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Wed 28 Jan 2015 00:09
the forum website - concrete

I know it has been said previously, but these 'pop up' ads are driving me mad!!!!!!

Not only do I find it hard to contain my disinterest but my indifference to their content is only eclipsed by their banality.

There, that's better.

Cheers Concrete

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Wed 28 Jan 2015 10:26
the forum website - FP

What pop-up ads? :-)

I'm using Opera 12.17 with Ghostery. I don't get any pop-up ads here, or indeed on nearly every other site I visit.

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Fri 30 Jan 2015 17:49
the forum website - concrete

What pop-up ads? :-)

I'm using Opera 12.17 with Ghostery. I don't get any pop-up ads here, or indeed on nearly every other site I visit.

Hello FP. I use Ubuntu software since Microsoft decided to cease support for some XP versions. This you can download free and then upload any material you have kept on a disc or cruzer. The web browser is Firefox I think but I have Google as my home page. I usually skip that and type in HJ onto the address bar at top. I realise that adverts pay for the upkeep and have not really been bothered until recently. They always seem to appear just as I am about to click the mouse and move the screen picture so I click the wrong bit. Just an annoyance that I has to get off my chest. I would rather them and keep the forum, than the alternative.

Cheers Concrete

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Mon 2 Feb 2015 08:50
the forum website - gordonbennet

Concrete, i'm another Firefox user and have few if any problems on any sites, lots of good add ons available from Mozilla, such as ABP and the aforementioned Ghostery.

Just out of interest suggest you try Duck Duck Go as an alternative home page search engine too.

If you search out alternative news and discussion sources, and prefer to keep off the grid (could be highlighted as a dissident in these strange times), then Tor Browser might be of interest too.

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Mon 2 Feb 2015 12:10
the forum website - Leif
If you search out alternative news and discussion sources, and prefer to keep off the grid (could be highlighted as a dissident in these strange times), then Tor Browser might be of interest too.

I admit I would not install the Tor Browser, it has too many associations to criminality. I suppose if you want to buy some 'good gear', it's the one to get.

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Wed 28 Jan 2015 17:55
the forum website - Avant

I think it depends on which Internet browser you use - and even then it seems to be intermittent. On another thread HJ helpfully gave out an E-mail address to use if you have any IT-related problem:

kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk

The ads are a necessary evil to finance the forum, although what really annoys me is that the advertisers, or their advertising agents, seem to think that we are all stupid. Banality is the right word. I'm no expert, but what I assume a good advert needs is to be instantly recognisable and also memorable. It should be possible to achieve that without banality.

Have we any forum members in the advertising industry who would care to comment?

Edited by Avant on 28/01/2015 at 17:55

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Thu 29 Jan 2015 10:07
the forum website - Leif

Whilst I accept the need for adverts, they are a real pain on a ipad.

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Tue 3 Feb 2015 20:10
the forum website - focussed

Just download and install free Adblock on any browser it keeps all the rubbish away.

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Thu 19 Feb 2015 15:59
the forum website - daveyjp
The current Nissan ad which becoes a frame around the whole forum page (it was previously a Ford ad) totally freezes my ipad on occasion.
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Thu 19 Feb 2015 21:02
the forum website - alan1302
The current Nissan ad which becoes a frame around the whole forum page (it was previously a Ford ad) totally freezes my ipad on occasion.

I only use the forum on my main PC with an ad blocker running as it's not worth the slowness on my iPad or Nexus phone.

Ad's might help pay the bills but they also drive people away.

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Sat 28 Feb 2015 23:00
the forum website - bathtub tom

Something's changed today. The useful bit of this website has now shrunk to around a quarter of the screen, surrounded by adverts.

I use Firefox and Adblock plus. I presume there's a way been found of disabling my adblocker.

Looks like I'll have to find a more effective adblocker, or abandon this forum.

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Sun 1 Mar 2015 00:54
the forum website - Avant

This hasn't happened to me using Internet Explorer - not yet anyway. Anyone else having problems?

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Sun 1 Mar 2015 09:57
the forum website - galileo

This hasn't happened to me using Internet Explorer - not yet anyway. Anyone else having problems?

Similar format change on Chrome with AdBlock Plus.

Coincidentally, over the last few days "pictures of the day" on the Telegraph site doesn't show the arrows to show the next picture - all I can see is the first one if I use Chrome. Firefox, however, works as it always did for this feature.

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Sun 1 Mar 2015 19:33
the forum website - RT

I see that the website techies have found some ways round Ad-blockers so we're now subject to ads sliding across the top and on the sides - pity they couldn't find how to avoid the stupidly long loading times that occur intermittently.

I'll see if I can find a more up to date ad-blocker but if I can't I won't be back.

I know websites need a revenue stream - but not at the expense of contributors sanity!

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Sun 1 Mar 2015 20:25
the forum website - bathtub tom

I see that the website techies have found some ways round Ad-blockers so we're now subject to ads sliding across the top and on the sides - pity they couldn't find how to avoid the stupidly long loading times that occur intermittently.

I'll see if I can find a more up to date ad-blocker but if I can't I won't be back.

I know websites need a revenue stream - but not at the expense of contributors sanity!

My thoughts exactly!

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