"today we fight back" banner

[Faulcon_deLacy]

Am I the only one who finds this banner to be really annoying and somewhat intrusive across the bottom of the battlemaster page?  Can't see some rather useful links with that stuff covering up part of the page...

[Zakilevo]

It is REALLY annoying. I want to fight the banner back!

[Buffalkill]

Yes very annoying.

[Gustav Kuriga]

Tell me about it. So called "privacy" doesn't really exist anyways. If someone really wants to know who you are and what you do, they're going to find out.

[AlexR]

I am all for a good message, but the banner covers up important information (what region I am in, how many hours I have left, etc).

And I do not see how to remove the banner, even temporarily, to see that information.

[vonGenf]

I can simply press 'X' and the banner goes away.

[Atanamir]

First monsters, now banners, I wonder what we get in 17 days then. :P

[jaune]

Tell me about it. So called "privacy" doesn't really exist anyways. If someone really wants to know who you are and what you do, they're going to find out.

Ofcourse they do, now we talk about saving "all traffic in internet" just in case. I do understand that authorities need to be able to chase criminals, but when they chase everybody as potential criminal... we are on wrong route.

[vonGenf]

I can simply press 'X' and the banner goes away.

Correction: it goes away on my phone only. On a full-fledged web browser, it does not fully go away.

However, on www.battlemaster.org it hides the bottom status bar, but on m.battlemaster.org (even if you're not on a phone you can use it) it does not hide the status bar, although it's still annoyingly present.

[Gustav Kuriga]

Ofcourse they do, now we talk about saving "all traffic in internet" just in case. I do understand that authorities need to be able to chase criminals, but when they chase everybody as potential criminal... we are on wrong route.

Honestly, I find that to be a naive viewpoint, but meh.

[Tom]

It is only for today, and I find the issue important enough to do this.

If you don't agree - that's fine with me. Everyone their own opinion. But lots of people don't even know what's going on and I would much rather have 10 educated people with an opinion opposed to mine than 10 ignorant people who follow me.

[Velax]

No idea if it is related, but I've had other issues that only occur in BM and only since this advertisement has appeared - text in letters I'm writing sometimes doesn't appear for several seconds, and often the game just ignores me when I hit "Preview" or "Send Message". The button flashes as normal, but nothing happens. I have it hit it repeatedly before it'll do what it's meant to do.

[Azerax]

the bottom of the screen doesn't load (the banner does) so I can't see my location/gold/unit. not a big deal for a day or two.

[Logar]

I found it rather annoying myself and it wouldnt totally disappear when clicking the X, still hiding BM information at the bottom.

I use firefox and use the App: Adblock Plus.
To eventually get rid of the banner, I had to go into Adblock and manually block all elements related to the banner. Got rid of it in the end.

I do agree with the message being put across, but unfortunately it was disruptive to elements of gameplay.

[Wolfang]

I just unpaused my character, how am I supposed to play when I can't see  my hours, gold, unit etc???