Lol wtf silly realgm

[PRguy23]

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.

[C_Money]

I wouldn’t mind the ads if they weren’t so intrusive on this site. I got Brave browser because my page was jumping around while I was trying to read.

[PRguy23]

I wouldn’t mind the ads if they weren’t so intrusive on this site. I got Brave browser because my page was jumping around while I was trying to read.

Ads were taking up a huge part of the screen and couldn't navigate until the video stopped playing. Just a example.

[Johnny Bball]

My anti-virus software warns me 10 times a day in its log that the ads here are from unsafe addys.

Suspicious connection blocked
2 minutes ago

Feature:
Online Threat Prevention

chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to [web address removed]. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one.

I presume it is somehow this sites fault, but not the way it appears. That something is built wrong. (?)

[BadMofoPimp]

I had to start using an Ad-Blocker being over the years, I kept getting browser viruses. But, it has been years of Ad-Blocking so not sure if it is still prevalent. Haven't had a Browser issue since. I would be willing to pay if there was a monthly fee of Ad Free RealGM including Mobile.

[Invictus88]

I had to start using an Ad-Blocker being over the years, I kept getting browser viruses. But, it has been years of Ad-Blocking so not sure if it is still prevalent. Haven't had a Browser issue since. I would be willing to pay if there was a monthly fee of Ad Free RealGM including Mobile.

This. If there was a paid ad-free option I'd totally do it to support the site.

I will take any and all actions to ensure that they don't receive a single cent of ad-sourced revenue me. I feel no remorse about this. The staff are either too inept to fix the ad-enabled experience, don't care or support it; even with it being the worst pretty much anywhere.

[BigGargamel]

LOL yeah. If I don't tun on ad blocker this forum is basically unusable for me. It slows to a crawl on either my PC or my phone.

[Bologna Smasher]

This site has always been bad with the ads. Even back when they first started the site it was really bad for letting in spyware and all that crap.

Introducing a paid membership would be a pretty good idea.

[BadMofoPimp]

Honestly, I don't mind the "Turn off your Blocker" pop up as I can just click right through it. Regardless, I made myself a promise to never read any ad's on any website and to never purchase something that uses invasive ad's.

[Lalouie]

the amount of ads is abnormal

this one it bypassing my brave browser

gotta find a way to nuke this popup

[Bologna Smasher]

the amount of ads is abnormal

this one it bypassing my brave browser

gotta find a way to nuke this popup

One way around is it using Firefox and the NoScript and AdBlock add-ons. I've pretty much been using some sort of variation of this setup for like 20 years

Only thing with it is that you have to kind of have an idea of which scripts to allow and which ones to keep blocked. Once you use it after a while, you start picking up on which ones to allow through and which ones to keep blocked. You tend to see a lot of the bad ones spread out across a bunch of different web sites, so it makes it easier to learn which ones they are.

[CS707]

"Ads help keep this site free".

No, user track keeps this site viable for advertising revenue.

[Bird4Three]

Seriously, fix this ****. It’s ruining a good thing.

[Sofia]

They don’t give a **** guys. It’s our fault for not blocking the ads..

[ImSlower]

Frankly it's insulting to me; I installed an entirely new mobile browser purely for realGM because their relentless ads made Chrome completely unusable. Even if I wanted to enable ads to "support the forum" - my tracking data is enough, sorry Howie - the site is literally impossible to use with ads enabled.

Especially peeving on Brave is that the ad-begging pop-up is nonremovable and I have to close the tab, re-open realGM again and hope the pop-up doesn't re-occur.

I'm aware there's nothing I can do but provide feedback, so let me strenuously denounce this as firmly as I can. At least they fixed that mandatory dark mode experiment after a time. If the ad experience were minimally intrusive I'd allow them, but it's nonfunctional, so hard pass.

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

I get a popup about my ad blocker when I visit this site, but I don't even use an ad blocker. Modern browsers (Safari in my case) all have some amount of blocking to cover the worst cases of content loaded from sketchy domains. I don't think nagging people for using their computer's default browser is the right strategy for running a web business.

[miamiheat319]

Clicking the "contact us" link on that pop up feels like a phishing link

[step]

Even at work where we use Edge with no extensions, it pops up to disable the adblocker. Yeah, ok...

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

I’m done. I’m not going to make a habit of visiting a site that criticizes me for using Safari. After I submit this post I’m signing out and deleting the bookmark for realgm.

[The Laker Kid]

I use Ghostery as an extension to Chrome. It says 56 ads and trackers have been blocked on this page alone.