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[Gameface]

Dev team...

It's good to see that despite the state of the site, the members still retain their sense of humour.

[eybic]

There's a good response from the powers that be on a GDPR question thread too.

[thebraketester]

pidsy said:

Anyone from the actual dev team (or what’s left of it) actually going to comment?

There is more chance of getting noshed off by the queen.

[Gameface]

thebraketester said:

pidsy said:

Anyone from the actual dev team (or what’s left of it) actually going to comment?

There is more chance of getting noshed off by the queen.

What about Kate or Meghan?

I'm prepared to wait.

[pidsy]

I didn’t think we’d get one.

Always worth asking though eh!!

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Someone said you can click the blue arrow by the ads to open a menu but that’s just to stop the sponsored ads tracking you.

It really is terrible.

People want the site to keep going but this sponsored content is going to make more people use ad blockers.

If it’s just about surviving and making money to keep going, why not just set up a just giving page or have a bar along the bottom of each page with a monthly/yearly donation target?

[paul789]

anonymous said:

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Brave does a good job of blocking, too.

[MYOB]

Another IOS user here with AdBlock Plus both on the Mac and iPhone. The Sponsored Contents is still showing on my phone and there's nothing I can do to block it. Very annoying.

[paul789]

MYOB said:

Another IOS user here with AdBlock Plus both on the Mac and iPhone. The Sponsored Contents is still showing on my phone and there's nothing I can do to block it. Very annoying.

Brave app on iPhone - just presented with a grey box at the bottom of the page. That's ok, for me.

[PurpleMoonlight]

B'stard Child said:

Ta for that but it just removed the pictures and headlines

Me too, but I can live with the one line of text.

[AW111]

It gets past Opera's ad blocker too, but as it's at the bottom of the page and doesn't push the content down, I don't really mind it.

[Johnnytheboy]

I don't know how to add ad block to chrome on my phone or tablet, only seem to be able to find a separate ad block browser...

[hyphen]

uBlock Origin catches it fine, if it wasn't for this thread I would be none the wiser.

Blocks around 16 items on the average Pistonheads forum page.

[hyphen]

Johnnytheboy said:

I don't know how to add ad block to chrome on my phone or tablet, only seem to be able to find a separate ad block browser...

Android? Try Firefox, most of the desktop add-ons work on mobile.

[Ultra Sound Guy]

Sponsored ads? It looks more like spam to me!

[snake_oil]

Any idea how much extra mobile data these awful, chavvy, low class adverts suck up?

[Jack Mansfield]

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in replying - I'm just waiting to hear back on if we can get rid of it. It's certainly very spammy so I'll be surprised if it stays!

Thanks for flagging it up everyone.

[hyphen]

Jack Mansfield said:

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in replying - I'm just waiting to hear back on if we can get rid of it. It's certainly very spammy so I'll be surprised if it stays!

Thanks for flagging it up everyone.

Surely you saw what it was like when you put it there...

Sorry your Lordship, couldn't resist

Edited by hyphen on Wednesday 25th April 14:49

[The1Driver]

Was about to create a thread on this. Seriously need to get rid of it.... Look really dodgy.

[BrabusMog]

I really enjoy this forum but I'd have to stop looking at it during working hours if these ads don't go!