Forum:Can we turn off ads in wikia?

I want to know if there is an option to turn off ads in a wiki created through wikia..


 * No, ads are the primary (if not only) income of Wikia to fund themselves and their server farm costs. There is not really any way to evade ads for every user (any ways which might exist would be illegal under the Wikia Terms of Service), but ads will get automatically deactivated when you are logged into your Wikia account.  ( C rynsos Talk 19:09, February 24, 2010 (UTC)

Ads...
I don't see any ads when I'm logged in, however if you're referring to the spotlights, there is no way to deactivate those.

However, have you tried Firefox with adblock? That would be the only option, you can't see any ads or spotlights. Not the best for Wikia but many people are using it. Right now I'm using Flock which has no ad blocking features. --Molokaicreeper 04:00, February 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * I see banners and square ads while logged in. And the "show all ads" box is not ticked in my prefs.
 * But this mainly on main pages maybe. — TulipVorlax 03:37, February 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * This is normal. Currently, all users, logged in or not, prefs or not, will still see upto 2 ads on the mainpage, a top banner, and a box at, usually in the upper right (depending on what is shown, the top banner may be right aligned instead of currently centered). Most wikis only have the banner, some might have just the box (rare, but possible). This is all controlled server side, by our advertising team, that can turn switches and flip dials and make stuff happen as they need to. It is generally safe statement to make (spotlights aside obv) that these are the only ads that logged in users should be seeing, but Wikia reserves the right to change this if needed at anytime. --Uberfuzzy 00:46, March 4, 2010 (UTC)