Ads? At the bottom of my screen?

I am very Disappointed.

you got ads in blender?

On the Blender Artists Website

Yes, bloody annoying tbh. Even got to click away the ads to be able to see the Reply button.

Time to get an add blocker after all, this is unusable the way it is now.


Websites aren’t free to host, guys… it costs hundreds of dollars a year to keep a website open, not to mention the huge amount of database space for all the users and images uploaded here. If you don’t like BA having ads, go make your own forum site with your own money and see how you long you can keep it up :slight_smile:

My problem is not the website showing ads, my problem is that the ads overlap the interface of the website and I can’t post without first clicking away the ad. I didn’t use an ad blocker until this point but I do now.

This wasn’t something we did - Google decided to activate an ‘auto experiment’ on both BlenderNation and Blender Artists. I just disabled them.

But yeah, running this site DOES cost real money as well as a lot of time. So I’d appreciate it if people could either become a supporter on Patreon or keep the ads on.

Ok, if you disabled them I’ll disable adblock as well.

YESSSSS!!!

Thanks Bart! That’s what I call action !!!

Ads are gone.

I understand.

If you decide to allow them again, maybe add a big empty “footer” section at the bottom so we can click the reply button.

Thank you.

The ads are back. I guess Google is not giving up that easily (that is unless they were enabled again).

Can you try again please? I think I misunderstood how to disable this.

I don’t mind seeing ads which are specifically related to Blender-community products and services. But I don’t want to see ads for ladies’ hosiery …

No ads. Thanks