Advertising on Trainsin

ejr1965 · Post by **ejr1965** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:03 am

Don't know if this is the correct forum or not butevery time I log on to Trainsim from here in the USA , I seem to get bombarded with all kinds of unrelated advertising. I do have US anti-spam set up in my computer but it doesn't seem tobe able to control UK spam.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to try and eliminate this annoying problem whilst at the same time being able to enjoying accessing Trainsim?

Post by **NeutronIC** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:29 am

There is one very easy way... subscribe, it turns off all the generic advertising and the only thing you'll get are the unintrusive (i.e. they don't animate in an annoying way, they don't pop anything up, they don't pretend to be a real window and so forth) train sim specific ads.

Matt.

ejr1965 · Post by **ejr1965** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:01 pm

I'm already a Premium member --- paid up until May 2005

Post by **NeutronIC** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:14 pm

Right click on the 'UKTrainSim' link at the top of the forums and save it to your bookmarks, this will take you to the front page of UKTS *logged in* and therefore you will not see any banners even on your first visit.

Matt.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:17 pm

just thought I wuld mention that the server and site are based in the US so its not really a case of 'uk spam'......

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:20 pm

There are a bunch of new banner ads in the forumns from Lypha webhosting that are very garish. In contrast with a lot of the banners that lead somewhere useful and related to MSTS these seem somewhat out of place.

Click the image to zoom in

I don't get any ads on the main UKTS screen since I have followed Matts advice and got my URL saved correctly but I get the banners in the forumns.

Post by **NeutronIC** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:23 pm

Ugh so much for google.

Might be time to revert the forum banners back to burst again, that google experiment has been a disaster in just about every respect.

Matt.

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:40 pm

Well I wouldn't say it was a total distaster. About 50% of the adverts I see regularly were somewhat relevant to MSTS or related interests. It just seems in the last week or so there are a lot more irrelevant ones.

I just clicked on one banner ad for Mamod steam engines and bookmarked it for later use / suggestion to wife for Christmas present

And I do like the one for hiring giant Scalextrix sets for office parties etc. Unfortunately our office Christmas party is already booked so we can't follow up on hiring the 8 way Sega Rally arcade machine

Post by **martinhodgson** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:04 pm

I get the lypha ad in this topic - I think that shows it's working properly, i.e 'reading' the body of the text and putting a relevant advert in - within limits!

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:39 pm

Yep, I'm getting Lypha as well.

Surprised to see the ads but don't mind them.

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:20 pm

lol, you all need to get a new Browser, look what mine does:

Click to GROW

When I click it, i get nothing but a page saying the same thing as the link

I can get it to show me if I want, but i dont want to see the ads! Web browser is Maxathon. I admit, it takes a little getting used to, but I assure you, it is the best one I have come accross.
Pete

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:50 pm

Yeah noticed earlier that it seems to set the adds depending on whats there, Site Admin seems to be enough to trigger off non train sim stuff

Breedlings · Post by **Breedlings** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:57 pm

martinhodgson wrote:I get the lypha ad in this topic - I think that shows it's working properly, i.e 'reading' the body of the text and putting a relevant advert in - within limits!

Now this gives an idea for an interesting pass time. Threads where we try to control the adverts ......

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:55 pm

Breedlings wrote:
martinhodgson wrote:I get the lypha ad in this topic - I think that shows it's working properly, i.e 'reading' the body of the text and putting a relevant advert in - within limits!
Now this gives an idea for an interesting pass time. Threads where we try to control the adverts ......

I think thats actually against the Google Ads rules.

But in case its not. ' Breasts '

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:05 pm

This thread is currently giving me 'Cheap Web Hosting', all I usually get when it's not Lyphia.

I like it when you get Google ads on this site advertising UKTrainSim

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