In continuing attempt to see what alternative means of ads we can run, I've now enabled pop up (mostly under) on web comic format chapters. This replaces the existing two banner ads. They will popup on click.
The popup will only happen once a day. Not as in every 24hrs, as in once each day at most based on UTC/GMT timezone.
I've been running popups in beta with fair bit of success and hopefully it'll be good in live as well. The goal is to see if this is a viable alternative to banner ads which:
- Take up space in viewing area
- Cause loading delay
- Loading large number of ads, increasing probability of unwanted ads.
The objective of this test is to have less ads in total, annoying the users less. Popups are indeed more annoying, but given the ratio of 1 each day vs 2 every page, this seems less annoying in the end.
ps. I'm aware this makes adblock's whitelist impossible since the popup itself will be on another domain.