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Bloody Adverts

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Bloody Adverts

#408472

Postby Gostevie » May 1st, 2021, 12:41 am

For ages I have stopped viewing this website on my smartphone because the adverts and pop-ups made it virtually unusable, but now I am finding it is almost as bad on my laptop. I know that Clariman and Stooz are businessmen who are in it to make a few bob - and great credit to them for that - but I wish there was a subscription model that would allow me to read and contribute to the content without seeing bloody adverts for Brook Taverner and Dobell everytime I try to use The Lemon Fool.

No, I don't want to buy a "Dobell Black 100% Wool Classic Top Hat" thank you very much.

Gostevie

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby AleisterCrowley » May 1st, 2021, 1:20 am

donate

link above

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#408497

Postby seagles » May 1st, 2021, 8:39 am

Gostevie wrote:For ages I have stopped viewing this website on my smartphone because the adverts and pop-ups made it virtually unusable, but now I am finding it is almost as bad on my laptop. I know that Clariman and Stooz are businessmen who are in it to make a few bob - and great credit to them for that - but I wish there was a subscription model that would allow me to read and contribute to the content without seeing bloody adverts for Brook Taverner and Dobell everytime I try to use The Lemon Fool.

No, I don't want to buy a "Dobell Black 100% Wool Classic Top Hat" thank you very much.

Gostevie


I believe you are wrong, the boys are not businessmen and are not in this to make money. You seem to have never really looked at the site and have obviously ignored the "donate" option to avoid adverts. I think you owe them and the rest of us an apology.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#408498

Postby Mike4 » May 1st, 2021, 8:43 am

Gostevie wrote:For ages I have stopped viewing this website on my smartphone because the adverts and pop-ups made it virtually unusable, but now I am finding it is almost as bad on my laptop. I know that Clariman and Stooz are businessmen who are in it to make a few bob - and great credit to them for that - but I wish there was a subscription model that would allow me to read and contribute to the content without seeing bloody adverts for Brook Taverner and Dobell everytime I try to use The Lemon Fool.

No, I don't want to buy a "Dobell Black 100% Wool Classic Top Hat" thank you very much.

Gostevie



How curious. I thought top hats were traditionally made from silk, or moleskin, or something not wool.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#408517

Postby 88V8 » May 1st, 2021, 10:16 am

I agree about ads, but not here.
Ads make many sites unusable
Here however, I have never seen an ad.
Presumably because I occasionally donate. Less than I'd pay a Financial Adviser, but for a much better return.

I donate to a number of sites that I find useful. Car forums, Wikipedia.

No doubt I have many moral shortcomings, but being Freddy Freeloader isn't one of them.

V8

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby jfgw » May 1st, 2021, 10:22 am

A donation of £20 or more will go toward the running costs of this site and remove ads for a year. The drop-down box defaults to £30 but you can change this.

Julian F. G. W.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby Itsallaguess » May 1st, 2021, 10:36 am

88V8 wrote:
I donate to a number of sites that I find useful. Car forums, Wikipedia.

No doubt I have many moral shortcomings, but being Freddy Freeloader isn't one of them.


Whilst I agree with your overall sentiment, I think we need to be a little careful with that type of language when it comes to donations to the site, as I'd hate to think that any Lemon Fool posters who contribute to the fantastic richness of the site via the discussion boards themselves might not appreciate the level of contribution delivered via those means, as well as other methods...

Of course, with 0.5% of all Lemon Fool posts having been made by you since the site was brought on-line, I include your good self in that group too....

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby GrahamPlatt » May 1st, 2021, 10:49 am

I think the time of posting the OP may be an indication that some leeway is due.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby Mike4 » May 1st, 2021, 11:07 am

88V8 wrote:I agree about ads, but not here.
Ads make many sites unusable
Here however, I have never seen an ad.
Presumably because I occasionally donate. Less than I'd pay a Financial Adviser, but for a much better return.

I donate to a number of sites that I find useful. Car forums, Wikipedia.

No doubt I have many moral shortcomings, but being Freddy Freeloader isn't one of them.

V8


If I remember correctly, Gostevie is an accomplished LBYM-er who achieved considerable respect on TMF by digging himself out of a seemingly impossible debt hole, by unswervingly following the advice of PetraM et al.

So cut him some slack, he is probably far more sensitised to unnecessary spending than many of us here.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby 88V8 » May 1st, 2021, 11:56 am

Mike4 wrote:If I remember correctly, Gostevie is an accomplished LBYM-er who achieved considerable respect on TMF by digging himself out of a seemingly impossible debt hole, by unswervingly following the advice of PetraM et al.
So cut him some slack, he is probably far more sensitised to unnecessary spending than many of us here.

Fair doos, didn't know that.

I don't mind ads as such.
I think I can safely say that I am ad-proof, I have never been prompted to buy anything via an online ad. So I don't care whether there are ads or not. Indeed, the presumption that ads work, and the fact that they power the largely free internet is a benefit I am happy to accept.

What I dislike about ads, is the extent to which they slow many sites. Newspapers for example, the time it took each page to load, the whizzy ads, the distraction.
If I think about it, what with donations and Adblocker, I don't frequent any sites nowadays that have much in the way of ads.

V8

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby Mike4 » May 1st, 2021, 12:01 pm

88V8 wrote:I think I can safely say that I am ad-proof, I have never been prompted to buy anything via an online ad.


Which is of course, exactly the way all advertising designers want you to think!

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby Hypster » May 1st, 2021, 4:42 pm

Gostevie wrote:I know that Clariman and Stooz are businessmen who are in it to make a few bob


I don't think they run TLF as a money maker. I think the ad revenue and subscriptions is to cover the costs of hosting the site that's all.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby Gostevie » May 1st, 2021, 7:03 pm

I hadn't realised there was a 'donation' option. I have just made a donation and will be interested to see if the number of adverts reduces.

Gostevie

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#408643

Postby csearle » May 1st, 2021, 7:17 pm

Gostevie wrote:I hadn't realised there was a 'donation' option. I have just made a donation and will be interested to see if the number of adverts reduces.
They should completely vanish. If not just say and it'll get sorted. Thanks, C.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#408644

Postby AleisterCrowley » May 1st, 2021, 7:19 pm

It should stop all the adverts - I'm sure the very helpful stooz and Clariman can assist if you still see any - not sure how long it takes for the donation to go through the system

[edit- or Chris of course, as above!]

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#408647

Postby Clariman » May 1st, 2021, 7:28 pm

Gostevie wrote:I hadn't realised there was a 'donation' option. I have just made a donation and will be interested to see if the number of adverts reduces.

Gostevie

Thanks. All adverts should disappear immediately. If not, let us know.

Hope all well with you.

Cheers
Clariman

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#410834

Postby XFool » May 10th, 2021, 6:10 pm

I notice we now have a new approach... a 'Google Adverts' drop tab.

Just saying.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby Clariman » May 10th, 2021, 6:16 pm

XFool wrote:I notice we now have a new approach... a 'Google Adverts' drop tab.

Just saying.

Good or bad thing? I don't see it.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

#410846

Postby XFool » May 10th, 2021, 6:31 pm

...Well, ones attitude to adverts is rarely positive. ;)

It appears on the main page and has to be closed.

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Re: Bloody Adverts

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Postby 88V8 » May 10th, 2021, 10:56 pm

XFool wrote:It appears on the main page and has to be closed.

Nah... nice to know that my adblocker works :)

V8


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