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Using iPad to browse DS forum
SnowStorm86
06-03-2015
Anyone else notice that recently DS have changed their advertisement system, so now every 20 or so seconds the adverts change, and each time that happens the thread that you are browsing will scroll up to the top of the page automatically so that the advert area is back in view. Quite annoying and invasive.

If only iOS Safari would offer proper ad blocking.
Stig
06-03-2015
I use Weblock for iOS.

It's not free, but the difference in the browsing experience is amazing.
DarthFader
06-03-2015
Mercury web browser on iOS has the same vanishing skills and speeds it up too
lettice
07-03-2015
Mercury browser looks good.
I use the iCabMobile browser with webblock.
But Mercury looks like a good try.
Not having any luck with the bookmarklet to open url from safari in mercury

Their bookmarklet pasted as in the app faq is listed as
Code:
javascript:window.location='merc://'+escape(window.location)
But its not parsing correctly, its adding this extra code to the front of the url
//http:%3X//

The one i use specifically for iCab works fine
Anyone have the correct call for Mercury?
lettice
07-03-2015
Its parsing //https%3A// not as i said above.
d123
09-03-2015
Originally Posted by SnowStorm86:
“Anyone else notice that recently DS have changed their advertisement system, so now every 20 or so seconds the adverts change, and each time that happens the thread that you are browsing will scroll up to the top of the page automatically so that the advert area is back in view. Quite annoying and invasive.

If only iOS Safari would offer proper ad blocking.”

Agreed, it's fcuking annoying, it also means trying to jump to first unread doesn't work as it jumps to the advert instead.

In fact, it's jumped to the top twice in the time I've been typing this reply. Edit: jumped to the top FIVE times altogether now .

I did send an email to DS asking for an explanation using the "contact us" link.

Going to look at weblock for iOS now...
d123
09-03-2015
Originally Posted by Stig:
“I use Weblock for iOS.

It's not free, but the difference in the browsing experience is amazing.”

Thank you, just bought it and the dumb frigging video is now gone .
Rodney McKay
09-03-2015
They can shove their crappy videos up their.....
SnowStorm86
09-03-2015
Originally Posted by d123:
“Agreed, it's fcuking annoying, it also means trying to jump to first unread doesn't work as it jumps to the advert instead.

In fact, it's jumped to the top twice in the time I've been typing this reply. Edit: jumped to the top FIVE times altogether now .

I did send an email to DS asking for an explanation using the "contact us" link.

Going to look at weblock for iOS now...”

I also contacted them politely using the "contact us" feature but unfortunately I received no reply, and no confirmation that they even received my feed back.
testcard
11-03-2015
Forum pages are incredibly slow to load on my iPad Air, and coupled with the page scrolling issue, DS is becoming a PITA.
JordyD
11-03-2015
DS only cares about making money.
Chalkuk
30-03-2015
Turning off JavaScript helps
Jean-Francois
10-04-2015
This is probably off topic, but if you don't ask, you don't find out.
I've noticed over the last couple of days that when I sign in to DS on my iPad, I no longer get asked, "Save this password?"
I don't care about that, I always clicked on "Not Now" anyway, but if I leave my iPad for a few minutes, then have to enter my 4 digit code to get back in, I find that I'm no longer logged in to DS, and have to log in again.
In addition, all my history has disappeared, (on my iPad), I may have looked at Expedia, OpenTable, TFL, TripAdvisor, in addition to DS, but leave the iPad for a couple of minutes, then on return, no history.
None of this is a major deal, I just enter a site name on Google, and I can go to the site again, but is there something I've maybe inadvertently done to cause the history to not appear?
I know that I can go on Settings, and click on Clear Searches and Web History, but I haven't done that, and my History searches are still there on my iMac, any ideas?
c4rv
10-04-2015
Chrome on iPad does not do that.

and AdBlock blocks the ads anyway
NewWorldMan
11-04-2015
Originally Posted by DarthFader:
“Mercury web browser on iOS has the same vanishing skills and speeds it up too ”

Thanks. Just installed.

One problem. Do you know how to share just a link to a page by email, as opposed to the whole content?
David (2)
11-04-2015
Apart from the random slow downs which has happened since the dawn of time with no sign of changing, I also noticed that the system doesn't always log out even tho you have signed out. I thought at first it was me forgetting to sign out, but it isn't. If I sign out and goto another site, and maybe turn the iPad off for rest of the day, when I return I go back into DS it already has me logged in, even tho I haven't logged in yet. This doesn't happen every time tho.

Doesn't happen at all on the pc, and there are no random slow downs on that system either.
testcard
11-04-2015
On iPad, Settings > Safari > Passwords and Autofill?
davor
11-04-2015
What we need is a DS app that would contain a forum and maybe live chat all in one. It would ease posting on the forum from mobile devices, and also allow users to have a real time text chat (similar to Facebook messenger app).
David (2)
11-04-2015
Seems strange that sometimes it logs out and other times it doesn't (even tho it says it has).
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