BING ad jumps you to bottom of new page

[LiteHedded]

it's still there. what's the deal?

 

[Cave Diver]

The info has been passed along to the Ad Reps. I'll follow up and see if there is info.

 

[The Chairman]

We thought we iced it, but Bing is pretty aggressive. We'll have it down again shortly.

In My Most Humble Opinion: this makes Microsoft little better than a spammer. I had little desire to use Bing and this little stunt makes sure that I will avoid it at all costs. How obtrusive!

 

[SC_Hoaty]

Gee Pete - don't advertisers help pay the bills? I agree the Bing ad was/is over the top, but trash talking an advertiser surprises me!

 

[The Chairman]

The Bing ad comes from Google Ads. We have the option to reject any ad they send us, and will be doing so here. Howie is on a boat, and will be dealing with this when he gets to a PC.

Let's face it: it's a fine line we tread. If ads become too obtrusive we lose users. If an advertiser is not a good fit for us (pissing everyone off), then their advertising is counter productive for everyone. In 2003(4?) we had a rather lively discussion about a rather large shark that had been killed in a tournament. The Google ads for shark fins simply did not have a place in that discussion or elsewhere on our board. We banned them from the site.

Anyone who knows me, knows I am not a greedy person... in fact many of them wished I was a bit more profit driven than I am. The domain ScubaBoard has been entrusted to me largely due to this philosophy of mine and I refuse to let money be the rudder that steers this ship.

 

[SC_Hoaty]

Thanks Pete -

I've seen enough to know you are not a greedy, profits-only kind of guy. But I know you are in business, and this is not a charity. I made the (incorrect) assumption that all advertising was of direct benefit to SB. The Google Ads (which I presume pay both Google and the site they appear on) I guess are a bit different. Glad you can reject certain ones, and have demonstrated that you will.

 

[HowardE]

I have updated the code to block bing.com.... Hopefully that is actually the source of the ad. I don't see that ad; so I don't know what it's doing, of if the block worked. Apparently, they don't want to advertise in the Dominican Republic?

 

[The Chairman]

Here it is: Bing Click to see what we see. Here is the code (using noparse tags) for you to see it.

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I'm still seeing it.

 

[fairybasslet]

It is still happening for me Howard.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Where does this ad actually appear (meaning on what page of ScubaBoard)? Apparently they do not want to adviertise in Canada - prolly cuz of all our snowbound fortresses and vitriol.