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Post by Voluptuous Volus on Aug 31, 2016 12:09:50 GMT
Topic. I'm not blocking them now, does it help support the forum in any way?
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Post by nfi42 on Aug 31, 2016 12:19:25 GMT
Good question, I would like to know as well.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 31, 2016 12:28:39 GMT
I'd also like to know this. I blocked them a while ago because they slowed my browser to a crawl.
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Post by Monk on Aug 31, 2016 14:47:55 GMT
While probably not the largest hit on pb's server's, keeping them up would help us keep them off our backs in terms of keeping this large-ish forum free. Personally, i leave them running as i'm usually too busy clicking over to the DQ to get my hourly dose of (in)sanity and they're not too intrusive to me. Hopefully this won't change in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 16:17:40 GMT
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Post by rapscallioness on Aug 31, 2016 17:02:13 GMT
Hmm, I hope proboards works out...
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Post by Voluptuous Volus on Aug 31, 2016 18:41:23 GMT
Well, I white-listed the forum. Hope it continues to work.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 31, 2016 18:46:09 GMT
I de-activated ad-block also... and forum loading is back to crawl speed. Sometimes ads take minutes to load as if each data packet was brought in with a frigging ox cart from Timbuktu.
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Post by Monk on Aug 31, 2016 19:34:35 GMT
Sometimes ads take minutes to load as if each data packet was brought in with a frigging ox cart from Timbuktu. Might wanna see if your browser's listed as having problems with ads on pb's support forum. Also maybe try one of the less-limiting block options if using the default configuration; it's possible some ads are being problematic but not all of them.
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Post by SaikyoMcRyu on Sept 1, 2016 7:41:25 GMT
Have been using Opera's ad blocker. Was berated by boards.net for using an ad blocker, so I whitelisted the forum. I haven't experienced any degradation of browser speed. I'll keep the ads on (which BTW are like all Peugeot ads in Japanese, and you never see Peugeots here) unless for some reason malware or annoyware*-containing ads show up - in that case it's AdBlockPlus and NoScript on Firefox 100% of the time.
*autoplaying vids, for one example
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Post by Spectr61 on Sept 2, 2016 6:05:54 GMT
Disabled adblocker and ad block plus.
Quid pro quo, enabled blocking of signatures.
Great trade.
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Post by Arkhne on Sept 4, 2016 2:21:24 GMT
If they want to stop me using their forum because I use an adblocker. I say go right ahead. Any website that has that attitude, I have less than zero desire to not block their ads. I'm not so desperate to use the forum that I couldn't go without, or put up with ads to use it. Anyone who things otherwise, have fun with that, I wont try to change you, but I have no intention of changing either.
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Post by Gold Dragon on Sept 4, 2016 4:56:00 GMT
But it is that kind of attitude that eventually removes free forum usage, too.
As for me, I have Adblock plus deactivated here, and it will remain so as long as there are no intrusive ads.
Noscript only blocks about 3 items (and they don't look to be adds) here atm, and those may have been from other sites.
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Post by Monk on Sept 4, 2016 16:52:34 GMT
Have been using Opera's ad blocker. Was berated by boards.net for using an ad blocker, so I whitelisted the forum. I haven't experienced any degradation of browser speed. I'll keep the ads on (which BTW are like all Peugeot ads in Japanese, and you never see Peugeots here) unless for some reason malware or annoyware*-containing ads show up - in that case it's AdBlockPlus and NoScript on Firefox 100% of the time.
*autoplaying vids, for one example
[/spoiler] Dude! Completely off-topic but, who's the cutie in the avatar pics?
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Post by SaikyoMcRyu on Sept 4, 2016 21:54:12 GMT
Dude! Completely off-topic but, who's the cutie in the avatar pics? Reina Triendl, who is a half Austrian / half Japanese model who sometimes appears in TV commercials here in Japan. The Saikyo-Ryu Sensei wants her to be signed by Panansonic or Mitsubishi or some other company that spams ads so he can further enjoy her loveliness. Her website is reina-triendl.jp but of course it is only in Japanese
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Post by Monk on Sept 5, 2016 0:22:54 GMT
Dude! Completely off-topic but, who's the cutie in the avatar pics? Reina Triendl, who is a half Austrian / half Japanese model who sometimes appears in TV commercials here in Japan. The Saikyo-Ryu Sensei wants her to be signed by Panansonic or Mitsubishi or some other company that spams ads so he can further enjoy her loveliness. Her website is reina-triendl.jp but of course it is only in Japanese Thanks! Good reason as any to learn Japanese.
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Post by BountyhunterGER on Sept 5, 2016 7:28:26 GMT
Uhm, I disabled my Adblocker for this site and stopped getting the "Please disable your adblocker" message. But no ad shows up. The space is there how it's supposed to be with the ads but nothing is showing up. My guesses: (1) It was deleted by a member of the Jedi order (2) It was destroyed by the empire
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Post by Gileadan on Sept 5, 2016 7:42:35 GMT
I disabled ad-blocker again to see whether things improved, and for now I'm only getting ads from proboards themselves, advertising their ad spaces. No more performance degradation at the moment. Weird.
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Post by Arkhne on Sept 7, 2016 15:04:42 GMT
But it is that kind of attitude that eventually removes free forum usage, too. As for me, I have Adblock plus deactivated here, and it will remain so as long as there are no intrusive ads. Noscript only blocks about 3 items (and they don't look to be adds) here atm, and those may have been from other sites. And as my post said, I am perfectly fine with that. The commercialization of the internet via spam-advertisements is something I cannot support in any way, and I see it as one of the many symptoms of the underlying cancer eating society and civilization from within. Namely, that of profit over wellbeing that is the core drive of capitalism.
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Post by roselavellan on Sept 9, 2016 1:44:10 GMT
I originally whitelisted the forums on my Adblock but now I'm starting to get autoplaying videos which drive me absolutely insane. I'd like to support BSN in some way, but not to the extent of getting video ads.
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Post by Nightman on Sept 9, 2016 6:40:17 GMT
I looked into this as well...6 bucks a month to block these stupid ads?mmmm, no. Xbox Live costs less than that each month. Ad-Blocker plus, which my brother introduced me into..works the same...no more ads,,Its free and it does the exact same thing......but either way, these ads suck and are not really that distractful and dont take up any real memory on me cpu...so,...screw them, dont look at them..ignore them.
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Post by Gileadan on Sept 19, 2016 11:11:13 GMT
I just now got a really intrusive ad. Not just an autoplaying video, but something that left BSN and loaded the advertiser's page (a "4gamers4free" site or somesuch, I only glanced at it for the fraction of a second it took me to find the magic X in the upper right corner) without any input or click from me. I opened a thread, and some script redirected me. I've got a rather high tolerance for ads actually, but that was more than one step too far.
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Post by melbella on Sept 21, 2016 13:01:08 GMT
I just got my first ad with sound blaring music at me this morning (down at the bottom below the shoutbox), so Adblocker will be going back on. They're just never happy, are they?
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Post by rspanther on Sept 24, 2016 1:37:56 GMT
When I disabled adblockplus I would get a popup ad telling me that I needed to update Firefox. But checking Firefox's home page I had the latest firefox version. I suspect that it was not a legitimate firefox update.
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