Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:38 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I don't buy the T&A. I just try to defeat its adblocker blocker detection which is shiit, I wish some kindly and brilliant guru like vbfg would explain a way to stop that big fckoff blue banner from popping up over the page despite me having switched ABP off for that site.

I have the same. But I won't turn my Ad Blocker off until they get rid of the massive ton of adverts they have on the site that cause it to load so badly it makes me just navigate away from the page before I've actually read anything.

They pile adverts onto the site to make it load badly, but then moan when people block those adverts so they can actually read the site.

[Bullseye]

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 11:26 am  

I too get irritated by the bloody ads. This site can be a pain for that occasionally when viewing on my phone but the T&A one is worse.

[Bulliac]

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 11:59 am  

The T&A is far worse, they even go to the extent of sound commercials which turn on your sound back on if you turn it off!

Please, no one tell them, but I've worked round that by turning my speakers off at the power switch - I'm sure they'll send a guy round to, "tut tut" over my shoulder and switch them back on again..

#unusable

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:04 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I don't buy the T&A. I just try to defeat its adblocker blocker detection which is shiit, I wish some kindly and brilliant guru like vbfg would explain a way to stop that big fckoff blue banner from popping up over the page despite me having switched ABP off for that site.

Very site specific I would think, and I haven't really tried. Sometimes it's cookie based and you can defeat it with a standard browser in incognito mode, especially if it's like a "five free pages a month or pay for full access" deal.

I would not be surprised to learn that there are Tampermonkey scripts to do it for the bigger sites. Be careful with that though. It's a method for a program to run inside your browser and it modifies pages. Obvious scope for abuse there. But it's useful if there's a web page that does just about everything you want apart from this one thing. If that one thing was annoying enough to the right person they might have fixed it. So for instance if you order takeaways online it's not in their interests to have the local authority health and cleanliness ratings there. But there is a Tampermonkey script that will download that data from another source whilst you're looking at say Just Eat, and it will modify the page and display it next to each take away. Sort by popularity and you find out low quality mystery meat sold out of a bucket is actually what the people want.

Newsquest are slowly killing pretty much every local newspaper in the country so they might be a big enough target for someone to put the effort in. I'll have a proper look later when I have a bit more time.

Just don't let them pull you in with their sob stories. Adverts from reputable sources (which means the companies these people use for their advertising, not necessarily the sites themselves) are the biggest attack vectors for ransomware around, and you don't want that nasty stuff on you. Never run without an ad-blocker.

I don't find it too obtrusive on the T&A. There are others that block the whole screen out. They're already dead to me.

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:18 pm  

I should have just tried it in incognito mode before banging on. That works for me.

Still a pain but a different kind of pain. But if you're on a phone and it's blocking the screen out completely or doing the "five pages then go away" thing it's a good back stop option.

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:44 pm  

On the pc using IE11 go into tools click on in private browsing and then go onto the Taliban from there seems to work ok with no ad blocker needed

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:53 pm  

This thread has gone all weird. Is there a weirdness blocker anywhere?

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:52 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I don't buy the T&A. I just try to defeat its adblocker blocker detection which is shiit, I wish some kindly and brilliant guru like vbfg would explain a way to stop that big fckoff blue banner from popping up over the page despite me having switched ABP off for that site.

If you use Firefox there is an addon called NoScript. It stops the pics as well tho. I use it in conjunction with Adblocker and Flashblocker. It also makes your computer safe from trojans etc.

Re: Heppenstall : Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:29 pm  

Have all the players been paid or not? If they haven't then let's have an article on it. Does he know or doesn't he? Or is he just talking oss manure?

Re: Heppenstall : Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:31 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I don't buy the T&A. I just try to defeat its adblocker blocker detection which is shiit, I wish some kindly and brilliant guru like vbfg would explain a way to stop that big fckoff blue banner from popping up over the page despite me having switched ABP off for that site.

To be fair I always struggle on here with ads even when logged in the desktop site constantly crashes don't know if anyone else has the same trouble

Edit: posted before readingwhole thread put adblocker on firefox works a treat!