Ad Blockers highly recommended

[Leon]

Originally Posted by DJR

Net54baseball.com shows up consistently with 80 minimum to 120 ads per page. Seriously, Leon! With so many advertisers / industry participants felons, many w/ less then honorable intentions, does anyone w/ current high level programming expertise review the submitted code for nefarious advertiser activities? Are Net54baseball.com members being exposed and/or sold out? I have ABP (AdBlockPlus) on my browser and Net54baseball.com has the distinction of being several x more intrusive for ads / info gathering then ANY other site I've EVER visited.

In answer to your questions you are ignorant and have an infected computer.

[Exhibitman]

The ads here are minimally intrusive and rarely affect performance. Your computer is infected with malware.

[rdwyer]

Ads, tracking cookies, etc is what he's talking about. I use Adguard. As you can see, many websites are now tracking you.

[Snapolit1]

Jeez. Every time I click on CNN or Marketwatch I assume I'm being tracked by 1000s of sites. If this kind of crap keeps me up at night I'd be trully insane.

I'm sure there is also a setting on Firefox so you can block all of this in a matter of seconds.

[steve B]

I'm not familiar with any of those blockers.

The cumulative numbers may be time related. The cycling ad may have to request "new" graphics for each change, so over a period of time the number could get pretty high.

Some ads also keep trying if they're blocked, which would also increase the count.

Although, all the ones I have currently are static, and are just .GIFs so there shouldn't be much going on there.

I had a glitch a while back, maybe two years or more where I was getting the weird hover over ads where random words appear as links. Turned out to be some adware that had downloaded from a site that had a bunch of those, (And was probably something like a legit news site if I remember it right) Finding and removing it fixed the problem.

Steve B

[rdwyer]

I also use Blur. 33,932 trackers blocked since April 16th.

[ksabet]

not to sound like a kissass but I try to actually click the ads when I go to any auction sites.

I am assuming by clicking on the links it somehow helps this board.

[DJR]

Originally Posted by Leon

In answer to your questions you are ignorant and have an infected computer.

Nah, just ran diagnostic checks on an almost new MAC, so you're most likely wrong on both accounts. No other sites light up like a Christmas tree and hope you know what you're doing!

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by DJR

No other sites light up like a Christmas tree and hope you know what you're doing!

Hmmm, so you are insinuating that net54 is just as risky to look at as those free porn sites (not that I would know anything about them )?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Hmmm, so you are insinuating that net54 is just as risky to look at as those free porn sites (not that I would know anything about them )?

I think he is insinuating that, after 13 yrs of running this place, I don't know what I am doing AND everyone else is wrong. Sure thing.....

[JustinD]

Meh, how this could be such a concerning subject is a mystery to me. I have much more worrisome items to be in the forefront.

This is much like people throwing an inane fit over a sales call or specifically calling companies to voice complaints about spam emails or junk mail in their mailbox. My time is far more valuable than sitting on hold for 30 minutes to stop an email from a department store.

It takes 100 times the effort to freak out than to ignore, and I really don't believe other than assisting in marketing analytics that an internet tracker is a conspiracy. I don't care if they track away and I will just continue to ignore the directed advertising that appears on sites I visit because of it. That's the extent of the tracking headaches the internet causes me.

Or just maybe the black helicopters will drop in my backyard and put me under the spotlight to ask about my Amazon purchases...

[autograf]

If you don't have all that adware, malware and spamware, how do your Nigerian prince cousins know how to contact you? Geez..........

[Matt]

I'd venture that his ad blocker is picking up the ebay rover links in the section titled "shop pre-war auctions" underneath the ribbon of Net54 links at the top of the page and counting each rover link as a separate ad. Other ad blockers may not count those at all.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Matt

I'd venture that his ad blocker is picking up the ebay rover links in the section titled "shop pre-war auctions" underneath the ribbon of Net54 links at the top of the page and counting each rover link as a separate ad. Other ad blockers may not count those at all.

Never had a problem with the Net54 site. Would avoid clicking on the link on the bottom of Matt's page though. Clicked on his For Sale link and got some ransomware that I had to force a computer shut down and restore my computer to a earlier saved backup point.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Matt

I'd venture that his ad blocker is picking up the ebay rover links in the section titled "shop pre-war auctions" underneath the ribbon of Net54 links at the top of the page and counting each rover link as a separate ad. Other ad blockers may not count those at all.

It appears he's using the same ad blocker that both Sean and I are using and we both show only 1 ad being blocked on this site. His is at 120. I'm on my work computer right now (Don't worry, I'm the boss, I can be on here whenever I like ) and the ad blocker here is showing only 1 item being blocked.