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  • Veerappan
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    Originally posted by MartjeB View Post
    However, notice:
    1. It has a short time-out (waaay shorter than the forums)
    2. You have to login using the forums
    3. You can't lock it to your IP (so you *have* to login)
    Agree completely. I really should get around to making phoronix.com/forums one of my home pages instead of just phoronix.com, just so that I'm logged in automatically. I'd love a site-wide login that keeps me logged in, instead of just in the forums. I'd feel much better about the Premium subscription if that was available (which I need to get around to renewing soon).

    Also, Opera 10.10 (at least on Solaris) seems to have an issue where the IntelliText ads aren't actually closeable when you click on their little "x" in the corner.

    Lastly, the big "only shows once per day" ad popped up twice on me this morning when I first visited. I first loaded the main phoronix page, and then opened this news article in another tab. Both tabs got the big ad displayed. I do not remember if I had closed the big pop-up ad before opening the second tab.

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  • dndanik
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    Originally posted by Michael View Post
    How is it now? I've changed ad providers for that location and hope its changed until IDG people decide to get around back to work...
    Works for me.

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  • Vash63
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    Originally posted by Michael View Post
    No worries, I've already been developing safeguards for if/when I get tired of AdBlock usage, I flip the switch and the test result graphs begin being served through Adobe Flash -- and for those without Flash -- through JavaScript and SVG... And being hosted off my primary ad providers network.
    If you flip that switch I'll stop visiting the site, it's pretty much that simple. I operate my ad-block with a whitelist. There are about 10 sites i regularly visit that are exempted (digg, arstechnica, anandtech, other sites I trust).

    Phoronix would be on it but the ads are too damn annoying. Get rid of the flashing and especially the ones that cover article content and I'd whitelist, but as it is those "click to close" ads bother me way too much to support.

    Google is the largest and richest ad provider on the web, and they became such with simple, unintrusive and targeted ads. You should learn something from that.

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  • d2kx
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    Originally posted by Michael View Post
    How is it now? I've changed ad providers for that location and hope its changed until IDG people decide to get around back to work...
    This seems to have done the trick.

    However I'll stick to AdBlock and donate money every now and then.

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  • Michael
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    How is it now? I've changed ad providers for that location and hope its changed until IDG people decide to get around back to work...

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  • dndanik
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    Same here. Russia.

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  • fabioamd87
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    experiencing problem here in italy

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  • V!NCENT
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    I just had this problem on the main page with a Samsung Pixom m8800 running Opera mini in java on Symbian OS, but the problem is longer there... So no reproduce.

    I live in the Netherlands and I am currently in a bus in Haarlem and my ISP is Vodafone internet.

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  • oyvind
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    Yes, I've noticed this a couple of times. Thought Phoronix was desperate for more ad revenue, for a while there. Good to know it's just a bug. Reading from Norway.

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  • MartjeB
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    I temporarily disabled adblock and good lord!

    Do you really wonder why people use adblock?

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