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[Jungle Jane]

Is that the Black Bar with "Gardening Tool Catalogue" that refreshes every 5 seconds?
There's a Black Tab, roughly centre, above "OOL" with "X CLOSE".
Should make it disappear for a week or so.

EDIT Ignore that - it just bobs back up again on the next page.

The black bars gone completely for me by doing that thanks!

[veggiechicken]

Hope it stays hidden for you JJ. It hasn't for me.

[Jungle Jane]

I’m on the eye pad,it might be why,I’ve got a feeling it’s going to come back if I log out,now I have to stay here forever

[veggiechicken]

Hope it stays hidden for you JJ. It hasn't for me.

Gone now!!

[Cadalot]

So the 6 million dollar question has to be, if the upgrade, I mean downgrade (as we have lost a vital tool i.e. turn the blinking adverts off) why has the forum been downgraded and what are the benefits supposed to be ?

[Jungle Jane]

They want us to accidentally click on the links,Ive done it twice so far,then the advertisers will think they get a lot of interest from this site. They always do this at the busiest time of year.

[Potstubsdustbins]

This is strange I don't mind ads so usually do nothing, when I was on the main page just seconds ago plenty of ads were showing clicked on here and I have realised NO ads.

Now come on own up who nicked em, and please put em back this all white screen is giving me an headache...........................

[veggiechicken]

So the 6 million dollar question has to be, if the upgrade, I mean downgrade (as we have lost a vital tool i.e. turn the blinking adverts off) why has the forum been downgraded and what are the benefits supposed to be ?

Maybe the Development upgrades are for behind the scenes work and forum members were never meant to have access to the other DEV box?

[Snoop Puss]

Well, absolutely no X anywhere on the black bar, guys. Random clicking all over the place didn't reveal it either. However... I clicked "hide ad" in Adblock, slid the little slider across and lo and behold, this time it has disappeared.

Ads raise revenue for forums like this. I guess it has to pay for itself one way or another. Ads that are too intrusive are counter-productive in my view.

Anyway, useful discussion. Usability much improved. Thanks, guys.

[Cadalot]

Usability much improved.

Really I've not noticed any improvements? It's just a really annoying environment I hate the Carbon Gold banners either side and the narrow Ads between the post and the right hand side banner.

[Snoop Puss]

^I was referring to the black bar at the bottom. I only see the Carbon Gold ads. I could probably hide those using Adblock if I chose to. But as they don't flash and are always the same, they're easy to ignore. I used to see the narrow ads, but they're gone, gone, gone since I installed Adblock. I sound like an advert myself!

[SarrissUK]

I use Chrome and AdBlock on my laptop. To get rid of the two side banners, I had to right click the advert, go into AdBlock and choose the option to block an ad on this page. Then clicked the ad and they've now disappeared on every page - yay That seems to also have removed the ads at the top of the page (which I actually didn't mind so much, but also the annoying black bar at the bottom).

[Aberdeenplotter]

Likewise, I've managed to get rid of the side banners but am stuck with the black bar.

[Potstubsdustbins]

For the FREE use of a site like this with all it entails I gladly put up with the ads, the alternative my friends is dig in your pocket.....................

[Baldy]

I've just looked at it without adblocker and it isn't too bad - last time I risked it I also risked an epilieptic fit!
I'll give 'em a chance... just because I have no history of epilepsy and I do like the site.