[O25YtQnn]

When did futuremark decide to get annoying ads? [cursing]

Seriously. Theses ads are annoying, glad i'm the 999,999,99th customer, or the one that zooms in an out over and over.

[bataovady]

When did futuremark decide to get annoying ads? [cursing]

Seriously. Theses ads are annoying, glad i'm the 999,999,99th customer, or the one that zooms in an out over and over.

tell me about it, that smiley one is pissin me right off![thumbdown]

[gagagaridze]

fm has become as bad as the spambots that post in it

[Quiniacab]

who cares when there's adblock

[gogFloark]

The ad's didn't bother me when they were tech related. The newegg OCZ ad and the world of warcraft ad were fine.. but the "win a free ipod" scamtastic ads do bother me.

[Vegeinvalge]

omg this **** ads are so anoyung!!!! GRRRRRRRRR [cursing] some of them falshing like poor quality or porn ads! WTF!!!

for example the big one with RED LETTERS: YOU WIN!!!

omg that's it. I'm blocking this ****. FM! [cursing] [cursing]

EDIT: ahhhhhhhh MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!! NO ADS! ahhhhh and then peace rein in FM again.
stupid ads need to go. seriosly.

thanks ad Muncher [xmasthumbup] (im unsing IE7)

[gogFloark]

So uhhh.... who wants to play with my "zwinky".

[emorbimefed]

Funny - people yelled at me when i said the ads were only going to get worse..

I told you so!

[Karensmith]

Yeah, when I'm at work where I don't have adblock, the ads are really annoying. If it was just google ads, like I think it used to be, I wouldn't be bothered at all. If they had google ads and made a post like "hey folks, money's tight, if you folks could click on an ad now and then that'd be great" I'd start doing that right away. But as it is, I get a kind of "gwaahaa, let's annoy our readers with the most annoying but profitable ads possible so we can light our cigars with $20 bills" vibe.

[AlexBolduin]

Am I the only one who doesn't get them in the forum section?

[emorbimefed]

Yeah, when I'm at work where I don't have adblock, the ads are really annoying. If it was just google ads, like I think it used to be, I wouldn't be bothered at all. If they had google ads and made a post like "hey folks, money's tight, if you folks could click on an ad now and then that'd be great" I'd start doing that right away. But as it is, I get a kind of "gwaahaa, let's annoy our readers with the most annoying but profitable ads possible so we can light our cigars with $20 bills" vibe.

To be fair, i will give FM the benefit of a doubt, and say that the content provider has gone and changed things, not FM. I guess until i hear one way or another, I will be more cautious with judgment. I guess part of me just wants to think that FM would never sink so low, as to use THOSE ads....

Then again, having the purchased versions of 3D Mark does have SOME advantages..

[StanWatts]

all i see is yougamers ads.
________
weed vaporizers

[nabsgood]

all i see is yougamers ads.

Yeah, looks like it's back to normal. Worm probably tripped over a wire.

[Discus]

See the other thread (on the right board) about this that has an explanation.

[nabsgood]

See the other thread (on the right board) about this that has an explanation.

Thumbs up to the FM staff for fixing it quickly [thumbup]
(or at all)

[Karensmith]

Yip, it's good to know that it wasn't intentional, though even the newegg one I see now is pretty annoying, designed as it is with the "flicker". Still, I don't have 3d mark or anything, I don't pay for the forum use, so fm isn't exactly losing anything by me coming here less while at work. If anything it frees up some server resources, so all's well, etc

edit: and it's still nowhere near as bad as news sites where you have ads at the top, all down both sides, as well as those annoying flash ones right in the middle of the story that expand across the whole screen. Should be thankful for that, at least ;o)

[intisgunkas]

Just to make sure that everyone does catch our response on this:

http://www.futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45037

I'm writing to personally apologize for the ads that didn't fit with the theme and tone of our websites and products. We tried a new "Ad Network" and as soon as we saw the discussion that was happening in this forum as well as the internal discussion that happened at Futuremark we took them down right away. We will continue to work to find advertisers that actually help our customers while providing us with the necesary funding to bring new tools, functionality, articles and networking speed to both of our sites.

Ollie
VP Sales and Marketing, North America
Futuremark

It really was a case of "Okay - well that looks promising; it should fit in nicely.....now, let's see - what the!?...various discussions take place....ack! no! no! get them off! get them off!"

[O25YtQnn]

Just to make sure that everyone does catch our response on this:

http://www.futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45037


It really was a case of "Okay - well that looks promising; it should fit in nicely.....now, let's see - what the!?...various discussions take place....ack! no! no! get them off! get them off!"

Awsome, thanks