They can try to ban ads all they want (and I'm not even convinced that is actually doing anything), but the incessant reloading of ads every 30 seconds is the root cause of a lot of the pain. If the ads weren't reloaded constantly, it wouldn't be as big a deal. But when certain ads end up forcing an entire page reload on iOS or pop up an overlay every 30 seconds, it's absolutely infuriating.
I don't see ads reload on my PC. But on iOS, they reload constantly, and it's such a pain in the ass. On my PC on Chrome, I get 2 ads. A banner on the top and a banner on the bottom, and the page and the ads don't seem to ever reload.
On iOS, the ads seem to refresh every 30 seconds or faster. Some ads force the entire page to reload, which causes me to lose text I'm typing quite often. I never get full screen popups, but a lot of people here do, and they keep on popping up every 30 seconds or more.
Using this forum on mobile browsers is a nightmare! Stop reloading the ads. Aren't 2 ads per page view enough? Do you really need 20 ads or more displayed over the course of a 5 minute page read?
Is the 30 second ad reload on mobile OS's a choice by ResetEra, or is it the choice of the advertiser, or the choice of the ad broker?