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Old 21-06-2012, 14:47
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My netbook seems to be on the way out, and am thinking about replacing it with an iPad, I spend 95% of my time just browsing the web, and a large percentage of that time on digital spy forums Safari on the iPad doesnt have any adblock feature so im wondering the ads are really intrusive?

The Atomic Web browser has adblocking though, but does it work?
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Old 21-06-2012, 15:11
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I just use Safari, I don't find the ads that annoying and it helps DS pay for the upkeep of the forums.
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Old 21-06-2012, 15:15
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Just tried Atomic and the Adblock feature works fine.
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Old 21-06-2012, 15:25
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I just use Safari, I don't find the ads that annoying and it helps DS pay for the upkeep of the forums.
I know.. but some of the ads are incredibly intrusive and have at times even covered some of the buttons for navigating and using the forums.
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Old 21-06-2012, 21:51
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I know.. but some of the ads are incredibly intrusive and have at times even covered some of the buttons for navigating and using the forums.
The ads are relatively unobtrusive (although sometimes animated GIFs) on the iPad as it doesn't have Flash. They tend to be pretty small and have never noticed them obscuring any of the site, as you sometimes get with the full Flash ads.
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Old 21-06-2012, 22:02
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The ads are relatively unobtrusive (although sometimes animated GIFs) on the iPad as it doesn't have Flash. They tend to be pretty small and have never noticed them obscuring any of the site, as you sometimes get with the full Flash ads.
Yeah I think the lack of flash stops many websites being annoying as one of the biggest uses of flash is obtrusive ads.
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Old 21-06-2012, 22:23
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Not an iPad I know, but my iPhone shows the DS mobile forums and the ads there are incredibly intrusive. Every page change on a thread brings up a full screen advert!

Does the iPad show the mobile or full site?
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Old 21-06-2012, 22:59
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It looks exactly the same as on a regular computer
http://i.imgur.com/58EWX.png
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Old 21-06-2012, 23:05
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I use iCab Mobile rather than Safari, although I used to use Atomic.

No issues with the site.
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Old 21-06-2012, 23:24
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Not an iPad I know, but my iPhone shows the DS mobile forums and the ads there are incredibly intrusive. Every page change on a thread brings up a full screen advert!

Does the iPad show the mobile or full site?
It shows the full site, but you can get the full site on your mobile too.
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Old 22-06-2012, 01:07
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Not an iPad I know, but my iPhone shows the DS mobile forums and the ads there are incredibly intrusive. Every page change on a thread brings up a full screen advert!

Does the iPad show the mobile or full site?
I thought you had to manually select if you wanted full or mobile version at bottom of main forum screen.
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Old 22-06-2012, 08:24
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Since last week digital spy automatically switches to the mobile version on my iPhone, but not on my iPad. Its really annoying. I can't see an option to keep it at the full version.
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Old 22-06-2012, 10:00
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Since last week digital spy automatically switches to the mobile version on my iPhone, but not on my iPad. Its really annoying. I can't see an option to keep it at the full version.
If you're on the mobile version, scroll right to the bottom of the forums and tap 'Desktop Site' on the purple bar.
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