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Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:46 am
by Kiwi Cortina
How do I stop seeing all the advertising? Its making it hard to read the site.

Thanks

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:11 am
by BigFred
Kiwi Cortina wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:46 am How do I stop seeing all the advertising? Its making it hard to read the site.

Thanks
Not sure if I'm allowed to encourage this, but AdBlock Plus is a good ad-blocker that can be downloaded for free.

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:32 pm
by Brett Wilkie
I don't know this from experience but a friend of mine was talking about ad blockers, he went on to say that some websites would not let him in while he was running it. I guess some websites depend on the sponsorship so it is a pill you have to swallow sometimes.

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:23 pm
by BigFred
Brett Wilkie wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:32 pm I don't know this from experience but a friend of mine was talking about ad blockers, he went on to say that some websites would not let him in while he was running it. I guess some websites depend on the sponsorship so it is a pill you have to swallow sometimes.
That's true. When I get a message saying I can't view the content unless I unblock the ads on that site, I make a decision about allowing the ads or no longer viewing the site. It's a one-click thing to allow ads (one time or forever). I don't see any ads on this site, so I guess this one allows ads to be blocked. (Don't tell anyone I pointed that out.)

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:49 pm
by Brett Wilkie
Keep your fingers crossed it stays that way???

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:14 pm
by Sideways
Kiwi Cortina wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:46 am How do I stop seeing all the advertising? Its making it hard to read the site.

Thanks
Ads pay for free sites, just ignore/bypass the ads and be happy that this site is free.

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:56 am
by BigFred
Sideways wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:14 pm
Kiwi Cortina wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:46 am How do I stop seeing all the advertising? Its making it hard to read the site.

Thanks
Ads pay for free sites, just ignore/bypass the ads and be happy that this site is free.
Okay, okay, I've shut off my ad-blocker for this site. :)

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:04 am
by Kiwi Cortina
Yeah but its made the page unreadable. On this 1 page alone there was 4 adds, after every second comment. Screws up the flow of the comments.

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:07 am
by Sideways
Kiwi Cortina wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:04 am Yeah but its made the page unreadable. On this 1 page alone there was 4 adds, after every second comment. Screws up the flow of the comments.
I saw the same thing - and simply scrolled past the ads.

Or to put it better, I "flowed" past the ads.

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 pm
by Brett Wilkie
This conversation is interesting and I find it ironic that this is one of the ads that I see on our site, here is a screen shot of that ad.
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Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:09 am
by stanchfi
Ya, sorry about the ads, but it does help pay for the hosting of the site.

Feel free to use an adblocker. I won't block content for users who are running an adblocker.

-James

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:54 pm
by angliagt
Wow - that's a relief! I called 911,but they couldn't help.
Glad it's back.

Re: 2020 FORUM CHANGES!!!!

Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 1:04 am
by IFHP
The refreshed site looks really nice. Thanks for all your work James.