Many thanks for your reply to this topic as always, I have indeed read the recent blog posts and the second I had found particularly useful compared to the first post in terms of what active solutions Wikia are planning, I'll edit the post accordingly to include the links as they may be an interesting read!
Advertisements are causing pages to crash
This is certainly a relief to hear that it is indeed not an unknown phenomenon to Wikia, we have commonly been receiving community posts regarding how frequently this occurs to anon users (once again with the previously mentioned anon to logged in user privilege regarding adverts), I think many will be happy to hear this!
Recall briefly mentioning the Steam and lightweight browsers seizing up entirely due to the sheer volume of dynamic adverts being pumped out, hopefully this will be a well received fix! (Additionally, slower connections and older machines, might I enquire the sort of guidelines for slower connections and how they would be processed? I worry transparent proxies may make this inaccurate is all!)
Advertisements are disrupting page content beyond Wikia ToS
Firstly, after browsing Wikia on a fresh version of Google Chrome (55.0) within an incognito page with no anti-advertising software installed without being logged in, I had encountered this several times, this may require some investigation on your end.
Additionally, there should not be a double standard of rules that Advertisers can willingly break where as our custom stylesheets, JS and more need to adhere to, if any user were to accidentally or purposely block page content out of a script extension or template usage it would be extremely unlikely that it would live to see the light of day after staff had become aware of it, Even more so if it was not intentional. Personally speaking at least, if I were to log into a page to find its content is locked behind an advert, those would raise alarm bells to the sites authenticity and possibly discourage use from the website in question. (I understand from a staff point of view it may be a bit clouded with experience in dealing with these, so for example, often download sites have advertisements that attempt to mimic the pages own download button in order to get users to click on that under the guise of it being the real link.)
Going back to your earlier point of browser speeds, what is there to alert the user that the advertisement has finished loaded and is at the top of the page, from the point of view from a new user this would be atrocious to witness if they had scrolled past this and have had nil experience with dealing with these standards of advertising to view content that had already loaded, formatted and even take the user on to click image links and/or embedded content.
You also note that it takes only a click to skip and/or 1/2 questions, whilst this may be the case, anything that is blocking page content is a very simple case of Malvertising, I urge you, are you able to explain this a bit further (your reply)?
Additionally, I do not remember if I had seperated this, but adverts have been known to dislodge infoboxes in rare instances which is obviously a no-go, mobile seems to be more afflicted with adverts loading part-way through a sentence or formatting which makes browsing inconvenient and often clunky http://imgur.com/a/KmqIW
EDIT: as you can see within the top left, that mobile advert is taking up more space than the entire condensed article, autoplaying & has audio, this is exactly what I am trying to refer to.
Logged in and anonymous rank advertisements suffer disparity in displayed advertisements
Ditto to first, multiple happy little anons are sure to come our way! Perhaps even those willing to create an account for the right reasons and not to make the website able to be viewed to begin with
Adverts can include involuntary redirects
I am sure that when I say "If a page has a redirect that was involuntary, they are less so likely to want to revisit that experience" I have little doubt that it would be wrong.
The issue I was primarily raising is that how are these adverts able to display upon pages to begin with, we are having doubts about the exact authentication procedures and/or channels these are going through to become live on-site
Static advertisement preference
Sad to hear universally friendly image advertisements will not be making a comeback, even popular websites such as "Youtube" (owned by Google themselves), "Imgur" and even Yahoo! Mail, a service that has recently revitalised its entire website to keep up to date with the new website standards of 2017 still use static images within its pages.
Still welcome for the lesser number of dynamic adverts as you can probably imagine!
Mobile
I have contacted a mobile website user to explain about their current lacking experiences within the mobile side of advertising (For example, the earlier mentioned screenshots) I however cannot give that much more of a first hand glance of the mobile website as ironically advertisements deter me from doing so from the additional time after a page has loaded to spend additional time reformatting it to fit advertisements within, or the incredibly sluggish and almost archaic videos that insist on playing
Extra
Regarding the surveys, I do like doing them too! I even use the Google play rewards (from, as you can expect, the same provider :P) which gives little chips of Google play credit, the extreme difference here is however that the surveys which can be found within that do not tease the user with credit only to then hide it after they have seen, possibly used or have navigated away from the app itself.
Communicating with our community is important! It is also very much so important to make sure the means you are providing to the community are kept in reasonable shape too (We even have User:ChickenBar which is/was a Wikia star whom directly attended a Wikia meeting, communicated with directly and more!) and when we cannot provide either one of the two, we do our best to rectify that, this is a vision kept within all of the Warframe fansites and one that Wikia is not exempt from! :) I'm sure, if you think we would be a good representation, that the Admins and moderators would be happy to do so!