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FentonCrackshell on 20 December 2015

Ad blockers FTW! Support the ad provider or not. I don't need to see an ad to tell me what I want. Nothing I hate more than wanting to see a 15 seconds video but have to watch a 30 seconds ad before it. I trust you guys around here, the consumer, more to tell me about products than some ad.



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hershel_layton on 20 December 2015

My adblock receives an average of 7-12 ADS PER PAGE.

That is ridiculous. Even gossip website don't have that many ads.



 

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fatslob-:O on 20 December 2015

That's what we've been saying for years now ...



Madword on 20 December 2015

I remember when I upgraded my computer and suddenly was getting all these stupid pop-ups etc... didnt take me long to put adblock back on. I am pro website making money, but I think many sites have gone for lets just spam as much as possible and those that don't have adblock will make us the money.

Eurogamer videos on youtube do my nut in, having to watch a 5 min video to see a 2min video, no chance.



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Nem on 20 December 2015

I have also had trouble using the Wii U to view the forums lately. The add loads and takes up whole screen making it impossible to do anything. I'm forced to chnage page and cross my fingers the same adds wont load again.
I think the IBM ones are an example of these.



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FunFan on 20 December 2015

I looked a bit deeper into the matter by using chromes dev tools, since there's quite a lot of people with ad problems. You guys weren't lying. There's a lot of ad spaces in this site. Actually, on a closer look, while no ads are being loaded, I still get an icon of the ad "service" in a few of them:

Is most probably an IP adress thing, but i got lucked out. It's too bad that my case seems to be the exception because, with the few ads I get, I have no problem whitelisting and supporting this site. Blocked Ads don't pay, so a balance needs to be worked out.



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Platina on 20 December 2015

Ads are super annoying with popups on separate windows that need confirmation to close and such so I am using Adblock and Noscript



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nanarchy on 20 December 2015

I must admit this site also forced me to start blocking ads again. I know it is how you get revenue but when they are so poorly layed out, so intrusive with sound and video and quite often actually affect the performance and rendering of the site that it is just not reasonable to NOT block them.



uran10 on 20 December 2015
StokedUp said:

I havnt got a PC or computer so I use my iPhone, and there are times when you simply can't use the website because after 5 seconds an advertisement fills the screen, there's no option whatsoever to cross it off and all you can do it either close the page or press the advertisement, in which the App Store then opens. Then you try to go on vgchartz again and the whole things happens again.

 

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