Am I the only one getting spammed by subscription ads suddenly?

[Kyuu]

As the title says, I am as of today getting spammed quite consistently by the pop up begging asking to subscribe. I didn't mind it ordinarily, but it's literally been at least a dozen times today. Either something has broken or the Ars staff has decided to punish me. Or Ars is really hard up...

Nothing has changed on my end that I'm aware of.

Firefox on Android

 

[UserIDAlreadyInUse]

Also Firefox on Android, but for me, not logged in, cache cleared, I got only one subscription plea in 20 articles. I'm a small sample size, but I can confirm that what you're seeing isn't affecting everyone.

 

[Kyuu]

I'm logged in and it's happening even in the forums, not just on front page articles.

 

[Aurich]

My guess is that you are blocking cookies or scripts on some level that’s breaking the cadence of the messages. They’re spaced out in some way that I don’t recall the specifics of now.

Those only appear for ad blockers who read a lot of stories. Every X views once you’ve read Y stories or something.

Just to be totally honest with you I’m not going to spend a lot of time troubleshooting what extension or setting you have that’s making you see them more often than you should because the fix is to either whitelist us, or, if you hate ads and tracking (valid) just subscribe and you don’t get any of that stuff.

I won’t lecture anyone about ad blocking but if you read us regularly it would be nice if you supported what we do. Our stories and community (and support and moderation for it) can only exist if we can all have paychecks.

 

[jmarlin]

I will also add that there was a recent support ticket where a user had whitelisted ads for Ars in ABP, but the ads were still not showing. They had to re-do that to see ads, which stopped the subscription appeal. So, it's possible ABP made some updates that undid whitelisting (if you're doing that - and please do that )

 

[Kyuu]

Thanks @jmarlin , I'll take a look at things on my end since it seems to be solely a me problem.