A thought regarding ads

Motostu

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One of my pet peeves when viewing the site on my PC (Win 10 using Chrome) is that when I click on 'what's new' or 'watched threads' (probably the same for any subforum?), it takes a moment for the ad to load, and if I'm in the middle of clicking on something everything will shift and I end up clicking on the wrong thread (or sometimes the ad itself). For a while, this appeared to have been addressed (maybe space was reserved on the page for the ad?), and I think it was good for a couple of months. Just this week it's started happening again. Not a huge issue, but definitely an annoyance.

I don't think anything changed on my computer, but can't rule out that it might just be me; I need to try it on one of my laptops and see if the behavior is the same. I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this and find out whether there's a way to address it.
 

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One of my pet peeves when viewing the site on my PC (Win 10 using Chrome) is that when I click on 'what's new' or 'watched threads' (probably the same for any subforum?), it takes a moment for the ad to load, and if I'm in the middle of clicking on something everything will shift and I end up clicking on the wrong thread (or sometimes the ad itself). For a while, this appeared to have been addressed (maybe space was reserved on the page for the ad?), and I think it was good for a couple of months. Just this week it's started happening again. Not a huge issue, but definitely an annoyance.

I don't think anything changed on my computer, but can't rule out that it might just be me; I need to try it on one of my laptops and see if the behavior is the same. I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this and find out whether there's a way to address it.

Nah, not just you. Happens to me on mobile...android and apple devices. PITA.

Also, sometimes the ad content will cover things like the "mark read" button.
 
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Motostu

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Today it started working like I want again; it seems to reserve the space for the ads (at least using my PC and Chrome) and I don't have the issue of everything shifting down when the ads load. :)