Unfortunately all I think I am going to have to leave the Forum.

I thoroughly enjoy posting here and reading comments from the majority of the community, even more so now if that idiot Clownlake has gone. However this ad blocker business is now making it impossible to navigate and to post on this website.

Even if I knew how to turn the ad blockers off I probably wouldn't anyway. This site has adverts at the top of, and throughout every page as it is. I am inundated with pointless Temu, etc adverts at every step even with the blocker on. No way would I let even more come flooding through. I have only been on an hour and my security settings is already saying its blocked 1,200 adverts.

I am using my Samsung S6 Lite tablet having already got to the point where I cannot physically access the site any more on my Samsung S21 phone.

Sadly I think it's defeated me. Maresca frustrates me enough as it is without the site bloody preventing me from venting as well.

If things improve I will definitely be back. Bye for now all.

Edited September 14, 2025Sep 14 by WhiteWall

So pay to go ad-free. You'll miss us if you're not!

1 hour ago, Valerie said:

So pay to go ad-free. You'll miss us if you're not!

I probably would if I thought it was guaranteed to stop this happening but as I get numerous ads even with the ad blocker supposedly on, I've no real confidence that paying to go ad free would definitely occur.

49 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

I probably would if I thought it was guaranteed to stop this happening but as I get numerous ads even with the ad blocker supposedly on, I've no real confidence that paying to go ad free would definitely occur.

Then it's definitely you, you must be a marketeer's wet dream 😃

I'm ad free and I only get ads when I'm not logged in. Once I've given Mod any secret information I have, no ads.

Come on, don't go!

Edited September 14, 2025Sep 14 by Valerie

51 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Then it's definitely you, you must be a marketeer's wet dream 😃

I'm ad free and I only get ads when I'm not logged in. Once I've given Mod any secret information I have, no ads.

Come on, don't go!

I pay too and I'm ad-free on signing in. There is the occasional glitch but clearing the browser cache seems to fix things.

Never had any problems with the ad free sub. If you’re really worried about it not working for some mad reason I’m sure @Mod would let you have a test run first. He is actually a reasonable guy despite his public facing persona…

AF members see no ads at all (even the ads to the megastore), that group doesn’t even have function to hide them, they just don’t call to load in that group whatsoever so there isn’t even blank spaces!

I appreciate that it may come as a surprise if ad blockers have been used before, and suddenly ads load again, but we can’t financially sustain without them. Even with them, donations and AF subs are needed to continue. There is a bill for $200 just next month!

7 minutes ago, Mod said:

AF members see no ads at all (even the ads to the megastore), that group doesn’t even have function to hide them, they just don’t call to load in that group whatsoever so there isn’t even blank spaces!

I appreciate that it may come as a surprise if ad blockers have been used before, and suddenly ads load again, but we can’t financially sustain without them. Even with them, donations and AF subs are needed to continue. There is a bill for $200 just next month!

The glitch I referred to earlier struck again this morning. Attempting to sign in, I got the blue ad block denial screen. Out of interest I turned off all ad lockers (site is whitelisted anyway) including Nord's DNS filtering. Refreshed. Got the blue screen again. Cleared the Chrome cache. Refreshed. No blue screen. Turned everything back on again. Refreshed. No problems.

I'm seeing some very funny ads of late. This is my favourite one so far

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

I'm seeing some very funny ads of late.

Testing another supplier out, so maybe the reason! I miss the Russian Brides one!

I've found my true calling. I'll see you all in a month 😆

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

I'm seeing some very funny ads of late. This is my favourite one so far

"We"? That's debatable 😄

That's better than what I get.

You look lovely @Scott

I have to be honest, now I've seen some of the ads I'm seriously considering dropping my Ad-Free membership 😂

But what if you can't work out how to start the quiz?

1 hour ago, dermott said:

But what if you can't work out how to start the quiz?

Is that Aristotle or Socrates? I'm always confusing the two.

20 hours ago, Scott said:

Is that Aristotle or Socrates? I'm always confusing the two.

It's Maresca after a loss to Qarabağ.

On 02/11/2025 at 20:06, carrickblue said:

I have to be honest, now I've seen some of the ads I'm seriously considering dropping my Ad-Free membership 😂

You’re missing out….

On 14/11/2025 at 18:53, Mod said:

You’re missing out….

A search of Companies House data reveals someone called @Mod listed as a director and sole shareholder of approaching 1,000 businesses.

Blimey I wonder what the questions are....

On 27/08/2025 at 12:24, Gordon Bennett said:

Equally without users there will be no forum. I wouldn't expect anyone to pay for everything here out of their own pockets. Equally I wouldn't expect to have to pay £34 to access a forum. The adverts on here are the worst and most intrusive I can remember seeing on a website.

To put that into persepctive for you

Youve made 3,500 posts since joining in 2021.

Thats 700 posts per year.

2 posts per day.

If you pay £35 a year that 1p per day

So every post you make costs you 0.5p.

Hi mod.

Thanks for all the work you put into running the site mate, it's well appreciated.

Happy Christmas.

Any reason why there's a banner ad that links to a racist youtube channel and can these be removed?

On 01/01/2026 at 13:45, bluelightening said:

Any reason why there's a banner ad that links to a racist youtube channel and can these be removed?

Banned it! Can't help what ads show, but can rid them at the URL level if able to locate it.