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binary solo on 22 August 2016

VGChartz is the most broken website that I visit on the internet. It regularly crashes my browsers (Firefox and Chrome), it causes flash player to crash, ads regularly cover thread posts as well as the top 1/3 of the hot topics list on the front page.

Functionality-wise it's the worst website I've ever used. And they want people to pay to be a supporter?



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AlfredoTurkey on 22 August 2016

It's why I visit this site only on my laptop. I advise you all to do the same. Zero ads with ad block.



COKTOE on 22 August 2016
Fei-Hung said:
It's not bad on the PC, it's on mobile where it all goes wrong. I'm put on an adblocker and it seems to have got rid of Goku for now thankfully.

I think it sucks on pc too! Seriously, no other site I visit comes close to being the slow, awful mess that VGC is.



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Dunban67 on 22 August 2016
COKTOE said:
Fei-Hung said:
It's not bad on the PC, it's on mobile where it all goes wrong. I'm put on an adblocker and it seems to have got rid of Goku for now thankfully.

I think it sucks on pc too! Seriously, no other site I visit comes close to being the slow, awful mess that VGC is.

I m glad to hear I m not the only one



placidcasual on 22 August 2016

Absolutely horrendous website and if the strategy is to make it so annoying so people pay to stop ads then it will backfire as traffic to the site will just continue to fall



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Darc Requiem on 22 August 2016

Yeah this site terrible on my phone. It's keeps trying to direct me obvious malware sites.



Mr Puggsly on 22 August 2016

This site has become garbage on a phone.

I keep getting redirect to a site saying I have viruses. I cant go back and I have to close the tab to get away from it.

Is there a way to block ads on a phone because this shit is the worst.



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ktay95 on 22 August 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
This site has become garbage on a phone.

I keep getting redirect to a site saying I have viruses. I cant go back and I have to close the tab to get away from it.

Is there a way to block ads on a phone because this shit is the worst.

Maybe if you got rid of the viruses it wouldnt be an issue.



hershel_layton on 22 August 2016
Fei-Hung said:

I mostly (99%) visit this site via my mobile as it's way more convenient for me. However as of today the site has the most F'd up ads popping up covering the entire right side of the screen. There is no close or house icon and reloading the page does nothing.  This needs to be fixed now as it's making the site unusable. 

 

In fact, I've had to copy and paste this text several times as the ad kept popping up and covering the submit button! 

You're lucky.

 

VGChartz gave me malware/popups/whatever. Whenever I'm on here, I get a popup saying I got 13-16 viruses from watching porn(which is impossible because Android doesn't get viruses and I don't watch porn). You may think it's from a different website, but I realized it couldn't be because it only occurs when I'm on VGChartz. There are times where I'm just casually viewing a thread and it comes out of nowhere, making me have to go back to the page and seeing where I was. It's frustrating.



 

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alabtrosMyster on 22 August 2016

The wya I see it the site is designed with the sole purpose to get people to install ad blocking software, I mean... why else would they put so much ads on there? it's a test of your skills!

get adblock browser on android if you can't /don't want to root + install system wide ad block... you don't have to take this abuse (and many "advertising" network are known to carry malware of many sort, so blocking them is a necessity, wether or not you want to encourage the site(s) you visit).