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  • Is it just me or have the blue bars gone? The screen all looks back to normal today thankfully
    The best things in life are not things.

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    • Mine too

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      • The Edible Garden Show has been and gone!!

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        • whooop!!!!
          http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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          • You know, I'm still going to use adBlock Plus as it stops those annoying flashing ones.

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            • Shhh, don't shout about it too loudly! Yes mine are gone too!
              Last edited by Jay22; 24-03-2015, 04:57 PM. Reason: Predictive text! Grr!!
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              • Don't get too excited... I just looked at the site on my grandsons tablet without adblock plus and there are still loads of flashing and moving ads to annoy the average gardener.
                I have said it before and will say it again, too many ads don't work. They will put off potential new members and maybe put off new subscribers the magazine.
                Surely this forum was set up as an extension to the magazine.
                Its Grand to be Daft...

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                • Just to let you all know that we mods have very much been in contact with Admin, and they are very aware of the public feeling about these ads.

                  It'll be interesting to see any changes.....
                  "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

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                  • I've never seen any flashing ads, I get once that change every now and again but definitely no flashing. Don't get anything moving about either and that's true of my own laptop with adblocker on Chrome, work laptop without adblocker on IE and this iPad with no blockers.

                    Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                    Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                    • There is a large blue bar across the bottom of my page, which actually impedes my ability to read some of the last lines in a post. I am running an 'ad blocker' so if this is what it is about, I cannot see the ads.

                      I am perfectly happy with ads running down the right or left edge of the page, but do we really need this obstrusive form of advert, if that is what it is, which obscures the buttons under the text box?

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                      • You can hide that one Bertie, just click on where it says close (if you can't see it then run your curser over the top of the bar in the middle and apparently it appears)

                        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                        • Originally posted by Alison View Post
                          You can hide that one Bertie, just click on where it says close (if you can't see it then run your curser over the top of the bar in the middle and apparently it appears)
                          Unfortunately that doesn't work on my computer, which is a Chromebook! I can't find any way of eliminating it though I will keep trying! Thanks

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                          • Ah! That worked. I right clicked the mouse over the blue area, and then clicked on 'block this ad'. It then disappeared and asked me to confirm it was ok. Which I did.

                            I am using a Chrome app called AdRemover for Google Chrome.

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                            • Originally posted by Alison View Post
                              I've never seen any flashing ads, I get once that change every now and again but definitely no flashing. Don't get anything moving about either and that's true of my own laptop with adblocker on Chrome, work laptop without adblocker on IE and this iPad with no blockers.
                              I reckon something must be blocking them for you. If I turn off AdBlocker Plus the ones marked Red toggle their images every second or two, and the Blue ones have full motion video-style images in them. Only the blue bar across the bottom appears to have no motion.

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                              • Originally posted by Kristen View Post
                                I reckon something must be blocking them for you.
                                If they're flash ads then the iPad safari browser won't support them. I do get the toggling images though.

                                I also found that safari almost totally squeezed those blue side bars off the screen, and that in portrait orientation, you can actually see a number of posts and scroll through them quite easily unlike some of the PC screenshots which just show a load of ads at the top of the screen and very little of the actual thread.

                                I'm not saying everyone should rush out and buy an iPad but it certainly seems a lot more suited to this forum than the laptops etc that a lot of users are using. I also noticed that opera browser on the iPad got rid of those blue bars entirely so must have some sort of ad blocking built in
                                Last edited by spamvindaloo; 25-03-2015, 09:04 AM. Reason: Extra info
                                Posted on an iPad so apologies for any randomly auto-corrected gobbledegook

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