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Um, why am I seeing ads for DominicanCupid.com? Anyone else? My wife is from Ohio BTW.
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If it might cause you problems, don't recommend TubeNet.

I use AdBlock and don't see any ads here. Not even the sponsor's ads...
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The Big Ben wrote:If it might cause you problems, don't recommend TubeNet.

I use AdBlock and don't see any ads here. Not even the sponsor's ads...
I'll second using Adblock - it works great and completely eliminated all of the ads for me.
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tofu wrote:
The Big Ben wrote:If it might cause you problems, don't recommend TubeNet.

I use AdBlock and don't see any ads here. Not even the sponsor's ads...
I'll second using Adblock - it works great and completely eliminated all of the ads for me.


I haven't looked into the preferences to see if I can select the sites I want AdBlocked. I know that TubeNet works fine with AdBlock but sites with lots and lots of ads slow waaaay down when AdBlock is engaged.
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I use Adblock and it works great. Also, the latest version of Firefox, 21.0,(I'm on a Mac) has a choice to open a new window or a new private window. When I choose NEW PRIVATE window there are absolutely no ads. Even the sponsors are blocked. They don't even appear on the Sponsors page.

Just my $.02
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Ads are a fact of life in about any form of media. Someone has to pay the bills for what we assume is free. I just don't pay any attention to them. As far as making recommendations to young people.... I don't think I could even ordain a newspaper!
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Why doesn't everyone use some sort of ad blocker (I realize it doesn't help with referrals but still!)??
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The only way obnoxious advertising could completely disappear from TubeNet would be to adopt a user support system. All volunteer payments, subscriptions, donations, 'approved sponsors'. It would need to be administered and there's the rub. I think we will have to live with the obnoxious advertising or use an ad blocker to manage it for ourselves.
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And it doesn't help that T.U.B.A. is an acronym for a medical procedure....
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