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Brummie a long time ago said:
Perhaps someone can look at the per capita return on adverts, and set an equivalent subscription rate, removing advertising completely for subscribers. And yes I know that setting up formal payment processing would be a chore, just build it into the cost.

Andrew.
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I would be happy to pay in that way. (My husband uses a music site which runs in that way).
At the moment I donate regularly and attend meets (when we have them) buying raffle tickets to support the Forum but am loath to continue if I am bombarded with ads which generate an income.
As a non geek I have no idea of the costs involved in the running of the website - I assume it is cheaper as Warren runs things for us. Perhaps someone can enlighten us mere mortals of rough running costs versus rough income (donations plus meets)?

Warren? Jim? Any answers?

I am not trying to cause trouble but am genuinely puzzled why this change from a few months ago.
 
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i have now turned off my ad blocker etc. and restarted the forum all i see is a blank between pjmburns post and my reply ..NO ADVERTS AT ALL but there is a transparent band at the bottom of the screen.and if i click reply all goes black and a notice comes up exit full screen and nothing happens so i had o put the extention back on to post this
 
mw0njm. said:
i have now turned off my ad blocker etc. and restarted the forum all i see is a blank between pjmburns post and my reply ..NO ADVERTS AT ALL but there is a transparent band at the bottom of the screen.and if i click reply all goes black and a notice comes up exit full screen and nothing happens so i had o put the extention back on to post this
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I have two adds and a video at the bottom of my screen as I send/type this and will need to scroll up to hit post reply.
 
unless i put adblocker plus back on the pc goes mad i cant post a reply or see anything if i do click on post reply very weird
 
I use the DuckDuckGo browser and have none of the mentioned, except for a small transparent band at the bottom of the screen. However sometimes their is difficulty in posting, but closing and opening again excepts the post.

Just tried using Safari and all the above come up !
 
Pedrocut said:
I use the DuckDuckGo browser and have none of the mentioned, except for a small transparent band at the bottom of the screen. However sometimes their is difficulty in posting, but closing and opening again excepts the post.
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like wize pedrocut, dont matter what i use bing firefox google duckduck with out a ad blocker i cant do anything the screen goes blank
 
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Google have been rattling on for some time about closing the pathways through chrome that allow add blockers, such as ABP and Ublock origin to function. That could affect all the derivatives as well, such as Internet Explorer, but there are enough alternatives available at the moment for that plan to fail. What Google does at the moment is introduce little incompatibilities that can cause other browsers to render websites slightly off, hoping to drive holdouts, (like me) into switching to Chrome for the best experience. This isnt helped by lazy developers who only test their websites with Chrome, perhaps justifiably on the basis that it is the biggest browser by usage. But it does spread the rot and make the web more Chrome-centric.
I have used on-device add blockers, but switched to external solutions so that all the household devices benefit. Pi-hole worked well, but was another device to maintain. So the end result is the VPN, which being paid for, gives me performance guarantees and a bit of leverage. The ‘P’ (private) in VPN is good as well. Over here, the ISPs have to record every site, (although not the contents) that you visit, and keep the records for a year. I don‘t visit ‘ those sorts of site ‘, but one never knows when a perfectly innocuous site may become interesting to some agency. My records are just the IP address of my VPN, over and over.
Andrew
 
mw0njm. said:
I have a VPN not a lot of sites let you in with a vpn they like to see your location,
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My VPN provider lets me choose my ‘location’ from almost anywhere in the world, changing it as I see fit. However,you are right, some sites keep track of VPN server addresses and refuse connections. The BBC iplayer is a pain for this, although there is one VPN provider who claims to have got around this. Some sites will ask your computer for its location as recorded in the operating system.
Andrew.
 
Brummie a long time ago said:
My VPN provider lets me choose my ‘location’ from almost anywhere in the world, changing it as I see fit. However,you are right, some sites keep track of VPN server addresses and refuse connections. The BBC iplayer is a pain for this, although there is one VPN provider who claims to have got around this. Some sites will ask your computer for its location as recorded in the operating system.
Andrew.
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I`ve just signed up to Cyberghost & it won`t let me view any sites whilst it`s running so i have to disconnect it to visit a site, which begs the question "what`s the point" ? Have i picked a duff vpn or have i got my settings wrong ?
 
Brummie a long time ago said:
Google have been rattling on for some time about closing the pathways through chrome that allow add blockers, such as ABP and Ublock origin to function. That could affect all the derivatives as well, such as Internet Explorer, but there are enough alternatives available at the moment for that plan to fail. What Google does at the moment is introduce little incompatibilities that can cause other browsers to render websites slightly off, hoping to drive holdouts, (like me) into switching to Chrome for the best experience. This isnt helped by lazy developers who only test their websites with Chrome, perhaps justifiably on the basis that it is the biggest browser by usage. But it does spread the rot and make the web more Chrome-centric.
I have used on-device add blockers, but switched to external solutions so that all the household devices benefit. Pi-hole worked well, but was another device to maintain. So the end result is the VPN, which being paid for, gives me performance guarantees and a bit of leverage. The ‘P’ (private) in VPN is good as well. Over here, the ISPs have to record every site, (although not the contents) that you visit, and keep the records for a year. I don‘t visit ‘ those sorts of site ‘, but one never knows when a perfectly innocuous site may become interesting to some agency. My records are just the IP address of my VPN, over and over.
Andrew
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I think you are corr3ct Andrew! We have the fox watching the chicken coup so to speak. They seem to be in league with this including Google and Microsoft! Very disappointing!
 
Tor is popular for those browsing the 'dark web'.

VPN's are popular with expats living in Spain et at so they can get their corrie street/emerdale/eastenders 'fix' ;)
 
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