Ok, I’m experimenting (!), please let me know if you see something that seems too intrusive. I’ve just turned a bunch of things on, and mostly off again, just waiting to see if these white “Advertisement” boxes turn into something more interesting, or if there’s a fault in the forums ad serving code …
What am looking for? I’ve not noticed anything, but then I’m not on the site all the time.
Ok, so … I just had my first banner pop up under “Advertisement” at the top of the screen … you might see some “inline” every 8 responses in conversations … and there might be one every 30 mins between page loads when you switch from one category to another.
It’s going to take me a while to see what sort of thing comes up and where, the array of settings is mind-blowing. Hopefully tho’ you should have seen the consent box … there should be a link to managing consent at the foot of every page …
Note: Oh, and there may be a banner at the foot of the page if yous scroll down that far …
The only thing I’ve just noticed is a couple of topic replies from you to posts from 2020!
Mm, not sure what those are … got a link?
Interesting, when you scroll to the bottom of the page one of two things happen with regards to the consent form;
- There is a fixed horizontal bar which contains a link to consent management
- There is a floating button bottom left with the consent link
Then sometimes there might also be a fixed footer / banner ad …
Not worked out what the “rules” are yet that govern what happens and when …
Ah, sorry. Looks like it just flagged up as not read so I went to it. Ignore me!
I haven’t found anything like a link to a consent form. But I now have an “Advertisement” word and a large empty box.
And I am no longer receiving emails about new posts.
Ok, so the new posts thing is in your settings … if it’s on it shouldn’t send emails if it thinks you’re logged in or have logged in recently. Looking at the logs, emails in general are going out, last one to you was on Wed this week …
A lot of the Advertisement boxes are still empty as it works out which ads to put up, although if it’s not presented a consent form, it would imply it’s not tried.
Try a shift+reload and/or a control+reload in your browser … bear in mind your browser may be blocking ads, if you’re using FF I think this is the default. (in which case you may not get a consent form or ads)