Originally posted by Michael
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Adblock Plus betraying its users with so-called Acceptable Ads
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Originally posted by Shining Arcanine View PostMaybe we can do something about some of those expenses. How much does your hosting cost and what are your requirements? Some of us might have suggestions on how to get similar quality hosting at a lower price.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by NoEffex View PostI'd imagine most of the money is spent on power / equipment / food amiriteMichael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by NoEffex View PostAlso, most ads are loaded asynchronously via javascript so no it doesn't slow down the web page as it doesn't have to load the ads to load the page (and in fact it loads the page before it then loads the ad).
I agree on improving premium / forum detection in general. Right now the forum doesn't even remember my login when I come here directly, and now I read it would prevent Kontera ads. (vbulletin not liking Opera I guess, it started after one of the forum upgrades).
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Originally posted by NoEffex View PostWait, what? I said blocking ads that get in the way is significantly more reasonable than blocking ads that go in otherwise unused space.
This automatic whitelist thingy might be a good way to reward non-annoying ads though, better than just continuing the armsrace to be more and more annoying.
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Back to the topic
For me this is really about acceptable ads and non acceptable ads.
I have addblock and noscript however I have whitelisted Phoronix.com in both, because I trust Michael and Phoronix. However there is no way I'll ever whitelist all the others sites that try to run scripts through Phoronix. For example Noscript shows those are trying to run scripts from Phoronix main site: collective-media.net, tribalfusion.com, scorecardresearch.com, betrad.com, adnxs.com, exponential.com etc...
I have no idea what are those sites and I'll ever allow them.
BTW I'm totally cool with simple text ads, google ads, etc...
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Originally posted by Paulie889 View PostFor me this is really about acceptable ads and non acceptable ads.
I have addblock and noscript however I have whitelisted Phoronix.com in both, because I trust Michael and Phoronix. However there is no way I'll ever whitelist all the others sites that try to run scripts through Phoronix. For example Noscript shows those are trying to run scripts from Phoronix main site: collective-media.net, tribalfusion.com, scorecardresearch.com, betrad.com, adnxs.com, exponential.com etc...
I have no idea what are those sites and I'll ever allow them.
BTW I'm totally cool with simple text ads, google ads, etc...
Ads are a waste of space, signifigantly eating up screen space, not to mention eating bandwidth, ram and CPU for those on older hardware or on metered connections.
So what next Larabel? Having the page reload every 30 seconds to further inflate your page views? Because this is how a serious site should look http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/print...ly-Review/1426
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