Amazon Ads

majoco · Nov 20, 2017

How do I turn off those Amazon Ads at the top of every page - they are of absolutely no relevance to me and generally distract from this great site. Don't say the goods are cheap - they may be in the US but delivery charges greatly outweigh the benfit. Most of the stuff advertised comes from China which I can access directly.

Thanks.

15plus1 · Nov 20, 2017

My guess is that u cant.. They are a source of revenue..

doctordialtone · Nov 20, 2017

Ads

majoco said:
How do I turn off those Amazon Ads at the top of every page -.

https://adblockplus.org/

majoco · Nov 20, 2017

Adblock plus completely ignores those ads.

doctordialtone · Nov 20, 2017

Poof!

majoco said:
Adblock plus completely ignores those ads.

Voila - Poof -Gone!

kma371 · Nov 20, 2017

I believe the ads go away for premium subscribers as well

cmdrwill · Nov 20, 2017

doctordialtone said:
https://adblockplus.org/

Those Ads are very intrusive. I am a cheepscate so no Premium membership. And I will not buy dammed Baofengs either. In fact there has not been anything in these ads that I would need.

I am going to try Adblocker as one has suggested. Did not work...

IAmSixNine · Nov 20, 2017

Sites like this arent free to run.
Paid membership helps and if your not paid the ads support that.

K3DRQ · Nov 20, 2017

majoco said:
Adblock plus completely ignores those ads.

Those sellouts set up a pay-for whitelist years ago. You might want to check out uBlock Origin.

KK4JUG · Nov 20, 2017

Some of us are willing to pay our way and some are not.

K3DRQ · Nov 20, 2017

KK4JUG said:
Some of us are willing to pay our way and some are not.

If more web sites started charging, I'd be willing to pay subscription fees to get rid of the ads, trackers, privacy invasions, and other annoyances.

Watch this video from CollegeHumor, it explains the issue in depth.

JD21960 · Nov 20, 2017

Ads? what ads?

In this day and age of MVPS HOST files, Ublock Plus Origin, Ublock Origin Extra* and OpenDNS spam/ad blocking, people are still complaining about ads?? As the quote on "Emil Faber's" statue in Animal House said ..... "Knowledge is good" ;0)

Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File

https://www.opendns.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

All FREE too except for OpenDNS which also has a paid version with even better features

KK4JUG · Nov 20, 2017

K3DRQ said:
If more web sites started charging, I'd be willing to pay subscription fees to get rid of the ads, trackers, privacy invasions, and other annoyances.

But you're not willing to pay fees to a beneficial and informative web site to stop them in the first place.

K3DRQ · Nov 20, 2017

Johnnydollar2 said:
OpenDNS spam/ad blocking

https://www.opendns.com/

All FREE too except for OpenDNS which also has a paid version with even better features

Spooky!

Instead investigate OpenNIC, https://www.opennic.org

Doesn't block ads (except for a few servers) but it is democratically run and isn't spooky like Google DNS or OpenDNS.

OpenNIC also gives you access to unofficial TLDs (like .libre, .oss, .geek, .bit). These are democratically run, created, and changed by majority vote, and all are free of charge. This is not like Tor .onion addresses, it's the same Internet with your same ISP & IP and it applies to your whole system, just as changing servers to OpenDNS does.

Most servers do not log or anonymize logs. OpenNIC was recommended by Prism-Break because of this.

See: https://www.opennic.org, and https://servers.opennicproject.org for a list of servers to try out.

K2RNI · Nov 21, 2017

cmdrwill said:
Those Ads are very intrusive. I am a cheepscate so no Premium membership. And I will not buy dammed Baofengs either. In fact there has not been anything in these ads that I would need.

I am going to try Adblocker as one has suggested. Did not work...

You have to go into the filter settings and disable the "acceptable ads" list. But as the other guy said uBlock is the best in the field. Good anti-adblock bypass technology you can even browse Forbes with it on.

Kevinbb · Nov 22, 2017

I get the Ads, I guess, but ever since they appeared, the entire site has become agonizingly slow

troymail · Nov 22, 2017

Kevinbb said:
I get the Ads, I guess, but ever since they appeared, the entire site has become agonizingly slow

Something seems to have changed alot with the ads recently.... I don't know if the ad servers are slow to respond or it is something else but everything on the RR site seems really slow today.

When I load most forum pages, I get the normal RR site banner immediately followed by a long pause (15-25 seconds) before the pages load.

Loading some aspects of the database pagers are also much slower than normal.

EDIT: Interestingly, when I edit a post like this, it is really fast to both present the post and save the post....

IAmSixNine · Nov 22, 2017

I agree with troymail,
i can load a RR page and the banner at top loads then a long pause till the page finishes.

jaspence · Nov 22, 2017

Slow websights

I have done computer repair for about 40 years, and the majority I see that are slow is because of the junk files and cache that are ever cleaned out. The last computer I worked on had about 15 gb of useless files. Get a good cleaner program like CCleaner (no ads) and see if that helps your problems.

IAmSixNine · Nov 22, 2017

jaspence said:
I have done computer repair for about 40 years, and the majority I see that are slow is because of the junk files and cache that are ever cleaned out. The last computer I worked on had about 15 gb of useless files. Get a good cleaner program like CCleaner (no ads) and see if that helps your problems.

Right that totally makes sense. Because 2 different users are reporting similar issues on a site that just days ago was giving us no problems. So it has to be our computers and not a problem with the site or site related. Good catch.

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