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NeoGAF is literally not usable for me without AdBlock anymore
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In the GameTrailers documentary thing they did about GAF, it is said that the site has given him financial freedom.
Pokemaniac
Member
Well I need some way to view Homestuck. I have Firefox configured to not load it unless I say it's okay though, so everything is cool.
entremet
Member
Tons of people have Flash installed still.
Use the Chrome sandbox of Flash. It's much safer. However, Flash still sucks.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Java is even worse, but unfortunately a lot of business and government sites have web apps written in that shit. It kills me when we have to install it at work.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
didn't evilore shake someone down here once for money after they admitted to using adblock? after he gets to travel wherever he wants and has full financial freedom from this site. hilarious
Nostremitus
Member
When I was in the States I got a lot of ads that automatically opened Google Play Store. It's happened in Korea but only a couple of times.
Benzychenz
Member
I've had GAF locking up on me now and then for a few weeks now but I hadn't put two and two together that it could be ads causing it.
PanicFreak
Member
Yup. I've had to kill Safari a few times and do some quick tapping to kill the tab.
maquiladora
Member
Weird. I was just going to say how I've never had any issues with any problem ads on mobile.
Pokemaniac
Member
While I do appreciate that a sandbox increases security, for all intents and purposes I'm only allowing Flash to execute code that I already trust.
Besides, my flash setup is... abnormal. It would be difficult for them to do lasting damage to my computer without them expecting to be run via wine (yes, that is actually preferable to running NPAPI Flash on Linux).
Oh god...time to stop browsing gaf on my phone during work hours.
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Transhuman
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I tried to have Java turned off and couldn't because so many sites use it. What happened to the days of "printer friendly version" or "HTML version?"
Pokemaniac
Member
There's nothing wrong with Java itself, but there's no excuse for developers still targeting the browser plugin. They should at least switch to Java Web Start.
goldenpp72
Member
Interesting, i've only had one or two instances of Neogaf causing me trouble from ads, and never on Mobile. I appreciate the site being lean and unobtrusive so, i'll continue white listing it for the time being.
Ovek
7Member7
This one happened to me. Didn't think it was GAF, wtf.
*stares at Dragon Ball Super community thread*
We're special.
A similar thing happened to me the other day, it was malware called 'DNS Unlocker'. I used adwcleaner to remove it.
Jason Frost
Member
Damn.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yeah, I too have had numerous times where I open a page and the tab just dies. Frozen. Never know if it's an ad or what but I'm pretty sure it's an ad. Or two ads. It might be the ad at the bottom of the page being the same one because the top one is usually different. But it happens way too often. Occasionally it's an ad with a loading spinning icon as if it's trying to do something. Thank goodness modern browsers keep tabs in separate processes and killing them is not a big deal in Safari. (Or Chrome) Also I have Flash disabled for NeoGAF and it still happens.
Occasionally on mobile I also get a redirect from time to time. Not all the time but it has happened. It keeps calling me a Sprint PCS member (I'm not. I'm on Virgin which is Sprint's network, but I am NOT Sprint.)
At least it's not as bad as The Onion's mobile sites. ALL of their ads are infested with redirection ads. I can't read a single Clickhole, Starwipe or Onion article on my iPhone because it always takes me to an ad page with no way to go back. I've Tweeted at them numerous times. They don't listen. WTF Onion.
Occasionally on mobile I also get a redirect from time to time. Not all the time but it has happened. It keeps calling me a Sprint PCS member (I'm not. I'm on Virgin which is Sprint's network, but I am NOT Sprint.)
This is a shot of one of the popups. Taken right before it redirects the page and doesn't let me go back. I don't even know where to begin seeing as there's no fucking "OK" button.
At least it's not as bad as The Onion's mobile sites. ALL of their ads are infested with redirection ads. I can't read a single Clickhole, Starwipe or Onion article on my iPhone because it always takes me to an ad page with no way to go back. I've Tweeted at them numerous times. They don't listen. WTF Onion.
200 tabs? Do you know what bookmarks are?
MotionBlue
Member
I can corroborate this too. Pop up spam on mobile is enough where I simply don't browse gaf on my phone anymore. Using a Galaxy Note 2.
Zoidberg Jesus
Member
I just got a redirect ad with vibration saying I could win a Galaxy S7 on the Gaming Community board. I tried to back out, but it kept taking me to different ad sites, so I had to close my browser.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
This is not quite true because I still get freezing tabs even with Flash disabled for the site.
Internet ads as they are won't survive for very long, but the internet as it is can't survive without ads. Advertisers are going to end up having to put real effort into designing ads that don't bug the shit out of people so that people aren't compelled to block them.
BennyBlanco
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Yup, it's completely unusable for more than 5 mins on my phone.
Pokemaniac
Member
Yeah, this site does something weird where, if I leave a tab open for a while, then come back to it and try to scroll, the browser hangs for a bit.
I thought this would be about gifs.
There was one that took forever to load, I looked up the image info and it was almost 100mb, are you fucking serious?
DOAX3 reveal threads are full of these (well, not 100mb ones), and I have to wonder why. I JUST WATCHED THE FUCKING VIDEO IN OP, YOU DON'T NEED TO REPOST IT IN A TERRIBLE IMAGE FORMAT.
And then the reaction gifs, you could just write that, I don't care about your favorite series. Most of the time I don't even recognize where they are from.
The shit is, I can't click on images to view them fullsize until everything on the page loads.
There was one that took forever to load, I looked up the image info and it was almost 100mb, are you fucking serious?
DOAX3 reveal threads are full of these (well, not 100mb ones), and I have to wonder why. I JUST WATCHED THE FUCKING VIDEO IN OP, YOU DON'T NEED TO REPOST IT IN A TERRIBLE IMAGE FORMAT.
And then the reaction gifs, you could just write that, I don't care about your favorite series. Most of the time I don't even recognize where they are from.
The shit is, I can't click on images to view them fullsize until everything on the page loads.
I was going to make a thread on this. Does anyone also feel like gifs chew through crazy amounts of mobile data?
I haven't got very much mobile data, about 1GB a month, though I'm upgrading to 5GB this month. After looking at my mobile data usage on iPhone, I'm pretty sure gifs are a major part of the mobile usage, especially when they get quoted again and again and on new pages. With 1GB, it literally lasts a day for me, maybe 2 days. With 5gb a month (which is the most I can get here) it may last me a week or so before I get capped.
Now I'm not saying nobody puts up gifs. The fun part of GAF are the gifs, so I don't know how the mods and evilore want to resolve this issue. I'm at the point where I'll probably disable all images, but then I'll probably lose context for a lot of the threads.
Also back on topic - I haven't had any problems with the ads on desktop or mobile (but I do have more than 4gb ram).
PSY・S;198398479 said:
You mean The Neo.
The One and Done
Member
Mobile breh
orthodoxy1095
Banned
It's really not hard. Disable GIFs and images and just click "view" on the ones you want to see. There's no reason to browse any other way and waste your data loading repeat images/GIFs.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
GAF is the only site that I visit regularly that is NOT littered with ads everywhere.
Azure Dream
Member
Post from other thread:
Got this trying to do a GAF search. It made my phone buzz over and over, didn't realize websites could do that on mobile.
It bounced through three or so urls:
http://mobistat.info/path/out.php
http://mobistat.info/path/meta.php?...HI0MmEzMzc4Z2FnJnMzPVRpbWUrV2FybmVyK0NhYmxl_0
http://www.restaurantpromotionsusa....201536&subaff3=41162&subaff4=TacoBell50&DVID=
http://tacobell.com-winning.website/?subid=1458373447mb77341660254&zoneid=3246&sxid=4r42a3378gag
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
It seems to be whatever this ad is:
Whenever this appears, the tab is dead. I have to close it and reopen it and hope for a different ad.
I don't know what it is because there's nothing but a loading icon. But it's not animated meaning it's literally frozen.
I don't have Flash enabled so whatever it is, it's doing something bad. Maybe with JavaScript and an infinite loop. Anyone else seen this ad? Has it ever loaded for you?
Edit: Got another one. This time it was at the bottom and it is green. Interestingly Safari still lets you scroll when a tab is hung like this but you can't click anything and it shows the rainbow cursor.
Unfortunately you can't open the Web Inspector when it is hung like that though so I can't even check to see what the ad is for.
Whenever this appears, the tab is dead. I have to close it and reopen it and hope for a different ad.
I don't know what it is because there's nothing but a loading icon. But it's not animated meaning it's literally frozen.
I don't have Flash enabled so whatever it is, it's doing something bad. Maybe with JavaScript and an infinite loop. Anyone else seen this ad? Has it ever loaded for you?
Edit: Got another one. This time it was at the bottom and it is green. Interestingly Safari still lets you scroll when a tab is hung like this but you can't click anything and it shows the rainbow cursor.
Unfortunately you can't open the Web Inspector when it is hung like that though so I can't even check to see what the ad is for.
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