The letsrun forum is becoming a difficult website to navigate and use because of videos that auto play

1. They're set to autoplay because they can serve about a 100 times more high-paying video ads on the sidebar that way

2. Use any adblock extension

Chrome ABP is blocking 3 ads on the homepage but when you go into a thread it is blocking 6-10 ads. Should we HAVE to have ABP in order to not to get a virus or just to block autoplay ads? The number of ads received here are right there with the worst porn sites. Is enough ever going to be enough? The internet as a whole was safer in 1995 than it is on this site in 2014.

You think that is bad. When I get on this dump using my phone, an ad will come up that covers HALF of the screen. The problem is that I have NO way to get rid of it. It shows a big X on the add, but doesn't actually delete the ad.

Advertisers must be the dumbest people on the planet if they think sabotaging a site I am on is going to somehow make me want to buy their product.

This is exactly correct. C'mon Brojos, clean this sh!t up.

I used adblock extension and haven't seen a single AD on here in 3 years.

I would really have to agree with this. I think I'm going to look into the Google Chrome APB thing or whatever it is

It's terrible. The thing that really pisses me off is that I usually open several threads at a time since they're so often hit or miss, so I'll have 8 tabs open (3 of which turn out to be troll threads, 3 of which are just totally uninteresting, and the other 2 I'll actually read) and my computer will stop working because I forget that there's a video playing in each of them.

Funny, I also open many tabs at once. It's mostly because each forum post takes so long to load... which must be because of all the stupid ads.

WAH WAH WAH

either use Adblock or stop whining about it

dumber than a post wrote:

Advertisers must be the dumbest people on the planet if they think sabotaging a site I am on is going to somehow make me want to buy their product.

Advertisers are not to blame. Anyone can create ads and submit them to google or taboola or whatever ad server system. The blame lies exclusively with the site. They designed the site with those ad spots. LR has decided to better monetize the boards. Unfortunately they are doing it in a crass manner and risk losing users.

No, the blame lies with the people who are too stupid to use AdBlock.

Use AdBlock = never see an ad

Don't use AdBlock = continually post stupid threads for other morons to whine.

Idiots.

Is this site dangerous if you don't use adblock?Is there any negative to downloading adblock.Do you have a link for it?

dfggd wrote:

No, the blame lies with the people who are too stupid to use AdBlock.

Use AdBlock = never see an ad

Don't use AdBlock = continually post stupid threads for other morons to whine.

Idiots.

no techy wrote:

Is this site dangerous if you don't use adblock?

Is there any negative to downloading adblock.

Do you have a link for it?

dfggd wrote:

No, the blame lies with the people who are too stupid to use AdBlock.

Use AdBlock = never see an ad

Don't use AdBlock = continually post stupid threads for other morons to whine.

Idiots.

Just use chrome and install adblock or adblock pro from the chrome store. They're both free. No links.

Yup... wrote:

no techy wrote:

Is this site dangerous if you don't use adblock?

Is there any negative to downloading adblock.

Do you have a link for it?

Just use chrome and install adblock or adblock pro from the chrome store. They're both free. No links.

You're missing the point dude. I know adblock works but the problem I have is the ads are so intrusive, much worse than any other site that you have no choice but to use adblock. So if I happen to not have adblock and I get a virus because I'm coming to this firing range of message board and my computer crashes it's my fault?

Why would you not have AdBlock? You use it on everything with a browser......dude.

dfggd wrote:

Why would you not have AdBlock? You use it on everything with a browser......dude.

The point is that if you go to 100 sites a day and only have this annoyance with ONE of them, the problem is the site not the user. Get it?

Letsrun's horrible autoplay ads make the site and especially the board like no other legitimate webpage in 2014. I would not even consider buying a Ford after listening to that moron talk about his dad every time I try to read a thread.

Are you really this obtuse?

Why the f_ck do you not use AdBlock all the time?

Its on obvious you are the one that doesn't get it. Turn adblock on and stfu already.

love letsrun, but I don't use it a much now because of the ads. autoplay is just to much to deal with

I cut my time on letsrun in half

they don't care