Changes to rule34.xxx in 2018
This year is going to be a challenging year for us. As you may be aware we run on advertisements as our source of revenue. Some may argue this isen't the best way but its the most easy way for free sites like us. The rise of adblockers has been crippling the revenue quite a bit, in return many sites adding more annoying ads such as the popunder and this in return resulted in a higher amount of adblockers.
At rule34.xxx i think we always kept our ads very fair, around the content and only a single pop. Unlike other hentai competitors. This year we have more then just adblock rising, google itself is going to be enforcing the internet to make sure the ads on the websites are okay by a program called Coalition for Better Ads. Whenever this is a good thing or not is something we'll have to see, they are using their monopoly with google chrome to enforce this.
The first mayor change will be that somewhere around 23 January we will be dropping our biggest source of revenue that racks in 38% of total. The annoying popunder. We are doing this to be in compliance with betterads standards. In addition we will be working on a feature that allows contributing users to disable ALL ads in the profile page. Also a patreon pledge with just $1 would enable you to disable ads and access to more functionality that are planned for 2018. However, we will be blocking adblockers starting feb 2018 from visiting the site after a certain amount of pageviews.
These are the current stages.
Stage 1: Implement feature to disable advertisements for contributing users, current standards in mind are set if users reaches ANY of the following = 1k posts / 1.5k tag edits / 500 forum posts
Stage 2: API integration with payment providers such as patreon and maybe alternatives in the future. Donating any amount will put you in a supporter group that also has the ability to disable ads and in the future other functionality.
Stage 3: Remove popunder code at 23 January.
Stage 4: Implement a blockage for adblockers on 1 February.
Deadlines for stage 1&2 are somewhere before 23 January. With this post i want to ensure full transparency of our plans. Hope it works out in the end ;)
Our Patreon! Donate to remove ads!
www.patreon.com/booru
Reference materials:
www.theverge.com/2017/12/...er-release-date-announced
www.betterads.org/
STAGE 1: Completed. Go to My account > options to check it out!
STAGE 2: Completed. Go to My account > options to check it out!
STAGE 3: Completed.
STAGE 4: Planned nagging, not yet implemented.
At rule34.xxx i think we always kept our ads very fair, around the content and only a single pop. Unlike other hentai competitors. This year we have more then just adblock rising, google itself is going to be enforcing the internet to make sure the ads on the websites are okay by a program called Coalition for Better Ads. Whenever this is a good thing or not is something we'll have to see, they are using their monopoly with google chrome to enforce this.
The first mayor change will be that somewhere around 23 January we will be dropping our biggest source of revenue that racks in 38% of total. The annoying popunder. We are doing this to be in compliance with betterads standards. In addition we will be working on a feature that allows contributing users to disable ALL ads in the profile page. Also a patreon pledge with just $1 would enable you to disable ads and access to more functionality that are planned for 2018. However, we will be blocking adblockers starting feb 2018 from visiting the site after a certain amount of pageviews.
These are the current stages.
Stage 1: Implement feature to disable advertisements for contributing users, current standards in mind are set if users reaches ANY of the following = 1k posts / 1.5k tag edits / 500 forum posts
Stage 2: API integration with payment providers such as patreon and maybe alternatives in the future. Donating any amount will put you in a supporter group that also has the ability to disable ads and in the future other functionality.
Stage 3: Remove popunder code at 23 January.
Stage 4: Implement a blockage for adblockers on 1 February.
Deadlines for stage 1&2 are somewhere before 23 January. With this post i want to ensure full transparency of our plans. Hope it works out in the end ;)
Our Patreon! Donate to remove ads!
www.patreon.com/booru
Reference materials:
www.theverge.com/2017/12/...er-release-date-announced
www.betterads.org/
STAGE 1: Completed. Go to My account > options to check it out!
STAGE 2: Completed. Go to My account > options to check it out!
STAGE 3: Completed.
STAGE 4: Planned nagging, not yet implemented.