Thank you Mods, it was driving me nuts

[Sovek]

Thank you mods for removing the adds from the forum. No thanks to that google add redirect to lemode-mgz.com. It was starting to drive me nuts anytime I tried to load a thread on KSP.

Oddly enough, Google Chrome was unaffected. But anyways, I can now browse without having to try and perfectly time the stop button.

[Crimson Sunrise]

Next time:

-Install AdMuncher

-Edit your hosts file to block ads.

-Install AdBlock or MicroBlock (Optional)

-Install Ghostery

Ads in general not only slow down a website loading, but are a threat to user's privacy and security as well.

[worir4]

How do they get money to maintain the forums?

[Kinglet]

How do they get money to maintain the forums?

Selling KSP.

[Ikaneko]

How do they get money to maintain the forums?

I'm guessing from the masses of revenue from sales of KSP. Plus, most of it is volunteer based.

[Crimson Sunrise]

Which eliminates the necessity of ads in the first place. [This next part will remain like this because it will most likely violate the rules due to a 'holier than thou' motive.]

[Vaporo]

I think that the removal of the ads is temporary. Just until Google gets some things sorted out. (There was some kind of virus or something that was redirecting people to different websites.)

Here's a thread about it:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/106652-Strange-Goings-On

[KerbMav]

I can live with ads that appear somewhere as a banner and are unobtrusive: not flashy-flashy, no sound, no pop-up or dreaded pop-under, do not scroll with the site I am visiting and do not paste themselves over the page.

The pity for google is, that they kept advertising stuff I was looking at on e.g. amazon before and so already knew about.

[Nuke]

i started blocking ads when they started making noise and running fancy graphics, animations, and blocking the content you were trying to look at. it got to the point where the ad was bigger (in both file size and appearance) than the page you were looking at, you look at your internet bill and wondered where your transfer quota was going. ads used to be these small little gif files of a few k, but when they started pushing annoying 5mb ads and costing people money they blew it. then they started poking holes in your security.

its actually a shame because a lot of smaller web communities are supported entirely by ads and donations. a few obnoxious ads ruined it for everyone.

Edited January 12, 2015 by Nuke

[Tex_NL]

I've been running Adblock Plus on Firefox for years now. If you guys had not started yapping about those weird ads I would have never known.

[goldenpeach]

wow...

I didn't noticed they removed the ads

[Crimson Sunrise]

I've been running Adblock Plus on Firefox for years now. If you guys had not started yapping about those weird ads I would have never known.

Same here. But my blocking tactics are way more severe:

-Adblock Micro

-Ghostery

-AdMuncher

-A huge hosts file with ad addresses set to localhost, so they fail to load, since everything has to pass by the host file. Since the blocking is on operating system level, scripts that detect adblock usage can't see it.