Sith Holocron

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Is it just me or did the site get a lot more ads on it recently?  In addition to regular ads at the top of the page, I am seeing ads in the middle of threads and weird ad-like links at the bottom of the front page. This was noticed on mobile, BTW.

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I assume it's because of the new layout/host after the upgrade. 

Ironically I didn't notice them as much since my phone blocks ads carte-blanc and I primarily use my phone to browse the site.

Blocking ads chokes potential funding for upkeep of the site and so is bad for us, right?

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Google changed their ads to be bigger so that is probably what you are seeing. Ads are the majority of the minuscule revenue DS gets at this point though a few people here and there donate which I greatly appreciate.

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Yeah we had a donate button for a while I just turned it off until I was ready to turn it back on, not quite there yet.

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Well how do we keep the ads from covering up the text on the site?  For example . . .

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. . . I don't like my mod's credits covered.

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I've also noticed on mobile that the convenient links to related pages on the bottom of the page have "ad"s nested between them creating a higher chance of accidentally clicking on a popup to Revan-knows-where. 

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So it seems google keeps turning on this new auto ad placement feature they rolled out recently. I keep turning it off but it won't stick, I opened a ticket with them about it. Gonna mess with the theme to see if I can hide them today.

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Apparently it's still an issue.  Note that this picture was captured from my desktop and doesn't even show all of the ads.

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