Ad-Block Blocking
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Site News, Newbies, Help and Improvements
Forum Name: Help us improve the site
Forum Description: Help us improve the forums, and the site as a whole
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=107683
Printed Date: November 26 2024 at 15:26
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Ad-Block Blocking
Posted By: Failcore
Subject: Ad-Block Blocking
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 15:47
|
This legitimately makes no sense. People who run ad block are never going to actually click ads, so making them disable it is pointless. Now I have to see Fuhrer Trump's presidential ad stare at me every other time I load a page. ------------- 
|
Replies:
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 15:51
I woudl't mind Führer Trump tbh butt ads are literally Hitler. 
|
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 15:56
|
ads are capitalism k ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
|
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 15:58
|
I found a workaround, if you use uBlock Origin, I can teach you how to do the same. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 16:01
|
TEachj me senpai OwO |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 16:01
|
Great way to encourage new people to not come back to the site. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 16:05
|
Someone should problably take backups while the site is still accessible gratis. |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:14
|
Implying the webmasters actually ever visit the site/forum to read legitimate complaints. [stern smile] Yeah, after about ten years of being on this site, this is probably the last straw for me. Not really worth contributing if I have to turn me AdBLock off and on to publish reviews that few people will ever see. When there's tangibly better competition like RateYourMusic out there, PA shooting themselves in the foot like this is another shining reason why the site feels like a has-been.
|
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:15
Also I've missed Vompatti alot and it brightens my heart to see him posting 
|
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:17
 |
Conor Fynes wrote:Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:18
| love ya voopy |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:19
|
Conor and Colin are back, its great to see you both!! (If you really leave Conor, PM me a link to your RYM so I can find your reviews....love your reviews man) |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:24
|
K people, srsly? PA has some of the least obtrusive ads on the internet. A little 100 by 500 or so banner at the top of some pages that (regardless of whether you click on them or not), will be giving a tiny bit of money to the site owners to help keep it running. Really doesn't seem like that big of a deal just to turn off adblock for this site.
------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 17:45
 |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 18:18
 Thank you. We really try to use the least intrusive ads.------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 20:29
It's a matter of principle. I will turn of adblockers when I choose to, not when a site makes me. |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 22:14
|
I was about to create a topic about this since I also noticed this warning to disable the Adblocker. I don't know.. isn't forcing people to turn the Adblocker off a bit fascistic? I never click on Ads on this site or any other site and I would like to be able to access Progarchives with my Adblocker on. ------------- 
|
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: August 30 2016 at 22:15
Yea. Sooner or later all websites will force you to turn your Adblocker off. So the fight against the ads will be lost. -------------
|
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 31 2016 at 14:26
|
pfff... you had your chance M@X. I use Ad-Block and am not clicking on any of those damn ads. We offered to give you donations to keep the site going...it was our work that made this site what it was. We don't want to see it disappear. Did you accept our offer of money for influence? Nope. Probably because you knew my army of thugs and tough guys would have given you money.. but would have demanded that the Godfather truly ascend to power... and being an admin in return for our financial investments and oh how would have the blood and retributions have followed to all that stood in the AR hit squads path. that said.. ever want to sell the site. Let me and Raff know.. we'll buy you out and make it profitable as we take offers from teh Genesis fans what they would pay not to see Genesis moved to Prog Related... Neo Fans? hah.. we'd extort them not to see their favorites blown into the nothingnous as we deleted them from the datebase if their fans didn't pony up.. Let the Godfather run this site... we wouldn't need no stupid f**king Ads to make some jack...  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: August 31 2016 at 16:42
I'd be down to support this business model. I'd pay a pretty penny to see Tull and Rush confined to prog related where they belong and to have the Allmans in their rightful spot on the top 100 albums list!  ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 31 2016 at 16:57
 |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 31 2016 at 17:30
|
*spits beer all over monitor AND keyboard* yeah right... sure it is... I'd make him an AR offer he can't refuse. $500 bucks... a case of beer and a phone number for a freaky sex crazed redhead that hopefully hasn't been laid in 10 years ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 01 2016 at 04:33
|
The best I can do is 35.80€ |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: September 01 2016 at 09:55
blocking the ad-block, ahhhh, was waiting for that. Progress  So many (very) young Thai girls are giving me a smile now ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: September 02 2016 at 01:58
The least instrusive ads, maybe. To get some money to pay the broadband and all that stuff, I can understand it. Yet, just surfing on the frontpage of the site and being blocked WITHOUT ANY WARNING THE PREVIOUS DAYS that there was a "anti adblock" tool added to the site was rather displeasant. This way of acting is just rude. I could have accepted to consider to turn off AdBlock if I had a message in my box when connecting to the forum asking to do so. But the way it had been managed just infuriated me: I will NEVER turn AdBlock off from now on, I'm pretty adamant about it. By the way, while I'm not an expert on the financial gestion of a website, I tend to think the same thing than Micky: an incitation to donations could be a good idea, rather than a brutal blocking of the AdBlock users. Another way to get some coins (even if I'm not sure it's a good example): I'm on SoundCloud, and this platform offers extra tools for the professional musicians. Couldn't PA launch a special version of the site for the professionals of music? For example, some people use the forum to promote records, bands, concerts... Etc. When these announcements come from labels, bands managers and other entreprises, couldn't there be a way to have them pay for having some promotional tools on the site and the forum? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 02 2016 at 05:23
|
that gets into some heavy stuff here man...the financials of the site. A bit of past history and some blood especially with the old collaborators. Much arose out of the pay for play mess that was Torman Maxt. In which the integrety of the site was compromised for the sake of pay for play. For that.. there was, likely still is among site oldtimers that this site is a for profit driven endeavor. Rubbed a lot of people the wrong way who volunteered their time to build it. With direct user support.. not blind paypall donations.. would need to come transparancy as to needs. Costs. The owner sure didn't seem to want to accept that as part of us stepping foraward to accept the costs. that said... I'm sure some click on them. Most don't. If the finanicals are a problem. I might suggest something different than standard obstrusive internet ads selling god knows what kinds of women's fashion (SPANX anyone ) or penis enlargement products to prog fans.perhaps the site might consider going with something like Outbrain and Taboola. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: September 02 2016 at 09:37
|
Oh man. Torman Maxt is pretty bad. There was a pay to play thing that happened with them? Uhh... hahah ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 02 2016 at 09:47
|
From what I heard they paid m@x to EDIT: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=72292" rel="nofollow - source  |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: September 02 2016 at 10:43
Please, don't start "false" rumors. Thank you. ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: September 02 2016 at 13:21
|
Oh, by the way... [Trigger warning: profanities and satire] http://www.somethingawful.com/news/adblocker-nag-screens/" rel="nofollow - http://www.somethingawful.com/news/adblocker-nag-screens/ |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 03 2016 at 02:14
|
I've used addblock here and elsewhere from my home computer (I can't from work) for over three years, and I've never had a problem so far. And I missed out the start of this controversy, but now that I'm home, I have no anti-addblock message
I do remember that in the nascent early days of PA that M@X pulled out immediately a very intrusive add upon my request, because it was trying to install crap onto my work computer... I'bve never had a problem with PA since, despite the fact that when I search some equipement on the web for and from work, and I see adds for that on PA (and other sites I frequent) for that equipment for months on end... But that's nothing to do with PA, IMHO, just normal web indiscretion ======= I actually fund yearly a couple of prog site (for which I've not invested vast amount of time and work like here for PA) so they can remain add-less. One has to make a choice >> free usage of a add-riddled site or pay-for-use (though not manadatory, far from it) for an add-less site |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 13:31
Now that I've seen the Ad for the Russian dating site on the front page, I'm inclined to drop opposition to the ads.....  |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 13:44
Why date Russians when there are local sluts near you?  |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 13:47
|
^spy games, of course |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 17:47
You'll have to date a Russian to understand... |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 19:35
I happily contribute to one of those 'other' prog sites to keep it ad free & personally I am very happy to do so as I like it that way. Having said that I don't find the ad's on PA that bad at all. Though it is slightly annoying that since I was checking the products the company I work for makes I get nothing but ad's for Gillette Razors. I don't need to be told to buy these, I make the bloody things!!  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: September 11 2016 at 04:45
So I'm assuming the rest of you on this page are also finding the site somewhat crippled by all these animated ads lately? Pages failing to load and needing to be constantly refreshed (Oh, but don't worry, those ads load perfectly each and every time! ), getting halfway through typing a response and then finding that the ads have done a reload which freezes the page so you have to start over....sh*t, I could go on!  Just unbearable.
|
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 11 2016 at 09:59
|
I haven't got one of those... and just checked. My ad-blocker is alive and fine and doing well. I suppose M@X did the right thing and 86'd that clunker of a stupid idea. Unless he is more devious than I give him credit for and he realizes one way to drive troublesome, reactionary elements from the site is to piss them off enough to where they decide to leave. Which they'd likely do. In a battle of principle vs. spamming a beloved forum... principle wins 7 days a week and twice on Sunday . ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 11 2016 at 12:03
|
I don't even notice the ads are there, I certainly never read them and don't see the point of adding unnecessary blocking s/ware ------------- What? |
Posted By: bcshelton72
Date Posted: December 09 2016 at 10:14
I just has an ad start autoplaying with sound at high volume. The ad continued to reload itself when finished, so that the very loud interruption never ended. It was for Scotch tape. I was listening to Genesis' Music Box at the time, while reading reviews of that record. It was a horrible interruption. Thanks to the site managers for all your work, just a little feedback about some of the ads.
|
Posted By: poito
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 06:49
| Anti adblocker for those that make the site? We write the reviewes, we attract the audience. I don't want to turn off my adblcoker, I'm never using ads, my eyes are crazy finding the contents from that much crap I wll never use. It is an abuse and will let many of us off. And will elete all my reviews. Fun is gone, I'm gone |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 07:30
After a grand total of 3 posts? I have no idea how you could stand it that long.  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 07:38
|
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've been running Ghostery on Firefox since I've joined this site (not long ago). I post reviews, and forum messages. Everything on the site works fine, with no ads or trackers. Oddly, the Ghostery/Firefox combination does interfere with some videos -- notably the recent NBC olympic videos and NFL videos. Dunno why. I revert to unprotected IE to watch those. Videos on PA work fine, though. |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 07:40
|
I think it is bullsh*t to FORCE people to disable their adblocker. Even if I have to disable it, I will NEVER click on an ad. That's the whole purpose of having an adblocker: to avoid ads. Adblocker users won't click on the ads anyway. -------------
|
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 07:50
|
Why, no need to make a storm in a glass of water - we have bigger annoyances here. ( I simply use FF with Noscript and all goes well, no ads and no problems) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 08:56
It's a commercial site, M@x is trying to make money off the site, advertisers can ask for a ban on adblockers or won't advertise. I have no issue ignoring the relatively small ads on the site. Alternatively M@x could just shut the site down if he's not making enough revenue. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 09:25
|
^ also he could have the option of a premium membership such as YouTuberRed where we can subscribe on an annual basis to avoid ads and have extra perks of some sort :) -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 09:40
As annoying as this may be, please don't raise tensions in this or any other thread. Everyone is free to disable the adblock or indeed, circumvent it using any tools around, there is stuff like Anti-Adblock Killer lists around like http://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/#filterlist" rel="nofollow - these for example which update the settings of your AdBlock installation. Just like I said, no need to make too much fuss about it cause it's an technical aspect of the site that can't be changed by anyone residing on the forum here. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 10:07
|
Just saw this for the first time 3 days ago on chrome. Immediately after I deleted the PA tab (rather than disable ad block which I refuse to do for any site) I got stung by the new chrome attack scheme. It generates tons of error windows, locks the browser, then gives you a bogus message saying your browser has been locked due to a security problem, but call this tech support number so we can unlock it. Obviously a phishing scam, I've read if you call the "tech support number" they ask for a credit card so they can "fix the problem". Anyway, killed chrome through task manager, uninstalled it and reinstalled. I doubt both actions are related but it seemed a very strange coincidence that PA locks me out unless I whitelist, then chrome gets attacked. Kind of ironic
 I only get the PA "whitelist us ad-block" screen if I open a 2nd browser tab to PA and go to the database rather than the forums...very strange. I've adjusted to captcha just fine, but if this changes and tries to force me to whitelist every time I come to PA rather than just when opening a 2nd tab, well, I'll likely make the tough decision and bail  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 12:15
|
I now get a pop-up that I have to switch off my ad-blocker to have access to this site. Especially when I go to the album pages. Not on the forum so far. If I don't do it, I cannot view the page. I wonder that it happened since today. Before that I did not have trouble with it. Do others experience it, too? (Usually I leave a web page immediately if I have to switch off my ad-blocker.) ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: poito
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 13:03
Who's talking about posts? There are more perceptive guys in the forum but sure you are the fastest.
|
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 13:26
Feel the burn   (I thought you were gone?)  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Archer
Date Posted: February 24 2018 at 13:28
|
Cheerio Prog Archives. I will never view ads and will never turn my adblocker off for ANY site. It's a principle worth maintaining and I get get my Prog fix elsewhere. Nice move! Please can a moderator delete this account, thanks |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 00:58
|
Same here. I've been a member since 2006, but I will search for a new website to keep track of progrock-releases. Edit: I've now accepted ads on this site.
But under protest. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 08:14
I disabled Adblock on PA but I still get some of the nag screens. I dunno why that is.
|
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 08:45
| I did not get any anti-Adblock popup here, though I have on other sites. Maybe some people have been overreacting a bit? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 08:57
That's my feeling. People seem to want everything for free but then don't understand that advertising is what makes it free. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 09:10
|
pffff... you could have had your cake and eaten too if you had pressured M@X to sell to me. No captcha.. no ads.. none of that sh*t....no nothing but a return to the good old days of the site when all you to worry about was getting a knife in your back..... when those who were quickest on the draw and had the tempers of tread upon rattlesnakes ruled the forum. hah...< -cfasync="false" ="/cdn-cgi/s/d07b1474/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js">
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 09:11
|
and Captcha didn't like that.. tried to ding me... it is evil I tell you.. and more intelligent than most on this forum haha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: EvilGnome
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 10:38
| How about an ad-free subscription option? AllMusic offers that option and I'm happy to pay an annual fee to get rid of all the ads. I want the site to survive and make whatever revenues they can, but web advertising is rife with security risks and privacy intrusions. |
Posted By: foregonillusions
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 11:24
|
To follow up on what EvilGnome said, funding the website via a http://www.patreon.com/" rel="nofollow - Patreon should be an option. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 12:04
|
I couldn't agree more about the subscription. I have been a member of a great trivia site for almost four years, and the $40 I spend every year are nothing compared to the fun and enjoyment I get every day from visiting that site. I'd gladly give to keep PA going, as I still love this site and owe it a lot. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 12:07
|
yeah but we've been down that road.. years ago... M@X wants no part of that. With that comes transparency... and there is no profit to made in that no SIR!! You bet your ass there is in having free labor and taking ad money and money from groups to spotlight their sh*t haha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 25 2018 at 13:16
|
PE has always been a subscription site and works great that way with a lot less members. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |