GuildWiki talk:Suggestions/advertisements

I'm getting adverts from google which appear in the middle of tables. (I first saw it on the axe page) I appreciate advertisements are required to keep guildwiki going, but this is far too intrusive and frankly ridiculous. it needs fixing, or this site risks losing users to the official guild wars wiki.
 * I'm sorry - it's not our fault, the company that bought us, wikia changed the advert policy - we campaigned against it - thanks for letting us know - I'll have a look at axe and see if I can change. Random Time  17:44, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't find it - can you take a screenshot of one (press printscrean then put it into paint then upload it here) Random Time  17:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I only saw it once, if I see it again I'll take the screenshot. --Harvster 18:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Is there no "report bad ads" on the Monaco sidebar (I am using Monobook)? Clicking on that would lead you to the page where the other people report on these problems. --◄mendel► 18:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

'''yeah, i told u to load the search box first and here is the truth; wikia would rather inject adverts than get the search box to load fast. its all about money for u guys and it shows, 'they changed the policy and we campaigned against it' yeah no kidding; money loving jerks. i will never click on a wiki add for this reason, u start to load the search box b4 the adverts and i will reconsider; otherwise, i will never support wikia, ever'''

oh yeah and btw; changing ur skin means u have to willingly store wiki cookies permanantly on ur comp; another money grubbing issue, keep the cookies so we can constantly track everything u do; yeah right; keep giving me advice which works only to fill wikia pockets; that way purposefully not supporting wikia will be 100% justified!
 * ..fail less.. &mdash;[[Image:MaySig.png]] Warw/Wick 16:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Wow. Drama llama. Cookies do not track everything you do. Keyloggers, camwatchers and such do. A cookie contains information you once gave. Thus, Wikia doesn't even benefit from you having cookies on your computer, and less so can earn cash with em. --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]]-- (s)talkpage  17:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

wiki not only uses cookies to trak ur startup preferences, but uses them to trak everything u access that is on their site; of course 'everything' the way i put it doesnt mean the same as keyloggers, but leave it to the hypocrits to infer that i said cookies r as intrusive as keyloggers, so they can start some drama of their own while calling others dramatic


 * Wow, flame much? Now, to dismantle that misspelled, burning, and strangely bold message: First, cookies won't track what you access on the site, and if you're worried about that, you should probably worry more about your browser's cache, which stores information about pages you enter in order to try to get them to load faster. Second, Viper did not say nor infer that you "said cookies r as intrusive as keyloggers", nor do I see how he or anyone else here is a hypocrite. As for your previous message, skin changes are not a part of cookies, they are part of the account stored on their servers. Also, without cookies, it is IMPOSSIBLE to run accounts on a wiki, forums, OR browser-based game. Lastly, we aren't "money loving jerks" with the advertisements, and I don't even REMOTELY see why you would think that, since we don't even get a penny of the profits from there. Please be informed and flame less --Gimmethegepgun 19:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Guild wiki used cookies to track your preferences before we were brought by wikia - cookies are intrusive to track you, but not as intrusive as keyloggers. I block cookies from advertising networks. I don't get any money from this, the only people who get money is wikia Random Time  19:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Have you looked at our QuantCast profile lately? Where do you think do they get their readership demographics info from? Quantcast tracks you by the links imbedded on their clients' pages and presumably can link all your pages you visit in the same browsing session, and by the cookies they can track you even when your IP address changes (that's where they get unique peoplein their traffic statistics). You can be certain that the big advertising networks do the exact same thing.
 * That said, if you can blacklist all cookies and only allow Wikia (and subdomains) to get them, all that can be tracked are the pages you visit on Wikia, and if you're logged in, Wikia can track that anyway.
 * You can use any skin on any page even as an anonymous, but you have to append ?useskin=monobook (or whatever) to your URL. If there is demand, we could write site Javascript that does that even for anons. (The stricken "solution" would require a cookie to store the setting.)
 * As regards the search box, you can access that even before loading a page; see our Community Portal for details, it is extremely simple to set up. --◄mendel► 07:14, 18 October 2008 (UTC) (edited 08:21, 18 October 2008 (UTC))

To person who likes to write comments in bold: Please STFU and GTFO. You have no idea what you are talking about. Stop talking before you make it even more obvious. (T/C) 21:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion
Is there an actual suggestion for a new GuildWiki feature here? If so, what is it? --◄mendel► 07:14, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no suggestion here. I vote for silencing the dissidents moving this to a more relevant talkpage somewhere. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 07:29, 18 October 2008 (UTC)