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Topic: Forum ads now blocked by AdBlock Plus EasyList (Read 3489 times)

global moderator
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In a world of peaches, don't ask for apple sauce
I am using ABP on Firefox but I haven't noticed such issue. Maybe it's on the Chrome version (if it exists, not realy sure since I don't use Chrome) only.
full member
Activity: 231
Merit: 100
Some of the ads are getting blocked by ABP's EasyList. Currently, it affects only the ads with a background.
full member
Activity: 211
Merit: 100
You are not special.
I like the ads, actually I would like to see more, it's not possible to follow up on every new Bitcoin business, so the ads are a way for me to know what's going on in the economy.
Yeah, the ads are interesting and unobtrusive. I may be wrong but I think they are blocked again. They are when I re-enable Ad Block on this site anyway.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
It's all about the game, and how you play it
anyone has been able to disable the ads since day one by changing the forum theme to "SMF Default Theme - Core" granted we don't see self moderated post headders either(is that new?)
hero member
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I like the ads, actually I would like to see more, it's not possible to follow up on every new Bitcoin business, so the ads are a way for me to know what's going on in the economy.
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 502
Yeah, on this site they're okay, but either way they shouldn't just restrict people or get angry over them at blocking them, but the point is if you have adblock on and click onto other sites from here they can be easily blocked too. The problem is there are people out there ( mainly people who rely entirely on ad income because they're useless ) that absolutely hate adblock and even rig their sites to complain whenever you have it turned on, of course I don't visit those sites at all.

I think the problem stems from these pay per click/ pay per impression payment systems, ad people get far too obsessed over silly statistics like that, this is why I like the idea of anonymous ads and sites like it, since the publishers have to pay you first before they can put up the ads.

Let's see 'em block this. There's now a random number of invisible "posts" before and after the ad, and they're all (I think) indistinguishable from real posts if you're limited to just CSS selectors. Hopefully the filter maintainers aren't careless or they'll end up blocking random posts.
why are you so dedicated to preserving ads?

I am pretty much done here until they are blocked again. I refuse to use bitcointalk any longer.

Good job theymos. Looks like you will no longer be free to send me shit cause I will no longer request your pages that send scammer ads.

I lost my temper on this big time, theymos. Which I would like to apologize to you for this immature response I made. And hope to see that you forgive me. I will leave that at that, and hope this can be water under the bridge.

I'll add an option next week allowing hero members, Donators, and VIPs to disable advertisements.

That's a good idea, and I don't want you pressured into this over my comment. Like I said, I hope you can forgive me for my comment. And only thing I may suggest is atleast try the non-intrusive way as well.
hero member
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yeah, really messed up everything here, topics were shown empty!

open your filters and delete this one:
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bitcointalk.org##tr[class^="td_headerandpost"] > td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0pt;"]:first-child:last-child
sr. member
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Not blocked for me atm.
vip
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You can already block ads by switching to a different theme.. Anyone can do it (but they do miss some other features too).

More ad variety would be cool through.
hero member
Activity: 504
Merit: 500
I'll add an option next week allowing hero members, Donators, and VIPs to disable advertisements.

Hero members?.. That's going to be a large chunk. Maybe make it people with 2,000+ posts? It's just hero member is basically what Full Member was a few months ago.
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donator
Activity: 1610
Merit: 1010
I'll add an option next week allowing hero members, Donators, and VIPs to disable advertisements.
That's generous, I hope Hero Members aren't responsible for too large a share of the page views.

Thank you. While the ads really aren't anywhere near as annoying as conventional ones, it just gets kind of old to me seeing the same things again and again. Who knows, maybe I will actually want to bring them back because I want to see what's going on in Bitcoin world. Cheesy
administrator
Activity: 5166
Merit: 12850
I'll add an option next week allowing hero members, Donators, and VIPs to disable advertisements.
administrator
Activity: 5166
Merit: 12850
Is it possible to make ads optional for donators/VIPs?

Possible, but do they really bother you that much? I read the forum more than most, and I hardly notice the ads. I'm afraid that if I give people the option, many people will hide ads even when they don't really care whether they see ads or not, just because they can.
legendary
Activity: 966
Merit: 1004
Keep it real
Yeah, on this site they're okay, but either way they shouldn't just restrict people or get angry over them at blocking them, but the point is if you have adblock on and click onto other sites from here they can be easily blocked too. The problem is there are people out there ( mainly people who rely entirely on ad income because they're useless ) that absolutely hate adblock and even rig their sites to complain whenever you have it turned on, of course I don't visit those sites at all.

I think the problem stems from these pay per click/ pay per impression payment systems, ad people get far too obsessed over silly statistics like that, this is why I like the idea of anonymous ads and sites like it, since the publishers have to pay you first before they can put up the ads.

Let's see 'em block this. There's now a random number of invisible "posts" before and after the ad, and they're all (I think) indistinguishable from real posts if you're limited to just CSS selectors. Hopefully the filter maintainers aren't careless or they'll end up blocking random posts.
why are you so dedicated to preserving ads?

I am pretty much done here until they are blocked again. I refuse to use bitcointalk any longer.

Good job theymos. Looks like you will no longer be free to send me shit cause I will no longer request your pages that send scammer ads.

Bye  Grin

Ads being unblocked shouldn't be such a big deal.
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 502
Yeah, on this site they're okay, but either way they shouldn't just restrict people or get angry over them at blocking them, but the point is if you have adblock on and click onto other sites from here they can be easily blocked too. The problem is there are people out there ( mainly people who rely entirely on ad income because they're useless ) that absolutely hate adblock and even rig their sites to complain whenever you have it turned on, of course I don't visit those sites at all.

I think the problem stems from these pay per click/ pay per impression payment systems, ad people get far too obsessed over silly statistics like that, this is why I like the idea of anonymous ads and sites like it, since the publishers have to pay you first before they can put up the ads.

Let's see 'em block this. There's now a random number of invisible "posts" before and after the ad, and they're all (I think) indistinguishable from real posts if you're limited to just CSS selectors. Hopefully the filter maintainers aren't careless or they'll end up blocking random posts.
why are you so dedicated to preserving ads?

I am pretty much done here until they are blocked again. I refuse to use bitcointalk any longer.

Good job theymos. Looks like you will no longer be free to send me shit cause I will no longer request your pages that send scammer ads.
N12
donator
Activity: 1610
Merit: 1010
Is it possible to make ads optional for donators/VIPs?
legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 1721
Let's see 'em block this. There's now a random number of invisible "posts" before and after the ad, and they're all (I think) indistinguishable from real posts if you're limited to just CSS selectors. Hopefully the filter maintainers aren't careless or they'll end up blocking random posts.
why are you so dedicated to preserving ads?

..because people are paying for them?  Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 2058
Merit: 1431
Let's see 'em block this. There's now a random number of invisible "posts" before and after the ad, and they're all (I think) indistinguishable from real posts if you're limited to just CSS selectors. Hopefully the filter maintainers aren't careless or they'll end up blocking random posts.
why are you so dedicated to preserving ads?
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1000
Yeah, on this site they're okay, but either way they shouldn't just restrict people or get angry over them at blocking them, but the point is if you have adblock on and click onto other sites from here they can be easily blocked too. The problem is there are people out there ( mainly people who rely entirely on ad income because they're useless ) that absolutely hate adblock and even rig their sites to complain whenever you have it turned on, of course I don't visit those sites at all.

I think the problem stems from these pay per click/ pay per impression payment systems, ad people get far too obsessed over silly statistics like that, this is why I like the idea of anonymous ads and sites like it, since the publishers have to pay you first before they can put up the ads.
legendary
Activity: 966
Merit: 1004
Keep it real
If you just posted simple text based ads or ads that don't flash and annoy the fuck out of me then I wouldn't even need adblock, I actually quite like most Bitcoin sites because they seem to have gotten the idea.

Isn't this what they are?  I don't think I've ever seen anything flash, it's just colored background/text in some of them.
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