Money talks, in all walks of life, sadly. No one likes to be reminded of it, but thems the breaks. Like lobbying if you have enough money you get to play by a different set of rules as everyone else. If an average Joe selling mods on here had pulled this shit they would've been kicked off before their feet touched the ground. If you're PinStadium though you get asked nicely if you would mind please being a bit more considerate, if that's ok, sorry to ask sorry.

Privilege sucks wherever you find it.

I had a good chuckle at how matter of fact this statement was, so thanks.

pinside.com#?#DIV.pinsidegrid-item-shopitem:-abp-has(A[href*="1105-"])

...works in uBlock Origin and I presume Adblock to nuke the ads completely, leaving the others intact.

On the flip side - for some people making mods is their livelihood, so them being able to feature prominently is important and could make the difference between being able to pay the bills one month and not.

If the ads system is monopolised by entities with the power to do so, either through sponsorship or abuse of the game linking system then all it means is people lose faith in this part of the website, their eyes will glaze over when they see the shop section of whatever game they're interested, and that's that. When was the last time you looked at anything on Google beyond page 2 or 3?

One quick and dirty solution I can think of is a weighting system whereby the more games a mod is linked to the less prominently it appears in the list. This makes sense if it's a generic mod anyway, as it's more likely people would be familiar with it vand aware of the global compatibility anyway (e.g. like PDI glass or ColorDMD). This weighting would mean a mod that only exists for one or two games would always feature highly relative to one-size-fits-all mods.