Chrome is complaining about our ads.

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   paradigmsearchposted 3 years ago

   I was checking one of my articles and Chrome posted this lovely message:
   
   "This ad uses too many resources for your device, so Chrome removed it."
   
   If this complaint shows up on my desktop, I can only imagine what is happening on Android and other smartphones; not to mention tablets.
   
   Maven really does have to stop trending towards using high CPU usage, high bandwidth usage, high memory usage ads. Yahoo was/is famous for this and other obnoxious ads; it did not end well for them.

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   paradigmsearchposted 3 years ago

   And I've got popup videos that are covering/blocking the article text and won't go away. The videos are invariably about other Maven products, e.g. "TheStreet".

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      lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Remember the day we were asked to point out when we saw something as hideous as that? Well, that's the new norm now.

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         paradigmsearchposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         To permanently cover the text with a video and no "X" to make it go away? I so hope not. I'm going to have to work up the energy to plow through Analytics and see how my time-on-page and bounce-rate stats are doing. I've got 3 articles with an unexplained drop in traffic. If the Analytics stats are as grim as I suspect, this tells me that Maven/HP are shooting themselves in the foot and that Google has already noticed and reduced my page rankings accordingly.
         
         Update. I checked and there was nothing disastrous. So why the unexplained traffic drop on 3 of my articles? I have no idea.

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            paradigmsearchposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Update. Make that only 2 unexplained articles, I'd forgotten about the COVID Effect there for a moment. For that matter, even the 2 unexplained articles have since picked up in traffic at least a little bit.

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            lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            This is Matts reply to a complaint I was referring to: https://hubpages.com/community/forum/34 … ing-my-hub
            
            Kierstin just posted that she saw one too, so it's not gone away. In other words, it's the new norm.

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               paradigmsearchposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               Thanks. I guess Maven is going to have to learn the hard way and we will be the collateral damage.

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   Kierstin Gunsbergposted 3 years ago

   Yikes! The other day I noticed a really annoying video pop up about sports from The Street. On an article about pregnancy. It was so unrelated to what I was reading that I had to laugh and then feel bummed because that has got to be obnoxious for readers.
   
   That being said, my traffic is up considerably right now so it's not necessarily affecting that...yet...

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