Hi ,
It looks like you're using an ad blocker.



The revenue generated from the adverts on the site is a critical part of our funding - and it's because of these ads that I can offer the site for free. But using the site for free AND blocking the ads doesn't feel like a great thing to do, which is why this box is so large and inconvenient. Some sites will completely block your access, but I'm not doing that - I'm appealing to your good nature instead. Did you know that you can allow ads for specific sites, whilst still blocking them on others?

Thanks,
Ian Williams aka Fetch
or for an ad-free Fetcheveryone experience!

Is it just me or are there more adverts on Fetch

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Lemon10
Lemon10
Apr 2014
10:04am, 11 Apr 2014
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I have just emailed you the screen shots Mr Fetch, I had your email address from when I won that fab Garmin at Christmas. :-)
BaronessBL
BaronessBL
Apr 2014
10:13am, 11 Apr 2014
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I just got the Fetch ad too in the square box. It looked brilliant and I would be quite happy for that ad to stay there. Don't ask me to take a screenshot of it though - it would take me far too long to work out how to do that or what to do with the screenshot once I had done so ... and anyway I should really be doing some work right now ;-)
Spleen
Spleen
Apr 2014
10:17am, 11 Apr 2014
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There are ads on the Internet? (Obligatory smug Firefox + Adblock post)

And yes, I realise that if everyone blocked the adverts there wouldn't be a website, but the presence of adverts that flash or play loud noises destroys any possible sense of guilt that I'm not doing my fair share of being annoyed by them. Sorry.
GregP
GregP
Apr 2014
10:19am, 11 Apr 2014
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I had the Fetch one last night. Caused me huge existential trauma.
Wirral Dave
Wirral Dave
Apr 2014
10:25am, 11 Apr 2014
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I don't mind the banner adverts as they are essentially replacing an advert about Fetch (Fetchpoint, the BUPA challenge) with adverts about other sites.

It's worth mentioning that if you put your cursor over the blue triangle in the top right of the advert it takes you to a page supplied by the advertising agency which enables you to disable adverts from that advertiser. That doesn't solve the problem of getting adverts (as it just narrows the ones you might see) but it does allow you to get rid of companies who have annoying adverts.
Argie
Argie
Apr 2014
10:27am, 11 Apr 2014
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Its the unnecessary noisy ones and the irrelevance of them... why do I want to play some shit game online?

Meanwhile I have ordered a Russian Bride and will be offering a review of her later. #everydaysexism
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
Apr 2014
10:28am, 11 Apr 2014
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Thanks Lemon, thanks everyone. Hopefully the Big People In London can do a bit of fine tuning, although I think they'll all be busy at the VLM expo for the remainder of this week.
Nick Cook
Nick Cook
Apr 2014
10:34am, 11 Apr 2014
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Fetch ads sent on word doc.
AngusClydesdale
AngusClydesdale
Apr 2014
10:46am, 11 Apr 2014
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Put me on the list of people who'd rather pay a subscription than endure this shit. It's spoiling my favourite website.
GregP
GregP
Apr 2014
10:47am, 11 Apr 2014
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+1

About This Thread

Maintained by Son of a Pronator Man
Fetch says: "I don't choose the ads, I just supply the holes, and the people who pay my salary and supply a server choose what they want to put in them. The change was a surprise to me too, and I've asked for some clarification on the thinking.

If you get any particularly dodgy ones, e.g. Russian mail order brides, or ones that break the user experience, it would be helpful for me to see some screenshots (ian AT fetcheveryone.com), and I'll feed those back."

And: "I've just clicked the little blue triangle in the top right corner of the ad, and looked at the opt-out options. On the page it took me to (after it took a while to think about it), there was a button called something like 'Choose All Companies' - I clicked that, and thus far, it seems to have opted me out of all the ads."
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