In-Book Advertisement (Please post replies about it here)

Today (1/20/2015), we rolled out a new style of advertisement. In-Book Advertisements. This ad spot was specially created for FAKKU by our ad publisher to flow better with the overall design of the website. This advertisement is hidden to FAKKU Gold users. This advertisement is meant as a replacement for the pop-over advertisement that at the moment kind of bombard users multiple times through the course of an entire book.

At deployment this advertisement was placed in the middle of all content, when you got the middle of a book, the advertisement would overlay on top of your current page. After five seconds, or if the user clicks "skip ad", the ad would be closed.

After a number of posts, we have moved the advertisement to page #1 of all books.

Please post any further comments or concerns here. This advertisement is on a kind of trial run to see the user feedback.

Thank you for your understanding, and we apologize for any interrupted fapping during the few minutes that the advert was in the middle of the book.

I think we should have these little formats change coupe into a stickied thread, every changes is posted, and feedbacks would be there too. Just to keep stuff like this from happening again. We're at a turning point, better to keep the collaterals at a minimum.

The only issue I see is you still get the pop up along with the new add when you click "read online" which directs you to the thumbnails section. It will pop up when you try to click a page to start on. If you just lick on the image box which starts you at page 1 you only get the new page add.

Wasn't Gold supposed to be for people to not have ads?

I suppose this is weird to say but if I actually try to read some of these, it disappears before I can finish. I know it's just an ad, but I guess that's meaningful feedback.

Do I want it to stay on screen longer? I don't really care, but if it's to serve its purpose it would probably benefit from that.



I've had this happen to me and it doesn't seem to work.

The Skip Ad link is a blue link above the advertisement for me and disappears once the dark theme is selected. I am using a third party internet browser on a tablet though, so that may be part of it.

I quite like the design of the ad. ^^
It also doubles as a way to deter people using adblockers on fakku because it stops you being able to click/arrow key transition pages until you've seen and clicked/skipped it.

Fixed

I normally don't mind ads for services that I really like. Quality youtubers and sites get put into my whitelist so I can support them in the small way I can. I wouldn't say I love them, but banners and the like are perfectly fine in my book, but I admit I forgot to whitelist Fakku when I finally installed adblock. I don't even mind the fact that recently released Fakku Books publishments are pinned to the front page and look visually similar to free releases. Good! Try and tempt me to buy quality content! The more people buy in the more we get. However, this recent change is backwards.

These in-book advertisements are obtrusive and annoying. The FAQs stated that you'd strive to make sure ads aren't intrusive.

This one's a failure. Requiring me to aim for a small button to "skip" the ad. Forcing open a popup splattered with boring (in my opinion Í¡° ͜ʖ Í¡°) real life porn. Making me have to close that popup. No thank you. Kill it with fire. I'll use another site if I have to keep this up.

It'd be nice to let readers click right on the page to bypass the ad, but that wouldn't make much sense as ads are meant to bait in clicks/views. I think allowing readers to use arrow/WASD keys and the Next button to blow past the ad will allow the advertiser to retain click-to-open-popup capabilities while appeasing readers. But hey, I'm not in charge of the monies and adslinging.

While adblock might some day patch something in to block such ads I'll be using a manual tweak to adblock I've figured out. I look forward to whitelisting Fakku in the future once they stop using in-book ads.

All ads on Fakku make me uneasily and uncomfortably when I disabled my Adblocks... Fakku!, Do something with this problem...

Fully agreed! Kill these in-book ads, they're annoying. I want arrows back and functional!

I will say that, while I have loved Fakku in the past for being the best free Hentai manga site around, it would seem these days they are just trying to milk more money out of us. First they started with purchase only content and filled most of the front page feed with their buyable books making no effort to differentiate free from payed content.

And now they force you to deal with huge, intrusive, and rather out of place ads that cover the manga page and when you close them they pop-up even more ads in another window. The way to stop it? Pay them even more money for a gold membership.


As I said I use to love Fakku but these days they are just becoming another corporation.


While this account of mine is only 3 years old, I have been here for over 6 years as a random guest... so it makes me sad to see it become this way ╥﹏╥

I think some of you are missing the point.



I don't think anyone actually looks at the current pop-up ad. The new type of ad they are trying to introduce will replace that one if it's successful. FAKKU is taking feedback from us because they care about the user experience. And yes, of course, they want to make money. What business doesn't? Instead of drawing any hasty conclusions, why don't we give FAKKU some ideas on what they can do to generate ad revenue without ruining the experience?

If I had to guess why, they are currently unable to remove the existing pop-up because it's part of a deal. If the new pop-over gets finalized it should be removed.

As I was saying, collaterals, collaterals.

Using Adblock's "Block Element" feature lets you block the advertisement now, as it set up a custom filter blocking it directly, and doesn't interfere with anything else.

I guess you couldn't really do so with the old ads, but it should still be better off having them this way for all the users who don't use Adblock and the like.

Personally, I dislike the In-Book ads. I find them unbearable. Being annoyed each time to click "Skip-Ad" each time I wanna read a book. Maybe set it up so people who clicked "Skip-Ad" won't have to re-click it for an hour or so? Still has the add, but lessens the annoyance of it?

Oh, and on the side note. While yes, I do have Adblock, I used to not block any ads in the book (Header and footer, others where blocked) do to how small and ignorable they were.