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[Nuts]

Before I became a "Forum Supporter" by paying the annual subscription (which I am happy to do), I saw LOTs of ads. After inputting that credit card--no more. Guess what's back. Yesterday I saw one, today there are three on the page at one time. Is this happening to anyone else, and are they going to keep creeping in?

 

[Nikki J]

A few days ago I was getting ads embedded in the first and second post of every thread plus on all the index pages. It was incredibly annoying. Then they went away after a few hours. i don't see them now? What device, platform are you using?

 

[gooseberry]

I see them and its why my posts have blank space in the box above the words....they are everywhere!!!!

 

[gooseberry]

Omaha steaks,amazon,and an ms website on this page for me

 

[Nikki J]

Can you update us tomorrow in case this is transient as it was for me?

 

[Nuts]

Nikki, I'm getting them on my IPad. I'll let you know if they are still there tomorrow.

 

[ShiftKicker]

I get them on my Windows tablet, but not my iPad or Android phone.
I was outraged to see an ad for stem-cell therapy for MND in China as one of the ads. Weight loss products figure big too.

 

[gooseberry]

I am on an android tablet. Havent seen them on my android phone

 

[Nikki J]

Interesting you are on ipad Nuts. So am I and have none now in Safari or Chrome

 

[bigmark1954]

I see them and its why my posts have blank space in the box above the words....they are everywhere!!!!

Me to.....just in the last 3-4 days it has been full of ads. I donated some$$ about two weeks ago. Hope it wasn't that that triggered this crap!!

 

[lgelb]

I don't have any. Is each of you using an ad blocker on your browsers?

Even on the iPad, using Firefox, I don't see any because FF is synched w/ my Mac version, which has an ad blocker installed.

Maybe those of you on iOS who see ads could try that. Safari does not support ad blockers last I knew.

 

[scaredwifetx]

Laurie, I have tried everything the last few days to stop the ads. They are cookie trackers and ads based off your habits/searches on the internet. To be quite honest they are getting on my nerves and make it hard to want to log on here.

 

[lgelb]

Deb and Becky, do you have the "do not track" preference checked and popups disabled in your browser along w/ AdBlock Plus? If you are not using some flavor of Firefox, you might try that since it is available across platforms and you can synch all your data/prefs across your devices. I have used Chrome, Safari and other browsers but FF is the best overall for ad blocking.

 

[affected]

This happened to me big time about a year ago I think.

I nearly left it was so awful and it ONLY happened here, not on any other website, so I believe it is coming from the server here.

I installed a free program called AdBlock.

It took days of training it on what to get rid of but it worked.
Occasionally I start to get a few ads and have to pull up AdBlock and make some more entries in it and it stops them all again.

I haven't had any the past few days, feeling nervous now ...

And I use a MacBook Pro so it's no kind of infection on my machine, it's on this server.

 

[swalker]

I use AdBlock on Windows 7 Professional running the Chrome browser.

Before I installed AdBlock, this site was barely useable (but I still used it because it is so valuable to me).

I have been running AdBlock on the computer I mainly access this site from for over a year and have no had significant advertisment issues during that time.

Steve