The ads are ridiculous

First the video ads that self play without being muted by default, now the placement above the respond box on mobile.

Shame on you guys.

Yea it's beyond annoying now with the ads

It's like "oh I think i'll post a response to this thread" thwap ads to the face

Agreed, the new ones before the reply box are ridiculous and way too big. I have adblock disabled on GS to support the site, but if this one doesn't get moved I'm gonna have to enable it again.

Holy shit, **** this site. You people suck.

I have to agree that the new yahoo powered before the WYSIWYG editor on every forum page are obscenely large, and completely unacceptable. At the very least they need to be moved underneath the reply box because atm they have a very significant negative impact on the forum experience. As a result I'm sure a large amount of users have used things like ad block to remove them completely as well, so everyone loses.

Use Ad-block. They don't deserve a penny for this mess of a website.

Now you understand why I joined in 2014. My old account was banned years ago for complaining about ads lol.

Is there a way to block just that particular frame?

it's all within a div with the class of "YAD", removing that should hide the whole lot. An example filter for ad block as such would be www.gamespot.com##DIV[class="YAD"]. You could probably even hide it with any user-CSS add-on quite easily thanks to the convenient unique class name for the div it's all in.

I take it your intention is to block just this one particular ad so that the site still benefits from the ads that aren't so horribly placed?

Yeah exactly.

I think this is funny.

This. Totally this.

Front page is kind of joke. I guess it's because of adblock that we now have bad ("news") adverts taking precedent over actual news.

Mobile doesn't have AdBlock.

I have had adblockers for years now, so i dont get no ads on nothing, including videos..

EXCEPT.......... for that fucking Yahoo bullshit above the comment box in the forums which is extremely annoying. Idk how and why that shit is there, but im really sadden that adblockers do not block that shit out.

you guys are complaining about the ads on this site? don't forget youtube! way worse! its basically become literally the new tv, with ADS PER every vid no matter the length!

Thanks for that info! The placement of that Yahoo ad was god-awful, and it didn't help that it was poorly designed. Giant white box on the gray background of the site, with poorly sized images and text? No, thank you.

That example filter may not work any more, as they changed the div class to "YAD YAD--module" as opposed to "YAD", simple enough to update the filter though, regardless of what you're using to filter it.

Hey guys - we'll be moving the Yahoo ads down below the Reply box on forum threads - the fix should go out today or tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience!

And as for video ads with uninitiated audio - please let us know about those. They are against our ad policies, so if we know who they are from and what they link to, we can have them pulled down. A screenshot would help as well. Thanks!

That's great!

@wemmick: Thank you so much, oh my goodness. :)

I would freely sign up for some sort of subscription like we had in the past to avoid the ads altogether.

Lord forbid anyone working on this site actually goes by their word once. Good job not delivering again.

@Blabadon: My apologies, guys - we were getting ready to push it on Friday, but a bug popped up that prevented the push. We're shooting for Monday.

No problem. Appreciate the response.

If any issues pop up though, please, as a community that has become all too accustomed to lacking answers, just tell us. It means a lot to us. Ignoring/forgetting us just brings the issues with the site full circle.

@Blabadon: And...it's done!

@wemmick: Thanks!

That is minor compared to the fact that ads are randomly opening on my PC while I browse the forums. Fix this ASAP.