@lyn The comanies pay GW for the number of the ads viewed. They don't pay if site users block the ads - so GW lose out. Either GW charge to join, they delete the forum or they use ads to generate income. The money to run the forum has to come from somewhere...
Frankly, 99% of the ads I see ( usually accidentally) have the presumably unwanted outcome of me adding the product to the ever growing list of items I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole! The manufacturers should be relieved that I’m not seeing the ads, as I might continue to buy their products!
We are on Firefox and yesterday the demand came up to undo the adblock. Couldn't ignore it as it wouldn't let me continue. So agreed, signed in and then blocked again. This is so wrong of GW to put pressure on people who do not want to be followed and have adverts on any page they are using.
Using this site is a choice we make … it’s not a necessity … just the same as using the sites of any other commercial business.
If you want to read the Times or the Telegraph you have to pay … even the good old Eastern Daily Press won’t let you read news items for free … even with the adverts.
I don’t expect to go on the fairground rides, or anything else I do for amusement, for free.
If all I have to do is ignore and scroll past a few ads to enjoy spending some time reading and contributing to this forum, it’s a price I’m prepared to pay.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@nutcutlet I just remembered something. I log in from Luxembourg and for a while there was an itch that would automatically redirect me to the GW Dutch website. I don't know if others from Europe have also experienced this. It was difficult to get back on the UK site but somehow managed it. I wish I remember how I did it or maybe the problem was solved at source by the mods. Anyway, I did get the ads for a while during the "Dutch" period. I never log off now for fear of going Dutch again 🤣I guess that if ads would appear I would put up with it.
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No longer an MP. He's now in the House of Lords.
I don’t get any ads and I don’t use an ad blocker.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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