dirtclod Posted November 24, 2012 Report Posted November 24, 2012 The way i see is that your on a private form that is free and open to the public. It's the owners choice as to how they pay for their site. Just like it's your choice to turn your computer, radio, tv off never buy a paper or magazine or to never go outside because of the adds. Their every where and the adds are what pay the bills. Quote I'm old enough to know that i don't know everything.
Members gottaknow Posted November 24, 2012 Members Report Posted November 24, 2012 I appreciate your point of view Bill. There are certainly times when the constant bombardment of advertising is wearing. It's at those times I personally retreat and take a grown up time out from all things electronic. On the other hand, I find the ads here to be appropriate for this forum. The sponsors aren't trying to sell us pharmacy products or other goods unrelated to this site. I have already purchased goods from a vendor here and have been very satisfied. Love your rant though. Regards, Eric Quote
Members bluesman1951 Posted November 25, 2012 Author Members Report Posted November 25, 2012 I appreciate your point of view Bill. There are certainly times when the constant bombardment of advertising is wearing. It's at those times I personally retreat and take a grown up time out from all things electronic. On the other hand, I find the ads here to be appropriate for this forum. The sponsors aren't trying to sell us pharmacy products or other goods unrelated to this site. I have already purchased goods from a vendor here and have been very satisfied. Love your rant though. Regards, Thanks for your words and thoughts . I am in agreement with you . For me its all about choice : To see Or not to see . I would enjoy them all in one place and out of sight . When the thought comes lets go shopping comes to mind one click and there they all are to view at once . I had a very effictive ad block program running so I surfed with no adds at all ever anywhere . One day it stopped working and I was buried in ads like a ticker tape parade . Made me nuts just could not make them stop every screen every site flooded with stuff . There is no doubt that the vendors are giving good service and quality products . Funny thing I never saw the ads here till my ad block stopped working . They were always there and I did not know it .LOL So chalk this up to one of those computer overload days . You are 100% correct in your thoughts . Thanks . Bill Quote
Members bluesman1951 Posted November 25, 2012 Author Members Report Posted November 25, 2012 The way i see is that your on a private form that is free and open to the public. It's the owners choice as to how they pay for their site. Just like it's your choice to turn your computer, radio, tv off never buy a paper or magazine or to never go outside because of the adds. Their every where and the adds are what pay the bills. You are 100% correct . My ad block program stopped working and I went from clear skies no ads anywhere to a blizzard of ads in the blink of an eye . Big surprise for me . Life is about choice always ,its not choice when the only choice is a bad one . One could live like a monk in silence to get away from the ads ,but that might not be any fun at all . I wish to thank you for your point of view and yes you are correct there is no flaw in your thinking at all . There is a saying among pilots when talking about weather CAVU ceilings and visibilty unlimited nice as it gets ! There is something to be said for CAVU surfing on the web . Some one must pay the bills so that may be impractical but one can dream . Thanks for your imput . Bill Quote
LNLeather Posted November 26, 2012 Report Posted November 26, 2012 My ad block program stopped working and I went from clear skies no ads anywhere to a blizzard of ads in the blink of an eye . I downloaded that 'Adblock Plus' and it just works fine without having to do anything to it. Except - When my sister sends pictures from her phone I have to disable 'Adblock Plus' to do see the pictures. Are you sure you don't just have to unclick Disable everywhere under Tools - Adblock Plus ... ? Or is your Adblock Plus just all gone? Quote ~Cheryl There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those...
Ambassador Beaverslayer Posted November 26, 2012 Ambassador Report Posted November 26, 2012 LNLeather, Is your sister sending the pictures to your e-mail account via her phone? If this is the case, just "Disable" Adblock Plus on your e-mail account webpage. You can setup Adblock Plus to be disabled on some pages, and enabled on others. If your on a webpage that has some sort of Advertisement, or built in pop-up, there should be a little "Block" button that pops up on the top right side of the Ad or popup, if you click the "Block" button, this will disable it on that page. It's a great program to use on Facebook. Quote Beaverslayer Custom Leather<br />Wearable Works of Art https://www.facebook...erCustomLeather
LNLeather Posted November 26, 2012 Report Posted November 26, 2012 LNLeather, Is your sister sending the pictures to your e-mail account via her phone? If this is the case, just "Disable" Adblock Plus on your e-mail account webpage. You can setup Adblock Plus to be disabled on some pages, and enabled on others. If your on a webpage that has some sort of Advertisement, or built in pop-up, there should be a little "Block" button that pops up on the top right side of the Ad or popup, if you click the "Block" button, this will disable it on that page. It's a great program to use on Facebook. Thank you so much for your help! *I couldn't figure out how to do that. I have disabled Adblock Plus for a couple of Firefox webpages, but I browse with Firefox and get my email through SeaMonkey and I can't figure out how to disable Adblock Plus for that. When I am on Firefox it is Easy to "Disable on this page only"... Simply click on Tools - Adblock Plus - "Disable on this page only" - on each page I want that disabled. When I am on SeaMonkey and click on Tools - there is no link to Adblock Plus... or if there is I can't find it......... yet Quote ~Cheryl There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those...
Ambassador Beaverslayer Posted November 26, 2012 Ambassador Report Posted November 26, 2012 Cheryl, I have no idea what SeaMonkey is, if it's a browser, my suggestion is to only use FireFox, no need to use two different browsers to surf the web. Quote Beaverslayer Custom Leather<br />Wearable Works of Art https://www.facebook...erCustomLeather
Ambassador Beaverslayer Posted November 26, 2012 Ambassador Report Posted November 26, 2012 Cheryl, I Googled SeaMonkey and see that it is a Mozilla written browser. Here is a link to the Adblock Plus for SeaMonkey, it's probably the same as FireFox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/adblock-plus/?src=hp-dl-featured Quote Beaverslayer Custom Leather<br />Wearable Works of Art https://www.facebook...erCustomLeather
Members bluesman1951 Posted November 26, 2012 Author Members Report Posted November 26, 2012 I downloaded that 'Adblock Plus' and it just works fine without having to do anything to it. Except - When my sister sends pictures from her phone I have to disable 'Adblock Plus' to do see the pictures. Are you sure you don't just have to unclick Disable everywhere under Tools - Adblock Plus ... ? Or is your Adblock Plus just all gone? Looks like it all went away . Checked all the boxes you spoke of they are checked correctly . I installed new filters and now its clear skies again . Walmart and Best Buy and all the blinking stuff is gone . My screen no longer looks like a blinking fourth of July with adds when I arrive . There is a note with ad block plus that says : It does nothing alone ,specific filters do the work so they must be added . Once I did that all worked just fine . Thanks for your words . Bill Quote
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