Problems with the home-page

[sabbrielle]

I'm a permanent user, and though my homepage is set to my userinfo, occasionally I'll be directed to the main page when I'm logged out for one reason or another, and I see ads. For more on why this is messed up, see "permanent user

Comments

[ex_uniquewo]

(Thank you.)

I agree that it would nice if the behavior of the logout page - it takes into account your account level and, consequently, does not serve you ads to all users - would extend to other pages.

[saralogan]

Have you opened a support request on this? I'd like to see what the staff have to say about it.

[sabbrielle]

I have now and I'll keep you informed.

[girlfight]

have you submitted feedback?

[sabbrielle]

Ah, no, it didn't occur to me for some reason--I suppose it's too late now.

[girlfight]

well, the support req might just get funneled there...the thing is that the support board is usually handled by volunteers and just a few staff, so it's not as direct for issues like this.

[tallblue]

I can't believe they run such cheesy ads :( I run adblock pro and have never seen an ad logged in or out. I do see the word "advertisement" though, if I am logged out.

[emarkienna]

I agree it's rather mad. It's would also be nice if you could choose for them not to use certain information to "personalise" ads, if you feel that such personalisation is going to lead to this sort of rubbish which you find irrelevant. Although on http://www.livejournal.com/manage/account/adsettings.bml you can remove the information, the problem is that this is tied to the settings at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/ (i.e., so you can't be unspecified gender for the ads, whilst still being able to list a gender on your profile; and I presume that removing your birth year is going to cause problems with things like their adult filters).