They’ve been gone for awhile, I spent like 30k on one of the ads when they first got rid of them. It’s quite unfortunate and hopefully in the future we can get notified better of these changes before they even go live.
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There seems to be an issue with ads. I recently got a Chrome extension that seems to block off advertisements everywhere, ranging from ROBLOX to YouTube and more. Might want to figure out a way to fix these issues? Especially since it is kinda easy to block off ROBLOX adverts with a method I have using a certain extension. I miss ROBLOX ads.
I remember when I first joined I saw a ad about every page I touched, even before joining the game. I know this was like the only income of Roblox of the time so I get it. I’m glad to see they are moving away from ads, but at least we can get more user-generated content on pages I know this what Roblox was made for and I’m glad it’s going this way. 
Also there is a massive amount of user ads of click baiting for like “This user clicked this ad x times, what can you get” and some ads of profile pages (There’s more, but can’t think of them right now.) . I hate to know if people are actually clicking these ads to actually see what happens neat how they come up with the action, but I just don’t support these type of user-ads.
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Rip. The squares ads just went from being the best to now being the worst. I honestly can’t think of any place that there are square ads besides the games page. But showing more games is always a plus.
I guess they’d just start having to pay for Sponsors instead. Not the ideal solution if you actually spend time designing ads or see consistently better results with ads instead of sponsors, but at least there’s an alternative and they’re not just removing advertising all together.
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I am not completely convinced with this change, yes it might improve the experience for some players but in my opinion,
Not all user ads were spam and of no use,
Roblox is an imagination platform where a million of devs makes games and use ads in hopes of getting their game out, This kinda steps on the small devs and gives a more advantage to the front page devs
Yes ads aren’t removed from the other pages but most players notice ads in the games page and considering ad is a bid…
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I’ve been using Roblox BTR to remove Ads from the website.
Hearing that Roblox actually wanna optimise the Games page to show more games is a good thing. Money is not a subject here.
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I honestly welcome this change. Too much game space was taken up by the same MS Paint ads from 2008.
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On the one hand, I like the removal of ads on some of the pages. As an adblock user, it doesn’t truly affect me in the short term, but with the removal of ads it clears up space for more games and other cool things.
That being said, I don’t know if I love the removal of ads on such a major page. There are people with legitimate ads that do want exposure via ads. The ads are there to advertise a game, but it’s harder to do when the main pages players visit don’t show ads. It seems that maybe we could’ve kept the ads, but put a system in place in which the ads had to be monitored and filtered for advertisements that don’t just look like the process of a 6 year old.
Then again, I do suppose that my point is negated by my use of adblock. I do really want to see what new features you bring to advertisers to display across platforms.
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My question: How will Developers (especially small ones with small amounts of Robux) get the visibility they need for their ADs?
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The bidding situation actually makes it that much harder for a small dev…
But when they had the ability to be ON the ‘front page’ through ads, they had a chance.
Now it’s anyones guess if it’s even worth it to advertise period…
I’d like to see some stats of Which Page The Ads were clicked on the most.
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Ads are not removed, they just took away the box ads on the game page to free up more room to display more games. They removed 2 ad spaces from the entire site. The only issue with this is that box ads went from being the best type of ad (my opinion of course), to the worst based off of where the ad is now shown. Small developers will still have the chance to run advertisements and sponsors, except they just won’t be showing on the games page anymore.
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The square ads are intrusive and annoying for most players. Ultimately, they are working on focusing on sponsored games as they are less intrusive.
It’s similar to how Google search results display unobtrusive ads in the search results since you’re more likely to click those ads. Roblox is working to do the same with sponsored games being mixed in with game sorts.
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I agree Roblox should give us Devs notice before they make something that affects are revenue of money. After all many of us live on our income and removing an asset can mean the difference between making enough to survive and not. Removing ads should have been announced and then asked what we think about it. I completely agree you should get a refund cause when you payed for ads you payed for all the features and then a feature to be removed is completely unfair!
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I feel it is becoming harder and harder for small developers to get a game noticed with all the recent changes. First the featured sort was removed, and now ads are removed from the most popular page.
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I’m all for less intrusions (like ads), but I really hope that standardization is not the only reason for this change. There is nothing wrong with optimizing for a platform.
Large button sizes being a good example. I love them on touch-enabled devices, but they get in the way on mouse-enabled devices.
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In terms of games, I would think sponsoring is the new ideal form of advertising.
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I personally like this change but for people who rely on ads to get their game more visits that might be the bad part of this change. Other than that it seems like an overall good change for the site.
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Can you make a system that moderator can check ads if they are going with rules and doesn’t attack others games/groups etc. and if they would be serious, not ads like @Toadiant said and included. Also this is a good update, because we do already have sponsored games.
Finally, I got a reply but this reply actually got me confused. I wasn’t really expecting them to give me the Robux back (as rectangle ads still appear here and there) but this seemed to me as an automatic reply for situations like players complaining about Rthro and such. So yeah, here it is:
Hello Ömer,
Thank you for contacting Roblox Customer Care regarding your advertisement removing concern.
As you can see in announcement that we recently removed the ads from the games page and game search page only but your advertisement can be seen at home page, game details page, catalog and other places within the Roblox.
Moreover, we are always working to improve the Roblox experience. With each new update we’re committed to bringing better features to Roblox. We know that sometimes it might seem challenging at first when things change, but we encourage you to give each new change a try. You might find that you like it even better!
We appreciate you taking the time to write in with your feedback for Roblox and want to confirm that your suggestion has been received. Although we may not be able to follow-up further, we do value and use player ideas and suggestions to bring new features to Roblox.
We also encourage you to watch the blog and devforum for announcements about new features and upcoming changes to Roblox.
Sincerely,
Grant
Customer Care
Roblox
I didn’t have a problem with the removal, I just had a problem with it getting announced after it was made. Us devs should have been given time to prepare as always. I think I made it very clear on my mail, but, what can we do sometimes?
Goodbye 7 DevExable Dollars 
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