Terrible advertising

[Lord Ratner]

Did the advertising on these forms just get a whole lot worse for anybody else? It seems like I have to click through five pop ups and banners now just to navigate to the next topic. I'm not sure I can browse the forums much longer like this, but I wanted to make sure it's not just my phone

[Guardian]

Not seeing any advertising on the App Store base Ops app. Never have.

[gearhog]

Same. I use Chrome for iPhone. Ads are blocking much of the screen as I type this.

[mp5g]

1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:

Did the advertising on these forms just get a whole lot worse for anybody else? It seems like I have to click through five pop ups and banners now just to navigate to the next topic. I'm not sure I can browse the forums much longer like this, but I wanted to make sure it's not just my phone

Yes. It is almost soul crushing compared to 2-3 days ago. 

[uhhello]

If you're not running an adblock extension on your browser you are severely missing out. 

[Guest]

It's as bad as trying to watch anything on YouTube anymore. AdBlock, while a nice feature on its face, still shouldn't be necessary from a privacy standpoint. Who even is "AdBlock"? Because the permissions they need to is read everything you do, and what do they do with that information? Are they running their whole operation as a non-profit? Probably not lol.

[DFRESH]

GD it.. sorry guys, I'll figure out wtf happened. Go to Afghanistan for 2 weeks and the whole forum gets f'd.

[DFRESH]

Okay, give it 24 hours. If it's still looking like a free pr0n site by then, try clearing cache.

 

[mp5g]

2 hours ago, DFRESH said:

Okay, give it 24 hours. If it's still looking like a free pr0n site by then, try clearing cache.

 

Already much better. 

[slc]

I kept getting these female underwear ads showing up whilst browsing (not that it irritated me)

[Lord Ratner]

Some strange banner ads are back. I'll see if I can get a screenshot

[Lord Ratner]

Here's the screenshot it blocks the menu

 

[Day Man]

I'm getting this annoying ad window at the bottom too on desktop...

[ryleypav]

Are you using an Ad Blocker? I have one running and dont see that. 

[Day Man]

30 minutes ago, ryleypav said:

Are you using an Ad Blocker? I have one running and dont see that. 

no ad blocker...any recommendations?

[uhhello]

2 hours ago, Day Man said:

no ad blocker...any recommendations?

Get an ad blocker extension 🙂 It's game changing.

[Day Man]

37 minutes ago, uhhello said:

Get an ad blocker extension 🙂 It's game changing.

any of these good?

[uhhello]

33 minutes ago, Day Man said:

any of these good?

I run adblock as a google extension.  i have no issues.  

[Day Man]

2 hours ago, uhhello said:

I run adblock as a google extension.  i have no issues.  

copy, thanks...I'll give it a shot  

[ryleypav]

15 hours ago, uhhello said:

I run adblock as a google extension.  i have no issues.  

Adblock plus here, no issues as well. 

[mcbush]

Also running Adblock Plus, which currently claims it's blocked 646,628 ads on this PC since installation (probably 2013). Highly recommend it. 

[DFRESH]

Bros, I just let google do its thing. I went in and tweaked the settings, so it should stop the "anchor" ads. The goal was to have just one ad in the same spot on every page (top right corner), but somehow the google monster went full auto. Should be fixed within an hour.

[AlexLM12]

Browsing on my Air Force computer so I just let it happen

[Lord Ratner]

Is the site making much money off of the ads? Because they've gotten pretty shitty again. Constantly covering up the top banner of the page or sometimes showing up without a clear way to close them.

[uhhello]

2 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

Is the site making much money off of the ads? Because they've gotten pretty shitty again. Constantly covering up the top banner of the page or sometimes showing up without a clear way to close them.

Are you not using 'Adblock'?