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Re: Bug report: Make the main advert on the downloads page less confusing

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:56:29 -0500

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 16:18, Andrew Sayers
<andrew-20081218_at_pileofstuff.org> wrote:
> Andy Levy wrote:
>>> When you disable Adblock, the TortoiseSVN download page includes an
>>> advert at the top with a large orange lozenge marked "click here". A
>>> user instructed to go to the download page will click on that lozenge no
>>> matter what they're told to do, then wonder why TortoiseSVN isn't
>>> installing. This is especially true for users with a small screen,
>>> where the lozenge is the only obvious thing on the page.
>>
>> The ad page is purely a Sourceforge thing and cannot be controlled by
>> the TSVN folks. It's the price one pays for hosting with Soruceforge.
>>
>
> By "download page", I'm referring to http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads,
> which is copyright of the TSVN team. It hadn't occurred to me that
> there'd be an SF downloads page, which I agree wouldn't be a TSVN issue.

Those ads are still managed externally. I'm sure there there's some
settings that Google Ads allows one to change, but I'm sure someone
will find a way to object to pretty much anything that appears in that
space.

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