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It's not just mobiles, it's on desktop PC as well. Come on DS you had plenty of time to sort this out now and yet still happening
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Yep skim links still being displayed to registered users not using ad blockers.
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I thought it had disappeared but now I'm seeing it again. Also they have 'Add Reply" at the top left of the thread.
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This is absolutely shocking just now. Every time I try to open a thread I get redirected to Game of War advert which cannot be bypassed.
I honestly wonder at times if anyone is even awake at Digital Spy. |
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This is absolutely shocking just now. Every time I try to open a thread I get redirected to Game of War advert which cannot be bypassed.
I honestly wonder at times if anyone is even awake at Digital Spy. |
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This is absolutely shocking just now. Every time I try to open a thread I get redirected to Game of War advert which cannot be bypassed.
I honestly wonder at times if anyone is even awake at Digital Spy. |
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This is absolutely shocking just now. Every time I try to open a thread I get redirected to Game of War advert which cannot be bypassed.
I honestly wonder at times if anyone is even awake at Digital Spy. |
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in this day and age, there really is NO excuse for being bothered by poorly designed and implemented ads online. if you refuse to use an adblocker then, in my humble opinion, you forfeit the right to complain
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Can't read this place at all on Iphone becayse of constant Game of War advert & redirection to Apple store
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Can't read this place at all on Iphone becayse of constant Game of War advert & redirection to Apple store
GRRRRR |
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I've read a lot from people running websites who believe adblockers are immoral as they do them out of the revenue needed to pay the server fees, so for a while I tried to put up with it.
But then they pull stunts like this and... yeah, it's this site that got me to install Adblock Plus on my iPhone. I'm sorry webmasters but you can't cry to me about morals after trying to force me over and over to download a game I'm not interested in. The advertising industry can either clean up its act, or stay blocked. |
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There are at least a dozen different content blockers on the App Store. I've never been bothered by any ads at all on DS since they were implemented.
I use ABP on my Mac, didn't realise there was a Iphone version.. Works a treat Many Thanks |
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I've read a lot from people running websites who believe adblockers are immoral as they do them out of the revenue needed to pay the server fees, so for a while I tried to put up with it.
But then they pull stunts like this and... yeah, it's this site that got me to install Adblock Plus on my iPhone. I'm sorry webmasters but you can't cry to me about morals after trying to force me over and over to download a game I'm not interested in. The advertising industry can either clean up its act, or stay blocked. |
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I've read a lot from people running websites who believe adblockers are immoral as they do them out of the revenue needed to pay the server fees, so for a while I tried to put up with it.
But then they pull stunts like this and... yeah, it's this site that got me to install Adblock Plus on my iPhone. I'm sorry webmasters but you can't cry to me about morals after trying to force me over and over to download a game I'm not interested in. The advertising industry can either clean up its act, or stay blocked. If it is a site I use regularly and they don't have stupid annoying advert then I white list them. |
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*facepalm*
I use ABP on my Mac, didn't realise there was a Iphone version.. Works a treat Many Thanks ![]() I use one called purify which also lets you block scripts so you can nullify the black bar at the top of DS if you need to. I wouldn't have that much of a problem whitelisting DS if they actually gave a stuff about their advertising policy. That, and the imposition of unnecessary and buggy "re-designs" where they ignore all feedback as well .. |
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DS is drumming up more business for adblock by making the ads encroach so much that it causes users to complain and then a fix recommended.
Well done DS, slowing killing yourself and your revenue stream. |
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Not all websites are as bad.
If it is a site I use regularly and they don't have stupid annoying advert then I white list them. My problem is slow broadband. I load a page (on the PC), go to click a link and it flips down the screen as the massive ad at the top loads and I click the wrong thing... AAARRRGGGGGGGG!!!!! Happens all the time. The thing is, the old ads were fine and I understand sites have to advertise so I too whitelist them. Damn it I even clicked on a few of them sometimes. But since the arrival of the ridiculous in your face third of a page ads at the top, I'm afraid I am now blocking. I will not have stuff literally shoved in my face. I will review from time to time. When the ads get sensible again, I'll unblock. I'm a reasonable man. I've been meaning to send them a direct message about it. Will get round to it at some point. |
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A very effective way of preventing any advert from anywhere on iOS devices from opening the App Store app, is to disable it, by going into settings, restrictions, and turning 'Installing Apps' to Off. Just pop into the Settings app and temporarily enable it whenever you want to install a new app.
Pretty much like how you might keep 'In-App Purchases' at Off if you don't want to risk any of those being accidentally clicked upon when using an app. |
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I see what you're saying and their should be less intrusive adverts but the trouble with ad blockers is that if everyone used them, there wouldn't be information on the internet. How are websites meant to survive without advertising income?
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Not all websites are as bad.
If it is a site I use regularly and they don't have stupid annoying advert then I white list them. |
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They're not (or perhaps via some community thing like Google Contributor which I was still waiting to be accepted to the beta for). But they can avoid everyone using them - including me - by not having intrusive adverts that prevent you accessing the content, spread malware, deliberately make you misclick etc. Then they get whitelisted. Or they could go for non-intrusive ads, which by the default Adblock Plus settings (which I've kept) are automatically whitelisted already.
I know, and me too. Digitalspy isn't one of them at the moment I'm afraid. (I'm sure they must get something out of all the 'natural' advertising of the various TV and other networks though) |
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What on earth does whitelisting mean?
You could have Googled that. |
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Whitelisting in this context means to add a website to a list of sites which are not affected by an ad blocker, so you still see the ads on that site.
You could have Googled that. |
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#49 |
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Do we have any "tapatalk" or similar support yet? I have to admit that's the only tool I use to browse forums from mobile now... it seems to make skimming/browsing/conversing so much more efficient than most mobile websites I've seen. (On PC to dip in here)
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I've read a lot from people running websites who believe adblockers are immoral as they do them out of the revenue needed to pay the server fees, so for a while I tried to put up with it.
But then they pull stunts like this and... yeah, it's this site that got me to install Adblock Plus on my iPhone. I'm sorry webmasters but you can't cry to me about morals after trying to force me over and over to download a game I'm not interested in. The advertising industry can either clean up its act, or stay blocked. There's now video ads appearing. Shocking. |
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