, that would help greatly.

And I agree with Pudding; an adblocker usually clears that problem right up. If it doesn't, I recommend running a virus scan on your device, since there's also the possibility that the issue is being caused by adware. I personally use Malwarebytes for this, but if you have antivirus software that you prefer/trust, that works too.
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Mar 17th, 2022 - 5:05 PM
Nr. 4 #44156 1
If you mean the one that appears at the very bottom of the page then yeah it does seem to be popping up at just about every refresh. It's been around for a .... while, and been reported before, but at the very least it used to be a lot less frequent.

I have no idea how this ad stuff works but I'm pretty sure it's not intentional, and also not a problem with just our devices. The only way to get rid of it right now is adblock (or subbing to the patreon but that's not an option for most), but yeah I feel like by this point it requires investigation :0
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Mar 17th, 2022 - 6:42 PM
Nr. 5 #44160
Hmm... will have this investigated, we didn't touch the ad stuff as far as I'm aware but possible that adsense had changed stuff or updated, I'm not sure. Thanks for letting us know.
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