Technical Support Forum

Hello,

I've used writing.com for a long time, particularly for its Interactive Stories. This feature really can't be beat; it's the best, most robust community of interactive writers on the Internet, and I really treasure it!

However, the site is not without its problems. The ads that are featured here are at best obnoxious and at worst dangerous. I've caught at least two viruses from ads here on the website and there are a number of ads that pop up, pop under my current browser or make noise that's impossible to ignore and very hard to turn off. Without an Ad Blocker, this site is pretty much unusable for those reasons.

In order to keep writing here and advise others to actually read and participate in the interactives here, I use an Ad Blocker and advise others to use the same. If the powers that be at writing.com exercised more quality control over their ads, making sure they were safe and reasonably non-intrusive, I wouldn't feel the need to do so. But I'm not going to risk the safety of my computer to visit a website, no matter how useful, and I'm certainly not going to recommend my friends do the same.

If writing.com is so concerned about losing revenue due to the use of ad blockers, then they should revisit their ad policies and make sure that ads of a malicious, misleading, and/or intrusive nature have no place on their website. If they can't do this AND insist on putting further barriers on people who use ad blockers to make their site usable, I'll have no choice but to abandon this site and find somewhere else to be.

Sincerely,
TK Amis