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[V8mate]

Warby80 said:

I find it interesting that as far as i can see there has been zero interest/input on this thread from anyone at Pistonheads.

Sale has been concluded. They've all started their Christmas hols early.

[swanny71]

Warby80 said:

I find it interesting that as far as i can see there has been zero interest/input on this thread from anyone at Pistonheads.

Business as usual then, despite PH being sold to CarGurus.

[ApOrbital]

Took me ages to log on this morning via my home pc

[FiF]

What amazes me, having only started using Brave on Thursday, prior to that Chrome +no ad blocker, site has to gain revenue from somewhere, is that in two days, only used on PH, 1,400 blocked ads, 643 blocked trackers, and that is despite having all advertising preferences set to deny, at least according to PH website. Smells fishier than Grimsby fish docks.

[InitialDave]

That sounds odd, as I've been using Brave here for a few days now, and it only shows 9 blocked.

[Warby80]

InitialDave said:

That sounds odd, as I've been using Brave here for a few days now, and it only shows 9 blocked.

You sure you are not just looking at the stats for the current page? Thats showing 9 for me.

2200 trackers and 1400 adds blocked for me since Thursday, only using Brave for Pistonheads.

[InitialDave]

I might well be, haven't dug around with how to look at it "properly", I shall investigate further.

[V8mate]

InitialDave said:

I might well be, haven't dug around with how to look at it "properly", I shall investigate further.

Open a second tab and it'll show the cumulative report.

[InitialDave]

Hahaha yup. 1.9k ads, 809 trackers.

[fathomfive]

These are my stats since heeding the Brave advice.

[FiF]

Incidentally the Advertising Preferences link appears to have disappeared and you now have to head off in various directions to set tracking optiins eg Google etc.

Despite everything still saying Haymarket this is something I've noticed with other UK sites, e.g. our local library has outsourced handling of digital data, e.g. books, magazines to a USA outfit. They seem to have a different approach to GDPR and from my perspective make it dellibeeately difficult, the only way you can stop that one is by a detailed email.

[TheAngryDog]

Brave makes this forum lightning fast, even on my mobile. I'm going to use it for everything. It seems to be based on chromium as well.

[ferrisbueller]

eltawater said:

Key javascript culprits appear to originate from:

stats.g.doubleclick.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com (38 requests!)
images.outbrainimg.com
widgets.outbrain.com

Looking at the purpose of those I wonder whether this is some sort of measurement exercise as part of the sell-off.

Whatever, I've now moved to Brave for PH browsing, too, as the site has been so st it had become too clunky to use.

[Phooey]

PistonHeads has always had it's issues. On Firefox you have to click the back button 2 or 3 times to go back to the previous page. Now on Safari the page takes ages to load. It's st basically. Harsh, but the old techs need firing and a new team need drafting in asap.

[anonymous-user]

I would be a little wary of the Brave browser as their business model is to strip out the adverts dished up by the webpage and replace with their own adverts.

I understand the replacement ad bit is in beta testing at the moment and no doubt will appear in due course.

I am using the brave browser and will enjoy the ad free browsing while it lasts.

[V8mate]

gottans said:

I would be a little wary of the Brave browser as their business model is to strip out the adverts dished up by the webpage and replace with their own adverts.

I understand the replacement ad bit is in beta testing at the moment and no doubt will appear in due course.

I am using the brave browser and will enjoy the ad free browsing while it lasts.

As many here have attested, we don't expect ad-free browsing. We expect sites that operate in a clean and efficient way, are not overly intrusive from a privacy perspective and which include ads which are relevant to the audience.

[Mr lestat]

Another plus here for the Brave browser. I had almost given up using PistonHeads as it took so long to load single page. This is only in the case for the past couple of weeks however now it’s back to how it used to be

[anonymous-user]

V8mate said:

gottans said:

I would be a little wary of the Brave browser as their business model is to strip out the adverts dished up by the webpage and replace with their own adverts.

I understand the replacement ad bit is in beta testing at the moment and no doubt will appear in due course.

I am using the brave browser and will enjoy the ad free browsing while it lasts.

As many here have attested, we don't expect ad-free browsing. We expect sites that operate in a clean and efficient way, are not overly intrusive from a privacy perspective and which include ads which are relevant to the audience.

And I was quite happy with the status quo for the reasons above, then everything went slow, PH's loss...

[Office_Monkey]

115 ads blocked, only navigated to 13 pages on ph (including the login screen!!!!). I have installed brave to browse and is lightning quick compared to chrome on android

[helix402]

As a website PH now fails to work on mainstream browsers. New users will not use it and those existing users who don’t change browsers will stop using it.

Not the best plan for a successful business.