Jumping ship...too many $@#% intrusive ADS - Diesel Forum

F350Lariat · 06-01-2008, 11:19 PM

Well, I tried to hang around hoping the new administrators would fix the site after all the complaints about ADS.

Unfortunately, it appears the administrators are no help and refuse to respond to the members.

So after some reluctance, I am jumping ship and moving to the other site.

I hope the technicians who have provided so much wonderful support over the years spend some time on the other site. I learned a lot with my first diesel pickup. Hopefully, I provided some help to a few of the members in return. See you on the other side.

rws444psd · 06-19-2008, 06:47 PM

same here too, bye bye.

JimmyDee · 06-19-2008, 08:38 PM

What ads? Run Mozilla's Firefox with no ad and script block instead of Internet Explorer and they will not be there to slow things down. Its free.
Jim

Layson · 06-20-2008, 09:51 AM

Not everybody can run firefox. I can do it on my home computer. Work computer is a big NO NO... So this site is still extremely slow to load.

DieselMan1982 · 07-05-2008, 05:10 PM

We shouldnt have to

gpedersen · 07-30-2008, 09:30 PM

ya. not liking it... very slow as i have been searching and the pages take forever to load. not sure if that is my mid speed connection or the site. the site basically looks like every othe site with all the bs ads. can't blame the CEO as the cash flow is likely good. generally isn't the strategy to build it up until it's worth a good chunk and then sell it?

94_turbo · 07-31-2008, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gpedersen

ya. not liking it... very slow as i have been searching and the pages take forever to load. not sure if that is my mid speed connection or the site. the site basically looks like every othe site with all the bs ads. can't blame the CEO as the cash flow is likely good. generally isn't the strategy to build it up until it's worth a good chunk and then sell it?

thats what happened with the first sale---

Greenie · 08-02-2008, 05:54 PM

It is extremely slow, even with firefox. I have to sign in every few days despite not clearing cookies, and it takes a good deal of time just looking at different areas because when I go back the former page goes back to the top of the extremely long topic list; if I wait it eventually returns to the topic I was last at.
I've been here since 1999 but I'm finding it all too slow and frustrating and don't come back as often as I used to.

Mike Lewis · 08-03-2008, 10:30 AM

There's always the "pay to play" option!!

Maroon Harpoon · 08-05-2008, 02:44 PM

Yep, but notice it says "LESS ads" - not "NO ads".

I thought I could learn to live with it...until I rolled down for the next post and the ad followed me and opened OVER the post.

MH
Tim

**bugman** · 08-05-2008, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maroon Harpoon

Yep, but notice it says "LESS ads" - not "NO ads".

I thought I could learn to live with it...until I rolled down for the next post and the ad followed me and opened OVER the post.

MH
Tim

Just to let you know that the only adds that I see are the google adds at the top of the threads. I have the side bar turned off so that I have a full page to read with no other adds than the google ones.

Jim

jetskier · 08-06-2008, 12:53 PM

Here's a simple band aid fix for most of the ads here on TDS.

open up the "hosts" file located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

add

Code:

127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 as.autoforums.com
127.0.0.1 img.autoforums.com
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 prstats.postrelease.com

under 127.0.0.1 localhost

this doesn't speed up the site, but it loops back the DNS lookup locally in your own PC for the above sites. It still lags between the header and the body of any page.

Layson · 08-06-2008, 05:37 PM

I don't even care about the adds.... It is just too dang slow... IT IS PAINFULL!!