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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37058 Posts
On October 02 2015 03:06 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
I have a confession that just due to the shittiness of Flash and limitations of both hardware and internet, I sometimes have to use adblock to prevent everything from lagging to shit because of Flash ads. I turn it off for normal browsing, but when I have twitch open I have to turn it on or everything lags horribly. Seriously, some of the ads that you see are just straight up videos that autoload. For someone who watches low on twitch to begin with, and has a toaster that can't handle too much stuff at the same time, this is a huge problem. I know this isn't TL's fault, but it is a big reason why some people are forced to use these sorts of things.
This guy clearly does not like Lee Young Ho :/
On October 02 2015 02:46 lichter wrote:
BURN EVERYTHING DOWN
STARTING WITH OUR ADMINS WHO APPROVED THIS
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Rebuying TL+. 
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Great, I've been looking for a way to completely remove all the ads that are already here without having to use adblock
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Not as bad as I'd thought it would be. This wouldn't trouble me in the slightest
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Mexico2170 Posts
TL is so great I'll install adblock just so I can deactivate it for TL <3
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I want to respectfully say ads are unwanted information. I don't want more. TL has been on the whitelist until this point, I'm afraid I will remove it from the list when this update drops.
If you need money for operational costs simply provide a donate button. If TL is all about the community then it should be us that make it work. The idea of "milking" your community members sometimes doesn't sit well with others but I'm okay with it. I'd much rather you relay on the community that makes this website instead of website organizers slowly putting in unwanted changes.
Bingbing
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
I turned off adblock for TL and when TL+ became available I bought it and didn't look back. I understand why people use adblock, and I use adblock, but when I think about the amount of value I get from teamliquid.net I feel like it's 100% worth turning off adblock or getting TL+
On October 02 2015 03:36 BingbingBOPOMOFO wrote:
I want to respectfully say ads are unwanted information. I don't want more. TL has been on the whitelist until this point, I'm afraid I will remove it from the list when this update drops.
If you need money for operational costs simply provide a donate button. If TL is all about the community then it should be us that make it work. The idea of "milking" your community members sometimes doesn't sit well with others but I'm okay with it. I'd much rather you relay on the community that makes this website instead of website organizers slowly putting in unwanted changes.
Bingbing
TL+ exists, but not enough people buy it.
The fact of the matter is, TL requires a staff and requires servers and bandwidth, and these things literally cost money. If not enough people buy TL+ and 55% of people use adblock, then yes, TL will have to have a second ad. There's actually no way around this unless you can make more money appear somehow.
Things TL isn't doing:
gating content
being bad
using intrusive ads
Things TL is doing:
providing many ways to support TL (store, TL+, seeing ads)
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Adblock is off here for me because the ads are generally non-intrusive. Now if the ads are the tracking type then I'm going to turn them back on.
On October 02 2015 03:26 tritonice wrote:
I turned ad block off for years. However, the pervasiveness of "meet an Asian hottie" ads required me to turn that on. I don't surf ANYWHERE where an SEO is going to pick that up. I will try to turn off Adblock again to support TL, but please refrain from such advertisers.
I don't think they get to choose. It's all based on your cookies and browsing history. I bet if you have an Instagram account and follow a lot of hot Asian girls, it's reflected here.
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I browse TL mostly on mobile and this doesn't show up when I press "Events/Features"
Is this intended?
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On October 02 2015 03:46 jalstar wrote:
I browse TL mostly on mobile and this doesn't show up when I press "Events/Features"
Is this intended?
The ad is not live yet.
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Anything that keeps TL, alive and kicking is all good with me, thanks for everything!
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On October 02 2015 03:45 geokilla wrote:Adblock is off here for me because the ads are generally non-intrusive. Now if the ads are the tracking type then I'm going to turn them back on. Show nested quote +On October 02 2015 03:26 tritonice wrote:
I turned ad block off for years. However, the pervasiveness of "meet an Asian hottie" ads required me to turn that on. I don't surf ANYWHERE where an SEO is going to pick that up. I will try to turn off Adblock again to support TL, but please refrain from such advertisers. I don't think they get to choose. It's all based on your cookies and browsing history. I bet if you have an Instagram account and follow a lot of hot Asian girls, it's reflected here.
This is not the case, I've seen those ads on TL on library computers.
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I always disable adblock for TL <3
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On October 02 2015 03:26 tritonice wrote:
I turned ad block off for years. However, the pervasiveness of "meet an Asian hottie" ads required me to turn that on. I don't surf ANYWHERE where an SEO is going to pick that up. I will try to turn off Adblock again to support TL, but please refrain from such advertisers.
You can control your preferences for Google ads at least using https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en - turn off any dating / romance categories. We don't choose which ads are on our site or it'd be a full time job to sit there and approve ads all day, we rely on Google and other networks to pick ads it thinks are relevant.
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Going to jump on the train of people white listing this site.
Most of the ads served here are static anyway, if they get annoying I will start blocking javascript/flash.
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On October 02 2015 03:55 R1CH wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2015 03:26 tritonice wrote:
I turned ad block off for years. However, the pervasiveness of "meet an Asian hottie" ads required me to turn that on. I don't surf ANYWHERE where an SEO is going to pick that up. I will try to turn off Adblock again to support TL, but please refrain from such advertisers. You can control your preferences for Google ads at least using https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en - turn off any dating / romance categories. We don't choose which ads are on our site or it'd be a full time job to sit there and approve ads all day, we rely on Google and other networks to pick ads it thinks are relevant.
Maybe you can put that somewhere in the User Profile page or something? I never knew there was such a thing.
Man we rely on Google for everything! I wonder what would happen if we don't have a Google account or browse as a guest.
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I had adblock off on this site until the loud, autoplaying adds started showing up a couple of months ago. That I just can't deal with.
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28096 Posts
Mah viewing experience. I'm done with this site!
jk it doesn't matter.
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United Kingdom20323 Posts
Mah viewing experience. I'm done with this site!
jk it doesn't matter.
I care way more about the awful visibility on the site since the recent visual rework than i do about an ad. Fix it please, it's been a while~
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Go for it, I will gladly see more ads for TL.
I also love that you can report bad ads in the website feedback subforum and R1CH always has a look at every complain <3.
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