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[Zod]

Turn7 said:

Adblock for safari doesn’t kill these,any help for an iPhone user?

Adblock can't kill this stuff on Edge either. Crystal isn't blocking it on Safari on iPhone.

[dhutch]

Stupid isn't.

Need to get setup with an add blocker, but I don't want to have to use a dedicated browser for the site.

What are people using as a blocker on Android/Chrome? Samsung S7 if it matters.

Daniel

[MYOB]

Zod said:

Turn7 said:

Adblock for safari doesn’t kill these,any help for an iPhone user?

Adblock can't kill this stuff on Edge either. Crystal isn't blocking it on Safari on iPhone.

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Adguard will block the sponsored content on iPhones. It worked for me.

[thetapeworm]

dhutch said:

Stupid isn't.

Need to get setup with an add blocker, but I don't want to have to use a dedicated browser for the site.

What are people using as a blocker on Android/Chrome? Samsung S7 if it matters.

Daniel

I'm now using Brave for all my browsing.

[Turn7]

MYOB said:

Zod said:

Turn7 said:

Adblock for safari doesn’t kill these,any help for an iPhone user?

Adblock can't kill this stuff on Edge either. Crystal isn't blocking it on Safari on iPhone.

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Adguard will block the sponsored content on iPhones. It worked for me.

Yep, ADguard free kills it on apple phones and I use Ublock with FF and see nowt on the PC.....

[pc.iow]

Turn7 said:

MYOB said:

Zod said:

Turn7 said:

Adblock for safari doesn’t kill these,any help for an iPhone user?

Adblock can't kill this stuff on Edge either. Crystal isn't blocking it on Safari on iPhone.

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Adguard will block the sponsored content on iPhones. It worked for me.

Yep, ADguard free kills it on apple phones and I use Ublock with FF and see nowt on the PC.....

Another yep for ADguard on Iphone.
Chrome runs with Add black plus and U Block origin.
This evening I've even got an old style skin/ Looks great to me!

Edited by pc.iow on Friday 11th May 14:58

[AW111]

Well I just got sucked in to clicking one of the "sponsored content" stories .
It was on the Spanish GP thread, with a picture of Ricciardo and some catchy caption, and linked to news.com.au.
As soon as the page opened I saw that the story dated from late 2017! I doubt if it was more than 2 seconds before I closed the page.

Such tawdry, low-rent adverts make this site look like a down-at-heel corner shop in a depressed area.

[Turn7]

AW111 said:

Such tawdry, low-rent adverts make this site look like a down-at-heel corner shop in a depressed area.

Nah....we've not fallen that far....

[dhutch]

thetapeworm said:

I'm now using Brave for all my browsing.

Same. Painless switch, looks and works almost the same.

Daniel

[marksx]

dhutch said:

Same. Painless switch, looks and works almost the same.

Daniel

Only thing I have noticed is it doesn't seem to have search suggestions while typing, unlike chrome. Could just be my phone though.

[Funk]

I recommended Brave as an alternative to Blokada - it's great for browsing but there's a lot of activity from apps in the background 'calling home' etc as well as in-app ads which Blokada catches too; mine has now blocked 425,935 ad connections from my phone as a whole. Astonishing really, I first installed it on 17th March so that's just 8 weeks' worth...

[dhutch]

marksx said:

Only thing I have noticed is it doesn't seem to have search suggestions while typing, unlike chrome. Could just be my phone though.

Yes, no, only past urls.

[5er]

I'm now browsing with Brave. So much better, my tablet is running loads quicker. Thanks for the suggestion.

[CooperS]

So admin even bother responding to threads anymore?

[pidsy]

CooperS said:

So admin even bother responding to threads anymore?

Nope.

[thetapeworm]

CooperS said:

So admin even bother responding to threads anymore?

Are there still admins?

[marksx]

thetapeworm said:

Are there still admins?

Judging by the couple of downtimes over the past week it seems not.

[Don1]

Well those threads aren't going to lock themselves...

My question - how are they paying for 3rd party moderators? Surely a few more normal rank-and-file people here as mods would free up that overhead, maybe enough to get a dev even part time....?

[Tom Logan]

Don1 said:

Well those threads aren't going to lock themselves...

These guys are on the ball......

[dhutch]