Non-Intrusive Ads… for a Short While

[Angry_Panda]

welp, 'twas bound to happen someday

rip in peace, banban, hope you live on as a ghost like me

(This burial was NOT conducted by Ban and Pan Funeral Services.)

The union is NOT going to like this at all.

 

[DavidianMillerian]

The union is NOT going to like this at all.

what are they gonna do, sue me?

 

[Angry_Panda]

what are they gonna do, sue me?

Well-

checks subforum

Uh... something about ads.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Hmm, now tsoto.net
They seem the first not in your face scummy one, at least on first view

 

[ireadit]

Hmm, now tsoto.net
They seem the first not in your face scummy one, at least on first view

Looks legit enough at a glance.

Banners are still way too large, though, they still take up half the page, both on desktop and mobile.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Btw, is there an estimation of how long the "short while" is?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Also, I made some manual suggestions on how to improve it in the Updates screen.
For both, I also halved the Max-Height to 128px from 256px, that made it already much less intrusive.

Spoiler: Concept 1

In this, I moved the ad after the second update entry, which will usually put it at the bottom of the screen.
It allows the user to first focus on what is relevant to him and when he scrolls down, the only real change is a few rolls more.

Spoiler: Concept 2

The Advertisement is smaller and uses the free space next to the update, making it NOT hide any of the content the user is actually on this page for.

Both of these would be much more fitting for the term "Non-intrusive". And both were done with not even 5 minutes of Console HTML and CSS editing.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

In fact, here a css edit to make the Advert way less annoying
.max-h-\[256px\] {
max-height: 132px;
position: absolute;
top: 60px;
right: 118px;
}

I added it to my updates feed in Stylus, way more pleasant

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Also...
What is this?

What publisher in China did this "Leveraging"?
When did that happen?
Also, the other things?

Are you making stuff up here, or did this happen without any of the userbase knowing?
I'm really confused

 

[HelperHand]

What publisher in China did this "Leveraging"?

Did you forget that BiliBili comics ran his own bot in Mangadex? A bot that was handle by them, that due to the quirks of the implementation generated an issue due to timestamps? Also their bot was the reason the group blocking was re-implemented as priority years ago...

Immortal Taoist was the previous advertisement, years ago they also had a banner where the Opera one is being displayed, in reality this is not the first or second time that MD ran ads (when I discovered I heard mentions of previous advertisements, so like the 4th time?)

And Path Network is or was the hosting or infrastructure provider for MD, they had a banner in V3 with a link in the sidebar with an affiliate coupon for people to buy services with them trough the link... really @panzerkampfwagyu but you have been here longer how did you not noticed those events?

 

[BestBoy]

I'm really confused

I'm really confused by your atrocious choice in site theme.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I'm really confused by your atrocious choice in site theme.

Show me yours then.
Go on.

 

[JVick]

I'm really confused by your atrocious choice in site theme.

Didn't want to say it, but yeah don't click the spoilers if you want to keep your cone cells intact.

 

[BestBoy]

Show me yours then.

Default Dark theme.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Default Dark theme.

Boring, lol.

 

[BakedBanana]

And Path Network is or was the hosting or infrastructure provider for MD, they had a banner in V3 with a link in the sidebar with an affiliate coupon for people to buy services with them trough the link... really @panzerkampfwagyu but you have been here longer how did you not noticed those events?

I miss the OG Dex-chan ads to be honest.

 

[Bireus]

I miss the OG Dex-chan ads to be honest.

It's going legit, those days are over.



- Spoken from a Crunchyroll user who remembers typing with "/" to create chat rooms on their old old old site before being sold like 5 times

 

[feha]

Show me yours then.
Go on.

Since I agree with the guy you challenged, sure, here is mine:

https://imgur.com/a/KEr6Zlr

I apologize for the hovering footer. I keep on dismissing it, and got no idea why it is constantly re-appearing. I know it (as ell as the obviously incorrect weight-ratio of its buttons) is not intentional on md's side, as making people accidentally click that is never going to lead to a purchase, nor is getting ppl annoyed... but I got no idea what might cause it as this site has cookie/localstorage/etc permissions enabled.

edit: also, it is not visible in the image, but it groups all chapters for each title that it encounters (placing their card where the most recent entry would appear, showing a couple chapter-entries in the card's inner list (limited to not take too much space)), not merely the ones for a single page like how the default theme behaves.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

@feha So you are using the normal Mangadex theme? All of these things you described are what everyone has.

I personally put display:none on it and the button above, the dex-chan in the side menu is enough for the donation begging.

/*Advert de-Intruser*/
.max-h-\[256px\] {
    max-height: 132px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 60px;
    right: 118px;
}
/*Annyoing Donation button*/
.glow[data-v-a3e34364]:not(.disabled):not(.text) {
    display: none;
}

/*Return button, found it annoying*/
.mr-4.mb-1.text-2xl.cursor-pointer.rounded.custom-opacity.relative.md-btn.flex.items-center.px-3.overflow-hidden.accent.text.rounded-full.\!px-0 {
    display: none;
}
/*Popup Donation Begging*/
.fixed.left-0.right-0.bottom-0.mb-6.flex.justify-center.drop-shadow.z-20 {
    display: none;
}

Here are the CSS fixes I use per Stylus, atm

 

[feha]

@feha So you are using the normal Mangadex theme? All of these things you described are what everyone has.

I personally put display:none on it and the button above, the dex-chan in the side menu is enough for the donation begging.

/*Advert de-Intruser*/
.max-h-\[256px\] {
    max-height: 132px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 60px;
    right: 118px;
}
/*Annyoing Donation button*/
.glow[data-v-a3e34364]:not(.disabled):not(.text) {
    display: none;
}

/*Return button, found it annoying*/
.mr-4.mb-1.text-2xl.cursor-pointer.rounded.custom-opacity.relative.md-btn.flex.items-center.px-3.overflow-hidden.accent.text.rounded-full.\!px-0 {
    display: none;
}
/*Popup Donation Begging*/
.fixed.left-0.right-0.bottom-0.mb-6.flex.justify-center.drop-shadow.z-20 {
    display: none;
}

Here are the CSS fixes I use per Stylus, atm

No, I use a custom one, though I made sure it uses the same colors it detected on the site before it deleted everything and repopulated it with those custom ui-cards (though that's an oversimplification). That is also why I do not experience the ad in "latest updates" section, as they placed it inside the updates-area that I am replacing.
I find the default one to be really bad, due to having flaws such as paging, and not showing alternate titles, and not showing description, and not having a button to log [to the console] all the metadata for the title and chapters for closer inspection.

As for the footer, I will leave it be. Eventually they are going to realize it is bugged and keeps reappearing immediately, and fix it. Though if I would get fed up, I would simply ublock that element

Though aside from that part about how the ad interfaces with custom themes, this is quite off-topic. So I will avoid posting more followups on this [off]topic after this