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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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The ads I get are definitely the result of cookies in my browser, I was searching health related topics on Google today and I looked up information about a casino and now all my ads are about gambling and healthcare products.
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Can I ask a related question, since we're on the topic of ads? I use an ad blocking program, mainly so that I can watch YouTube without being hassled with ads for Muslim dating services (watch anything in Arabic, even Coptic church videos, and that's what YT's brilliant ad customization software thinks you want). I have disabled it on this website (there is an option to disable the software on certain sites of your choosing), since I know advertising supports this website, but I am still getting a banner message every time I come here saying "We have detected you are using an ad blocker; please consider disabling it or upgrading your membership to support the site". Does anyone know why this website is still behaving as though the adblocker is not disabled, even though it is? It's not the end of the world or anything, but it is a little annoying.
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If you are using Adblock Plus for Chrome (and possibly for other browsers as well), you can add a filter listed called "Adblock Warning Removal List" that gets rid of most of those. You can also manually block the element.
I forget whether the list took care of it or I manually blocked the element, but I now see it appear as only a small pink line with an x to close it instead of as a full box with text. So, I couldn't *entirely* get rid of it, but it's much smaller and doesn't say anything now.
I can not answer for you why the message still appears for you even when you have whitelisted ads from this site. Maybe it somehow detects that you have an ad-blocker installed and just goes off that. I haven't seen ad-blocker details in the user-agent strings browsers send to websites, but I think that is being communicated somehow. Maybe the cookies detect it and send back the information. Or perhaps there is more to user agent strings that typically gets displayed when one checks their's on websites that allow such things.
I've gotten too many viruses and malware downloads from CF ads, and they've had too many obnoxious ones with sound and moving stuff, in the past, to disable ad-block on this site. Also, I'm getting kind of used to an ad free Internet. When I view sites on my phone and see ads, they are disconcerting now (Ad-block plus is working on it's own browser for Android, still in beta).
Sorry, I held out for years, until I realized all my viruses and malware were coming from ads, and that I was spending more time dealing with various sounds and ads blocking content and things jumping around than I should have to. Advertisers in general abused my good will that I was extending by not installing ad-block for years when I knew I could have. Now, given that I paid for my Internet capable devices and I pay for my Internet access, I do things my way. I figure I generate enough content for the forum that people make some money off indirectly because I cause others to spend more time on the site and view more ads while reading and responding.
Sites could block anyone using an ad-blocker. The technology is there. But they choose not to. I think we are still valuable to them in some way, maybe even just in terms of generating buzz and sharing links and stuff, or they'd block us out. But no one does it. A tech site tried it as an experiment once like 4-5 years ago and changed their mind within 24 hours because they lost most of their readers overnight.
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C'est la vie. Accidents happen.
I guess there's always forms of protection available for those wanting to prevent abortion adverts, like ad block.
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