The Annoying Ads

[Tackle]

Guys, in case anyone isn't aware, the latest run of overly large, & exceptionally annoying ads aren't intended to be a permanent fixture, Proffrink is working hard, when he has the time from his irl commitments, to sort it & I believe migrate the page to a new host site, which should sort most of the issues.

Obviously its not a 5 minute job, & in doing so the forum will likely experience some downtime, at least until its all completed. 

So in the meantime we'd ask you to be patient, there's no need to pm the mods about it, were experiencing the same issues & its just as frustrating for us lol.

On the subject of ads in general, yes the forum has running costs, which im not privy to, but obviously the original banner ads (not the new annoying stuff), goes some way to mitigate the running costs, those ads are all airsoft related & not annoying in the least usually.

Thanks for your patience?

[proffrink]

I've just turned them off. Google Adsense does 'auto ads' by default, and this meant basically spamming the entire site with them. Apparently it was 'running an experiment' and just implemented the results for everybody yesterday.

 

The intention is for Adsense ads to appear in the normal two spots (header and footer). There should be no extra ads anywhere else. In terms of functionality they will just be like the ads already on AF-UK but provided by Google and in the same exact spot and size as those who directly advertise on AF-UK already. I would have noticed this sooner but funnily enough I don't see the Adsense ads as apparently it doesn't serve them to the account administrator (clicking your own ads is actually a policy violation too for obvious reasons so perhaps that's why).

 

Sorry everyone for the temporarily more shitty experience.

 

Edit: if you see any ads where they shouldn't be (or in a size that's not normal) please drop a message here and tag me.

[ButcherBill]

TBh I should maybe take more notice of the funeral adds but I keep refreshing the pages hoping for the Tinder/Grinder adds again.

[GiantKiwi]

@proffrinkStill getting double sized adverts in the header. 

[ButcherBill]

Todays adds are a refreshing change/return to normality.

[GiantKiwi]

Are they?

[ButcherBill]

Well now that I'm getting adds to checkout Naga Munchetty's boobs I'm conflicted but I take back my earlier statement.

[proffrink]

I've disabled all header ads for now because I can't figure out why it's making them double height like that:

[Cannonfodder]

11 hours ago, ButcherBill said:

Well now that I'm getting adds to checkout Naga Munchetty's boobs I'm conflicted but I take back my earlier statement.

Could be worse. I get the same but for Kate Garraway who's definitely less of a milf

[Dogsbody100]

12 hours ago, ButcherBill said:

Well now that I'm getting adds to checkout Naga Munchetty's boobs I'm conflicted but I take back my earlier statement.

I haven’t seen that one yet but that’s an ad I ain’t gonna be clicking on, no offence Naga ??

[ButcherBill]

1 hour ago, Cannonfodder said:

Could be worse. I get the same but for Kate Garraway who's definitely less of a milf

I'll happily swop?

[Anonymoose]

On 11/07/2025 at 12:43, Tackle said:

So in the meantime we'd ask you to be patient.

 

At least try to be realistic. ?