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fatboy18 said:
ADD ME TO THE LIST TOO 
Mods, get rid of the stupid blue box
It’s nothing to do with the mods, it’s the morons in admin who attempt to run the site who let this nonsense carry on. They won’t be able to stop it or the other problems with the site in any hurry as they won’t know how to. Mods, get rid of the stupid blue boxUnexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:
It’s nothing to do with the mods, it’s the morons in admin who attempt to run the site who let this nonsense carry on. They won’t be able to stop it or the other problems with the site in any hurry as they won’t know how to.
At the end of the day there is somebody making these decisions, right? And seeing the decisions being made its clear that they don't give a flying f
k about the user base.
RizzoTheRat said:
thetapeworm said:
Try Brave as your browser, I moved to it last time PH did something with ads that annoyed me.
That does the trick, thanks for the suggestion. By the way folks, don't forget the macro settings in this little nest of vipers, not just the individual company settings but the category settings, Data collection and storage, personalisation, reporting, plus others. Turn them off too, and of course, every so often they turn back on.
Additionally over the years I have refused to use ad-blockers, reason being recognising that free to use sites need to get a revenue stream from somewhere. Well done PH, out of the entire fricking internet you are the only site, out of many many sometimes irritating ones, that have caused a review of that policy.
Additionally over the years I have refused to use ad-blockers, reason being recognising that free to use sites need to get a revenue stream from somewhere. Well done PH, out of the entire fricking internet you are the only site, out of many many sometimes irritating ones, that have caused a review of that policy.
Riley Blue said:
RizzoTheRat said:
thetapeworm said:
Try Brave as your browser, I moved to it last time PH did something with ads that annoyed me.
That does the trick, thanks for the suggestion. Funk said:
Riley Blue said:
RizzoTheRat said:
thetapeworm said:
Try Brave as your browser, I moved to it last time PH did something with ads that annoyed me.
That does the trick, thanks for the suggestion. Johnnytheboy said:
Funk said:
Riley Blue said:
RizzoTheRat said:
thetapeworm said:
Try Brave as your browser, I moved to it last time PH did something with ads that annoyed me.
That does the trick, thanks for the suggestion. Brave on Mobile has hidden it but I'm not sure whether it defaults to 'Reject All' and there's no other way to get to it that I can find other than that stupid overlay widget.
I hope that all this wakes people up to how much they're being tracked, monitored and surveilled, although I think the incessant nature of it on so many sites may induced apathy much like 'cookie' warnings did/do. Most people don't understand what they're opening themselves up to by just tapping 'Yes'.
I had a look at some of the ad partners PH sell our information to - many of them have the ability to find out 'precise location'. This means a company you've never heard of (whom might not want to hold any information about you) can find out precisely where you are thanks to PH deciding to sell them that info.
Privacy should be the default, not the exception. The fact so many seem so blasé about being tracked and monitored is extraordinary to me - what a shift in mindset from the bulk of the population! If anything, most people look at me as if I'm a bit weird when I advocate privacy and a small online footprint; they just don't care.
Edited by Funk on Saturday 14th July 12:04
Mr E said:
That it conflicts horribly with the mobile pages smacks of either zero testing, or tested but no resource to do anything about it.
Zero testing *and* no resource to do anything about it (or even do the testing). Frankly I'm surprised there was enough resource to even add it.
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