On one pc (not our second pc or my laptop) someone here seems to have ticked a box which now allows banner adverts at the top of the page, right down the right hand side, and across the bottom. How can I switch these off?
The adverts have always been there. You can hide adverts from the site by upgrading yourself to premium membership: https://www.zoochat.com/community/account/upgrades US$3 per month or US$30 per year. Membership upgrades help to pay for the operation of the site and are very welcome. Some of the benefits of upgrading to premium membership: help fund the costs of running the site option of creating your own personal photo albums upload video to personal albums larger media storage allowances longer time limit on editing posts and media add a "Signature" to your forum posts add a custom title to your account profile tag threads to add value to other discussions add attachments to private conversations option to hide adverts
Thank you. That is interesting, as they only show on one of our new pcs - not on our two old machines, second new pc or new laptop - old ones on windows-7, new ones on windows-10...
I have no adverts when I am logged in, but I think it is because of the ad blocker that is built into DuckDuckGo. It's an alternative search engine to Google that does not track you.
It would be great if people either disabled ********** for this site, or paid for a premium membership - the site does cost a lot to run and I need contributions from members to make it viable.
This is certainly understandable. You may recall I had a premium membership on the old software which went away during the changeover. Considering how much I use this site it is only fair that I pay my fair share, so I will upgrade right now.
It would appear that HOMIN96 is right and some hardware arrives with ad-blockers pre-installed. This would explain why 2 of our brand-new computers don't show the ads and one does - on exactly the same systems. It wouldn't matter to the advertisers if I switched of their unwanted ads or not, as I wont ever respond to an unsolicited advert on a matter of principle. All that would happen is that the irritation of their unwanted presence would discourage me from using the site, potentially to the point of stopping altogether.
Absolutely! - but the curious thing is that someone else is paying for the banners on 2 of our 3 new machines, the ones which they don't show on! The advertisers I guess? - indirectly, and who are not getting the coverage they were expecting. We'll have to check this '**********' thing, as it is something which has not been mentioned before, and we had not realised could be pre-installed on some machines and not others of the same make, installed at the same time...
My understanding is that the advertisers don't pay if the ads are blocked by an **********, which is why Sim loses out on revenue if they are used.
You don't have to use the site. Nobody is forcing you to. Presumably, you are here because it is useful and interesting and provides value to you. I make my living from running these sites (ZooChat is one of several I run), so if people are not prepared to support the site by either upgrading their account or allowing adverts to show - then it will soon become unviable to run it - my costs are certainly not going down. I have no intention of forcing people to pay to access the site - I don't think that is in anyone's best interest. Upgrading your account will always be optional - but you could at least allow the adverts to show so that I can pay my rent and put food on the table for my family.
