Annoying video ads keep appearing on the aternos website

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  • Every time I go on the aternos website, anywhere on any of the server pages, im greeted with a video ad in the bottom right corner that covers a portion of the screen to the point of annoyance. And every time after 3 seconds when it lets you "skip" the ad, another one appears in the same spot in less than a second, making the skip button do absolutely nothing. No matter how many times you skip, it keeps reappearing, and gets really frustrating. I dont like ads, but if they're in a blank spot on the screen like they usually are I can deal with it. When it covers content however, that's when it gets annoying. The worst part is that if you have an adblocker on it literally says "We promise you that our advertisements will not appear in annoying popups or similar," which is just a straight up lie. It used to be true and I could deal with the ones that appear on screen, but apparently in the last few months they changed that and added these annoying video ads, but didn't change their adblock message. So when they promise you that ads wont appear in annoying popups or similar, it's just a flat out lie. I saw another related thread where someone replied that popups means it opens in a new window, which isn't necessarily true, and "or similar" means similar, which this is anyway. The thing is it would even be perfectly fine if the video ad existed, if another one didnt reappear there literal milliseconds after you X out the previous one. If the video ad was there, sure it would be annoying, but if was just gone once you pressed the skip button, it would at least be controllable. I know aternos needs that ad money, but these unstoppable content-covering annoying popup video ads are just stupid. The best thing aternos could do is get rid of video ads and just focus on the ones that appear on screen in blank spaces on the screen where normal ads go anyway (also that bar that appears at the bottom of the screen every once in a while that also isnt part of the page screen is annoying too). or just allow people to use adblock and give ads to the people that dont, instead of punishing people who use it for good reason, but i dont see that happening anytime soon so the first option will have to do.

  • Roman

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