Otter
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Boy do these new adverts for Chengdu suck up your bandwidth, I can feel some add blocker software coming on. I also recommend Ghostery for taking care of those unwanted tracking cookies.:eeek:
What ad are you talking about? The google ads (which we've had since 2010) for members are set to be text-only, so I can't imagine they are using much bandwidth. Last week, I even disabled the header ad for members with more than 15 posts.
The very ones, guess they use one of the tracking cookies. When you are not logged in they show you a nasty animated advert based on your browsing history for me it came out as pandas, sucking the life out my bandwidth. For shame FL, I have now had to addblock all the banner ads and engaged ghostery to remove the tracking cookies!
"We're moving to a new one hopefully later this month. We're going to be able to do this because of the ads. A necessary evil, but hopefully one that won't be bothersome to our registered users. We have to pay the bills somehow"
Will you need to charge a fee to do this?
My husband pays a $30 yearly fee to view the XLForum without all the ads, around 1,100 at a time and his welding forum has over 1,000 viewing at a time but its free.
It is our intention right now that the Fedora Lounge remain a free site.
Cool... a FL with adverts is better than no FL at all... all the sites and forums I visit have ads, so I don't consider it an issue. Ads that pop-up over a page, or open another window are hateful, but I sure we will not see those here.
Hope the move to new servers goes well, and help speed things up somewhat.
keep up the good work people.
Something about a gift horse comes to mind........ For shame FL
Foot.... shot in........adblock enabled..........all ads now blocked!:eeek:
Seriously though, on a mobile device this realy eats into your mobile data alowance.
May I interest you with some cheese to go with your whine?Seriously though, on a mobile device this realy eats into your mobile data alowance.