Advertising on Stmini Game: What We Run, and Where We Won't Put It

This site is free and there is nothing to buy. That has to be paid for somehow, and the way we do it is advertising. Because that is a trade rather than a gift, it seems fair to write down exactly what the deal is.

Who serves the ads

Ads here come from Google AdSense. We do not sell placements directly to anyone, we do not take payment for featuring a game, and we do not run creatives from other ad networks. Which means the ads you see are chosen by Google's system, not hand-picked by us — and it also means we are not being paid to make you look at a specific product.

At the moment of writing, the ad slots on this site may be empty. That is the honest state of things, and an empty slot is not a layout bug.

Where they sit

Three positions, all of them in the page rather than in the game:

• On a game page, below the player and the play counter, in the description area.
• On the games list and the home page, below the grid of cards.

The player itself is not an ad surface. No banner sits on top of the canvas, nothing covers the game while it loads, and there is no ad wedged between you and the control that starts a game.

What we will not do

This list exists because every one of these tricks works, and every one of them makes the site worse:

• No ad styled to look like part of the game — a fake play button, a fake score, a fake board tile.
• No fake close or skip buttons. If an ad has a close button, it is the one Google gave it.
• No interstitial that appears before the game loads, and no pop-under. You click a game, the game comes up.
• No ad that claims you must click something to continue, to "verify you are not a robot", or to unlock a level.
• No stacking several units so that the page is mostly frame and barely any game.

What we do not collect

There is no account, no sign-up, and nothing to install. The site does not ask for your camera, microphone, or contacts. Posting a comment asks for nothing but the comment itself — no name, no email address stored from the form. If you want the longer version, it is in the privacy policy, including how ad cookies work and how to opt out.

If an ad looks like it is part of the game

Then we got it wrong, and we want to know. Use the contact page, say which game page it was, and describe what you saw. Ads that imitate game UI are exactly the thing the list above is meant to prevent, and a report gets it removed.