Tweaktown popup to disable adblocker?

[lexluthermiester]

Things just got interesting!

A friend who's been watching this discussion tried loading tweaktown with Noscript enabled and the site is now loading without the javascript warning. I just unblocked them and tested it myself and sure enough, tweaktown is loading. No JS warning, no adblock nonsense.

Wondering if we had an impact on that, or if they simply got a ton of flack from everyone that they had no choice.. Likely the later..

Cameron, if you are indeed watching, this is a step in the right direction. Now do something similar to TPU and find a way to show us your ads that are safe and non-intrusive. Perhaps take a step back in time to when ads were shown in a simple picture format with an embedded link and loaded from the visited domain. That methodology was safe, didn't violate a person's privacy and didn't eat up too much bandwidth[because back then, dial-up was a thing].

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I visited this site again earlier today and decided to disable adblocker to see if things had improved after this thread back in march... Nope... adds still plastered all over the website and more popping up as you scroll down to try and view the webpage.

One time when i was a kid, I got dunked by my asshole swim instructor who almost nearly drowned me at the same time..... When turning the adblocker off on tweaktown, I got the same feeling of drowning in my chest and wasnt actually able to breath till i turned adblocker back on.

I also left a comment about their ads on the bottom of their page describing it akin to emptying a tub of butter on my screen then using a butter knife to squish the butter across the entire screen and spread it like a growing cancer.

I honestly wanted to give tweaktown a chance but I really cant

 

[Solaris17]

I visited this site again earlier today and decided to disable adblocker to see if things had improved after this thread back in march... Nope... adds still plastered all over the website and more popping up as you scroll down to try and view the webpage.

One time when i was a kid, I got dunked by my asshole swim instructor who almost nearly drowned me at the same time..... When turning the adblocker off on tweaktown, I got the same feeling of drowning in my chest and wasnt actually able to breath till i turned adblocker back on.

I also left a comment about their ads on the bottom of their page describing it akin to emptying a tub of butter on my screen then using a butter knife to squish the butter across the entire screen and spread it like a growing cancer.

I honestly wanted to give tweaktown a chance but I really cant

tweaktown prob goes great with toast tho

 

[cdawall]

I can't visit their page without an adblocker. It could go out of business before I personally stop using one.

 

[lexluthermiester]

As has been stated earlier in the thread, they stopped blocking users who use adblockers. They know there is a more productive way of doing things. TPU has set a very good example and it seems certain that it is working and that they are generating revenue. Ads are still being displayed to me and others that adblock. If TweakTown hasn't employed similar methods it's their loss.

 

[jboydgolfer]

I visited this site again earlier today and decided to disable adblocker to see if things had improved after this thread back in march... Nope... adds still plastered all over the website and more popping up as you scroll down to try and view the webpage.

One time when i was a kid, I got dunked by my asshole swim instructor who almost nearly drowned me at the same time..... When turning the adblocker off on tweaktown, I got the same feeling of drowning in my chest and wasnt actually able to breath till i turned adblocker back on.

I also left a comment about their ads on the bottom of their page describing it akin to emptying a tub of butter on my screen then using a butter knife to squish the butter across the entire screen and spread it like a growing cancer.

I honestly wanted to give tweaktown a chance but I really cant

TT is Toms HW in progress

Yet another reason

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

it wouldnt surprise me if TT is also trying to use a browser miner. Tom's HW is where the computer illiterate go to ask dumb questions like "Why do I have a black screen?" without any description of their system, so it wouldnt surprise me to see a TT part duex there eventually.

 

[yotano211]

TT is Toms HW in progress

Yet another reason

Why is Toms HW so bad, I'm just wondering.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Why is Toms HW so bad, I'm just wondering.

Never got a chance to answer this and wanted to. TomsHW in the late 90's and early 2000's was a wonderful place to get reviews and technical technology info. By the mid 2000's they had become a sellout site unworthy of mention. To this day they are only a passing consideration. Their reviews are only occasionally worth reading but you have to navigate the mess of a website it's become. Not really worth the effort.

On an update to the TweakTown situation, the site is still respecting those who block ads and have implemented a method to shows ads that are not blocked. I've looked at the code of some of them and they have seemingly taken the advise offered a few years ago to heart. The ads are dead simple, no threat to security or privacy(at least that I can tell). @CamWilmot Belated though it is, a "Well done Cam" has to be offered.

 

[biffzinker]

So how does one circumvent this other than to stop reading at their site?

I don't want to watch a promo ad and I will not disable ad-blocker.
The heavy handed crap has to stop.

Neowin has started as of a couple of weeks displaying a popup on the home page if it detects an adblocker.

 

[Mussels]

ublock origin, right click the ad and 'block element' and block the warnings about the adblocker

 

[lexluthermiester]

Neowin has started as of a couple of weeks displaying a popup on the home page if it detects an adblocker.

I noticed that. However, that popup does have the option "Continue with Adblocker". I only see it once per visit. While it's been a nag, it's not an offensive one.
EDIT; correction, they've changed something. Now the popup appears once per page seemingly..

ublock origin, right click the ad and 'block element' and block the warnings about the adblocker

Or do this.. LOL!

 

[jaggerwild]

Tweak town=Ghost town anyway, there forums are pretty dead, not completely but. See the first part of any forum READS NO "WARRANTY TALK" I did that to gigabyte for selling the 680 board with EXTREME 4core CPU support lolz!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Tweak town=Ghost town anyway, there forums are pretty dead, not completely but. See the first part of any forum READS NO "WARRANTY TALK" I did that to gigabyte for selling the 680 board with EXTREME 4core CPU support lolz!

Yeah those forums have been sparse for years.

 

[Assimilator]

TBH the only reason I visit Tweaktown forums is for the Gigabyte modded BIOS and UBU threads.

 

[R-T-B]

TBH the only reason I visit Tweaktown forums is for the Gigabyte modded BIOS and UBU threads.

Yeah, I never visited them except for when I was assembling the AM4 bios AGESA feed. Gigabyte always had beta bioses there for some reason.

 

[remixedcat]

My Cisco Meraki can block ads for the entire network. Love it,

 

[silentbogo]

many news sites started this crap (to the point where you can't even read a part of an article).
I've only started using adblock this year, and was pretty tolerant of excessive and obtrusive ads on websites, but on my new AMD rig for some reason ads bring Chrome to its knees, to the point of it crashing or being unresponsive on some pages (incl. Tweaktown). Disabling HW acceleration only makes it slightly less painful.