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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#21 » by GoRapstheoriginal » Wed Aug 5, 2026 8:11 pm

Yup agree with everyone above. On Google Chrome on desktop running Linux/Bazzite.
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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#22 » by Wizop » Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:49 pm

PRguy23 wrote:Love realgm since this place started. And over the years there have been changes. But realgm make no mistake. I am never turning off my ad blocker for as long as i dont have to as your ads slow down the site and cover the screen. So you can stop asking me to turn off my ad blocker. Whats actually funny is i use the brave web browser which automatically has the ad blocker built into it.


I use Chrome with Avast anti-virus both in windows and on an Android phone (I prefer Chrome on my phone to the forum app). Since the turn off your ad blocker doesn't come up every time I read a thread, I suspect it only comes up when an ad is actually blocked and since there are routinely ads overlaying messages it is likely only dangerous ads are blocked. I can't say that for sure, but all management needs to do is test ads for safety.
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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#23 » by Tim_Hardawayy » Thu Aug 13, 2026 5:22 pm

What gets me is now they've added a horribly intrusive pop-up ad that shows up when I browse on mobile since the adblocker I like won't work with my out of date phone. So I get the worst of both worlds, a terrible pop-up, and a plead from realgm to please turn off my adblocker. This site is going down the toilet.
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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#24 » by Wizop » Thu Aug 13, 2026 5:51 pm

Tim_Hardawayy wrote:What gets me is now they've added a horribly intrusive pop-up ad that shows up when I browse on mobile since the adblocker I like won't work with my out of date phone. So I get the worst of both worlds, a terrible pop-up, and a plead from realgm to please turn off my adblocker. This site is going down the toilet.


I got the blocker message reading your post, but when I X'ed out of it there was an ad in the corner of my screen.
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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#25 » by PRguy23 » Thu Aug 13, 2026 9:03 pm

Tim_Hardawayy wrote:What gets me is now they've added a horribly intrusive pop-up ad that shows up when I browse on mobile since the adblocker I like won't work with my out of date phone. So I get the worst of both worlds, a terrible pop-up, and a plead from realgm to please turn off my adblocker. This site is going down the toilet.


Are you able to download the brave browser?
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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#26 » by BadMofoPimp » Sat Sep 26, 2026 1:41 am

I think it used to be worse about 12-14 years ago. Back then, I kept getting Spyware on my computer. I only visited major sites like ESPN and no obscure sites. But, I kept getting them whenever I visited RealGM. I am sure that has been corrected but been using Ad-Blockers ever since back then. That and block audio/video. I use a different browser for that stuff.
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Re: Lol wtf silly realgm 

Post#27 » by Snakebites » Sat Sep 26, 2026 8:25 pm

On my phone I’m getting both incessant ads AND something asking me to turn off the ad blocker.

I’m not supposed to have to deal with both of those guys. It’s one or the other.

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