Hey folks--

Many of you have been talking about the blocked ads. All you have to do is turn it off or add us to your safe list so it will show the ads when they are on our site.

If you have anymore issues, please let us know!

I want those blocked that I don't want to see, those that aren't relevant to the site.

I don't have an issue with ad blocker. Not sure anyone does. Ad blocker makes the site when I actually bother to go on these days... a lot easier to deal with then ad's all over the place that have no bearing on 3d or my interests. Got some downright freaky ads, and no I'm not looking for a sleep number bed either, or male enhancement stuff, or hair stuff, ... or or I think you get the point. So Ad Blocker been great for my sanity.

no, no issue with adblocker here. working just fine... speeds the site up no end... removes all the junk. no, no issue at all.

Adblocker..Have it installed with Chrome browser..Just installed for IE but I do not see the icon upper right hand size of page...

Adblocker works fine.

Silly question...How do I know it's working?? On Chrome AdBlocker Plus showed how many items were blocked etc

Love adblocker. Works great!

Programmer says Adblock Plus does not work with IE..Only firefox and chrome

Okay, guys we have fixed some of the known issues with "Ad Blocker", you guys should be good to go for the most part. If you see any weirdness please let us know.

vitachick posted at 9:33AM Thu, 27 August 2015 - #4224374

Programmer says Adblock Plus does not work with IE..Only firefox and chrome

I'm using it with IE11 and it works. It doesn't have the option of disabling tracking and the social media buttons but the basics work. It blocks ads but lets you choose not to block the non-intrusive ones and also lets you choose sites not to block the ads at all.

Also good is Adblock Edge and Element Hiding Helper.

So, what ad blocker are you all using successfully?
Firefox is my browser of choice.
My antiviruses are slowing down the loading of pages and I think at least some of it has to do with the ads.

This is the link for 'adblock plus' that comes to the top with a google search. Is that the one most folks are using?

( https://adblockplus.org/ )

https://adblockplus.org

BTW I don't like this 'markdown' at all. You took away buttons that made things easy. I wanted to embed the link so people could click on it but I feel it is not worth my effort.

EDIT
Got it, but Really? If you like Markdown, you'll really love MS DOS: CD C: ^^ :)
Hmm won't take a backslash in text without more reading of Markdown manual.

Depending on what additional ad blocking software you're using (ghostscript or noscript can cause problems with it, can't remember which), you might want to use Adblock Edge instead as it does not force you to have certain things greenlisted Google analytics being the most famous example (or has the mandatory greenlisting been done away with in the latest versions?)
I know that close to a year ago, at least, Mozilla sold out and caved to pressure from businesses to create greenlists for "non-intrusive ads" that could not be redlisted. Adblock Edge was then released to eliminate that problem. I have had zero problems with Edge.
Element-hiding helper allows you to highlight any element on the page and hide it-- you have to be careful however since blocking the wrong element, or too broad an element will block most of the page contents. One thing I used it for was to get rid of that "secured by bla bla" tab on the bottom right of RDNA that I always clicked on by mistake when trying to click on the lowermost right product on the page or screen.

3dstories posted at 9:21AM Thu, 27 August 2015 - #4224608

So, what ad blocker are you all using successfully?
Firefox is my browser of choice.
My antiviruses are slowing down the loading of pages and I think at least some of it has to do with the ads.

This is the link for 'adblock plus' that comes to the top with a google search. Is that the one most folks are using?

( https://adblockplus.org/ )

https://adblockplus.org

BTW I don't like this 'markdown' at all. You took away buttons that made things easy. I wanted to embed the link so people could click on it but I feel it is not worth my effort.

EDIT
Got it, but Really? If you like Markdown, you'll really love MS DOS: CD C: ^^ :)
Hmm won't take a backslash in text without more reading of Markdown manual.

You about had it, to do links put the text in brackets and the link url in paranethes after it like this:

[Ad Blocker Plus](https://adblockplus.org/)   

which becomes

Ad Blocker Plus

I have created a helper guide here

which we used to highlight link, press button, done.
how is markdown better again? twice the work.. and on a mobile keyboard such as Swiftkey or Swype, a right pain in the arse, (remember this is supposed to be a mobile friendly site now. erm nope...), and if your dyslexic? a g'damn nightmare.

who thought this up? seriously?

Well I reinstalled AdBlocker Plus...Still do not see icon upper right with IE as I do with Chrome...

In IE the icon is at the bottom in your status bar. Do you have that enabled? If you do and still don't see it maybe you need to check your settings Tools-Internet Options-Advanced and make sure "Enable third party browser extensions" is checked. If you still don't see the icon bottom right then check out this page: http://simple-adblock.com/faq/menu-icon-does-not-apear-in-statusbar/

Thanks for the info and the the Direct link to Markdown. I did my direct link with teh less than and greater than symbols, but that meant I could only get the link active, not title it.

Thank you, IceEmpress. Loved your comment about RDNA. I thought I was the only one who regularly hit that gosh-darned annoying Sassafrassa triangle earth pop-up on the lower right.

Nope just can't get the icon to show up lower right...I did everything...Now I do have pop up blocker allowed..Does this have to be disabled for AdBlocker to show up?
Using Win7 now. Remember when I had Win XP it worked np

I have pop up blocker allowed and and Active X Filtering checked and it still shows. Did you try everything mentioned here?

es tried everything. IE addons for Adblocker was disabled so I enabled it. IE is not default browser..Normally use Chrome.

Have no clue what could be blocking it. Program Files does have folder for it. IE only..Not for Chrome..

I give up...

AdBlock Plus for Firefox and Noscript gets rid of the site's unwelcome ads. It also stops dangerous flash content that has been compromised on many other websites (as well as flash from auto running and hogging memory). Google Chrome's newest update blocks flash automatically. Highly recommended. Also banner ads can be compromised (as recently big websites like Yahoo and others had happen) so blocking them can be a good security measure.

Edited to add

I misspoke, it's Sept 1 that Google Chrome stops Flash completely.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/28/google_says_flash_ads_out_september/

More about the recent banner ad Malware attacks elsewhere (page 2 is where the specifics of Yahoo and others are spoken about)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/27/malvertising_feature/?page=1

I'm on my iPad and iPhone so just have Safari and these crazy ads (Tide detergent, movers, etc...) that have nothing to do with art are driving me crazy. Please bring back ads that are relevant to the site if you must have ads.

That is a result of Google Analytics and Google Adsense. These track which sites you visit, which search terms you enter, and then load advertisements which are relevant to these results. There are many different ways to block those.

--Adblock + now has certain cookies whitelisted. Adblock Edge does away with mandatory whitelists. However, IIRC Adblock Edge has issues with Ghostery.
--NoScript blocks javascript based cookies that Adblock+ does not. It can also be used to disable Javascript entirely, though this often causes problems with loading the site/site functionality.
--Ghostery

--For Safari, there are Incognito and Lil-Snitch (both do basically the same thing, to my understanding)

FWIW... AdBlocker seems to speed the site up by a factor of about 50%.