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I'm forced to use an ad blocker. I didn't want to block all your ads - I love the site and want you to make money and thrive. But these malicious ads seem to attack us, and overwhelm the browser tab. This can't be something you want, so I eagerly await the fix. Thanks!

RealGM is literally unviewable on my iPhone because of the Amazon Gift Card thing. Inexcusable.

DanoMac wrote:RealGM is literally unviewable on my iPhone because of the Amazon Gift Card thing. Inexcusable.

This issue has been resolved. Please see my reply on the Forum Bugs, Account Issues and App Issues thread for a full update. viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1253356&p=67418162#p67418162

I've never used an ad blocker, and did my best not to use one even though people have said that would clear up my issues with this website -- I too want to help support this forum -- but it's just gotten too terrible. It literally is unusable at times, and it constantly locks up my computer if I spent too long on one page or try to open up additional tabs to respond to various posts. I just installed "AdBlock Plus" and it seems to have immediately solved my problems with this forum.

Another forum I visit has a sort of "membership" program where you can donate to the website -- whatever amount you want, there is no set or required amount -- and it will remove ads from your account for one year. I don't see why this website can't institute the same sort of thing. I'd gladly donate -- I think I usually donate $10 to the other website -- to remove these intrusive ads for a year. I'm sure lots of others would as well. I appreciate this website and have been a poster for years, but without an ad blocker, it has simply become unusable. Hopefully the creators of this forum will either fix the problems with their ads or implement a system like I mentioned.

W_HAMILTON wrote:I've never used an ad blocker, and did my best not to use one even though people have said that would clear up my issues with this website -- I too want to help support this forum -- but it's just gotten too terrible. It literally is unusable at times, and it constantly locks up my computer if I spent too long on one page or try to open up additional tabs to respond to various posts. I just installed "AdBlock Plus" and it seems to have immediately solved my problems with this forum.

Another forum I visit has a sort of "membership" program where you can donate to the website -- whatever amount you want, there is no set or required amount -- and it will remove ads from your account for one year. I don't see why this website can't institute the same sort of thing. I'd gladly donate -- I think I usually donate $10 to the other website -- to remove these intrusive ads for a year. I'm sure lots of others would as well. I appreciate this website and have been a poster for years, but without an ad blocker, it has simply become unusable. Hopefully the creators of this forum will either fix the problems with their ads or implement a system like I mentioned.

I doubt we will ever go to a membership model for various reasons.

We are working to fix the issues and will continue to do so.

Howard Mass wrote:I doubt we will ever go to a membership model for various reasons.

We are working to fix the issues and will continue to do so.

It's not a "membership" model per se -- everyone would still have the same access they do now, except those that "donate" to the website would have all ads removed for the year.

W_HAMILTON wrote:

Howard Mass wrote:I doubt we will ever go to a membership model for various reasons.

We are working to fix the issues and will continue to do so.

It's not a "membership" model per se -- everyone would still have the same access they do now, except those that "donate" to the website would have all ads removed for the year.

There are other reasons though too.

Personally, on Chrome on Android, this site is the worst site I still want to visit. You have to close two ads on each page and the ads close more slowly than the website so you have to wait for the full screen ad to close the ad at the top of the page to scroll down and continue reading content.

This sort of thing is a major turn off and when I'm thinking about coming to this site I usually just go to r/nba instead because I don't want to deal with the ads even though I like the content here more.

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BKlutch wrote:I'm forced to use an ad blocker. I didn't want to block all your ads - I love the site and want you to make money and thrive. But these malicious ads seem to attack us, and overwhelm the browser tab. This can't be something you want, so I eagerly await the fix. Thanks!

I don't want to use an ad blocker on your site either. I thought if I clicked the Portugal ad, the ad would disappear, but no, the ad remains, I can't pause the embedded video, and as a result will never, ever, visit Portugal.

For some reason I thought completely differently.

Anyone else seeing this new athletic ad above the wiretap?

Didn't mind the ads before. But now that they put out sound and make noise. Incredibly annoying.

SFrush wrote:Anyone else seeing this new athletic ad above the wiretap?

yep

Is anyone still having issues?

Howard Mass wrote:Is anyone still having issues?

Now that you've gone to two header ads, I've had to block them on my tablet. They slowed down page loading time considerably. I have fibre optic internet service, and I pay extra to get the highest speed.

And there was another ad below this. On mobile in the middle of a thread.

lakerz12 wrote:

And there was another ad below this. On mobile in the middle of a thread.

Natsumi Sushi used to be my favorite team before the Raptors came into the league.

Last few days I am getting adds auto downloading from the forum Metro Ford, Austral Honda html files on Samsung Internet browser

Pixel 4xl

If Google sees this they'll suspend your account

I keep getting redirected to something called "driver fixer" driverfixersoftware.com every 10 seconds. on laptop. even with adblocker on

board is not useable

edit: i was able to circumvent the issue by downloading a chrome extension called redirect adblock