Ads on SWF

[meowzer]

HMMMMMMM now it is working again

 

[monsinour]

PMed ya meow.
I will say that the post i made in a public thread with the instructions on how to do this has been deleted by swf.com. i searched my PMs to no avail, seached here to no avail, even google couldnt find it.

 

[reefraff]

I don't begrudge anyone turning a buck but at some point it gets absurd

 

[beth]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Monsinour http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3381751
PMed ya meow.
I will say that the post i made in a public thread with the instructions on how to do this has been deleted by swf.com. i searched my PMs to no avail, seached here to no avail, even google couldnt find it.
I did the fix the ads using your fix, but forgot how to do it. Can you PM me. The downside is that we still see the ad placeholders, and forum only appears on 2/3 of the webpage. Adblock removes the placeholders and gives us a full page forum.
Those ads spam your computer, which my AV has to go in and qurantine daily. Someone else here, had a fix for that too.

 

[mantisman51]

I use Firefox and Privoxy and the only ads I have seen are the "featured sponsors" which are 4 static little squares in the upper left side. Since they are for Tunze, Tropical Fish Magazine, Acclimate and Boyd Enterprises, I assume they are actual SWF sponsors and not the forum hosts like everyone is describing.

 

[monsinour]

PMed ya beth. Course, this could have been solved if my original post wasnt deleted. You were involved with it too beth. You stated my method didnt get rid of the 4 squares but eliminated the ads.

 

[meowzer]

Here is the weird thing....Adblock is now working again...BUT....I got a message saying the FREE version can only block so many ads per day....I was browsing some other places looking for stuff, and I bet their ads caused this.......
Thanks MONSI.....I got the pm, and will save that

 

[bionicarm]

Does the ISP that hosts this site have a Proxy Server on their network that you can go through? If so, that can be configured to block any and all traffic considered as 'ads'. I have one on my network, and I don't even see the Featured Sponsors ads.

 

[meowzer]

THEY'REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

 

[meowzer]

OK...Just did what MONSI told me to do...most ads have disappeared, EXCEPT...I have 4 small boxes on the right that say featured sponsors, BUT are empty
anyway to get rid of these too?

 

[darthtang aw]

How crazy would you guys get while watching T.V. before the invention of on demand? They are just ads.................
Darth (the little things don't matter) Tang

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darthtang AW http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3381843
How crazy would you guys get while watching T.V. before the invention of on demand? They are just ads.................
Darth (the little things don't matter) Tang
I couldn't care less if they were on the top....BUT they are on the side, therefore they take up 1/4 of my page

 

[darthtang aw]

 
I couldn't care less if they were on the top....BUT they are on the side, therefore they take up 1/4 of my page  :(
 
I am guess this is an ederly thing....it is hard to read the smaller lettering.
Darth (generation x) Tang

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darthtang AW http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3381927
Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3381854
I couldn't care less if they were on the top....BUT they are on the side, therefore they take up 1/4 of my page
I am guess this is an ederly thing....it is hard to read the smaller lettering.
Darth (generation x) Tang
In the words of Ralph Kramden....Har Dee HAR HAR

 

[beth]

Actually, its 1/3 of the page. And the ads create tracking cookies on your pc that are designed to plug in ads that might be appealing to you based on places you visit on the web.
Sounds kinda Patriot Act-ish to me, with a capitalist twist.

 

[bionicarm]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Beth http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3382042
Actually, its 1/3 of the page. And the ads create tracking cookies on your pc that are designed to plug in ads that might be appealing to you based on places you visit on the web.
Sounds kinda Patriot Act-ish to me, with a capitalist twist.
The simple fix would be to get the webmaster to simply turn the ads off. But I imagine if they did that, the site may no longer exist. It's the price you pay these days to keep a business profitable. Buy more fish and products from SWF.com, and they may turn them off. I doubt it though. If I was getting a nice little check from some company that I promoted their ads by doing nothing more than adding a widget to my web page, I wouldn't turn it off.

 

[beth]

I think you hit it. lol

 

[bigarn]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3381930
In the words of Ralph Kramden....Har Dee HAR HAR
To the Moon Lois!

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by bigarn http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3382080
To the Moon Lois!
HAHAHAHA...I wonder if there is PIZZA THERE

 

[bigarn]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/383221/ads-on-swf/20#post_3382083
HAHAHAHA...I wonder if there is PIZZA THERE

Knowing Alberto, there will be.