We’ve re-enabled ads around the site.

As much as we’d love to avoid it, keeping Subeta running does have its costs. Ads are one of the simplest ways to help cover those expenses. We’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with ads in the past, and while I’m not the biggest fan of targeted advertising, it’s a necessity to keep things going! The alternative would be to raise prices or increase Cash Shop (CS) releases, but we’d really prefer to keep as much content on Subeta free for everyone.

If you happen to come across any inappropriate ads, please don’t hesitate to submit a report through a ticket, and include a screenshot of the ad.

As always, you have the option to get a Gold Account, which blocks all external ads. And if you use an ad blocker, we get it and still appreciate your support! 💖

Absolutely! Thanks for the feedback, we have some toggles to control what is shown to the users, and can hopefully move them around to make them less invasive. I've gone ahead and made a few tweaks, hopefully that should prevent those full page takeover ads.

This is a post about how Subeta needs funds to keep the site running, and how ads are now something that we're going to need to get used to in order to keep Subeta online. I also hope that I've been clear that we're going to tweak the ads and make sure that they are not invasive, and ones that take up the whole top of the screen count toward something I'd call invasive. I'd hoped we'd get a little more grace than "💩".

It's automatic, but if you could take a screenshot it'd be really helpful so that we can ask our rep to block those types of ads.

It's pretty weird -- the difference in the industry now vs the last time we really made an effort to put up advertisements 😰 In the past, you'd just get a few banner code snippets and place them where you want, now they give you a single code and it "smart generates" the ads on the page, where they are the "least intrusive".

Looking into the ads with sound today, that also shouldn't happen! (I'm going to assume that each of these ads we block are the ones that make the most money 🤣)