EPTI'm already paying Verizon to use the internet. I have no tolerance for ads or solicitations. If I could do something to remove annoying billboards on the road, I'd cut those too.
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Kurdaj
United States57 Posts
I'm already paying Verizon to use the internet. I have no tolerance for ads or solicitations. If I could do something to remove annoying billboards on the road, I'd cut those too. User was banned for this post. | ||
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NathanSC
United States620 Posts
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36374 Posts
edit: for those not understanding what's going on, we added an image banner for those using adblock. here is the banner in question: ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Adbanwhitelist_mod.png) yes, it's meant to emulate the jimmy wales wikipedia banners lol | ||
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Belgo
United States721 Posts
Seeing how ads is one of the better ways a site can actually make money, since they do not charge for anything. | ||
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SgtCoDFish
United Kingdom1520 Posts
Sure it's a little annoying having a flashy Razer ad for products I'll never buy being beamed at me, but it's a fair price to pay for a site I visit multiple times a day IMO. + Show Spoiler + Plus, who can resist when the horse asks? | ||
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0mgVitaminE
United States1278 Posts
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Durak
Canada3684 Posts
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Zona
40426 Posts
On January 08 2011 12:17 Durak wrote: Not sure what the purpose of this thread is but thanks for letting us know about the hardships you endure. Haha, this is a good response. | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
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Doomblaze
United States1292 Posts
Ads help website generate revenue, and by blocking them, you prevent that from happening. plus those plush horseys are cute =D | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
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Noev
United States1105 Posts
Edit: Thanks fixed it had two versions of adblock installed for some reason and only one was set to allow TL through. | ||
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
Like the girl threads always have like some online dating service ad on the top, or cat threads have cat-related ads. I'm already paying Verizon to use the internet. So am I...so are lots of people. The people who aren't are likely paying other providers for their internet. You're not paying TL to visit the site. You're not paying Verizon MORE to have or not have ads. It's a little tiny bar at the top of the site...you don't even see it 99% of the time cause you're reading a thread or posting and it's scrolled to the top of the page. It's not even an annoying ad, like the ones on Livestream that totally block your content or anything. Just a tiny little bar that you could un-block to support Team Liquid. I guess you can't "tolerate" doing just a little bit to help TL. | ||
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
On January 08 2011 12:37 Noev wrote: i love the site and have had adblock turned off for TL for a while now, does it only show up if adds are being blocked or if you just have adblock installed i keep seeing it and thinking i need to turn adblock off but whenever i check it is off for TL i just need a quick clarification. If you go to the adblock dropdown you can just click "disable on Teamliquid.net" and it'll un-block on any TLnet page (so far that I've seen anyways) | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9103 Posts
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rebdomine
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I still wanna see him up there despite my removal of adblock. | ||
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Molybdenum
United States358 Posts
And then I got this ad: ![[image loading]](http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8761/tlad.png) | ||
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vAltyR
United States581 Posts
Oh hey, how about that. Didn't notice those. | ||
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bITt.mAN
Switzerland3693 Posts
On January 08 2011 12:47 Jonoman92 wrote: Hot_Bid's self-control is admirable. If I had mod-powers I'd just IP ban you and (if possible) make it so you couldn't even view the site. It's because of how cute that Horse is, really. Anyone who's created a banner that loveable has got to have some shred of humanity. | ||
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Freeheals
United States488 Posts
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brownthing
United States189 Posts
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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Lefnui
United States753 Posts
On January 08 2011 11:52 NathanSC wrote: Your opening post has absolutely no content, and it basically belittles TeamLiquid for running all of one ad.. No it doesn't. lol | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
On January 08 2011 12:49 Molybdenum wrote: Well, due to my love for TL, and the fact that there's only one add, I disabled my ad-block on TL.net. And then I got this ad: This happens if you have Javascript disabled as our ad providers use Javascript to display ads. | ||
Antoine
United States7481 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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Ojahh
Ireland728 Posts
On January 08 2011 13:37 Antoine wrote: can anyone direct me how to whitelist a site using adblock plus? usually a right click on the AddBlock symbol allows you to set a Check mark in front of "Disable on Teamliquid.net" that should do it PS: this is the only site in the whole of the internetz where I make that exception willingly. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
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Antoine
United States7481 Posts
On January 08 2011 13:46 Ojahh wrote: usually a right click on the AddBlock symbol allows you to set a Check mark in front of "Disable on Teamliquid.net" that should do it PS: this is the only site in the whole of the internetz where I make that exception willingly. ty, now i just need to find a way to whitelist fastclick on noscript only when i'm on tl | ||
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Starparty
Sweden1963 Posts
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HollowLord
United States3862 Posts
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
On January 08 2011 14:00 Starparty wrote: ive never had an ad block, never bothered me. question is though, WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR OWN TL MASCOT REPLICA SOFT TOY??? PM!! I'm also very interested in the horse. No, I am not a female. | ||
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A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
On January 08 2011 11:50 Kurdaj wrote: I hate to be the first to say it, but I blocked the image of that appeal. I'm already paying Verizon to use the internet. I have no tolerance for ads or solicitations. If I could do something to remove annoying billboards on the road, I'd cut those too. So what government office are you running for under the Tea Party? | ||
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RickOrShay
New Zealand132 Posts
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T.O.P.
Hong Kong4685 Posts
On January 08 2011 11:50 Kurdaj wrote: I'm already paying Verizon to use the internet. I have no tolerance for ads or solicitations. If I could do something to remove annoying billboards on the road, I'd cut those too. Did you pay to use TL? | ||
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riboflavin
United States226 Posts
I love TL and would be happy to click on whatever ad banners I find of interest to me. I would also suggest that, for additional revenue, TL open up a gamer-focused apparel and gadgety shop. I know they sell a few shirts (I have 2) and referral links on amazon -- but the scope is too narrow and the shirts are farmed out to a press-on-demand company that I'm sure makes a far to healthy cut. Now that TL is fully for profit there is no reason they can't make a little coin off us without going too overboard. | ||
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
I don't mind 1 banner on TL at all, but I can't stand 30 fucking second streams getting in the way of gameplay when I'm watching stuff. Unfortunately, I will admit it, I will not watch 30 second upon 30 second turn into hours of my time watching completely irrelevant ads on ustream and stuff in exchange for the 1 banner. User was warned for this post | ||
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seiferoth10
3362 Posts
On January 08 2011 15:20 ZlaSHeR wrote: Can someone help me set up a way so that ABP blocks those retarded ads on the livestream, jtv, ustream, own3d.tv etc, streams if I watch them on TL, but leave TL's ad's open? I don't mind 1 banner on TL at all, but I can't stand 30 fucking second streams getting in the way of gameplay when I'm watching stuff. Unfortunately, I will admit it, I will not watch 30 second upon 30 second turn into hours of my time watching completely irrelevant ads on ustream and stuff in exchange for the 1 banner. Same here, I'd gladly whitelist TL if the stream ads were still blocked because those are way too intrusive. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
I love tl and will support them, but i wont support those ridiculous ads, and each time I want ot watch a stream I don't want to have to go to the direct link sometimes. I'll check this thread in the morning to see if anyone can help out, otherwise sorry tl =\ | ||
ZeromuS
Canada13389 Posts
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Phelix
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hmunkey
United Kingdom1973 Posts
On January 08 2011 16:11 Phelix wrote: My visit still nets them pageviews, which earns them as much as they would anyways, because I never click ads. And as I use Chrome's Adblock, my browser simply hides the ad rather than preventing it from loading so if they recieve payment by ad impressions there's no change there.Nice use of the D&B horses to appeal to the user of not banning TL Ads. Don't block ads for websites that you frequent regularly, every website is entitled to cover their costs. In short, I'm not causing TL any more monetary loss than if I didn't run Adblock. | ||
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Corvette
United States433 Posts
:D as for the OP dude, cmon, its one tiny ad that is non intrusive | ||
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Blindo
United States102 Posts
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Alou
United States3748 Posts
Also - Ad block off for TL  | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
On January 08 2011 13:33 R1CH wrote: This happens if you have Javascript disabled as our ad providers use Javascript to display ads. I use noscript as well, but if it blocks financial gain for TL then I would want to ensure ads display properly just for teamliquid.net. noscript doesn't have the option to unblock everything whilst browsing a site so that sucks. (or I suck at interpreting the option screen.) Or are there view credits for people who script block the ads? | ||
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Shadowed
United States679 Posts
On January 08 2011 16:22 hmunkey wrote: My visit still nets them pageviews, which earns them as much as they would anyways, because I never click ads. And as I use Chrome's Adblock, my browser simply hides the ad rather than preventing it from loading so if they recieve payment by ad impressions there's no change there. In short, I'm not causing TL any more monetary loss than if I didn't run Adblock. Unless you've never updated AdBlock, this isn't the case, if you're on version 2.0 or later then it stops it from downloading. It used to just hide them after the fact because Chrome didn't support a Javascript hook that Firefox did that let you stop resources from loading, but that got fixed a while ago. | ||
Manifesto7
Osaka27139 Posts
On January 08 2011 12:47 Jonoman92 wrote: Hot_Bid's self-control is admirable. If I had mod-powers I'd just IP ban you and (if possible) make it so you couldn't even view the site. His restraint really is unmatchable. | ||
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Manifesto7
Osaka27139 Posts
On January 08 2011 16:40 Kennigit wrote: I read through your post history. You've got a lot out of TL from strat section - specifically people analysing your replays and providing a platform for you to voice your opinions on balance. This isn't a service one pays for - but every ad impression contributes to the server/maintenance costs, and our ability to build new features....The sense of entitlement in this OP is astounding. Instead of banning you, why don't you just leave.  Fuck that. Just ban him. Re-freaking-donkulus. | ||
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ZeromuS
Canada13389 Posts
also to anyone still reading this dont forget to add an exception to your antivirus program if it has a banner blocker I had to do it to mine so that I could support TL | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
On January 08 2011 16:32 Alou wrote: Zlasher - why not just go directly to livestream/ustream/jtv/etc? I usually just do that and open a new tab for TL. Also - Ad block off for TL Like I stated earlier, on the regular streams I watch I will either go to www.gamescast.tv and for user streamers that I regularly follow I will go to their sites directly, but many times if there are new streamers, i thumb through ones that might be interesting at the time, being on the TL page is much easier in that sense because I can switch from pgae to page no problem, if I forced myself to watch a bit every time it'd be user stream, direct link, back to TL, user stream, direct link, back to TL, etc. Not worth the hassle. I'd rather just go on TL, user stream, user stream, user stream, etc. I love TL and would love to support their harmless ads since they do a great service to all of us by not throwing full page ads in our faces. Which is why I'm trying to find a middle ground to help these guys out, something that wont interrupt my daily routine | ||
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Ydriel
Italy516 Posts
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Kittenlisk
Australia34 Posts
In fact I didn't even notice the thing until this post lol O.o | ||
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McDonalds
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
On January 08 2011 17:36 Ydriel wrote: I usually just have Adblock activated, but after seeing the banner, I just had to disable it (just for TL of course). Asking to just have ads up to keep the page running isn't asking for much now, is it? You realize that's what the ads on most sites are for, right? The only ads I could ever feel justified blocking are ones that disrupt the user experience by obscuring content. There are a lot of ads like that these days but it's not anywhere close to the majority of them. | ||
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
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Kiante
Australia7069 Posts
In my opinion its this kind of self-entitled attitude that i thought wouldn't exist on TL. As though you're special enough to block ads while everyone else has them on to support your browsing of TL? It doesn't matter how often you post, but if you're getting value from this great website, and that site requests you turn off ad block, and you dont, you're a bit of a dick. Just had to get that off my chest | ||
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HollowLord
United States3862 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 08 2011 18:22 HollowLord wrote: tbh I only notice the ads when someone mentions them, they're extremely unobtrusive. As long as teamliquid doesn't make the white space that fills the sides of this site fill with ads, which would only be bad if you could accidentally click them which all ads are, i mean what kind of ad doesn't allow it self to be clicked. in other words i really dislike sites that do that *cough*hardwareheaven T_T | ||
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Kalles
Sweden83 Posts
(At least I have an flattr account and would gladly share money that way) Enable adds: Ad block: (left click icon and) add an exception to teamliquid.net Noscript: (left click icon and) add an exception to trian.net | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
If anyone has that solution, or can set it so that all the streaming sites prioritize blocking on sites that are set to exceptions, then let me know. | ||
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ilbh
Brazil1606 Posts
how can you support what YOU ARE USING if you disable the ads? for annoying ads, ok, but for everything else... non sense. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
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mufin
United States616 Posts
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MassHysteria
United States3678 Posts
On January 08 2011 18:46 ZlaSHeR wrote: Look, I REALLY want to help out TL, which is why I'm sure someone here is familiar enough with ABP to let me know how I can unblock all of TL except for www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/. If anyone has that solution, or can set it so that all the streaming sites prioritize blocking on sites that are set to exceptions, then let me know. I agree Zlasher that is my issue as well...I disabled most of the main pages I visit here on TL but have not done it fully because of the stream ads. | ||
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Sprungjeezy
United States1313 Posts
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Gingerninja
United Kingdom1339 Posts
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Seam
United States1093 Posts
On January 08 2011 13:07 Freeheals wrote: I loved the horse pic i turned my adblock off immediately =DD Indeed. It's currently the only website I have whitelisted. I love the site, so why not help support it? | ||
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Weavel
Finland9221 Posts
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mumming
Faroe Islands256 Posts
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CoMMoDuS
Germany507 Posts
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Liquid`Nazgul
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
On January 08 2011 21:27 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: this topic is a good example of why we love you all Except for the OP, obviously .I didn't even realize TL had ads until I saw the horse. Turned it of for the site and am now clicking one ad per visit. | ||
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Schnake
Germany2819 Posts
It is probably the easiest way to help out without doing anything special. | ||
motbob
United States12546 Posts
On January 08 2011 22:01 Shockk wrote: Except for the OP, obviously .I didn't even realize TL had ads until I saw the horse. Turned it of for the site and am now clicking one ad per visit. DON'T DO THIS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19026 Posts
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_MaKo_
Netherlands30 Posts
@@/http:\/\/www.teamliquid.net(?!\/video\/streams).*/$document You can add it in the preferences of adblock plus. Enjoy uninterrupted streams. | ||
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AJMcSpiffy
United States1154 Posts
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Virtue
United States318 Posts
On January 08 2011 13:07 Freeheals wrote: I loved the horse pic i turned my adblock off immediately =DD Same here! I didn't even think that I was stopping TL.net from getting their money for hosting. I instantly turned it off. | ||
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Kanil
United States1713 Posts
On January 08 2011 23:49 _MaKo_ wrote: I made the exception rule below for adblock plus. It will allow ads on all TL pages, except for the stream pages. You can add it in the preferences of adblock plus. Enjoy uninterrupted streams. Thank you for this. I don't mind having adblock off here, but the stream ads needed to go. | ||
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Steel
Japan2283 Posts
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ReaVU
Sweden69 Posts
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Ghin
United States2391 Posts
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ZooG
Sweden618 Posts
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Kibibit
United States1551 Posts
On January 08 2011 14:00 Starparty wrote: ive never had an ad block, never bothered me. question is though, WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR OWN TL MASCOT REPLICA SOFT TOY??? PM!! It involves a terrible ritual involving alcohol, the blood of the innocents, Levers and love for Teamliquid. And trivia knowledge. | ||
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TimeOut
Germany1277 Posts
Are there some additional ad-servers that need to be unblocked? TL.net is whitelisted in adblock and noscript. | ||
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Cleomenes
United States138 Posts
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
unblocked the blocked ads for this site. Didn't even realize adblock blocked them  | ||
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MrWinkles
United States200 Posts
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Nokarot
United States1410 Posts
On January 08 2011 23:49 _MaKo_ wrote: I made the exception rule below for adblock plus. It will allow ads on all TL pages, except for the stream pages. You can add it in the preferences of adblock plus. Enjoy uninterrupted streams. Thanks a lot, that was really all I was waiting for. The horses eyes were staring in to my soul. | ||
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groms
Canada1017 Posts
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Dexxy
Sweden45 Posts
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WarheadsByLink
United Kingdom75 Posts
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
On January 08 2011 18:56 MassHysteria wrote: I agree Zlasher that is my issue as well...I disabled most of the main pages I visit here on TL but have not done it fully because of the stream ads. Right now my temp solution can be to unblock it on specific pages i visit, but nevertheless i can't unblock it on all future threads. So I can do each sections main page that i frequent, and the ront page and liquibet etc. On January 08 2011 23:49 _MaKo_ wrote: I made the exception rule below for adblock plus. It will allow ads on all TL pages, except for the stream pages. You can add it in the preferences of adblock plus. Enjoy uninterrupted streams. YOU SIR, you are the reason I love TL and the exact person I've been looking for since posting in this thread several times and even taking a warning in the process <333 Thank you lol, the script works absolutely perfectly, it should be highlighted for all the people having the same problem as me. Great work, thank you so much. | ||
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EdSlyB
Portugal1621 Posts
But now I miss the cute horse image...:'( | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On January 08 2011 23:49 _MaKo_ wrote: I made the exception rule below for adblock plus. It will allow ads on all TL pages, except for the stream pages. You can add it in the preferences of adblock plus. Enjoy uninterrupted streams. done. thank you! | ||
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BuuGhost
Netherlands340 Posts
I'm a google chrome user and im using the Extention AdBlock - Versie: 2.2.23 & with that, Can i also disable the ability to click on adverts? the main reason i use adblocks is because i misclick on them (And that they bite quite some in the loading speed of pages.) | ||
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BlackMagister
United States5834 Posts
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blahman3344
United States2015 Posts
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
!Good idea however, I didn't even realize I had it on on TL 0.o! Off now. | ||
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Mr. Wiggles
Canada5894 Posts
And that's the story of why there's a coupon advertisement at the top of my screen now. Gogo TL! | ||
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Odoakar
Croatia1835 Posts
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HardCorey
United States709 Posts
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seiferoth10
3362 Posts
On January 08 2011 23:49 _MaKo_ wrote: I made the exception rule below for adblock plus. It will allow ads on all TL pages, except for the stream pages. You can add it in the preferences of adblock plus. Enjoy uninterrupted streams. Thank you sir, I love you. | ||
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speedphlux
Bulgaria962 Posts
I mean, whatever floats your boat - that goes. My boat can float with seeing TL.net with ads, since they politely asked me to disable my AdBlock ... I can't see a reason to just go with whatever you want and don't make a fuss about it. Ads or no ads, this site is of infinite value ! | ||
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RuKu
Australia21 Posts
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Coramoor
Canada455 Posts
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tpyo
32 Posts
http://into-the-wild.org/prezwalskihorse.html Might get one myself, I see them on eBay and other retailers. | ||
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hmunkey
United Kingdom1973 Posts
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Pro]ChoSen-
United States318 Posts
On January 09 2011 16:32 hmunkey wrote: Would any admin shed light on exactly how they receive payment through ads? Is it by pageviews, ad impressions, clickthroughs, or something else? Sometimes it's based on how many clicks to the ad but usually it's just a monthly fee paid to the site. Sites with higher traffic can charge more per month. (I think, not 100% sure) | ||
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
Then I whitelisted TL. Like every other regular visitor I'm glad to help out whereever possible. | ||
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Iyerbeth
England2410 Posts
On January 09 2011 16:32 hmunkey wrote: Would any admin shed light on exactly how they receive payment through ads? Is it by pageviews, ad impressions, clickthroughs, or something else? I was kinda wodering something similar, simply because I'll turn AdBlock off for TL, but I don't understand how that can help? I can't recall having ever clicked on an off site advertisement link, and will having it just not disabled benefit TL in any way? (For clarity I've disabled it at any rate to show my support for site and the community, just curious.) | ||
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Fallen33
United States596 Posts
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xxxxxxb
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Guruite
United States19 Posts
.Tbh I didn't even think of disabling it until I saw this (although the horse banner would have convinced me.) | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
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triangle
United States3803 Posts
I mean, the banner is tiny, it's not like some sites that have massive annoying side banners or something. | ||
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Pangolin
United States1035 Posts
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dmans
Sweden358 Posts
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AJMcSpiffy
United States1154 Posts
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FlowerbedOfDreams
Canada126 Posts
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Noxie
United States2227 Posts
I think I can deal with the amount of advertising there is now | ||
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36374 Posts
On January 10 2011 12:06 AJMcSpiffy wrote: My confusion is, does TL make money just for having the ads load, or only when the ads are clicked? Because honestly my brain is so wired to not click on popups/advertisements that I pretty much ignore them now :/ I mean if it will help you guys to have the ads just there, then by all means I'll gladly leave AdBlock off. I just don't understand how the whole advertisement banner system works. On January 10 2011 09:54 R1CH wrote: TL has a mix of ads, some pay per click, some pay per view. This is why even if you never click on ads, disabling adblock still helps to support sites with ads. Moved this thread to website feedback. | ||
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ithree
443 Posts
So just a heads up that your missing out on views from the iPod/one/ad line. Every little but counts ! And don't want to put everyones good faith to waste by blocking a whole user base | ||
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eLiE
Canada1039 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
On January 10 2011 13:21 ithree wrote: I'm not sure if youve just switched it to always show or it's my iPad but all I'm getting now is the AddBlock banner. Maybe it's the lack of flash support or just the plain weird connection string, but safari (mobile or otherwise) isn't that odd so it can't really be jscript. So just a heads up that your missing out on views from the iPod/one/ad line. Every little but counts ! And don't want to put everyones good faith to waste by blocking a whole user base Some ads are flash based, but they usually do browser detection to check for that. The horse banner is always shown if no ad loads, it doesn't specifically try to target adblock users. | ||
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jalstar
United States8198 Posts
Although I do still get the horse banner. | ||
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
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FetTerBender
Germany1393 Posts
Hokay, good deed for the day done, lets keep on messing around [Edit] Untill is one l too much. Silly me. | ||
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