The hammer has dropped- please consider disabling your ad blocker

How do I do that?go in to settings??

wejo wrote:

I've been joking for a while that I was going to put up a reminder asking people to disable their adblockers and doing it during the Olympics.

I just did it. Please consider disabling it. Our site loads much faster than in the past if you haven't tried with with ads. The vast, vast majority of our users don't use an adblock and we thank them. For those of you that do, please consider disabling it.

Thanks to everyone who supports LRC.

No.

You operate a featureless website from the Web 1.0 era. Stop embedding ads everywhere and annihilating my data.

Make a site where I can filter posts/threads and I will pay to subscribe.

wejo wrote:

I've been joking for a while that I was going to put up a reminder asking people to disable their adblockers and doing it during the Olympics.

I just did it. Please consider disabling it. Our site loads much faster than in the past if you haven't tried with with ads. The vast, vast majority of our users don't use an adblock and we thank them. For those of you that do, please consider disabling it.

Thanks to everyone who supports LRC.

First, great site. Great content, great community (but also weird and scary in a way)...

The autoplay flash ads freeze my browser, cause slowness, and crash my browser. I am happy to let the ads play and even click on them if it didn't degrade my browsing experience so much. FWIW I haven't run ad blockers until yesterday when I complained on the forum about the flash ads crashing chrome. Then, yesterday I installed the "AdBlock" Chrome extension and found pages load in about 1/10 the time and my browser is not freezing or crashing. Have you changed something in the last day? I know little about how you deal with the ads on your side but the reason I disabled them was a technical issue with the ads affecting my quality of life.

not a chance wrote:

I only put adblock on my computer because Letsrun started running obnoxious autoplay ads. You lost me as a revenue source the day you made that decision. I'm fine with an ad or two, but if you make it annoying, I'm done.

This. Auto-play ads and videos are some of the most annoying things on the internet, let alone this site. Please consider getting rid of any auto-play on your website.

Because I care, I disabled it for you guys.

The autoplay ads are ridiculous. Certainly not disabling ad blocker.

Wejo you guys should implement something like reddit gold. I'd be willing to pay for the privledge of not seeing ads. I want to support the site, but the ads on here are terrible.

wejo wrote:

I've been joking for a while that I was going to put up a reminder asking people to disable their adblockers and doing it during the Olympics.

I just did it. Please consider disabling it. Our site loads much faster than in the past if you haven't tried with with ads. The vast, vast majority of our users don't use an adblock and we thank them. For those of you that do, please consider disabling it.

Thanks to everyone who supports LRC.

I am an old guy here, and a long-time visitor to the site going back to nearly the beginning. I fully support what you are doing and understand that this is a business. I have no problems with advertising. I would even be willing to pay an annual fee to maintain access and eliminate anonymous trolls.

However, I began using AdBlocker Plus because of the auto-load video ads that were on LRC a few years ago. They were the same video, over and over. Our internet provider throttles our speed based on monthly usage, so everything we can do to minimize data helps.

Since you noted the site loads faster now, I decised to test it. Using Google Chrome, I refreshed the main message board page with AdBlocker disabled. It took 14.6 seconds (!) to load completely and "stop spinning." Then, I reloaded the page with AdBlocker turned back on, and it took 1.3 seconds. Tried this again several times, and each time, page refreshed in 0.5-2.0 seconds with AdBlocker and 12-16 seconds without. We have a 20 Mbps internet connection.

I will always use adblock on this crappy site and hope that it prevents the Johnson brothers from getting even one single cent.

I just considered it. Are you happy now?

Dude I only block specifically because LetsRun started auto play ads or ads that really mess with the layout.

I just tried letsrun without Adblock and it wouldn't even load. You need to figure out a way to streamline the ads so it loads for ppl without state of the art internet connections.

Letsrun already slows down my computer tons

I agree. I will humor you wejo and try the unblocked version tonite. We'll see.... I understand the adbased business model, and I generally don't mind them To be honest, it was LRC that led me to adblocker. Its just too much. The auto play.... the insane ad count - it's way worse than most other news sites. A few that are worse, I just quit visiting. LRC is unique content wise, so I do support you all, but not at the expense of my sanity :)

I would be fine giving you all a few $ a year for a subscription site. I do that for Running Ahead and some other local new sites I value.

Atleast tell us how to whitelist LR??

I saw yr new 'disable adblock' notice and decided to remove the site from my ad-block.

as i like the forum, and on reflection was happy to support by sitting through a few ads.

however i had the same problems as finance guy and maths tfw, very slow page load with the ad-block removed [ my page load times were similar to finance guy]

whatever is loading, is just taking too long to load with ad-block removed

I've got adblock off. I want to support letsrun. I'll try it off so long as it doesn't start slowing my computer a ton and I don't see those autoplay ads of the same race over and over.

Ok, so I just disabled ad-block plus for the past 20 minutes. It has made it UNUSABLE for me. I have a 4gb 5yo mac and it just can't do the job with ads. No ads no problem though. The pages never finished loading during that 20 minutes. I have ad-block back on for this site.

If you require ad-block to be on on this site, I will no longer be ABLE to visit this site.

Honestly, if you want to impart rules for us, you have to throw us a crumb every so often. A feature or two to bring this forum into the 21st century would go a long way in people being more understanding of your ads.

I'd rather just send you a check in support.

wejo wrote:

I've been joking for a while that I was going to put up a reminder asking people to disable their adblockers and doing it during the Olympics.

Thanks to everyone who supports LRC.

Maybe you would get mode sympathy if you removed the large number of permanently banned IPs in the LRC database.