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Adverts

Postby knowal » Fri May 01, 2020 10:41 pm

Hello Admin,
There has been a huge increase in Google Ads, some of them are actually in the middle of the posts.
There is a limit to how many adverts are acceptable to users and you may wish to take into account that for some it makes reading too uncomfortable.
I'd rather chip in €5 a year than have these Google Ads flashing in my face. I hope they make you lots of revenue.

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Re: Adverts

Postby costakid » Sat May 02, 2020 8:34 am

A bit of a pain but I guess they generate income which makes this a free site for everyone.

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Re: Adverts

Postby Wicksey » Sat May 02, 2020 10:02 am

I wrote the same on the Forum Update thread. Clearing the cookies has not helped.

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Re: Adverts

Postby Enrique » Sat May 02, 2020 10:13 am

Hi,
As I posted yesterday...........

I think "They" where playing around with the Data Base prior to going live as the development site was showing similar.

As a workaround for now use an add-blocker on your Browser, for FireFox ..... ublock origin is the one to go for.
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Re: Adverts

Postby markwilding » Sat May 02, 2020 11:38 am

I'm using the new version of Edge with AdBlock so no popups or ads.

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Re: Adverts

Postby casita-bonita » Sat May 02, 2020 11:52 am

Been using Brave browser for a while now. Likewise no ads, popups, trackers or other assorted nasties. Not had one 'We detected that you are using an ad blocker' message since i started using it which i did have with a couple of other browsers i tried.
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Re: Adverts

Postby gerryh » Sat May 02, 2020 1:40 pm

It costs the A.com site owners money to run this site.
They probably have to pay for the software to run this forum.
They get a small amount of money every time an advert is displayed.
I know adverts can sometimes be intrusive and annoying at times.
Should we be publicly suggesting the use of adblockers which deprive them of income? :think:
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Re: Adverts

Postby Enrique » Sat May 02, 2020 1:59 pm

Hi,
I did say.............."As a workaround for now".........the ads top and bottom are OK.......... but one between Posts is OTT.
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Re: Adverts

Postby casita-bonita » Sat May 02, 2020 5:36 pm

Thought they got paid for clickthroughs not displaying. But then what do I know. I have the blocker primarily for sites like daily mail.

Brave does have the facility to easily turn on/off on a per site level
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Re: Adverts

Postby costakid » Sat May 02, 2020 7:27 pm

I agree. Rather ads than an annual fee.


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