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Katowice25012 Posts
In the coming days we will have another change to TeamLiquid. We'll be adding in a new ad to the site on the right sidebar, in between where you see Live Events and Live Streams. We have always been a community first organization and want to give everyone a heads up and explain why this is a change we need to make.
We always strive to keep advertising as non-intrusive as possible on the site, and while this is more prominently placed than most of our other ad places, it is a necessity. The unfortunate truth is that running a website like ours is a difficult business because standard ads pay less as time goes on. We're also fighting a constantly rising rate of adblock, which for us now is around 55%.
As it stands, TeamLiquid is one of the very few sites that hasn't yet accepted this industry standard. Even looking around esports news and community sites, GosuGamers, joinDOTA, HLTV, and Smash Boards currently have an implementation of one of these and this will bring TL in line with what is largely accepted around the world, esports or not.
Running and maintaining a website is hard especially as a community effort. We don't like locking away features or content behind a pay wall, filling in our whole site background, or the idea of using the forums to collect and sell user data to marketing firms. An ad of this size and placing represents a significant portion of our advertising revenue that allows us to keep TeamLiquid a unique esports family.
We always make decisions with the community in mind; we only exist because of support from fans like you and the groups that call TeamLiquid their home. We don't take these decisions lightly and know this may be inconvenient for some, but hope you can understand our stance.
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Cricketer12
United States14003 Posts
This is perfectly understandable, keep on being awesome TL, and know that you have our full support, this is absolutely no big deal.
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Go for it. I enjoy TL and will continue to enjoy it the same if I have to scroll a little more because of an ad. It's a sound business decision and if that means keeping TL running then so be it.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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no problem, just notice that I have adblock on TL on this new PC and..desactivate it for TL.
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Bisutopia19399 Posts
Skip the fluff and give us the TL checking account number, and we can start depositing all our e-checks to the account.
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Thanks or the heads up and keep on being awesome!
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hrm. turned off my adblock for this domain. how about dat?
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I have also turned off adblock for this page.
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Katowice25012 Posts
On October 02 2015 02:54 bMn30 wrote:
hrm. turned off my adblock for this domain. how about dat?
You're a gentleman and a scholar.
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Sweden5554 Posts
On October 02 2015 02:54 bMn30 wrote:
hrm. turned off my adblock for this domain. how about dat?
<3
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51710 Posts
I have adblock off on TL even though I have TL+
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I have a confession that just due to the shittiness of Flash and limitations of both hardware and internet, I sometimes have to use adblock to prevent everything from lagging to shit because of Flash ads. I turn it off for normal browsing, but when I have twitch open I have to turn it on or everything lags horribly. Seriously, some of the ads that you see are just straight up videos that autoload. For someone who watches low on twitch to begin with, and has a toaster that can't handle too much stuff at the same time, this is a huge problem. I know this isn't TL's fault, but it is a big reason why some people are forced to use these sorts of things.
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On October 02 2015 02:54 bMn30 wrote:
hrm. turned off my adblock for this domain. how about dat?
Awesome, I did the same, and only for this domain.
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Thanks for the heads up and explanation. I hate that it's taking up that space, but if it keeps TL around I'll accept it!
On October 02 2015 03:09 Marcinko wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2015 02:54 bMn30 wrote:
hrm. turned off my adblock for this domain. how about dat? Awesome, I did the same, and only for this domain.
ditto!
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Will we still see this ad if we have TL+?
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No, TL+ maintains an ad-free experience.
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Germany25658 Posts
Thanks guys 
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I turned ad block off for years. However, the pervasiveness of "meet an Asian hottie" ads required me to turn that on. I don't surf ANYWHERE where an SEO is going to pick that up. I will try to turn off Adblock again to support TL, but please refrain from such advertisers.
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