Pop up at bottom of page ......

[JR1]

Makes this site unusable.

Thanks

Click to read more...

 

[izzy]

become a sponsor

 

[Majorityof1]

I highly recommend sponsorship as well. Mine lapsed and I haven't been able to afford to renew because I burn through an entire year of anti-virus subscription in a single visit to this damn site. In all seriousness, I am just lazy and haven't renewed. But my Antivirus does work overtime every time I visit as a non-sponsor. I have 8 messages of actions its blocked just this session...


"application detected - legitimate software that can be used to cause damage", "Download blocked", "malicious web page", "malicious link", etc..

Edit: Ok, just renewed. Put my money where my mouth was. And lo and behold, my anti-virus/ad blocker breathed a sigh of relief.

 

[elkranio]

Ahem. Certain free blocking software does it's magic.
Don't ban me Easton.

 

[Bluesfan54]

I could cheerfully strangle the jerk who first thought that pop up ads were a swell idea.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

It makes the site unusable. There must be 100s of times I was typing a post, and the pop-up enters the frame and I click it instead of the next letter.

It’s cut down my traffic on the site considerably. I finally paid for sponsorship, but I think it’s a shitty business decision to allow those malignant ads on the site. If it’s a deliberate choice to harangue people into sponsorship, it’s even worse.

 

[Ranksu]

Ahem. Certain free blocking software does it's magic.
Don't ban me Easton.

EB22 couldn't care less.

 

[Brian39]

.........what is this sponsorship option people keep talking about? I clicked around for like 5 minutes after reading this thread and can't find anything about becoming a sponsor.

 

[EastonBlues22]

The admins and mods here don't have any control over the sale or display of ads. There is an independent sales team that handles that, and it is not always possible for them to tell if an ad given to them for display is malicious or if it will somehow interfere with the functionality of the site before it is implemented. If you report unusually invasive or malicious ads in the support forum, the people in control of that are usually fairly responsive when bad ads are brought to their attention. They don't want the functionality of this site to be compromised anymore than we do.

I'm not going to preach any particular path when it comes to ad-blocking software, sponsorships, and the like. However, I will say that this is a managed site that depends on revenue (not to mention volunteers) to continue to exist, and ads/sponsorships are where that revenue comes from. You can contribute to that or not at your discretion, but someone has to or it all goes away...and that's a real possibility, not just some empty rhetoric. This site is definitely not swimming in revenue, and it has narrowly escaped being shut down before.

If you value this community, consider supporting it in some way...whether that's volunteering your time, paying a few dollars for a sponsorship, tolerating some ads, or even just being a good poster who contributes to the discussion in a positive manner. It all helps in one way or another.

 

[EastonBlues22]

.........what is this sponsorship option people keep talking about? I clicked around for like 5 minutes after reading this thread and can't find anything about becoming a sponsor.

Become a Sponsor and Fight Breast Cancer

 

[Brian39]

Become a Sponsor and Fight Breast Cancer

Done. And holy cow does this site run smoother without all the ads. Well worth $1 a month.

 

[Blueston]

The admins and mods here don't have any control over the sale or display of ads. There is an independent sales team that handles that, and it is not always possible for them to tell if an ad given to them for display is malicious or if it will somehow interfere with the functionality of the site before it is implemented. If you report unusually invasive or malicious ads in the support forum, the people in control of that are usually fairly responsive when bad ads are brought to their attention. They don't want the functionality of this site to be compromised anymore than we do.

I'm not going to preach any particular path when it comes to ad-blocking software, sponsorships, and the like. However, I will say that this is a managed site that depends on revenue (not to mention volunteers) to continue to exist, and ads/sponsorships are where that revenue comes from. You can contribute to that or not at your discretion, but someone has to or it all goes away...and that's a real possibility, not just some empty rhetoric. This site is definitely not swimming in revenue, and it has narrowly escaped being shut down before.

If you value this community, consider supporting it in some way...whether that's volunteering your time, paying a few dollars for a sponsorship, tolerating some ads, or even just being a good poster who contributes to the discussion in a positive manner. It all helps in one way or another.

Makes sense. I went ahead and did it too.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Makes this site unusable.

Thanks

Use Firefox on your phone. Ever since I started using Firefox for iPhone, I have not received a single ad.

I do receive the cookies pop-up and once per day the Disable Ad Blocker pop-up.

Which I never disable.

 

[brokeu91]

Done. And holy cow does this site run smoother without all the ads. Well worth $1 a month.

I wholeheartedly concur