Questions tagged [advertising]
For discussion about the explicitly commercial advertising that appears on this site (if any), as well as the Community Promotion Ads which are voted on by users of each site.
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Native ads use non-existent question tags
Found a native ad with a non-existent question tag, how-to-guide, which, if it existed, should be removed because it's a meta-tag
The page of how-to-guide shows 0 questions
V2Blast pointed out that &...
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Native ads are unreadable in dark mode
I noticed the native ads for the first time a few moments ago. Below is a snapshot:
I'm using the Stack Overflow dark mode. The font lacks sufficient contrast, making the native ad difficult to read.
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AD tag is appearing on page header and obscuring reputation
See the below image, where the AD tag on the advertisement is displayed on the page header, obscuring the users reputation.
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The new advertisements are very annoying
I've used Stack Overflow for a long time.
Stack Overflow used to care about the ads that were shown on its site.
In contrast, the ones I've seen recently are entirely unrelated to the site, flashy, ...
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We now have scam malware ads on the main page
Continuing a worrying trend, I've now seen these "Download Extension" scam malware-payload ads, or slight variations, dozens of times on Stack Overflow and other SE sites over the past few ...
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We now have casual mobile game ads on the main page
For the first time ever I see an ad of a casual mobile game on the main page of Stack Overflow. It seems to be for Hero Wars (haven't clicked it). I believe it is one of those games where the ad you ...
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Did advertisements get more distracting recently?
I've been using Stack Overflow for years and never really had any issue with the advertisements distracting my attention. Recently however, I've noticed quite a few animated ads with scrolling ...
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Disturbing ad with black circles and crosses [duplicate]
This ad has been showing a lot in the ads column to the right:
It's massive, ugly and disturbing with its crosses in circles.
I have tried using the "report this ad" link but nothing has ...
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Massive images in job ad sidepanel
A few times now, I've seen images in the side panel that look like they're probably larger than intended:
I think the "X" button is meant to be small? And the profile image above it seems ...
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Beta test for short survey in banner ad slots starting on June 10th on SO
[EDIT: This beta previously ran from December 4th to January 13th. It is being run again from June 10th to July 10th to validate initial data results. ]
TL;DR: Starting on June 10th, we will be ...
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Bright, red, aggressive color ads in Stack Overflow
This is related to the question Make the 'Check out these companies' sidebar have less aggressive colors in dark mode
Stack Overflow seems to have been recently inundated by advertisements ...
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Please don't show Collectives surveys to people who aren't in Collectives
I just got a "How are we doing? Help us improve Twilio" banner survey notification when I visited a twilio question: Separating User Speech from Chatbot Speech in Real-Time Audio Streams ...
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Could linking to search results on my page in an answer be considered as spam/self or product promoting?
For example in my related answers I'd like to link to my Vite or Vue answers like:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A14098260+vite
The problem is that Vite/Vue community support is bad and I ...
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Why do I get a banner "How are we doing? Please help us improve AWS. Take our short survey"?
I just got a new banner on Stack Overflow:
The survey starts with:
Thank you for helping us understand your experience with AWS. Sharing your feedback about AWS will help them to make future ...
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Testing native, sponsored banner ads on Stack Overflow (updated August 14)
UPDATE: We have concluded our tests of the native banner ads on Stack Overflow on July 20th, 2023. With your feedback on this post and the ads’ performance metrics, we have gathered sufficient ...
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