Please forgive the large screenshot

I also use noscript, which probably cuts down on a lot of ads too. I allow gardenweb.com and msn.com scripts, but nothing else that tries to load on this site.

Makes the box go away!

My MIL tried Angies list and got incompetent workers for her trouble. So much for that.

"If you click on the Adblock Plus pulldown (a down arrow next to the ABP stopsign on my display) and open blockable items, you'll get a list of items displayed. Scroll down to the "angie's list" item, select it, right click, and block it. "
Worked for me. Easy.

Terrance

Whatever is for free means that we are on someone's list. If we click on "close", then that ad has our identification. Just like if we click that we do not want to continue getting email, we become part of that list.

I feel very vulnerable anymore, and am either considering using firefox or even thinking about a mac.

Sammy

I do believe they are determined to reduce their traffic the way they have gone about this advertising. If they marketed their site(s) a little better they wouldn't have to use so many ads. The ads really reduce their credibility because this is a good, informative site.

I know I come here less (even with popup blocker) because of the intrusive ads. It just makes it too slow to load and sometimes the pages freeze up. I got a virus from here too last year. Besides the ads just being annoying.

I had a real problem signing on yesterday morning tho. All of a sudden I was logged off. I kept trying to sign on and it would give me this weird looking text page with all these failure notices and crap. Or it would act like I was signed on, then I'd go to post something, and I was still logged out. I got frustrated and clicked the tab off, then reopened it in a new tab. and there I was all signed in again. Weird..

My advice is to go to the search box and do a search for "ads." This topic comes up every few months, so there are lots of past threads with advice.

By the way, I use Internet Explorer, so a new browser is not necessarily needed--though there is nothing wrong with the other browsers if you want to use one of them.

Kate

It would be better if they are in need of help in financing this site if they just came out with a subscription plan. I even thought about starting my own site as my two daughters used to have a web design company. In fact they even asked if I wanted a rose site. Naturally being a very volunteer type like apparently Spike was I didn't do it. Now I'm thinking about the idea.

Anyone else interested? How about some sort of cooperative?

As far as GW making money, I say good for them, it allows me to have a great place to get info, for free. Soooo, go to the sites with fees and no ads, and be happy. :>D

You might say that those people can opt out as well (I dunno) but that seems to be an elitist point of view since that becomes an issue of not being either able to afford dsl/cable or being in an area that requires satellite which is expensive and is slow for what you pay.

Similarly, if you were annoyed about getting text ads to your cell phone, even if they didn't cost you, you wouldn't appreciate someone telling you to just not use your cell phone.

Just looking at the flip side of the coin.

I don't want this rose forum to turn into another
'OZ rose forum' - that forum used to be quite popular back then, and all of the sudden, the members had disappeared.

I haven't heard from Cupshaped_roses, Celeste or Randy for a long time...and I certainly don't want others to leave just beause of those bloody ads.