Advertising & Monetisation Policy

The Crimson Desert Guide is advertising-free. No current route is advertising inventory, eligible for advertising or allowlisted for an advertising runtime.

Current status

• No third-party advertising runtime is currently active on Crimson Desert guide pages.
• The previous multi-format tag and notification worker were removed on 30 August 2026 after ordinary page clicks were found to open advertising tabs.
• Every guide page exposes the fail-closed disabled and none policy markers.
• Google AdSense is not serving guide inventory.
• Builds reject the retired takeover domains, zone identifiers and notification worker; all guide pages, including 404 pages, remain advertising-free.
• A site-wide Privacy & Consent centre provides current runtime, data-use and rights contact information.

Editorial independence

Advertising never changes evidence grades, guide conclusions, rankings or recommendations. Advertisers cannot buy favourable coverage, priority placement in guide content or changes to verification outcomes.

Placement rules

This policy does not reserve or pre-authorise any Crimson Desert route for future advertising. A proposed change would require a separate media-rights, provider, privacy, accessibility and product review before any route marker or runtime could change.

Pop-ups, pop-unders, page-wide click handlers, click-triggered redirects, direct links, interstitial or vignette overlays, notification ads and remote bundles capable of activating undeclared formats are prohibited. If a placement obscures the Command Centre, Pywel Atlas, Completion Companion, Build Laboratory, Research Queue, search results, technical diagnostics or spoiler controls, it is treated as a product defect and removed.

Privacy boundary

The guide’s progress, notes, preferences and planning data remain local to the visitor’s browser. Advertising technology must not be allowed to convert those private guide records into remote user profiles.

No advertising provider may receive guide data under the current policy. Any separately reviewed proposal would require provider disclosures and any necessary controls to be published through the site-wide Privacy & Consent centre before activation.

User experience

Advertising must preserve:

• readable desktop and mobile layouts;
• keyboard and screen-reader accessibility;
• page performance and layout stability;
• clear separation between independent guide content and paid material;
• an obvious method for reviewing privacy and consent choices.

Any advertising implementation that materially damages the guide experience, opens another page from an ordinary guide click or escapes its labelled container must be removed.