I have never seen these and won't google them incase Google starts serving those ads up to me. I haven't seen them even a single time.

A lot of ads now are user-aware and serve ads up that are related to things you have searched for or things that have come up regularly on websites you have used. "Seabreeze" itself will not be choosing the ads that you see and instead some server somewhere is deciding it for you individually (usually).

I am not sure how to change this, but maybe try googling things that you are interested in and see if this changes the ads that you are presented with?

They were really disruptive yesterday. Nothing today.
Problem fixed?

japie said..
They were really disruptive yesterday. Nothing today.
Problem fixed?

Nope. They're disrupting me right now

Subsonic said..

japie said..
They were really disruptive yesterday. Nothing today.
Problem fixed?

Nope. They're disrupting me right now

Again!

Click on the ads, this is how the Seabreeze service is paid for.

Mine doesn't show alcohol, but big black dil ... err I mean yes, I get alcohol ads.

These are different to the usual ad format and p!ssing me off too. brand new device with no search history and certainly not alcohol .. to have to wait to close it and can't scroll past is definitely a disincentive to using the site

I am clicking on the X to close every time and they're not getting the message

warwickl said..
I've had the adverts including today and agree that the method is very annoying and puts me off even want to read the add. My aim is to get rid of it asap.
Yesterday it was so annoying I gave up reading SB.

You've got it backwards. Don't dismiss Laurie's page. Boycott the alcohol peddler. That'll learn 'em.

Mark _australia said..
These are different to the usual ad format and p!ssing me off too. brand new device with no search history and certainly not alcohol .. to have to wait to close it and can't scroll past is definitely a disincentive to using the site

I am clicking on the X to close every time and they're not getting the message

When you say brand new device with no search history, you aren't using an Android phone with an existing account are you? The 'ad choices' will follow your account even if you have never used that device to search for those things.

I am curious though as its unusual enough for a few of you to be getting the same ads, so much so that it seems unlikely to be the ad history.

But of the ads I have seen, a Domino pizza one is pretty prominent too and waves all over the place, but at least it doesn't insist on making you wait like it seems the alcohol one does.

When I went to close the Audible ad, it was easy by clicking on the 'x', but the Dominoes one seemed a bit reluctant to accept it too.

It's funny, if they make these sort of ads too intrusive then surely it discourages anyone from even looking at them and then a demand for ad blockers.

Hmm interesting I'm in chromium now, and funny images thread has no ads but this page has plenty.
Which forum/s has the alcohol ads?

elmo said..
General Discussion Ignorance seems to be where the most drunken posts occur

No grand conspiracy there!

These were not normal banner ads that we all get and scroll past. as per screenshots above, it was over the whole screen with a 3sec countdown in the top right before the X to close it would appear. Made the site virtually unusable. Not getting them today though

What adds? Ghostery.