Questions tagged [site-ads]
Questions related to the banner ads that Stack Overflow runs on some pages. If your question is about a Jobs ad, be sure to include the [jobs] tag
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Question/answer page jumping due to ads
Above the question on question/answer pages there is an ad (if you have less than 200 reputation).
This ad (just like other ads on the page) refreshes every ~30 seconds, causing all text below it to ...
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Best way to report a scam MLM "job" appearing as a job ad? The "company" has been targeting marginalized and disabled people
The ad shown below is a scam.
It's just a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme wherein, after sitting through a two-hour presentation (which is presented as an "interview"), the mark is asked ...
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Is SO showing too many non-question elements to newcomers arriving at question pages?
TL;DR: 75% of what newcomers see when they follow a link to an SO question has nothing to do with the answer they came looking for. And I don't think that's right.
This morning I was looking, as most ...
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Can we please get rid of the "SO for teams" banner? [duplicate]
Please can we get rid of the massive teams banner at the top of the page?
Firstly, it takes up most of the screen real estate on a laptop, next up it comes back every time you refresh the page and -...
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Request to change position of 'Looking for a job?' dialog [closed]
When I am reading a question, I see this 'Looking for a Job?' dialog:
See this video for more details.
I feel like the 'Related' dialog should be placed on top of the 'Looking for a Job?'. Because the ...
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"Check out these companies" sidebar is broken [closed]
I noticed that the recently added Check out these companies sidebar is broken.
Many times it lists a company and says that it has 1 or 2 open positions, and when you click to go to the company page ...
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Can I somehow opt out from sponsored tag link ads?
Though I've opted out to see any ads in my profile settings
I still see "sponsored links for this tag"
I find that very annoying, and it slows loading of the main page a lot.
Is there any ...
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View more Jobs -> 404 [closed]
Clicking either of these links:
Takes me to a 404 page:
Does it do that for anyone else? Is it because I wasn't logged in?
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Usability problem with "sticky" Microsoft Azure banner ads [closed]
I contribute fairly often to Stack Overflow, and sometimes I do so using mobile Chrome browser from my Android phone. With most banner ads, I can drag the screen using the ads as a starting point, ...
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Stack Overflow rendered inside an Ad [duplicate]
I was on a random python question on Stack Overflow, when I saw a network ad. It was about Music SE. I clicked on it, and an ad got replaced with a tiny iframe with Stack Overflow page inside it. Tiny ...
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What's the policy for job advertising on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I recently saw an advertisement to work at the National Security Agency. These are pretty common (I see them on Facebook and Instagram as well), but since the NSA is not a stranger to controversy I ...
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CraftCMS StackExchange ad broken [duplicate]
There was a CraftCMS StackExchange ad on the right-hand side, which I was curious about so I clicked on it.
Instead of taking me to it, it simply opened an iframed version of the main site where the ...
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Returning from question requires to go back twice, ad causing extra (identical) entry in history
Since a few days, I notice that returning from a question to the question list occasionally requires having to go back twice. The problem occurs when navigating to a question and waiting for the ads ...
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Localization error - part of UI is in wrong language
I opened stackoverflow from google search results (I'm googling in English) and I saw a big banner with text neither in English nor in my native language (which is Ukrainian). IP location says that I'...
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Clicking on the Stack Exchange site advertisement in the side bar, loads the Stack Overflow site in the advertisement place holder
There is one of the Stack Exchange site advertisement in the Stack Overflow sidebar (probably writing.stackexchange.com), when I clicked on the advertisement, instead of redirecting to the ...
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