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[GrandOldTeam]

Folks,

We've recently improved our statistic monitoring and have become aware that nearly 27% of last months traffic had a version of 'adblock' installed. In Layman's terms, nearly 30% of you exclude any of our adverts.

Now, our sponsors have trackers on their adverts to see how many times their adverts are being loaded, which they evaluate careful prior considering any sponsorship renewal - so you can see the problem we have.

Our adverts are not intrusive, and clearly, we rely on them to help keep this place maintainable. GOT is by some margin my biggest expense and the long and short of it is, if our sponsors dont renew and I can't secure an alternative - GrandOldTeam dies.

Play the game - if you have adblock, make the two clicks required to add us to your safe/whitelist.

Instructions
(Instructions may vary depending on the adblock software and version you run, please reply if you're unsure)

1. Click on the Adblock Icon (Usually top right of your browser)

2. Click 'Don't run on pages on this domain' (Or, 'Add to Whitelist' or 'Exclude Adblock on this domain)

3. Finally, confirm your option

 

[king louis IX]

Mixture of all three pal.

Fair enough. I don't have adblock on anyway but maybe if we had a small blurb stuck to the top of each section of the forum just giving users a little more information on why the ads appear on the site and the importance of them in maintaining and running the site it could be beneficial and help people be a little more sympathetic to them.

If you want to have a it of a chat about this or even just advertising in general drop me a PM and I'll be happy to help where I can.

 

[Degs62]

How do I turn it off for Safari on my iPad?????

 

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Excellent blog post, really interesting read, I really hope you post additional as if it.

 

[steken1]

Excellent blog post, really interesting read, I really hope you post additional as if it.

lends a tenner, kidder.

 

[dholliday]

Excellent blog post, really interesting read, I really hope you post additional as if it.

I hope as if it too, thanks mate.

 

[4737carlin]

this adblock thing is coming up now when i view, only since the recent change over but i cant seem to get it off? anyone else having this problem?

 

[Woolly Blue]

Just click on an ad every day you bad minges.







Except the kopite or ManU ones

 

[Fensta]

I disabled AdBlock on this site and can see the adverts but I still get that annoying red spammy GOT anti adblock advice thing, tis annoying.

 

[ijjysmith]

Hey @GrandOldTeam

When I'm at work the have Adblock on and I can't change it.

I'll make up for this by clicking on lots of ads at home with my fat thumbs.


@Bryan

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I disabled AdBlock on this site and can see the adverts but I still get that annoying red spammy GOT anti adblock advice thing, tis annoying.

What browser mate? Firefox?

 

[Garrick]

@GrandOldTeam can I actually ask how much the hosting costs for GOT?

Just curious, if you don't want to say that's fine.

 

[BlueLlama]

I disabled AdBlock on this site and can see the adverts but I still get that annoying red spammy GOT anti adblock advice thing, tis annoying.

Same - firefox

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Just turn it off you bad teds

 

[GrandOldTeam]

@GrandOldTeam can I actually ask how much the hosting costs for GOT?

Just curious, if you don't want to say that's fine.

Can't recall (Couldn't say openly either for risk of landing my host in it who do us a decent rate), paid annually up for renewal Oct. Good few grand like.

 

[Garrick]

Can't recall (Couldn't say openly either for risk of landing my host in it who do us a decent rate), paid annually up for renewal Oct. Good few grand like.

Wow, that's crazy. Good to know, thanks.