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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: wing commander on October 26, 2016, 12:13:56 pm

Title: is it my computer????
Post by: wing commander on October 26, 2016, 12:13:56 pm
  All of a sudden about 3 weeks ago whenever I click on any of the Doncaster free press articles all I get is the headline...followed by a survey request and loads of shaded out lines underneath...Anybody having the same problem or just me??? cheers
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: IDM on October 26, 2016, 12:25:56 pm
no it happens a lot.. their advertisers will be paying for that..
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: wing commander on October 26, 2016, 02:43:04 pm
but the article isn't even there and hasn't been on any free press links,normally you click skip and it vanishes or the article is underneath but I just get loads of shaded in blue lines...
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: Dagenham Rover on October 26, 2016, 03:07:03 pm
If you click back then go back into it usually it doesn't ask for the survey again, a lot of newspaper sites are doing this survey crap now
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: DevilMayCry on October 27, 2016, 10:33:22 am
Do you have installed adblock in your browser? I have this extensions and I don't have any problems like you have.
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: Donnywolf on October 27, 2016, 10:56:05 am
  All of a sudden about 3 weeks ago whenever I click on any of the Doncaster free press articles all I get is the headline...followed by a survey request and loads of shaded out lines underneath...Anybody having the same problem or just me??? cheers

I don't get that problem with DFP but if I access any Johnson Press sites including DFP it takes an aeon to tell me anything !

I get the Headline and then wait and wait etc till I eventually can read the story
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: MrFrost on October 27, 2016, 12:17:34 pm
It's designed to piss people off so they go out and buy the paper.
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: IDM on October 27, 2016, 01:48:33 pm
It is designed for advertising revenue..  Advertisers or survey sponsors will pay a price per 1000 views regardless of whether the readers act on what they see.

the publishers will know how many folks read the sports reports, and use that data to sell such things. 
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: rich1471 on October 28, 2016, 01:35:01 am
just click the box that says not interested and it just goes to the story , it takes 5 seconds does it really annoy anybody that much there is so much more in live to worry about than an advert 
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: wing commander on October 28, 2016, 11:03:44 am
just click the box that says not interested and it just goes to the story , it takes 5 seconds does it really annoy anybody that much there is so much more in live to worry about than an advert 

   It wouldn't if it actually did that but it doesn't which is why I was asking, so wind your neck in..!!!!
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: wing commander on October 28, 2016, 11:04:52 am
Do you have installed adblock in your browser? I have this extensions and I don't have any problems like you have.

   No mate it went on fine until a month ago and haven't installed anything since...very odd..lol
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: roversontheup on October 28, 2016, 11:25:48 am
I installed an AdBlocker on my iPad and it stopped me being able to open some web pages/sites. The FP page was much better but had to remove it to free up everything else!
Title: Re: is it my computer????
Post by: DevilMayCry on October 29, 2016, 07:52:19 am
I installed an AdBlocker on my iPad and it stopped me being able to open some web pages/sites. The FP page was much better but had to remove it to free up everything else!
You can disable adblock on any page you want and will work just fine, you don't have to remove the extension. For example, you can use adblock on Doncaster free press website and disable it for the rest of websites.