Questions tagged [advertising]
For discussion about the explicitly commercial advertising that appears on this site (if any), as well as the Community Promotion Ads which are voted on by users of each site.
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Why am I suddenly seeing ads on Ask Different and other sites?
Why was this Stack Exchange site (Ask Different) and others suddenly filled with ads? It wasn't so before. It's annoying trying to navigate through the ads, which fill the page when I open a question. ...
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How does Stack Exchange verify an advertiser is adhering to its advertising policies?
How does Stack Exchange ensure that ads don't deliver a tracking pixel if I have opted out of cookies? Is it impossible for an ad to track me if I have opted out of targeting pixels or could an ad ...
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"Report Ad" with diagnostic information fails in Firefox
In Firefox, when I checked "Share diagnostic information" on the advertising report form and submitted it, an error occurred and I was unable to report it. This seems to be because navigator....
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The Activity Data section of the user settings page is misleading
The new advertising policy states:
Retargeting pixels are allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.
On the settings page of my profile it states:
Stack Overflow ...
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Will the tracking pixels replace the existing advertiser tracking?
The company has recently announced a change to its advertising practices: they plan to allow the use of tracking pixels by select advertisers. I am under the impression that this is merely formalising ...
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Update to our Advertising Guidelines
Today, we have updated our Advertising Guidelines as follows:
“Retargeting pixels are not allowed on any campaign. allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.”
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Alpha test for short survey in banner ad slots starting on week of September 25th on SO
TL;DR: Starting on the week of September 25th, we will be showing a short survey in the banner ad slots on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange tech sites.
[EDIT: Since this post was created, some ...
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Partner content on the blog - what's the value of these?
The Stack Overflow blog was historically a means of communication for the company to the community, and eventually ended up being a way for the company to communicate with potential users of their ...
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The page on the site ru.stackoverflow.com is going crazy!
After visiting any question this happens:
I tried to open the site on different browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) - it did not help. I'm using Windows 10.
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Very small vertical space between advertisement and question text
On sites where I see advertisements the vertical space between the ad and the start of the question is very small. Example from SFF:
This is distracting to read, and it seems to be inconsistent with ...
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Stack Overflow doesn't render some pages in Chrome with my Google profile
I have a Stack Overflow account linked to my Google profile. I have had difficulty loading many pages over the last month or perhaps longer.
For example, this SO page.
Some pages render fine, but ...
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Remove Shell company's advertisements?
I reported 3 of Shell's ads:
which were shown on Stack Overflow.
This ad is offensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQSa_AVpSo,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuW4AP8M4M and
https://www....
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Can advertorial blog posts be clearly and consistently marked as such?
The conclusion of the latest blog post, titled "Why the number input is the worst input", is:
I felt compelled to build my own form builder [...] Your last option is to do what I built for ...
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Podcast advertising by spammers?
In podcast episode #482 I was somewhat disturbed to hear an ad for turing.com
I don't particularly perceive them as a spammer, and actually don't have much of a perception of them as a company at all; ...
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Can the "Sponsored by AWS" message be made smaller (less annoying)?
Looking at Ask Ubuntu, the "Sponsored by AWS" is... large on mobile. For reference, this is how it would look on an iPhone 12 (I'm using device emulation for the screenshots hence why I'm ...
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