Does upgrading remove advertisments from the Tapped Out website?

TappedOut forum

Posted on Nov. 13, 2014, 11:55 a.m. by PlagueRats

I'd really like to be able to pay for this site with dollars instead of advertising, anyone know if that's an option?

yeaGO says... #2

Originally they did, however I realized that would rob advertisers of the ability to get their message to the most loyal members of the site and that would be unfair.

I may come up with an option soon to let you turn off advertisements.

November 13, 2014 11:57 a.m.

Blind_Guardian says... #3

Just use adblock if you want to get rid of ads. If you want to contribute to the site then donate. (or am I wrong here?)

November 13, 2014 12:08 p.m.

yeaGO says... #4

I'd prefer people who like adblock white list my site :)

November 13, 2014 12:14 p.m.

vampirelazarus says... #5

I think every site admin would like that :P

November 13, 2014 12:49 p.m.

Blind_Guardian says... #6

Yeah, I'm getting sick at sites blocking adblock.

November 13, 2014 12:51 p.m.

yeaGO says... #7

True, but where else will the site owner personally request it? :P

I've been thinking about a $4/month option. I could add this to it.

November 13, 2014 1:07 p.m.

vampirelazarus says... #8

You have a point, I don't know many site admins that actually personally communicate with their users... in fact, I only know of one.

Two, if you count my buddy who operates a server I have an account on and talk to every day :P

November 13, 2014 1:11 p.m.

PlagueRats says... #9

I like the model nexusmods.com uses. It's about $4 a month, with a few discounted longer term options. I bought the life time membership for $49. Their site seems much more expensive to operate because they offer unlimited downloads of large game mod files. I don't know how much it costs to operate a site like tappedout, and have no idea what effect it would have on advertising sales, but I think somewhere around $2.50/month would be fair to remove ads.

November 13, 2014 2:30 p.m.

Matsi883 says... #10

I know there is an adblocker that loads the ads and doesn't show them. Is that just ABP on Firefox or is there one on chrome as well?

November 15, 2014 8:04 a.m.

vance3 says... #11

So exactly how much is it to upgrade your account anyway?

November 17, 2014 6:05 p.m.

yeaGO says... #12

Minimum of five bucks

November 17, 2014 6:06 p.m.

JexInfinite says... #13

Generally, if you've donated, you've pledged support to the site, so letting yeaGO keep TappedOut running is worth ignoring ads.

November 18, 2014 6:10 a.m.

This discussion has been closed