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[NSC] NSC ads
- Thread starter Gwylan
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This thread just reminded me to whitelist NSC after I'd reinstalled my adblocker.
I've only seen ads for upgraded versions of Vimeo and other creative software so far. Which is odd as I'm the last person in the world who would be involved in any sort of creative media.
Oh, there's one for BT broadband who I would also never use.
I think the algorithm is having a wobble.....
Ukrainian bints ..
Well at least that would be a bit more accurate for what I like to look at.
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Because...
If everyone ran an ad blocker on NSC there would be no NSC. The same for many, many sites.
If you are logged in to NSC the ads are not intrusive at all, and intentionally so. I use NSC a lot, and see all the ads. As a result, I wouldn't make the site shit to use like so many sites.
This has reminded me to check how many people are blocking ads - I've not checked for a few months - and see if it is now the time to block the site from the ad-blockers. Thanks for the reminder.
Rather than block the ad-blocker users immediately maybe just publish their usernames in a thread ? Gives them a chance to rectify their naughtiness.
Yeah if you use an adblocker (which is very necessary on a lot of sites) then it's easy to forget to whitelist the ones that you want to contribute to (rather than the ones that make their sites unusable due to ads).
Especially if you've had to reinstall Chrome etc.
As I said. I've always whitelisted NSC but I had forgotten (PLEASE DON'T BAN ME!!!!!).
Thank you.
I have just got a new iPad and installed an ad blocker ( hands up, I’m sorry, shoot me now )
When I had my old iPad I would often click on a thread with a link to a newspaper story, often I couldn’t read the story as the ads would take for ever to load or the whole thing would crash.
The new iPad is great but while NSC ads are not really an issue the newspaper links are still a nightmare, I see lots of ads and the story seems to be hard work to read.
I also use a trade forum that has more ads than I could shake a stick at, posters on the trade forum have been complaining about the ads, someone suggested an ad blocker.
Since I installed an ad block everything is great, I click on links and enjoy the other forum.
I would say I’ve seen some odd advertising on here before I installed the ad block.
I’m the only person that uses this iPad, I look at NSC,Twitter, trade forum, emails and I buy stuff from Screwfix.
Not one clue why I get adverts for All Saints women’s clothing and ladies underwear ads
I would own up if I honestly looked up this stuff 
but if Mrs BN9 looks at my screen when some ladies underwear ads appear I’m not mr popular.As I’m not exactly an expert on computers etc I don’t know how to not use the ad block on NSC.
It doesn't quite work like that.
Ad-blcoker software detects common ad-serving technologies on sites and doesn't load those bits of a page when a browser loads the site.
So I deploy a piece of code on the site that detects ad-blocker software and doesn't load any of the site at all.
It's a ridiculous digital arms race, which is why I would hop that by keeping ads on NSC to a low level, most decent people would whitelist the site. Unfortunately, there are a fair few people out there who aren't decent in the slightest.
These days, do you get anything from just showing the ads or is it just clicks that matter?
I believe it varies, but the whole process is quite opaque, so I'd have no idea which ads earn what and how.
Every time someone renders a page, some sort of auction happens in micro-seconds which determine what ads that person sees. NSC earns pence for every 1,000 pages it shows - forums are the dirty end of the internet as companies are rightly guarded about what content their name may appear next to.
Very possibly untargeted ads. If you have cookie security cranked up high, knowingly or otherwise, the ad auction won't know anything about you. This means you can't be targeted based on prior behaviour, meaning you could get all kinds of shit in the ad slots.
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But there's been relatively long thread on whisk(e)y on NSC recently
So looking at your op and the answer in post#2, it’s a NSC thing.
Or see post# 34 ( above your reply to me )
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Most companies advertising through Adsense these days only uses CPC but some still go CPM.
maffew
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I rarely get ads at all ... that's on a Windows desktop and also in Chrome or Safari on Apple devices.
Just the ads which [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] might place in a thread, and the unobtrusive (i.e. unlike the crappy Argus) ads for Squareplace Website Builder.
Just the ads which [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] might place in a thread, and the unobtrusive (i.e. unlike the crappy Argus) ads for Squareplace Website Builder.
Sorry.
CPC = cost-per-click (= NSC getting money from people clicking the ads)
CPM = cost per... something (= NSC getting money from thousand people seeing the ad)
CPE = cost-per-engagement (= NSC getting money from people first clicking the ad and then buying something from that company within x hours/days)
Think NSC could be a really good CPE market and grow as a forum with some increased/modernized SEO. Bozza is probably aware of it but perhaps hard to do much about it, I dont know much about vBulletin forums.
CPM = Cost Per Mille (thousand impressions)