Ads In Threads

[thirteen]

The ads are gone! Is this permanent, or just a temporary reprieve?

i still see them and they are mighty annoying -- annoying enough that it has kept me away...

has anybody tried Adblock for Safari? does it work?

 

[L'arriviste]

i still see them and they are mighty annoying -- annoying enough that it has kept me away...

has anybody tried Adblock for Safari? does it work?

It should work. Here's how I see this page with AdBlockPlus on Windows:

Viz the collapsed intra-thread ad and nothing at all on the right side.

The rule for intra-thread ads is *outbrain.com/*

 

[Thomsena]

Your toolbar looks easily as annoying as the ads themselves

 

[L'arriviste]

Your toolbar looks easily as annoying as the ads themselves

Do you mean mine? Web development tools. Come with the job, unfortunately.

 

[thirteen]

It should work. Here's how I see this page with AdBlockPlus on Windows:

sweet! off to try it! merci.

 

[Kvinto]

i have no ads in Opera, can't say it makes me happy or disappointed, just no ads

but if i want ads, i can use Explorer

 

[thirteen]

Adblock for Safari didn't work

off to see if i can tweak it by specifically saying to block ads from this site.

nope... still there. any suggestions?

 

[mewmewmew13]

Adblock for Safari didn't work

off to see if i can tweak it by specifically saying to block ads from this site.

nope... still there. any suggestions?

Thirteen you can just download another browser and switch to that for looking at the cn site. You can choose between....

try firefox...w/adblock

 

[thirteen]

Thirteen you can just download another browser and switch to that for looking at the cn site. You can choose between....

try firefox...w/adblock

yeah, i have Firefox for those few times when Safari won't work properly (getting plane tickets and the like), but i don't like having both running at the same time.

ah well, no biggie for now. hopefully they'll do away with the adverts and/or move them to the bottom and make them cycling-related... it just isn't worth it to me at the moment.

 

[Benotti69]

yeah, i have Firefox for those few times when Safari won't work properly (getting plane tickets and the like), but i don't like having both running at the same time.

ah well, no biggie for now. hopefully they'll do away with the adverts and/or move them to the bottom and make them cycling-related... it just isn't worth it to me at the moment.

i am running firefox just to view CN and safari for everything else, no glitches...my mac is 1.5 years old.

 

[pedaling squares]

Adblock for Safari didn't work

off to see if i can tweak it by specifically saying to block ads from this site.

nope... still there. any suggestions?

Adblock for Safari took out the top banner and the side panel for me... in other words the ads that didn't bother me but the ones that did were still in the thread. I went into the Adblock preferences and there was a slider you can drag until the in-thread ads disappear. Now I see a blank white space instead of Kardashian's knockers and a fat guy with a beer bottle on his belly. So it's a mixed trade-off.

 

[L'arriviste]

yeah, i have Firefox for those few times when Safari won't work properly (getting plane tickets and the like), but i don't like having both running at the same time.

ah well, no biggie for now. hopefully they'll do away with the adverts and/or move them to the bottom and make them cycling-related... it just isn't worth it to me at the moment.

Don't worry, it's probably fine unless you're seeing performance problems. Almost certainly you'll just need to set a rule to block the relevant content. The intra-thread ads are served from outbrain.com, so a rule designed to ban content from this domain (as I set out upthread) will do this for you. It's entirely normal for AdBlock not to ban everything out of the blocks - this may account for why it looks like it didn't work. With some lesser known ad providers you need to 'train' AdBlock by entering rules for their domain names.

 

[Boeing]

Adblock does nothing.

I browse these forums at work sometimes and I really don't appreciate having tits all over my screen unexpectedly. Turn that **** off.

like that is the reason

 

[Cobblestones]

Adblock for Safari didn't work

off to see if i can tweak it by specifically saying to block ads from this site.

nope... still there. any suggestions?

It does work for me (Safari on Mac 10.6)

You need to block outbrain.com specifically for the in-thread ads.

 

[patricknd]

Adblock does nothing.

I browse these forums at work sometimes and I really don't appreciate having tits all over my screen unexpectedly. Turn that **** off.

shouldn't you be working at work?

 

[Cobblestones]

Yes, it works on the machine. I cannot figure out how to block ads in Safari on the iPad which is what has lead me to installing Opera.

Really p's me off having to have a separate browser on the iPad just so I can read cn.

Ah, I see. I don't have an ipad, but I sometimes browse the forum with my wife's iphone. Btw. why doesn't the forum have a good format or display mode for smartphones? The ads on the right make the font of the posts so small that I have to increase the size every time I call up a new page. Never mind navigating from one page to the next. The buttons are too small for a smartphone. Moreover, scrolling doesn't work in the editor when I want to post with the iphone. TSF is right, the forum software isn't up to specs at all. The whole forum needs a major revamp.

 

[thirteen]

thank you, everybody! your answers and advice led me to persevere and i've finally trained it -- no more ads, yes

 

[Garry Allen]

Glad to see that everyone is so comfortable with the ads where they are now that they are happy to post off topic junk in the 'protest' thread and derail its value.

It depends whether you are running a browser with AdBlock installed or not. I installed AdBlock Plus for Chrome and rediscovered a whole lot of screen real estate that I had been missing. Thank you Future Publishing for forcing me to do this.

I'll be leaving Adblock Plus in place until Future Publishing removes the in thread ads. Of course this does mean I cannot view any of Future Publishing's other ads, including their ones for T3.... and Wiggle and the Tour Down Under...... But I can live with that. I'm sure Future Publishing's other advertisers will be happy about that too.

 

[Barrus]

Glad to see that everyone is so comfortable with the ads where they are now that they are happy to post off topic junk in the 'protest' thread and derail its value.

To be honest, as long as these off-topic ads stay up so prominently I will not really be visiting the forum and will probably relocate all together.

 

[thirteen]

To be honest, as long as these off-topic ads stay up so prominently I will not really be visiting the forum and will probably relocate all together.

i was of the same thought, but Adblock works really well! no need to see any of that bull****

 

[Barrus]

i was of the same thought, but Adblock works really well! no need to see any of that bull****

I normally do not have that many problems with advertising, it is necessary to keep many site afloat and sometimes there are interesting products or deals, especially on cycling websites. In all it has never bothered me enough to install adblock and all and I will not install it solely for this website.

Another aspect of this is that fact that it is not even the ads themselves that is my main problem with the current situation, but what these ads resemble, the lack of regard for the forum, its members and the moderators from FP/CN

 

[thirteen]

I normally do not have that many problems with advertising, it is necessary to keep many site afloat and sometimes there are interesting products or deals, especially on cycling websites. In all it has never bothered me enough to install adblock and all and I will not install it solely for this website.

Another aspect of this is that fact that it is not even the ads themselves that is my main problem with the current situation, but what these ads resemble, the lack of regard for the forum, its members and the moderators from FP/CN

fair enough. agreed.

 

[Anonymous]

A new cycling forum is finally live.
Not launching yet but open for user registration
Will launch once membership reaches a certain level.

Most people here post on two or three forums, so another one is just somewhere else to have fun.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

To be honest, as long as these off-topic ads stay up so prominently I will not really be visiting the forum and will probably relocate all together.

the mafioso refuses your request to leave the famile.

 

[ElChingon]

A new cycling forum is finally live.
Not launching yet but open for user registration
Will launch once membership reaches a certain level.

Most people here post on two or three forums, so another one is just somewhere else to have fun.

Server not found, gotta pay the fee for the DNS name.

Oh guess who runs it (mods this is internet freely obtained info, just search whois.com if you question it) AKA: DimSpace
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