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Warwolf Since: Nov, 2009
#1: Sep 1st 2017 at 12:57:47 PM

I have noticed an issue that is coming up on Firefox. The site keeps defaulting to some kind of page complaining that adblock is on, just seconds after ANY page on this site comes up. I had to open up chrome just to get into the site to log in and ask about this. I get that you guys use ads to run the site. However, that thing is REALLY annoying for it to just suddenly jump to a page telling people they should disable adblock, especially since it doesn't give you the option to just go back to the regular site. Remember, people use adblock for a reason. I get that you may not like that, but given that ads can be and sometimes are infected or worse, I think it's understandable that people chose to use adblock in a case of better safe than sorry. It may mean you guys take a bit of a hit in revenue, but there are those who will turn off adblock anyway, but those who don't should be locked out of the site just because they prefer not to take chances with their machine getting infected with an ad that might do something strange, since who knows what some ads might themselves be infected with without the provider even knowing.

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#2: Sep 1st 2017 at 1:02:02 PM

It's not us doing it. This is some kind of script being run by ad services. We have an ad-blocking bug, but it's a small pop-up that appears at the bottom of the screen and doesn't obstruct browsing, plus it only comes up if you aren't logged in.

There's already a topic here. Let's not have this in a lot of different places.

edited 1st Sep '17 1:02:51 PM by Fighteer

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