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Enough With The Fucking Ads Already

8K views 60 replies 27 participants last post by  ChiTownRon 
#1 ·
the ads and especially the pop-ups on this site have gotten much much worse this year.

i DO NOT want to be looking thru the 'New Posts' and get bombarded by Dodge fucking truck ads that pop up on my screen.

that shit is annoying as hell, but at least there is a 'x' to close the box. today i get an add for some dr. seuss shit and some other gay fucking thing, but this time its just audio coming at me - with no other windows up at all. no box on the browser to close, no new browser window popped up, just some stupid fucking ad yapping at me from the nether-regions of my cpu.

i'm getting pretty fucking sick of it.

causes the site to load slower because of all the 3rd party cookies and addresses that have to load.

ADMIN: STOP BEING SO FUCKING GREEDY - WE DON"T WANT ANY MORE FUCKING ADS
 
#6 · (Edited)
I meant the membership for this site, free, gold, lifetime, etc. I've got the same free one that I think you have (ie it doesn't say anything under where my avatar would be)

Sounds like you might have some malware. It's not necessarily the ad, it's the malware that stays resident and defeats the ad blocker setting. Once you have it, ads and pop-ups start getting thru.

I never really take notice, but I haven't seen any ad for Dr. Suess on here. Could be you're pulling it in from somewhere else
 
#9 · (Edited)
I happen to be in Austria right now, and I'm getting only a banner on the top and down the side, but in German! The only German I know is how to ask for the nearest bar! Do these idiots not realise that I am reading an ENGLISH website and should therefore be targeted with ENGLISH ads?? I would prefer none, but I guess they have to make their money somehow. However, I also agree that a lot of internet advertising is getting way too much in your face and will eventually drive people away.
 
#17 ·
I have no real problem with advertising, when I am not paying to use the site, it has to make it's money somehow, but when will they realise there is a line between subtle yet effective advertising, Google and facebook for example, and then the in your face just to piss you off kind of adds? I have not felt the need to block ads until using this forum, c'mon guys, lets tidy it up a bit otherwise this ship will sink, just like the late great snowboard.com
 
#18 ·
Not a whole lot we can do, we do not own the website. If you have the right setup you only get static banners like any other website out there today. If anything, we should just put a thread on the right parameters to avoid ads. I run Chrome and have very few problems...
 
#27 ·
For the third time now, I installed ad block plus for firefox and it has killed my computer. Thing will not even boot now. I would not use firefox or ad block! It has destroyed the boot sector of my drives and I don't know if I can retrieve my data. I so hate windows machines. All I have now is iphone
You have me slightly worried now, I only just installed Adblock plus for Chrome yesterday, but then again, Windows machines are notoriously unstable anyway, which is why I'm thinking about a Macbook Pro.

Now I'm also wondering if they are going to make it illegal to download ad blocker programs, or, they let you do it, but attach viruses to them....we are forced to pay through our arseholes for music and movies, and they wonder why people download them....like I say, as if Hollywood isn't makeing enough already....we are bombarded with advertising everywhere, on the internet, billboards, newspapers, magazines etc....capitalist greed I tell you!:mad: End rant.
 
#29 ·
There is nothing to worry about.... Millions of people run chrome/FF w/adblock without any problems.

In recent tests macs and PCs (laptop wise) are almost identical in performance. Keep in mind most of these tests are done with a mac that costs $1000 and a pc that costs $700. In the end macs will be a tad faster out of the box, but they are more expensive with less options for you to choose from.

If you like macs, stay with macs. If you like PCs, stay with PCs.

Link to one of the tests
 
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