META: I don't know who TruStage is, but they need to never get any business from any of us.
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:16 PM ^
It funds our vast network.
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:29 PM ^
She has a high res recording device implanted in each of her front teeth
October 24th, 2023 at 8:17 AM ^
An attractive women, she has now become for me a reminder that even attractiveness can be tiresome.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:09 PM ^
Not funny, and don't called me Francis either.
Between a gallon of Tito's and our obliteration of Staee on Saturday, this ad convinced me that term life insurance and reverse mortgage were excellent products in which I should consider.
October 23rd, 2023 at 11:33 PM ^
Family Guy had an episode last night about Tom Selleck and his reverse mortgages commercials
October 24th, 2023 at 3:09 AM ^
Can’t forget to consider 100X leveraged puts in a fully self-managed “active investor” retirement account
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:18 PM ^
28” monitor? Those are rookie numbers.
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:23 PM ^
Coach Tucker, is that you?
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:28 PM ^
That's my browsing monitor. I have 2 of them and then a 38 inch central gaming monitor. 
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:31 PM ^
Whew, ok much better!
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
Found WD's alt account.
October 24th, 2023 at 1:58 AM ^
What's your username "1408" in reference to?
October 24th, 2023 at 3:25 AM ^
ngl, after reading that article about Conor Stalion, I thought for a moment that he might actually be Wolverine Devotee.
October 24th, 2023 at 3:26 AM ^
ngl, after reading that article about Conor Stalion, I thought for a moment that he might actually be Wolverine Devotee.
October 24th, 2023 at 7:47 AM ^
Definitely not. Not nearly enough breakdown on the colors on this years coaches hats.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:02 PM ^
I just go off my 70 inch 4k TV works great
October 24th, 2023 at 3:27 AM ^
Browsing on my 98 inch 8k TV works even greater
Not really, but what do we have if not internet one-upmanship?
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:20 PM ^
TruStage sucks and I hope they go into bankruptcy.
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:23 PM ^
We're trying to figure out how that ad keeps getting in. We don't get revenue from it because we don't run full-page ads. None. I had a call on Friday about measures we can take.
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:27 PM ^
You guys need to check every stage, says it right on their website... I kid I kid
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:47 PM ^
Agree with OP. Please figure this out.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:08 PM ^
You should build a program that auto populates an ad that states “Tru Stage morgage is run by pedophile goat fuckers who went to Ohio State and they don’t believe you’ll call their office to complain” and then put their corporate phone number.
A couple of days of those calls and I’ll bet they pull the ad.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:22 PM ^
And here I thought fucking mature goats was beyond the pale.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:22 PM ^
It would seem that a cease and desist order would be appropriate. I'm not a lawyer but I believe that is a thing?
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:57 PM ^
Cheers, Seth! Thanks for the update.
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:11 PM ^
At least it's not Hitler in the ad. That would be embarrassing.
October 24th, 2023 at 8:08 AM ^
User name (543Church(ill)) almost checks out.
October 24th, 2023 at 1:34 AM ^
Seth, apologies for the potential dumb question but have you tried just contacting their corporate leadership and board's email addresses (all on copy) letting them know they're likely victims of click fraud and referencing this thread about the negative sentiment it's generating?
if there's one thing C-level execs don't like it's a potential board member actually asking questions about what they're doing. While it's possible their intent is to piss off otherwise neutral people I'm guessing they're getting gamed as well. Occam's razor is that their head of marketing thought they found a super low cost way of running full page ads and didn't ask a lot of questions. Clicks are up, impressions are up, so why ask bothersome questions on why conversion is not up?
October 24th, 2023 at 3:32 AM ^
Unless the board chair went around the interim president to meet with ad agencies to get this placed in various places without their knowledge of consent.
I hear that's a thing that board chairs can do.
October 24th, 2023 at 4:30 AM ^
This is a bad week for underpaid staffers doing stupid shit.
October 24th, 2023 at 4:36 AM ^
LOL at C-level execs and board members. Do they even exist? As far as I'm concerned, this may be Stalion's sole venture no one has yet to discover.
Stud. What a chess move.
October 24th, 2023 at 4:08 AM ^
"I know it was you, Seth. You broke my heart."
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:26 PM ^
I use my iPad for the better part of my day and I’m about ready to not use this site over this. “Rotate your device”! This really needs to stop. I’ll give a whole quarter to make it go away.
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:46 PM ^
This ad has been particularly intrusive the last few days, at minimum any ad should have the ability to exit... mf'ers!
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
Yeah somehow it’s getting worse
October 24th, 2023 at 3:32 AM ^
fodder for r/assholedesign on reddit
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:54 PM ^
The actual blue wall.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:09 PM ^
I stopped posting or commenting at MGoBlog last December (except for a single post with well wishes and prayers for Seth's son.) But I hate the TruStage ad so very much, I'm moved right now to briefly break my fast and to post my irritation and disgust. Let alone the fact I will NEVER EVER buy anything, invest anything, do anything with TruStage. It is to the point, MGoBlog will be moved off of my regular reading schedule. It is so irritating, I'm wondering if it is a ploy by Brian or Seth to get readers to buy a subscription. Because, I would gladly pay to read here if that eliminated full page ads.
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:17 PM ^
Stephen. If you're currently willing to pay to read here free of ads? You can actually achieve that easily by installing a simple ad blocker in your browser and then making regular "beveled guilt" contributions to MGoBlog, Inc..
Works quite well.
October 23rd, 2023 at 11:19 PM ^
I pretty much annually have bought the mgoblog magazine and t-shirt for $50. I guess I could give more. I've used ad blockers before, but they have their own problems. Visually and mentally, I can manage to ignore almost all ads. Obviously, the TruStage ad is in a different category.
Targeted ads have gotten so bad that I have even thought to go to the library to search, so that I don't get ads based on my searching and browsing history.
October 23rd, 2023 at 11:31 PM ^
I understand the problem with targeted ads. The way I've solved that issue is to use a non-tracking search engine like Duckduckgo. I get decent search results with no unpleasant side effects.
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
It is NOT a ploy by Brian or Seth. See Seth's comment above. It is frustrating them too.
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:31 PM ^
I'm wondering if it is a ploy by Brian or Seth to get readers to buy a subscription.
Uhhhhh, there is no subscription option. At least not until you've reached the necessary points threshold.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:21 PM ^
Yep, that ad blocks my view of the website all the time now causing constant need to refresh only to have it pop up a 30 second later.
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:30 PM ^
Is there an effective way we can spam them and their stupid site that makes them feel pain?
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:16 PM ^
That is the answer. If they want all of our attention, lets give them all of our attention.
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
Activate the vast network!
October 23rd, 2023 at 9:32 PM ^
customer comments are not good.
October 24th, 2023 at 11:06 AM ^
Oh god, they're in Madison. Pity I'm not there; I could leave a bag of flaming cat shit on their porch.
And it turns out they used to be CUNA Mutual. I should see if I still know people there (although it's been 15 years since I lived in Madison).
Contact form is here.