Adverts making the forum unusable.

[ferg]

I know they pay the bills but there are so many it's making the forum unpleasant to visit.

Forum sponsors on the RHS.
A banner type thing at the bottom that I can minimise.
A banner at the bottom of every post.
Ads in the middle of posts.

At one point I had 2 lines of text on the screen and the rest was adverts
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[pirate]

I feel left out...I don't get any adverts at all!

 

[ferg]

I feel left out...I don't get any adverts at all!

I can't seem to find an appropriate emoji for that comment that won't get me banned

 

[pirate]

Is it because I log in on a desktop or laptop, both of which have adblockers, rather than a phone?
I have to assume so...

 

[nicebutdim]

Is it because I log in on a desktop or laptop, both of which have adblockers, rather than a phone?
I have to assume so...

I find ad blocker to be 100% effective on firefox, but not quite so good on Sumsung browser.

 

[littlespark]

Does being a “supporter” make a difference, Pirate?

 

[nicebutdim]

Does being a “supporter” make a difference, Pirate?

It fixes the problem entirely.

 

[DPG]

I use Chrome on Android and get no adverts. The site is very usable.

The patron flag has an effect though I think.

 

[brianmoooore]

Chrome on a Windows PC with an adblocker. No ads at all, except for 6 small forum sponsor ads in a short column on the top right of every page.
Android phone is a different matter. Hard to find the forum contents amongst all the ads.

 

[littlespark]

Everyone getting T.e.m.u ads? ( I’m spelling it so google doesn’t think I’m searching for it and gives me even more ads for it)

I don’t know if it’s dodgy, cheap rubbish or what… but it’s a very aggressive advertising campaign.

 

[pirate]

I'm not sure about the supporter flag...but I don't recall getting loads of adverts before that.
Firefox and ad blocker works for me, and on all sites and forums...or fora, if you prefer

 

[Moley]

I use Firefox on the laptop and the phone, both with ad blockers. On the laptop I get a column on the right with some ads and blank gaps between the messages where I assume the ads would be and, usually, nothing at all on the phone.

 

[DPG]

Interesting - I never get any adverts showing at all, but something has changed today and I am getting one that drops down from the top, and a biggish one as I scroll down.

 

[westward10]

I've got the same.

 

[LukeD]

I know they pay the bills but there are so many it's making the forum unpleasant to visit.

Forum sponsors on the RHS.
A banner type thing at the bottom that I can minimise.
A banner at the bottom of every post.
Ads in the middle of posts.

At one point I had 2 lines of text on the screen and the rest was adverts
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its like trying to read a forum through an Argos catalogue ..

 

[littlespark]

I think Dan has explained a number of times that sometimes thing change, and he has to manually go through each status of user and remove ads.

Give it a day or two… all will be hunky dory again

 

[DPG]

I think Dan has explained a number of times that sometimes thing change, and he has to manually go through each status of user and remove ads.

Give it a day or two… all will be hunky dory again

Just strange cos I never get adverts.

 

[brianmoooore]

Keeps changing for me, on a laptop.
For the last week or so all has been back to normal except for the blue adblocker box appearing on EVEY page shortly after it was opened. Difference this time was that it went away on clicking the X in the top right corner and didn't come back until a page change.
Blue box has now stopped appearing, and the only problem now is that, when responding to an email notification of a new post, it opens at the top of the relevant page, rather than at the first unread post.

 

[Lou]

Ok I will let Dan know

 

[brianmoooore]

Ok I will let Dan know

All back to normal now.

 

[DPG]

All back to normal now.

Likewise - mine is back to no adverts again today. Lovely.

 

[westward10]

Thanks Lou, they relaxed yesterday and now seem to be gone

 

[pirate]

I never get any adverts, thanks to a tip from a forum member. However, I never look at the forum on my phone, only on PC and laptop, where adblockers work well.

 

[nicebutdim]

I never get any adverts, thanks to a tip from a forum member. However, I never look at the forum on my phone, only on PC and laptop, where adblockers work well.

Phone can be set up reasonably well, but not so easily as desktop/laptop.

 

[westward10]

They're back.

 

[7029 dave]

Jesus never seen so many adds I'm swamped with them

 

[DPG]

Jesus never seen so many adds I'm swamped with them

Yep, they've started again for me today. Shame that because they had disappeared completely.

More adverts than content at the minute.

 

[brianmoooore]

Still fine here. Only forum sponsor ads on laptop and not intruding inside of the threads on 'phone.
Edit: Just seen a message from Dan. Looks like there was a short lived problem this afternoon.

 

[brianmoooore]

All good things come to an end, I've heard, and they certainly have on here.
After a good couple of weeks relatively ad free on the laptop, they're back in force with a variation I've not seen before.
In a thread, most, but not all of the little orange horizontal bars at the start of each post, containing the poster's username, has expanded to fill most of the screen, and has a string of ads embedded in it.
Adblock + is installed and enabled, but they're getting through.

 

[nicebutdim]

Nothing here and I have Adblocker disabled. Just checked ghostery and note that both Doubleclick and Google Adsense are both blocked there - I suspect that's why. I also block scripts (using NoScrpit) from Doubleclick and Googletagmanager.