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Post by mr.tourette » Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:38 am

After me saying I've never seen one its sods law one did of course pop up this morning :D
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Post by jabber » Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:15 am

Perhaps one of the mods can tell us what is happening
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Post by brillomaster » Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:36 am

yeah previously the last few days its been a small advert pop up, easy enough to close. this morning it was a full page pop up with no obvious way to close it. had to refresh the page to get it to go away.

i appreciate this is a free forum and i'm grateful for that, but i do wonder what has changed in the past few days.

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Post by clarker63 » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:05 am

yes, please stop it guys, or is it a ransom type demand? give us some dosh, or you get annoying adverts :rofl:

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Post by Homer » Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:00 am

Banner ads are fine and a requirement to keep the site running, the pop ups are annoying, had on both Windows and iOS in the last couple of days
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Post by Timmyboybunter » Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:39 pm

Smartbear wrote: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:57 pm Perhaps you can code it out? :rofl:
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Each time I code it out, a different ad is created. I think Carly has become self aware. Terminator 2 has finally come true, or sticking my Carly adapter into my phone charging port wasn't the way to go.
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Post by dhobbs » Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:15 pm

I downloaded adguard for ios and no adverts now.
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Post by sp3ctre » Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:16 pm

Guys, relax, I didn’t add these popup ads, it will likely be something google enabled by default. I’ll get them turned off as soon as I get chance.

And as has been said, this forum is funded by a combination if ads and occasional donations, but I hate popup ads as much as the next person.
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Post by sp3ctre » Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:35 pm

Ok, hopefully the pop up ads will be gone soon. I have disabled the "auto ads" setting so hopefully that will be the end of it (usually takes a while to take effect, so might not be immediate)
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Post by dhobbs » Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:24 pm

Thanks for your hard work guys. This is one of the best forums I've been on so I appreciate all the effort you put into keep it running.
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Post by IRD » Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:58 pm

dhobbs wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:24 pm Thanks for your hard work guys. This is one of the best forums I've been on so I appreciate all the effort you put into keep it running.
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+1 Saying thank you. Really appreciate the Forum. :thumbsup:

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Post by sp3ctre » Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:03 pm

Cheers guys, appreciate the comments... and while I understand people using ad blockers in general it does take money out of our pocket. If you do appreciate the forum please consider whitelisting our site as without advertising this place will close, that is the sad truth.
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Post by Argyll Andy » Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:11 pm

I use an ad blocker so have just made a donation to make up for any money this’ll lose the forum as it’s a fantastic site :thumbsup:

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    Post by Pondrew » Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:48 pm

    I don't know what an ad blocker is so presume I am creating a (very) little revenue by not using one.

    Just wanted to say this site is one of the last of a dying breed. So many seem to have gone onto Facebook which come with the Social Media issues. Many are still hanging in there but have no participants which make them pointless and quite sad. This site is old school, as car forums used to be. Long may it continue and thanks to the admin. :thumbsup:

    I would also like to thank the mods; this site is moderated extremely liberally without undue interference. So many forums have over-zealous mods doing "housekeeping" every five seconds to presumably make themselves look important. I have not noticed this at all on here. You must be liberal, no-one's told me off officially yet. :oops:
    All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.

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    Post by sp3ctre » Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:06 pm

    Argyll Andy wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:11 pm I use an ad blocker so have just made a donation to make up for any money this’ll lose the forum as it’s a fantastic site :thumbsup:
    Thanks, much appreciated :thumbsup:
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