How to block specific ad format

  • Resolved jbtz

    (@jbtz)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Howdy folks!

    Love Advanced Ads! The ads are doing well, no complaints.

    One thing, however, that is annoying to visitors is a kind of (new) ad format: it slowly crawels down until covering about 4/5 of the page (both monitor as well as handy) and has often times only a rather small ad that doesn’t nearly covers the enormous space the field covers. After slowly (!) rolling down, you finally can hit the ‘back-to-top’ button and it slowly begins to creep up again, getting a little faster and faster.

    Is there any possibility to block this kind of ad from my site??
    Any help or hint is greatly apprechiated!

    Cheers,
    Johannes

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  • schmidt25

    (@schmidt25)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Johannes,

    Thanks for opening this topic.

    Unfortunately, you did not send a link to your website to see this ad by myself.

    Would you please provide more information about this ad unit, e.g., the ad network that serves it? Google AdSense Auto ads don’t run such a format, but if you refer to Google AdSense, you can disable specific ad formats in the Auto ads settings of your account.

    Best regards,
    Joachim

    Thread Starter jbtz

    (@jbtz)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you kindly, Joachim, for your quick reply.

    I’ld love to present you an example (screenshot) of the add – but as always, if it comes to showtime, everything works well.

    Let me tell this: right now, this format does what it should: present a banner in a white layer above the content. And that layer is only as high as the banner, i.e. about 200px or 250px. Before, however, it covered 4/5 of the page for the same banner – and that went on me nerves… on monitors as well as on mobiles.

    As soon as I see an example of this, I’ll document it and present it here, promised!

    Cheers,
    Johannes

    Thread Starter jbtz

    (@jbtz)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Ok, I found it! By now, most of these ads display well, but again, at least one spread way too far. The days before, they all were much too big like this. Here’s 2 monitor-screenshots:

    a) annoying ad

    b) displaying well

    Hope this explains what I meant.
    Now, how do I adress this ad-format?

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    schmidt25

    (@schmidt25)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Johannes,

    Thanks for the screenshots.

    These ads look like they are placed by Google AdSense Auto ads. If you want to get rid of them, please navigate in your AdSense account to the Auto ads settings > Ad formats and disable the Anchor ads.

    You can distinguish therebetween disabling Anchor ads globally or disabling them on desktops due to deactivating the Wide screen option.

    BTW: Your name sounds German. Since our team is from Germany, you can formulate other support topics in German if you want.

    Best regards,
    Joachim

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