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pidsy

Original Poster:

7,983 posts

157 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Where did this come from?

I know haymarket needs to generate cash but why do I now have to download 3 huge images at the bottom of every page trying to sell me st that no one wants?

Parsnip

3,122 posts

188 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Just noticed this. Its a bit OTT and the kind of thing that pushes people to install ad blockers.

Get rid unless you want the forums to look like a crappy clickbait website.

Jimi.K.

238 posts

77 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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It's a real shame Haymarket have had to resort to this. Surely pistonheads has enough traffic to sell proper ad slots to genuine advertisers?

pidsy

Original Poster:

7,983 posts

157 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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It looks like the daily mail website.


Utter ste.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

186 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Ad blocker is not screening it.

And there was me believing Haymarket had stopped making changes to the forum. rolleyes

Being constructively critical, could it be moved below the whats new/my stuff etc. links at the page bottom?

PurpleMoonlight

22,362 posts

157 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Its Just Adz

14,041 posts

209 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Who signed off on that??

Looks cheap and tacky.

LordGrover

33,538 posts

212 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Johnnytheboy said:
Ad blocker is not screening it.

And there was me believing Haymarket had stopped making changes to the forum. rolleyes

Being constructively critical, could it be moved below the whats new/my stuff etc. links at the page bottom?
Which adblocker?
uBlock Origin on Chrome has let nothing new through today, lately or ever.

Zod

35,295 posts

258 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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This has prompted me to install adblock on my work pc for edge.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

186 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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LordGrover said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Ad blocker is not screening it.

And there was me believing Haymarket had stopped making changes to the forum. rolleyes

Being constructively critical, could it be moved below the whats new/my stuff etc. links at the page bottom?
Which adblocker?
uBlock Origin on Chrome has let nothing new through today, lately or ever.
AdBlock Plus. smile

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Johnnytheboy said:
LordGrover said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Ad blocker is not screening it.

And there was me believing Haymarket had stopped making changes to the forum. rolleyes

Being constructively critical, could it be moved below the whats new/my stuff etc. links at the page bottom?
Which adblocker?
uBlock Origin on Chrome has let nothing new through today, lately or ever.
AdBlock Plus. smile
I’ve got adblocknplus and these massive three photos of sheds and insurance and other rubbish are on every page.

It’s so clumsy on a mobile device. Totally puts me off any company advertising or sponsoring.

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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LordGrover said:
Which adblocker?
uBlock Origin on Chrome has let nothing new through today, lately or ever.
I can’t even take a screenshot to show you as it’s too big ugly and cumbersome. hehe




Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

261 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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This is dreadful.

I could live with the odd advert on posts, although this is becoming too frequent.

Sort it out Haymarket!

Janluke

2,580 posts

158 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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El stovey said:
Johnnytheboy said:
LordGrover said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Ad blocker is not screening it.

And there was me believing Haymarket had stopped making changes to the forum. rolleyes

Being constructively critical, could it be moved below the whats new/my stuff etc. links at the page bottom?
Which adblocker?
uBlock Origin on Chrome has let nothing new through today, lately or ever.
AdBlock Plus. smile
I’ve got adblocknplus and these massive three photos of sheds and insurance and other rubbish are on every page.

It’s so clumsy on a mobile device. Totally puts me off any company advertising or sponsoring.
I have ABP and it was showing the sponsored content. A wee look in the options and there is a box for "allow acceptable ads" I unchecked that and the sponsored content went away

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

261 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Just downloaded Adblocker plus for Firefox.

That's cleared it all up nicely. biggrin

Tyre Tread

10,534 posts

216 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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How to drive people away in one easy lesson. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

eybic

9,212 posts

174 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Tyre Tread said:
How to drive people away in one easy lesson. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?
You seem the think that the forums matter to the powers that be, did you not see the post stating that no more dev work was being done unless the site breaks and that resource was being slashed?

pidsy

Original Poster:

7,983 posts

157 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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its not so bad on the desktop. huge and completely OT on mobile.

PurpleMoonlight

22,362 posts

157 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Janluke said:
I have ABP and it was showing the sponsored content. A wee look in the options and there is a box for "allow acceptable ads" I unchecked that and the sponsored content went away
Thanks for this.

99dndd

2,081 posts

89 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I was able to adjust my AdBlock settings to block it, all better now.