Aural advertising intrusions part 2 - if you care act now

THIS WAS MY RESPONSE, WHILE WANTING TO BOW OUT, BECAUSE OF A LACK OF SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY, WHO SEEM NOT TO CARE, BUT BEFORE I EXPIRE, I WILL HOLD OUT HOPE FOR ACTION TO MAKE A PROPERLY RESPECTFULL ENVIROMENT FOR THIS MOST BEAUTIFUL OF GAMES

AN OPEN COMMUNICATION

BELOW IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MISSIVES TO CHESS,COM, WHICH I'M SURE YOU ARE ALL SICK OFF, BUT HEY! WOULD IT NOT BE BETTER WITHOUT - ITS UP TO THE COMMUNITY, WE ARE THE CLIENTS - THEY WILL NOT WANT TO LOSE EVEN ONE PERCENT OF THERE CLIENT BASE.

ABOUT AURAL ADVERTISING being unacceptable especially in blitz and bullet games - and 'eric' saying take a screen shot of a sound, is this even possible to do - to be completely honest, i just cant understand why chess.com are forcing me away from a site where i have played nearly 4000 games, and forebore hundreds of adverts already, to help with your existence, but its just bullying to say upgrade or else, how can i even think about upgrading with such ruthless corporate type mentality, who cannot stop huge companies like 'Dettol' who have told me they only advertise under contract, so it seems like you are being disingenious, saying you will help stop them if given a screen shot - anyway because if one is not in a buyers market, there is incipiently no end to the upgrades and humiliations, witness the banking sectors new rules concerning savings being an asset for a bank in times of crisis, what will chess.com want in there hour of crisis, maybe to get on a train under armed guard to play the next tournament - and the joke is i have been saving up for a upgrade, but as an OAP in UK, it takes time and now with what to my generation, seems like bullying behaviour, ie upgrade or listen to high density noise adverts while playing, why does nobody care that the seemingly caring and peeved moderator 'eric' wants me to take a screen shot of a sound, as i say i'm just an old cat, but is that even possible to screen shot a sound - just somebody say something, i mean 4000 games, i'm good enough, but not for a word, thanks again baddogno, but i cant believe your the only decent human on a site with 18,000 players present right now

Vincent. Do you really expect staff to do anything about this issue? Knowing that the site continues to "offer" the Conduit/Trovi toolbar to its users, is there any reason to hope that management will do anything about intrusive ads?

Many people don't seem to realize that the ads you see are based on your actual browser history. That's the whole point of target advertising. I suggest you clean your browsing history and erase all cookies before entering chess.com, in this way you will only receive ads based on some random products.

As for Malvertising, I am afraid ad providers can't do much about it. That's a new way the bad guys use to infect computers, they inject malicous code into legitimate online advertising networks. Malware are so easily spread that way. We can push the chess.com administration to scan all advertising before making then active on their websites though as I don't believe they are actively implementing this kind of preventive measure right now. But internet users are bound to face such malvertising at some point, therefore it is strongly recommended to have a decent antivirus software on Windows that can protect you against such online threats. For more on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

A large part of chess.com is made available to everyone for free, in exchange of seeing ads. People have to admit it's a pretty fair bargain despite occasional inconvenient caused by some flashy, aural ads. There are ways around this, which I am not going to advertise myself by respect for the chess.com staff but online research can tell you more.

Yes, I've written a novel, and you must give respect to chess.com, who wrote the other half - no other reason to give respect to the answer i received from them. And (eehc) you are wrong, these aural adverts are random, the adverts coming through my browser are for hand made shoes, rare antiquities and high class company, this aural crap aimed at the wrong demographic is paid for by the companies (detoll and clearasil) to be placed on chess,com by the agency about which, Sean Moves says (he is chess.com admin) ''As you probably know we don’t choose each add individually. Rather we use an ad service. So the question facing us became this one. Do we switch services, or try to work with the one we’ve got to clean up the ads''. This is the whole point, why don't you follow the narrative, chess.com freely admit that they use an agency to place adverts, but can't control easily which adverts are placed, and until myself and two or three others started corresponding with them, were unaware that the agency they pay were using aural only adverts. They are clearly stating that one option for them is to change agencies, this is our chance to get what we need - we are by being free users already swelling chess.com coffers by representing a huge and varied demographic, which they are selling, to say nothing of the less intrusive visual adverts already pay for by the free users. Get with it, if it bothers you, you can change it - if it does not bother you, please don't get snide about me writing a novel, if i were to write a snide comment it would probably have the form of a haiku - nothing wrong with using the mightier pen than the dulled sword of your witless comment.

You got ADD or sumthin?

(I kept it short for ya.)

It's simple enough, I would rather be playing chess (in peace and quiet) & i guess the twenty minutes it took to pen my 'Novel' must be impressive to the ritalin generation - no dialogue here then - whose loss, I really don't know - but i know you aint gonna be the one telling me - yrs V 

Hooray, I have my very own (literary) critic on chess.com - you are doing well so far, you seem to have read every word. Which makes your posture of ironist, slightly redundant, as a literary critic you should know that every writer /artist's desire is to have the work read or looked at - liking doesn't matter, that can come later. For the lay person (you) could best understand this using the meta-phooorrr of talking to the opposite sex, its getting in that counts, and it looks like i have gotten in.  

About the same as it costs me to be on face book - or whatsapp - why ?

just get adblock if you can't take it.

''You seem to be on a crusade against a site that gives you much for no return''. 'kaynight'

the below quote is from chess.com admin Sean Moves

V

paragjain05 thanks for the post, please see link below -

ttp://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/aural-adverts

REF AURAL ADVERTISING, PLEASE SEE MY OTHER POST, AND GET YOUR FRIENDS /PEERS TO LEAVE COMPLAINT, I WILL FORWARD IT TO CHESS,COM, THE MORE WHO SPEAK THE BETTER CHANCE TO CHANGE THE PRACTICE, THANK YOU

by WIKIPAWN in a few minutes

Get Adblock, just seach for it on Google.  I'm telling you, you have no idea how much better the Internet looks without ads.

Thank you 'GHOST95' I know you mean to be helpful, but i have nothing against advertising, not that i get a lot of untargeted ads while on the internet, mainly they are for things I'm interested in. Or could possibly be interested in. What I am against are very noisy aural only adverts during one minute chess games, for products that i would never buy in a million years. This is just a waste of everybodys time and money, including premium paying members of chess.com. Quite frankly, the fact that chess.com have openly written to me about changing there agency to get rid off intrusive adverts, hinting that if they got further complaints, they would probably make the change. I find the lackadasical response from the chess.com community very disturbing in its pettiness and negativity.

Thanks for your time WIKIPAWN aka Vincent

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