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39 questions linked to/from We're testing advertisements across the network
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Microsoft Azure advertisement breaks the back button behaviour
There is a Microsoft Azure banner style advertisement (present on several sites, targeted to Dutch speaking users it appears) that breaks the behaviour of the back button. It adds the page URL to your ...
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What sites have advertisements enabled?
Apparently Drupal.SE has ads:
Which doesn't seems to be mentioned in the advertising program list. Are there sites that have ads enabled yet not documented (apart from the trilogy)?
Other sites ...
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Inappropriate weight loss ad on The Workplace, ELU, and Travel
Technically I guess this might be site-specific (so migrate if needed), but as the official announcement on ads says the following, I'm reporting it here for the time being1. Additionally, the way I ...
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Non-tech ad on Stack Exchange site?
I clicked on a Stack Exchange ad on Facebook and saw this:
I have used SE for many years, and I have never seen such a non-tech add...
Is this something my ISP injected? Maybe Facebook did it? If so, ...
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Will the incoming Affiliate Ads be held to an accessibility standard?
The Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines (WCAG) provide a set of success criteria to help devs ensure our content is accessible to folks with disabilities. Will the Affiliate Ads be subject to these ...
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How successful has Stack Exchange's "teams" been so far?
How successful has the Private Q&A option been so far?
Free up resources
It’s expensive and time-consuming to answer the same questions over and over. By making the right information ...
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What happens to a user who has received a ton of downvotes?
I was always curious to what happens to users that have a ton of downvotes on their question/topics. Maybe I'm just finding this unfair for this guy. After all, he is just doing his job to post an ...
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Why is only Stack Overflow so large?
Stack Overflow has been around for almost nine years, and I don't think anyone can deny that it is an absolute resounding success by any objective standard. There are not very many serious programmers ...
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Why did this comment disappear?
I posted a comment on this answer fairly soon after the answer was posted, then immediately edited the comment to provide a specific counterexample to the assumptions in the post. (There is a 5 minute ...
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Should edits for double spaces be allowed?
I just had a post edited for a questionable grammatical 'thingie' and for double spacing after a period/full stop. That's right. Like this. See? No, you can't! Unless I do this. There it is....
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What data is being gathered during the advertisement test? What about end-user feedback?
As many user have already noticed, the network is apparently undergoing some "Ads testing" aimed at evaluating the various available alternatives for publishing advertisement to the network.
It is my ...
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Does Stack Exchange have an Accessibility Policy?
I've seen several laudable posts on the network and associated blogs about SE's dedication to accessibility and how that informed the types of affiliate ads allowed:
This blog post - "...our effort ...
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Reporting ads as off-topic / irrelevant based on the site scope
I usually do not pay attention to ads but lately I've noticed that most of the ads on Web Applications that are shown to me are related to developing web applications but that is off-topic on the site ...
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Are beta stats removed from the home page?
We are generally shown stats of beta sites on the right side of home page under watched and ignored tags. I am not able to see them now. In the place of beta stats, I am directly seeing Hot Network ...
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Why is Stack Exchange allowing Google ads though they have their own profitable revenue model via https://stackoverflow.com/jobs? [duplicate]
Why is Stack Exchange allowing Google ads though they have their own profitable revenue model via https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?
I mean, I just recently saw Google ads here. Don't you think it adds ...