Poll of the Day > Don't use adblock, it doesn't help GameFAQs.

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Temmuz
10/31/18 10:51:02 AM
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Gamefaqs needs ADs to keep working, adblock hinders it..
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Aculo
10/31/18 10:52:08 AM
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oh ok, sorry gamefaqs, i'll never block your ads again, ok?
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Foppe
10/31/18 11:19:56 AM
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...blocking ads?
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ParanoidObsessive
10/31/18 11:25:52 AM
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I stopped giving a shit about the well-being of GameFAQs when they started running malware ads, malicious redirects, and poorly-coded animated ads which used to lock my browser up and crash it every time they loaded.

Nor does it really help that pretty much every coding or design change they've made over the last 5 years or so has been for the worse, and the primary function of the site (hosting FAQs) has become more and more obsolete as time passes. I have zero motivation to sacrifice my own convenience for their sake at this point.


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Dikitain
10/31/18 11:30:15 AM
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If Gamefaqs is willing to buy me a new computer every year because the previous one became a useless paperweight due to the malware infection their ads have caused me, then I will gladly remove ad block from my browser.
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GRTooCool
10/31/18 11:46:51 AM
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Adblock Plus for life. If a website insists I disable my adblock, I simply don't visit that website anymore.
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InfernalFive
10/31/18 11:49:58 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I stopped giving a shit about the well-being of GameFAQs when they started running malware ads, malicious redirects, and poorly-coded animated ads which used to lock my browser up and crash it every time they loaded.

Nor does it really help that pretty much every coding or design change they've made over the last 5 years or so has been for the worse, and the primary function of the site (hosting FAQs) has become more and more obsolete as time passes. I have zero motivation to sacrifice my own convenience for their sake at this point.


All of this, and don't even get me started on that mobile version they pushed out. Shit was so bad at times my phone almost crashed.
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Solid Sonic
10/31/18 12:04:02 PM
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I dont block ads on my phone mostly because I never figured out how.
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Aculo
10/31/18 12:21:20 PM
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Solid Sonic posted...
I dont block ads on my phone mostly because I never figured out how.

this. the android store is so full of unregulated shit, i don't trust any of these apps, ok?
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kind9
10/31/18 12:23:32 PM
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Solid Sonic
10/31/18 12:37:17 PM
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kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

Wrong OS.
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Aculo
10/31/18 12:37:25 PM
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kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

it's a full browser? ugh, screw that, i'll just deal with the ads, ok?
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slacker03150
10/31/18 12:39:23 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I stopped giving a shit about the well-being of GameFAQs when they started running malware ads, malicious redirects, and poorly-coded animated ads which used to lock my browser up and crash it every time they loaded.

Nor does it really help that pretty much every coding or design change they've made over the last 5 years or so has been for the worse, and the primary function of the site (hosting FAQs) has become more and more obsolete as time passes. I have zero motivation to sacrifice my own convenience for their sake at this point.


This. Tell gamefaqs to get better ads and I will consider whitelisting them.
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Aculo
10/31/18 12:44:48 PM
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slacker03150 posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
I stopped giving a shit about the well-being of GameFAQs when they started running malware ads, malicious redirects, and poorly-coded animated ads which used to lock my browser up and crash it every time they loaded.

Nor does it really help that pretty much every coding or design change they've made over the last 5 years or so has been for the worse, and the primary function of the site (hosting FAQs) has become more and more obsolete as time passes. I have zero motivation to sacrifice my own convenience for their sake at this point.


This. Tell gamefaqs to get better ads and I will consider whitelisting them.

seriously. it's the kind of shit that intentionally tries to trick you into thinking it's something else, sometimes with pop ups. like, antiquated shit. some bottom feeder shit. they should know better, ok?
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Dikitain
10/31/18 12:45:07 PM
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Solid Sonic posted...
kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

Wrong OS.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock-plus-abp-remove-ads-browse-faster-without-tracking/id1028871868?mt=8
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Revelation34
10/31/18 12:49:11 PM
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I block all ads. There's a chance any ad has a virus or malware in it.
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JOExHIGASHI
10/31/18 12:50:21 PM
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I don't want to help gamefaqs. I complained about ads with sound before. You can mute and pause them but a new ad will start playing again so pausing and muting is pointless.

Their response was that I had to name every intrusive ad and using adblock was more convenient than the hoops they wanted me to jump through.
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Blorfenburger
10/31/18 12:50:51 PM
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I use an adblocker app on my phone and it works pretty well. Before that everytime I loaded a page I would wait a minute for ads to load in because they would fuck with everything. Pushing things up or down
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JCvgluvr
10/31/18 12:51:15 PM
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GRTooCool posted...
Adblock Plus for life. If a website insists I disable my adblock, I simply don't visit that website anymore.

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Revelation34
10/31/18 12:53:11 PM
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Blorfenburger posted...
I use an adblocker app on my phone and it works pretty well. Before that everytime I loaded a page I would wait a minute for ads to load in because they would fuck with everything. Pushing things up or down


I tried using adblock on my phone but it made the websites I was using unusable. Luckily I haven't had to use mobile browsing for awhile now.
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kind9
10/31/18 12:56:26 PM
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Aculo posted...
kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

it's a full browser? ugh, screw that, i'll just deal with the ads, ok?

No it's an app that runs in the background to filter ads. I don't know what made you think it's a browser. Apparently google doesn't want an ad blocker in their app store for some reason.
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shadowsword87
10/31/18 1:00:07 PM
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GameFAQs has redirected my phone to malware, played audio on my phone (overriding my podcast/music), and been complete and udder shit.

No, if GameFAQs falls apart tomorrow, my life wouldn't be any worse for ware.
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Aculo
10/31/18 1:01:36 PM
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kind9 posted...
Aculo posted...
kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

it's a full browser? ugh, screw that, i'll just deal with the ads, ok?

No it's an app that runs in the background to filter ads. I don't know what made you think it's a browser. Apparently google doesn't want an ad blocker in their app store for some reason.

when i go to the instruction page on how to install, it just sends me here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adblockplus.browser

am i missing something?
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SilentSeph
10/31/18 1:02:24 PM
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kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

This is what I use, makes the mobile site tolerable.
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Judgmenl
10/31/18 1:03:01 PM
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Why would I want to help GameFAQs?

Also: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.adaway/
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kind9
10/31/18 1:07:52 PM
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Aculo posted...
kind9 posted...
Aculo posted...
kind9 posted...
https://adblockplus.org/android-about

it's a full browser? ugh, screw that, i'll just deal with the ads, ok?

No it's an app that runs in the background to filter ads. I don't know what made you think it's a browser. Apparently google doesn't want an ad blocker in their app store for some reason.

when i go to the instruction page on how to install, it just sends me here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adblockplus.browser

am i missing something?

Oh, well damn seems they made it a browser now. Sorry. It used to be just a background app.

I don't know what browser you use but you could probably get ublock origin extension for it. I know you can for firefox.
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InfiniteMick
10/31/18 1:31:32 PM
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I think Opera actually comes with Adblock Plus out of the box.
And you know what? Even with adblock on there's still the spam links on the top and bottom of the posts.
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rogerskg1979
10/31/18 1:43:46 PM
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GRTooCool posted...
Adblock Plus for life. If a website insists I disable my adblock, I simply don't visit that website anymore.


This

While I visit GameFAQs almost every day, I really wouldn't care that much if it went out of business tomorrow. It's not that important to my life at all. It can easily be replaced by other things to fill my free time.
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DPsx7
10/31/18 1:51:13 PM
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GRTooCool posted...
Adblock Plus for life. If a website insists I disable my adblock, I simply don't visit that website anymore.


We have a winner.

I go a little beyond that too. I blocked captchas and refuse all sites that demand them. Nor will I use a site that requires capitals and special characters in a password. That kind of nonsense should cause these places to go out of business. If you want to be that stupid then screw the lot of ya.
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ParanoidObsessive
10/31/18 2:06:01 PM
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InfiniteMick posted...
And you know what? Even with adblock on there's still the spam links on the top and bottom of the posts.

Disable scripting or track down something like NoScript.

I don't think I've gotten a single virus since I blocked Java on most sites. Antivirus stops stuff occasionally, but most of it never makes it that far.


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Bloodychess
10/31/18 2:35:29 PM
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This site and it's...

"CONGLATURATIONS YOU ARE 1000 VISITOR" pop-up's are one of the reasons I installed adblock
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Veedrock-
10/31/18 3:26:23 PM
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A GameFAQs ad bricked one of my phones, requiring a full factory reset. True story.
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Super_Thug44
10/31/18 3:31:55 PM
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shadowsword87 posted...
played audio on my phone (overriding my podcast/music)


this is probably the most irritating thing. can't listen to music and browse GFAQs when I'm exercising on a stationary bike because of this non-sense.
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Dmess85
11/03/18 2:02:47 PM
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I like the ad-free life on the internet
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funkyfritter
11/03/18 2:31:16 PM
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Gamefaqs is the reason I figured out how to use adblock in the first place.
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Krazy_Kirby
11/03/18 2:33:54 PM
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adblock happened because of intrusive ads/redirects/popups.

can't blame people for not wanting to see that shit.

(now if only my phone could do adblock w/o having to use a new browser...)
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davrick
11/03/18 3:51:13 PM
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ADs annoy me, and using adblock in not illegal so I'll keep using it.
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wwinterj25
11/03/18 4:16:08 PM
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_AdjI_
11/03/18 4:38:36 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I stopped giving a shit about the well-being of GameFAQs when they started running malware ads, malicious redirects, and poorly-coded animated ads which used to lock my browser up and crash it every time they loaded.

Nor does it really help that pretty much every coding or design change they've made over the last 5 years or so has been for the worse, and the primary function of the site (hosting FAQs) has become more and more obsolete as time passes. I have zero motivation to sacrifice my own convenience for their sake at this point.



Eeyup. If GameFAQs wants me to stop blocking their ads, they need to do a whole lot more to make sure their ads aren't going to **** up my computer or my ability to browse the site. They haven't earned the privilege of getting ad revenue from me.
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AllstarSniper32
11/05/18 6:10:27 PM
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I promise I won't use the program adblock.

GRTooCool posted...
Adblock Plus for life. If a website insists I disable my adblock, I simply don't visit that website anymore.

I really hate when sites do this. I want to find a way to disable those popups.
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