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    Bram van Kampen
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    Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

    Bram van Kampen

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    • B Bram van Kampen

      Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

      Bram van Kampen

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      Slacker007
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      Turn off your ad blocker. This site is free because of the ads. just deal with it.

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      • B Bram van Kampen

        Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

        Bram van Kampen

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        Jorgen Andersson
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        Out of curiosity, how much would you pay for Codeproject?

        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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        • B Bram van Kampen

          Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

          Bram van Kampen

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          OriginalGriff
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          Just add CP to your Whitelist. Many internet sites are funded exclusively through ads, and if you find them useful to you it's only fair to let them make a tiny bit out money from your visit: if they don't make money, they can't pay for servers, for dev, for internet bandwidth, for anything - and the site closes. So my ad blocker is set to "Block 'em all" and sites get added to the whitelist if there are both useful and not too greedy. CP is both! Remember: if you aren't paying for a service, it's because you are the product being sold.

          Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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            Just add CP to your Whitelist. Many internet sites are funded exclusively through ads, and if you find them useful to you it's only fair to let them make a tiny bit out money from your visit: if they don't make money, they can't pay for servers, for dev, for internet bandwidth, for anything - and the site closes. So my ad blocker is set to "Block 'em all" and sites get added to the whitelist if there are both useful and not too greedy. CP is both! Remember: if you aren't paying for a service, it's because you are the product being sold.

            Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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            Jon McKee
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            OriginalGriff wrote:

            Remember: if you aren't paying for a service, it's because you are the product being sold.

            This statement should be copy-pasted across the entire internet. It's amazing how many people don't understand this :thumbsup:

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            • B Bram van Kampen

              Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

              Bram van Kampen

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              Daniel Pfeffer
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              I must say that I find CP's ad display unobtrusive. Ads at the top and bottom of the page don't particularly bother me. Would that all other sites were that considerate!

              Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                I must say that I find CP's ad display unobtrusive. Ads at the top and bottom of the page don't particularly bother me. Would that all other sites were that considerate!

                Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                OriginalGriff
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                Gawd I know that feeling! One of the nice things about uBlock is it shows you how many adds it blocked: when the number reaches double figures it's definitely not going on my whitelist! :laugh:

                Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  Just add CP to your Whitelist. Many internet sites are funded exclusively through ads, and if you find them useful to you it's only fair to let them make a tiny bit out money from your visit: if they don't make money, they can't pay for servers, for dev, for internet bandwidth, for anything - and the site closes. So my ad blocker is set to "Block 'em all" and sites get added to the whitelist if there are both useful and not too greedy. CP is both! Remember: if you aren't paying for a service, it's because you are the product being sold.

                  Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                  Ehsan Sajjad
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                  i had it blocked too by default by blocker unitentionally, i have just whitelisted today

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Gawd I know that feeling! One of the nice things about uBlock is it shows you how many adds it blocked: when the number reaches double figures it's definitely not going on my whitelist! :laugh:

                    Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                    CodeWraith
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                    It blocks only ADDs? Shirley it's a beta version, right? Why does it not also block AND, OR, SUB, MUL or DIV?

                    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                      It blocks only ADDs? Shirley it's a beta version, right? Why does it not also block AND, OR, SUB, MUL or DIV?

                      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                      OriginalGriff
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                      Sorry? Most of your post was blocked by my system:

                      CodeWraith wrote:

                      It blocks only? Shirley it's a beta version, right? Why does it not also block?

                      Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        Sorry? Most of your post was blocked by my system:

                        CodeWraith wrote:

                        It blocks only? Shirley it's a beta version, right? Why does it not also block?

                        Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                        CodeWraith
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                        Very good! Now let's try one more that I forgot: XOR

                        I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                        • B Bram van Kampen

                          Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

                          Bram van Kampen

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                          Disable ad-blocker, and update your host-file. I don't accept anything from other domains than the visiting one; it is a security-risc to download and display html+js from an unknown party.

                          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                            Sorry? Most of your post was blocked by my system:

                            CodeWraith wrote:

                            It blocks only? Shirley it's a beta version, right? Why does it not also block?

                            Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                            Forogar
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                            ...and stop calling him "Shirley".

                            - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                            • B Bram van Kampen

                              Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

                              Bram van Kampen

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                              ZurdoDev
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                              Bram van Kampen wrote:

                              I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted!

                              I'm confused. It sounds like you are complaining that a free site has ads on it.

                              Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

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                                Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

                                Bram van Kampen

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                                Pete OHanlon
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                                How do you manage to walk when your knickers are in such a twist? Given the value I get from CP, I am more than happy to help fund it through advertising. It would be churlish of me not to. Or, to put it another way, do you think that CP should go bust because they run out of money?

                                This space for rent

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                                • B Bram van Kampen

                                  Hi, I think most members would agree that the popping up of adds left right and centre when you are about to read a page, are one of the most annoying features of the Internet. I try to block all, and, would prefer to pay premium access for an advertising free internet. I get notified by email when I contribute to a discussion board I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted! I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder! Bram.

                                  Bram van Kampen

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                                  Mark_Wallace
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                                  Bram van Kampen wrote:

                                  I am also sending this mail directly to Chris Mauder!

                                  Don't forget to tell him that...

                                  Bram van Kampen wrote:

                                  I ... would prefer to pay premium access

                                  Hmm. Thinking about it, I'd happily pay a subscription to CP -- and I wouldn't demand that they turn the ads off.

                                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                    Disable ad-blocker, and update your host-file. I don't accept anything from other domains than the visiting one; it is a security-risc to download and display html+js from an unknown party.

                                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                    realJSOP
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                                    You can also setup your own DNS server with a raspberry pi and pi-hole. Works for all devices connected to your network.

                                    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                                      Bram van Kampen wrote:

                                      I learned to my surprise that clicking on a link in that email to get to the appropriate response in the board is conditional to not having an Add blocker. I am frankly Disgusted!

                                      I'm confused. It sounds like you are complaining that a free site has ads on it.

                                      Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

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                                      realJSOP
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                                      He's actually complaining that the ads get in the way of viewing the site based on notifications. An alternative solution is to set your profile to not notify you of things that happen on the site.

                                      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                                      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                                      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                        He's actually complaining that the ads get in the way of viewing the site based on notifications. An alternative solution is to set your profile to not notify you of things that happen on the site.

                                        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                                        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                                        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                        ZurdoDev
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                                        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                                        ads get in the way of viewing the site based on notifications.

                                        I don't understand.

                                        Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

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                                        • P Pete OHanlon

                                          How do you manage to walk when your knickers are in such a twist? Given the value I get from CP, I am more than happy to help fund it through advertising. It would be churlish of me not to. Or, to put it another way, do you think that CP should go bust because they run out of money?

                                          This space for rent

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                                          Mycroft Holmes
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                                          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                          How do you manage to walk when your knickers are in such a twist

                                          Possibly no balls to get in the way.

                                          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

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