Please, not again

[+on4bam 661]

I know GC likes wide open spaces but the change in layout when on the forum's "activity" page is now reduced by about 25% just by showing the "ad" to subscribe to the newsletter. There's bound to be a better place to put this so the list of subjects can once again be wider.

 

 

 

[+Viajero Perdido 464]

Interestingly, I don't see that unless I maximize my browser on my 1600px monitor.

 

Can you comfortably make your browser window narrower?  At my usual 2/3-of-the-monitor size, I actually see more text per line, because that blasted ad is gone.

 

That ad needs a go away forever button.  No, I don't want to hear from Marketing.  Trust me, I don't.

[+on4bam 661]

If I narrow the browserwindow to about half my monitorsize the ad is gone but that makes all other tabs useless unless I resize every time I change tabs. I often think, who comes up with these annoying "improvements"?

 

 

[+MartyBartfast 475]

11 minutes ago, Viajero Perdido said:

That ad needs a go away forever button.

It has, it's called "Subscribe"

 

I clicked the Subscribe button expecting a dialog to start but it all went away - I expect I've been subscribed already 😟

Nevermind I expect hope  I can unsubscribe when the newsletter comes through.

[+arisoft 537]

At first, I didn't see enything but when I clicked the Activity tab it showed up and made the page narrower.  And now it is gone again, when started this reply.

[+on4bam 661]

2 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

It has, it's called "Subscribe"

😟

 

 

I don't want to subscribe, I want that junk off the screen and only see useful content.

 

[+TriciaG 361]

AdBlock Plus effectively removes the entire sidebar, thus stretching out the screen again.

[+NYPaddleCacher 1165]

1 hour ago, TriciaG said:

AdBlock Plus effectively removes the entire sidebar, thus stretching out the screen again.

 

 

A lot of sites are now able to detect when a browser is using an adblocker and will either ask for their site to be whitelisted or will block access entirely.

[+barefootjeff 1612]

I'm already subscribed to the newsletter, but still get the ad wanting me to subscribe. Not very clever, is it?

[+on4bam 661]

3 hours ago, TriciaG said:

AdBlock Plus effectively removes the entire sidebar, thus stretching out the screen again.

 

Yes it does. but the subscribe widget shouldn't be there stealing 25% of the screen width to begin with.

 

2 hours ago, NYPaddleCacher said:

A lot of sites are now able to detect when a browser is using an adblocker and will either ask for their site to be whitelisted or will block access entirely.

 

Fortunately I haven't visited many that block the content for adblock users (I don't revisit in that case anyway). Noscript and Ghostery make sure not to much junk finds it's way to my PC anyway.

 

Edited October 12, 2018 by on4bam

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