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Jun 2015

Wait, how do you become a part of it? I must have really missed something

Just go into your Dashboard, click the "Ads" tab, you should be able to go through the whole process there. Just go through the step-by-step process, no additional information required :slight_smile:

I have been having this problem too - I use Chrome and even if I disable the adblock in the extensions, it's still the same frowning Maybe it's a Chrome problem?

I hope it gets fixed soon, I want to support creators when I read their comics!

Actually, can someone give me a link to a comic that uses the Ad Revenue? I don't really think it's worth it to annoy this shit out of my readers to earn $1 or less every month. I'd just like to see what it looks like and where it pops up.

The adds are there on the site by default regardless of if you are in the program or not. You being on it will not change your readers experience. Them having addblock on or not is what effects that.

21 days later

Why are ads with video/sound allowed? they are the most annoying ads ever

Well the issue with the ads is that I have an ad blocker, and while I willing to turn it off to support the wonderful creators on this site, 81 FRICKING ads after 2 minutes on a page is ridiculous. While that is only some pages, 8 or 9 ads per page sends off warning sirens in my head. At least secure the site so that I know that I wont be receiving viruses while supporting my favorite artists. Just wanted to put in my two cents in, and point out a potential threat.

. . . What? You must be referring to other website that have annoying pop-up ads, because Tapastic doesn't have those. They've taken great care to put their ads in places that are noticeable, but don't obstruct and distract you from the reading experience (between each comic episode you scroll down past, there are literally only three advertisements, and one of them is usually an ad for Tapastic itself, ex. Tapastic Premium). There most certainly AREN'T "81 FRICKING ads after 2 minutes". If there were, we'd be making a lot more money lol You won't be getting viruses either just by looking at advertisements that are hosted from elsewhere (now if you click on them and get redirected somewhere else you didn't want to be, well, that's a risk you're taking, and even then Tapastic seems to take great care in moderating what advertisements end up on their website).

If this is already happening, this sounds more like you have a malware problem on your own computer and isn't a Tapastic problem. We definitely don't have obstructive pop-up ads, and we DEFINITELY don't have almost hundreds of ads popping up in a short amount of time.

Or maybe it's some browser extension doing this.
I don't have any problems with Tapastic's ads neither.

Well, technically if he managed to read 27 pages in those two minutes, he WOULD see 81 ads. wink I know I don't read that fast, though.
But yeah, I haven't had a problem with Tapastic ads either. I do use Adblock but I whitelisted the site to support other artists here.

Hi there, attached above is our standard ad units, which is comprised of three slots. The middle and right most slot are based on your browser's cookies alongside our ad network while the left most slot is reserved for our personal use (expect some interesting stuff there). If you're experiencing anything outside of this ad unit such as pop-ups then that's a browser side error on your end. If you could screencap what you're experiencing, we'd be more than happy to take a look.

We have been experiencing some reports about autoplaying ad units, especially when readers are opening multiple tabs of comics at a time. This has been something we've been working on to reduce - I personally dislike autoplaying video ads because it's distracting.

11 days later

How have I been a Tapastic artist since December and not known about this? open_mouth Enrolling now. See, this is what I get for not being on the forum until now...

Hey I'm sorry if there has already been a solution to this issue but I have a problem.

I disabled my ad blocker on Tapastic because I find that the ad revenue goes to something awesome here - and I firmly stand by that. But For SOME reason it still showed at least 2 of the ads as "blocked"...
I now even deactivated my adblocker altogether on chrome, and i STILL have this happening:

:C tapastic pls i KNOW ad revenue helps creators - that's why those two ads on the left and right are not blocked! I turned off the adblocker!

Any idea what I can do to fix this while still being able to run adblocker on other sites?

The ad on the left is always a Tapastic ad. It's not any indication that it's being "blocked", it's legitimately just how they set up the ad pages. So that's one problem out of the way lol (and yes, it is a legit ad).

I know a few people have had problems with the ad-blocker message still popping up for them even after turning ad-block off, although that was a bit of a different message, and I feel like maybe the middle pic is just another Tapastic ad? (as sometimes there are Tapastic ads in the center column as well). It's a (kinda far-fetch'd) possibility, but know that if it is breaking on you and trying to tell you to turn off your ad-blocker despite already turning it off, you're not the first person to have this problem.

We'll see if @michaelson can tell us the verdict here > <

@UzukiCheverie

Underneath every ad unit is an ad blocker message like the one you see above. By default it will show up and if an ad loads, then the ad will take priority over the ad blocker message. So sometimes the ad unit itself is transparent in parts and you'll be able to see snippets of the ad blocker message peaking through.

Sometimes the ad unit itself doesn't load - this can be caused by slow internet connections or by a server side error on the ad provider's side. If you see this routinely it may mean that the ad just hasn't had time to load smile

Hope that helps!

8 days later
9 days later

Something I wanted to tell you about your ads and why I turn on adblock: For the last week, Flash has taken up so much CPU to run the ads that it was ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SCROLL DOWN. In case you didn't get that, IT TOOK ONE MINUTE TO SCROLL DOWN ONE PAGE. ON AN AT LEAST MEDIUM-END PC. I can't support creators via the support program, so I'd like to support people at least that way, but this is ridiculous.