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Thanks. We appreciate the fact that people that some people understand that it costs money to run a site like this and ads are the way to keep things going. O'm always amazed at people who think they deserve everything for free and aren't even willing to look at some ads. We go out of way to make sure auto audio, pop ups, pop under and other annoying ads are not part of the Hangout. We also work with people when certain problem ads can be pinpointed, even when the vast majority of the time it's really the person has something on their device that is triggered by a the flash on some ads.

Trust me, I get offers everyday from companies that want to bring more intrusive ads to this site, but I turn them down in order to keep the experience as good as possible, even when it means less revenue.

Either way, I appreciate when great Hangouters like yourself ensure ads can be seen so we can continue to bring you this site. even if it means a second or two longer load time.

I'm sure I share this thought with many, I appreciate the service you and so many others work so hard to provide.

I have tried to give the ads a go in the past, and it just didn't work out. The performance issues outweighed the positive. I will give it another shot.

Thanks again for all that you do!

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I'm sure I share this thought with many, I appreciate the service you and so many others work so hard to provide.

I have tried to give the ads a go in the past, and it just didn't work out. The performance issues outweighed the positive. I will give it another shot.

Thanks again for all that you do!

Thank you for trying it again.

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Did a new window pop up after the page loads and then redirects you to the App Store for a download? That's what mine does and it's annoying as hell.

This is exactly what happens to me. Like I said I've never used an ad blocker but until I added it I couldn't even go to this site.

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For anyone that is still having issues with this site on Windows or iOS, please try clearing your caches and browser histories before critiquing the site. If you still have issues, report it in the proper place and not in Tony's nice thread here.

Thanks and Happy New Year.

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And the ads, I use adblocker at home. But on my Samsung at work I have no adblocker. Don't even know how to get one. I get the popups or popouts, like infrequently but in waves. I just hit the back button a couple times really fast and get out before they load. Sometimes they're really persistent reloading and I say a bad word.

The ads are pretty cool. Some pretty girlies. Some interesting sites. I don't get the connection of some of the ads tho. I know the ads are targeted for each thread and the Hangout as a whole but some are just bizarre! Michigan Masons??? Yes, those Masons.

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And the ads, I use adblocker at home. But on my Samsung at work I have no adblocker. Don't even know how to get one. I get the popups or popouts, like infrequently but in waves. I just hit the back button a couple times really fast and get out before they load. Sometimes they're really persistent reloading and I say a bad word.

The ads are pretty cool. Some pretty girlies. Some interesting sites. I don't get the connection of some of the ads tho. I know the ads are targeted for each thread and the Hangout as a whole but some are just bizarre! Michigan Masons??? Yes, those Masons.

If this is happening it's something on your machine, not this site. We have no pop ups or pop undera or malware of anything. One of the biggest misnomers out there is that ads from a site are causing problems. What is usually happening is the flash triggers som kind of malware on your machine. not vice versa. I visit this site daily on multiple machines and browsers and never get any pop ups.

Same thing with phones. I visit this site often from my Andriod phone and never see anything other than the pop up for tapatalk.

At the end of the day, other than that annoying thing on iphones that we don't know why happens, everything else is not us but the system or device you are using.

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If this is happening it's something on your machine, not this site. We have no pop ups or pop undera or malware of anything. One of the biggest misnomers out there is that ads from a site are causing problems. What is usually happening is the flash triggers som kind of malware on your machine. not vice versa. I visit this site daily on multiple machines and browsers and never get any pop ups.

Same thing with phones. I visit this site often from my Andriod phone and never see anything other than the pop up for tapatalk.

At the end of the day, other than that annoying thing on iphones that we don't know why happens, everything else is not us but the system or device you are using.

Adobe Flash is very vulnerable to MALWARE, not to mention, open doors for Hackers to get data and information from systems.

They fix it weekly and update their program, but they can't stay ahead of them.

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Adobe Flash is very vulnerable to MALWARE, not to mention, open doors for Hackers to get data and information from systems.

They fix it weekly and update their program, but they can't stay ahead of them.

Yep. A lot of our adds use Flash so if your system has a vulnerability on it it will be triggered when the ad opens up. It's not that the ad is malicious, but rather something on your machine/device. Thankfully a lot of networks are starting to get away from using flash. I for one will be elated when that happens.

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Tony,

Is the forum software a 1 time purchase for a license, or is it subscription based or proprietary?

If it's a 1 time purchase thing, I've had a great experience with OVH. Their VPS servers are solid and inexpennsive, if you're looking to change hosts.

Keep up the good work.

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I know very little about IT or banner ads. I will say though when trying to view this site in the past few months, it has taken so long to load the site at times that I have just given up. When it does load I get java error popups and it frequently shuts down and freezes my browser, computer or both. Not complaining, just passing on what I have experienced.

It seems to be working much better now so that is good news.

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I know very little about IT or banner ads. I will say though when trying to view this site in the past few months, it has taken so long to load the site at times that I have just given up. When it does load I get java error popups and it frequently shuts down and freezes my browser, computer or both. Not complaining, just passing on what I have experienced.

It seems to be working much better now so that is good news.

Have had my adblocker disabled for a few days now, and everything has been running smoothly this time around. Barely any ads to speak of, and my cpu performance is just about where it should be.

The problem ad was taken off. Sorry it took so long to get that thing off. I was having performance issues as well honestly.

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Tony,

Is the forum software a 1 time purchase for a license, or is it subscription based or proprietary?

If it's a 1 time purchase thing, I've had a great experience with OVH. Their VPS servers are solid and inexpennsive, if you're looking to change hosts.

Keep up the good work.

It wasn't a host problem, it was ad network issue. I finally got some time to dig into it and I found out one of the ads was screwing the whole site up. Got rid of it and now things seem back to normal of a few months ago. The forum is a license thing though.

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