This Adblock guilt trip banner thing . . .

Shiraz 4.99

My Adblock was detected & there was a plea to whitelist this site so as appease advertisers & the like.
Persistent little bugger as it wouldn't just accept me Xing out of it, I more or less had to confirm I enjoy killing babies before it would leave me alone.

Most people running Adblock have been doing it for years & only see ads when they go fixing their friends computers.
We've grown to like the white spaces on our web pages, makes the place look clean.

I'm using the internet nearly 20 years & can honestly say I've never once knowingly clicked on an ad & I doubt if many do.

Harry Palmr

Haven't seen it! (opera and old school vBulletin boards)

murrayp4

Use Adblock plus. Works for me

super_furry

I'd only ever use adblock on sites that auto-play music/video on their site. The ads here are fairly innocuous and easy to ignore so I wouldn't bother.

catallus

Adblock makes the baby jesus cry.

Seriously, it promotes piracy and all sorts of other illegal stuff.

You shouldn't use it, it plays into the hands of the nihilists.

Shiraz 4.99

murrayp4 wrote: »

Use Adblock plus. Works for me

That's the one I have although I do notice more & more sites have scripts to identify who is running it & ask you to disable it before proceeding.

VinLieger

I disable it on some sites i go to frequently like Boards.ie

Still not gonna click on them but they get cash for some views as well i believe

COYVB

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

My Adblock was detected & there was a plea to whitelist this site so as appease advertisers & the like.
Persistent little bugger as it wouldn't just accept me Xing out of it, I more or less had to confirm I enjoy killing babies before it would leave me alone.

Most people running Adblock have been doing it for years & only see ads when they go fixing their friends computers.
We've grown to like the white spaces on our web pages, makes the place look clean.

I'm using the internet nearly 20 years & can honestly say I've never once knowingly clicked on an ad & I doubt if many do.

You should be able to use adblock to block that particular element. Right click on it and in the AdBlock menu click block this ad - it'll work for stuff that isn't an add

brendanb586

There is anew option in Adblock plus to select "AdBlock Warning Removal list (removes messages about using AdBlock)". This gets rid of these notes in the blocked ads.

Seriously?

brendanb586 wrote: »

There is anew option in Adblock plus to select "AdBlock Warning Removal list (removes messages about using AdBlock)". This gets rid of these notes in the blocked ads.

Nice one, saw that warning this morning, enabled this and haven't seen it since.

Can't understand how anyone can surf the web without an ad-blocker.

UCDVet

brendanb586 wrote: »

There is anew option in Adblock plus to select "AdBlock Warning Removal list (removes messages about using AdBlock)". This gets rid of these notes in the blocked ads.

That will work sometimes, but it's always going to be a chicken and egg game. The way AdBlock works makes it very easy to detect and unless you are a determined programmer type...sites can very easily control what you see when you are and aren't running AdBlock.

Shiraz 4.99

catallus wrote: »

Adblock makes the baby jesus cry.

Seriously, it promotes piracy and all sorts of other illegal stuff.

You shouldn't use it, it plays into the hands of the nihilists.

Dravokivich

I saw too often problems with Ads here causing the pages to be slow to load, along with the many that had animation and audio playback.

If it wasn't for those 2 reasons I'd disable it.

Toots

OP what site was this on?

Dravokivich

Toots wrote: »

OP what site was this on?

It came up here on boards.ie earlier in the top banner spot. Not displaying at the moment on the pc I'm on currently.

Shiraz 4.99

Toots wrote: »

OP what site was this on?

Boards

Ad Block Plus is just the greatest

kjl

I even use it in incognito mode.

Zack Morris

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

My Adblock was detected & there was a plea to whitelist this site so as appease advertisers & the like.
Persistent little bugger as it wouldn't just accept me Xing out of it, I more or less had to confirm I enjoy killing babies before it would leave me alone.

Most people running Adblock have been doing it for years & only see ads when they go fixing their friends computers.
We've grown to like the white spaces on our web pages, makes the place look clean.

I'm using the internet nearly 20 years & can honestly say I've never once knowingly clicked on an ad & I doubt if many do.

Seen it this morning but it's gone without me doing anything.

strobe

Opened up my browser on boards there recently just after flicking on the laptop, and suppose Adblock hadn't kicked in as fast as everything else, and was greated by a ****ing hideous orange monster adverts.ie ad at the top of the page. Jumped in my seat a little bit like when you happen to look down and there's a particularly big spider just sitting on your arm staring up at you. It was quite the experience.

Falcon L

strobe wrote: »

Opened up my browser on boards there recently just after flicking on the laptop, and suppose Adblock hadn't kicked in as fast as everything else, and was greated by a ****ing hideous orange monster adverts.ie ad at the top of the page. Jumped in my seat a little bit like when you happen to look down and there's a particularly big spider just sitting on your arm staring up at you. It was quite the experience.

Did you leave a damp patch?

kippy

I use adblock plus on most sites but I've boards listed as excluded from adblocking.
I suppose I've been using this site for years and gotten some great use out of it.
I haven't really put a penny towards it outside of a few memberships I would have purchased a few years ago.
As such, if boards makes any form of money it is via advertising (although to be fair I think this is very little - based on a few posts I read a few years ago)
Anyhow, I rarely if ever click on adds however if boards makes some money by me "seeing them" or I do click on the odd one then I've no issues with that and would prefer to assist the site in some way.

Seriously?

strobe wrote: »

Opened up my browser on boards there recently just after flicking on the laptop, and suppose Adblock hadn't kicked in as fast as everything else, and was greated by a ****ing hideous orange monster adverts.ie ad at the top of the page. Jumped in my seat a little bit like when you happen to look down and there's a particularly big spider just sitting on your arm staring up at you. It was quite the experience.

Tbh this is why advertisers and websites that use them have only themselves to blame.
Once adverts start to get in the way and become obtrusive it’s understandable that people will seek ways to avoid seeing them.

username000

Boards.ie is practically unusable on my ipad due to the ads - they cover page numbers so you cant get to the next page of a thread, they cover parts of threads etc...

There isnt an Ad Blocker for Safari (that Ive come across) so I restrict my boards.ie browsing to a machine where I can block ads.

Zack Morris

username000 wrote: »

Boards.ie is practically unusable on my ipad due to the ads - they cover page numbers so you cant get to the next page of a thread, they cover parts of threads etc...

There isnt an Ad Blocker for Safari (that Ive come across) so I restrict my boards.ie browsing to a machine where I can block ads.

Try to download the AdBlock app. I have it for my iPhone 5. You can set Google to be the homepage.

listermint

I dont get the point of bothering to use ad block unless you really are a compulsive purchaser and ads make you select them.



Why bother your arse ?

username000

Zack Morris wrote: »

Try to download the AdBlock app. I have it for my iPhone 5. You can set Google to be the homepage.

Tried it before and didnt like the interface. Although it may have changed since then, must try again.

username000

listermint wrote: »

I dont get the point of bothering to use ad block unless you really are a compulsive purchaser and ads make you select them.



Why bother your arse ?

Because I dont like to be bombarded by unwanted advertising.

I am someone who used to record things onto VHS and FF through the ads. These days I watch practically nothing on TV - because I hate ad breaks.

I upgrade good apps to eliminate ads.

Theyre annoying, intrusive, distracting and generally just a pain. So I block them where possible.

CramCycle

The ads on boards are not pop ups and take up very little of the viewing room, considering the site is free to use for most of us, surely you could just put up with the non invasive adverts?

strobe

listermint wrote: »

I dont get the point of bothering to use ad block unless you really are a compulsive purchaser and ads make you select them.



Why bother your arse ?

They can slow down page loading and scrolling and they look **** and can be distracting, not to mention the auto audio or video ones that pop up occasionally which people tend to find very annoying.

Plus it's hardly much bother, 30 seconds to download and install and then you forget all about it.

kippy

strobe wrote: »

They can slow down page loading and scrolling and they look **** and can be distracting, not to mention the auto audio or video ones that pop up occasionally which people tend to find very annoying.

Plus it's hardly much bother, 30 seconds to download and install and then you forget all about it.

Well you forget about it until the site you like to use for nothing requests a membership fee from users in lieu of advertising revenue the might be losing.

Dravokivich

kippy wrote: »

Well you forget about it until the site you like to use for nothing requests a membership fee from users in lieu of advertising revenue the might be losing.

Damn... I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight now... :(:(:(

strobe

kippy wrote: »

Well you forget about it until the site you like to use for nothing requests a membership fee from users in lieu of advertising revenue the might be losing.

Hasn't happened yet, not once in fact. I think I'll continue to roll the dice on that one based on the trend tbh.

listermint

username000 wrote: »

Because I dont like to be bombarded by unwanted advertising.

I am someone who used to record things onto VHS and FF through the ads. These days I watch practically nothing on TV - because I hate ad breaks.

I upgrade good apps to eliminate ads.

Theyre annoying, intrusive, distracting and generally just a pain. So I block them where possible.

Meh!

strobe wrote: »

They can slow down page loading and scrolling and they look **** and can be distracting, not to mention the auto audio or video ones that pop up occasionally which people tend to find very annoying.

Plus it's hardly much bother, 30 seconds to download and install and then you forget all about it.

Distracting? really...


And who cares ive 240Mb BB it slows down for no man.


Wasting 30 seconds of my life installing something for no gain.

I think its another case of people finding something to be annoyed at for the sake of being annoyed.

Menas

listermint wrote: »

Meh!




Distracting? really...


And who cares ive 240Mb BB it slows down for no man.


Wasting 30 seconds of my life installing something for no gain.

I think its another case of people finding something to be annoyed at for the sake of being annoyed.

Some people find Adblock useful. 100 Million downloads and counting.
You dont, thats ok.

Shiraz 4.99

kippy wrote: »

Well you forget about it until the site you like to use for nothing requests a membership fee from users in lieu of advertising revenue the might be losing.

You need to be computer savvy first, I'd say less than 1 in 10 know how to block ads, it's like illegal downloading, only 5 or 10% of people know how to do it properly.

Zack Morris

listermint wrote: »

And who cares ive 240Mb BB it slows down for no man.

What about those with slow connections, high pings and crappy download caps?

Also, the ads are annoying if you have a slow computer, too.

Seriously?

kippy wrote: »

Well you forget about it until the site you like to use for nothing requests a membership fee from users in lieu of advertising revenue the might be losing.

Somehow I think if such a thing happens finding a replacement will not prove that difficult.

username000

kippy wrote: »

Well you forget about it until the site you like to use for nothing requests a membership fee from users in lieu of advertising revenue the might be losing.

Is there no boards.ie app that would allow people to make in-app purchases to remove the ads?

I would have thought in this day and age that that would be the model going forward.

Oink

I don't generally mind ads on Boards. I even click on the interesting ones. It's just a few pennies for a good cause, and I don't mind helping like that.

I draw the line at animated ads. Those are just rude. Thankfully my computer doesn't display those somehow *cough*.

But no, never bothered with adblocks and stuff.

mirrorwall14

username000 wrote: »

Is there no boards.ie app that would allow people to make in-app purchases to remove the ads?

I would have thought in this day and age that that would be the model going forward.

Become a subscriber and there's no ads

username000

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Become a subscriber and there's no ads

Why would you do that when you can install Ad Block for free?

mirrorwall14

username000 wrote: »

Why would you do that when you can install Ad Block for free?

Because I want to support boards. I do actually use Adblock generally but this way I support boards and I get no ads on safari on my phone either

UCDVet

The thing is - without ads a *lot* of sites and products are not financially viable. I know, I know, ads are ANNOYING - but so is paying for something.

I have a small open-source application I wrote. I used to charge $1 USD for it online. I'd sell 5-6 per month and 5-6 people got to use it.

And that's a $1 price tag. That's awfully low. And nobody wanted to pay it.

I made it free, but with ads. Suddenly I have thousands of people using the app. Annoying, yes, but then I'm making $300-400 USD per month. I'm much happier - AND many, many, many times the number of people get to use it.

With Adblock turned on, I get $0. So then I go back to charging. And if I charge nobody pays. And let's face it, without some financial incentive, I'm not going to bother making my software or my website or whatever available for free. I have webhosting fees to pay and domain name charges. Unless it's something I can put on my CV - I'm not even going to bother.

Without Ads almost all of the internet stops working. Wikipedia is awesome, but it's also unique and the world only needs one, two Wikipedia's tops. So yeah, I'll throw a few bucks towards Wikipedia when they ask each year. Other than that? Very few people want to pay for anything and most of us simply won't.

The more people that run AdBlock the more sites will stop working when you use AdBlock.

username000

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Because I want to support boards. I do actually use Adblock generally but this way I support boards and I get no ads on safari on my phone either

Fair enough. Ive supported Ad Block by paying.

KomradeBishop

Ads are probably one of the no.1 ways of getting a virus on your computer, and AdBlock blocks a ton of other things that can be a source of viruses, so running AdBlock should be seen as an essential preventative way of avoiding viruses.

In my view, it's just basic common sense, that if you're browsing the Internet, you need to be using AdBlock, to stay safe.

I use a bunch of other plugins like AdBlock as well, such as Request Policy and Cookie Monster (EDIT: Oh, and obviously, NoScript); in one way, it's a pain in the ass that you have to manually enable things on pages before they work (it takes a lot of work to be able to make e.g. credit card payments work on a site - not a bad thing mind :pac:), but I haven't had a virus in about a decade because I'm careful. I don't use a virus scanner or anything - I just make sure to be careful, and don't do anything stupid that might lead to a virus.

username000

OSI wrote: »

Would you be cool with your employer turning around at the end of the month and saying "Thanks for the work, but I can't arsed paying ya, sorry"?

I dont understand this analogy.

Ive a contract of employment with my employer. I have a certain set of skills, I work a certain number of hours and he pays me a certain amount.

How does the relationship between an internet user and boards.ie fall into that category?

KomradeBishop

OSI wrote: »

Boards go out of their way to make the ads as unobtrusive as possible. They have dedicated threads for reporting troublesome ads that play sound or anything else and have responded to most complaints about ads in some fashion. At the end of the day, a website costs money to run, and ads are one of the few ways to pay for that cost.

Sorry but, end of the day, Boards doesn't have control over the actual ads shown if people have to report/complain about ads playing sounds etc. - and that's kind of a deal-breaker really, because it's piss easy to slip a malware-containing ad through, which attacks a previously-undiscovered browser bug, if the website hosting the ads has no control over them.

That's never going to be completely safe - it might just be as little as e.g. 1 malware-containing-ad every few years for a site, but even that's too much.

KomradeBishop

OSI wrote: »

So don't use the site then.

Or just use an ad blocker...

strobe

UCDVet wrote: »

The thing is - without ads a *lot* of sites and products are not financially viable. I know, I know, ads are ANNOYING - but so is paying for something.

I have a small open-source application I wrote. I used to charge $1 USD for it online. I'd sell 5-6 per month and 5-6 people got to use it.

And that's a $1 price tag. That's awfully low. And nobody wanted to pay it.

I made it free, but with ads. Suddenly I have thousands of people using the app. Annoying, yes, but then I'm making $300-400 USD per month. I'm much happier - AND many, many, many times the number of people get to use it.

With Adblock turned on, I get $0. So then I go back to charging. And if I charge nobody pays. And let's face it, without some financial incentive, I'm not going to bother making my software or my website or whatever available for free. I have webhosting fees to pay and domain name charges. Unless it's something I can put on my CV - I'm not even going to bother.

Without Ads almost all of the internet stops working. Wikipedia is awesome, but it's also unique and the world only needs one, two Wikipedia's tops. So yeah, I'll throw a few bucks towards Wikipedia when they ask each year. Other than that? Very few people want to pay for anything and most of us simply won't.

The more people that run AdBlock the more sites will stop working when you use AdBlock.

Nah, there's plenty of people like those in this thread that don't mind the ads or are into the whole "support the product by not disabling ads" stuff, good few of them around. They view the ads so we don't have to. They've got us adblocker people covered, god bless their little cotton socks.

Lukker-

Checkout disconnect.me, disconnects pages from getting your Facebook, Google accounts if you are logged into then on a browser.

Find it extremely annoying on some sites when they already know who you are based on the fact that you are logged into Google/Facebook.