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BusbyDavidBusbyDavid Posts: 4
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Seems that the gardenersworld website has been completely taken over by advertising.
The annoying full screen adverts behind the articles are annoying and are completely irrelevant to gardening.
I have already cancelled my annual subscription to the magazine due to the high quantity of advertising in it, and now I use alternative websites as my reference for any gardening query. These huge background page adverts are not only annoying, but override the professional content.
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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I don't see any ads at all.  I think this is because I restricted the cookie settings to essential only when originally signing in.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I don't see any adverts at all, I use Adblock Plus, perhaps you could try that?
  • BusbyDavidBusbyDavid Posts: 4
    Many thanks for this suggestion Floralies, works brilliantly. 
  • M33R4M33R4 Posts: 291
    Google incognito browser helps too. I posted about this same issue last week and got lots of great advice from fellow members on here 😀
    I wish I could garden all year round!
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    If there weren't any adverts, there would be no site, what do you think pays for it?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • BusbyDavidBusbyDavid Posts: 4
    As a software development engineer, a website hosting of the domain costs around £400 a year, development of the website of gardenersworld.com, probably a few thousand. From then on it's updated by BBC staffing.
    Advertising is an income, but there should be a controlled maximum. The way this site has developed is the same way the magazine has gone - the advertising is extreme and is now a bigger display than the content.  Many have given up their subscriptions for the magazine due to nearly 40% of it being full page adverts, nothing to do with gardening, and that's what the website is now doing. Recent full page background adverts have been for Specsavers - what's that got to do with gardening ? - and who actually stops their browsing to read them ? From research it's only 9% and that's provided the advert is relevant to the website content.
    Not surprising AdBlock is so popular.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    This site has nothing to do with the BBC - the Gardener's World brand is licenced to Immediate Media Co.

    Like others I use adblock+ and get no ad's whatsoever from any sites.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    This website is not run by the BBC, despite what you might think.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s up to each viewer if they get ads or not,   if you don’t reject the cookies from the start, you will get ads. 
    I’ve never seen an ad on this site,  I don’t use any adblocker. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    BusbyDavid said:

    I have already cancelled my annual subscription to the magazine due to the high quantity of advertising in it, and now I use alternative websites as my reference for any gardening query. 
    Yet you've come on to the forum to complain about it , which will have no effect whatsoever. The forum is just that - a forum, and has nothing to do with advertising or how the magazine or the programme are run. 

    If you wish to complain about advertising, the contact information's at the bottom of the page. That's where to go to do it.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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