I've always been happy to allow ads on AF, since server fees and other fees associated with running a web forum are NOT cheap and I felt that Brent could make far more money with ads than with the upgrade, which I always thought was priced too low.
However, lately it seems as if nearly ALL ads are bandwidth hogging videos that play automatically and can't be turned off. Sometimes there will be three of these on a single page, and my older (2012, but running Linux Mint 19.3) laptop simply can't handle them. I will type and the letters simply won't show up on screen for several minutes while the ads spin away, and when the letters do show up they sometimes will put up ONE letter every 10-15 seconds. My internet is cable, but due to where I live and the way the wiring is configured at my home I don't have the ultra-fast internet that Google Ads seems to think everybody has.
I know this really isn't Whipp Media's fault, they probably use Google Ads like everybody else and Google will put up most ads as long as they get paid, something that has led in the past to ads that automatically download malware onto your PC.
Sometimes video ads will download one after the other, making the site useless as video after video after video plays, three on a single page. Ultimately the browser will simply crash and I will have to force quit.
If I have to pay the upgrade fees in order for the site to be usable to me, I will do so. But I would like there to be some way to not have these video ads. A lot of users here are poor and have older PC's and inferior connections, and Google's tendency to force us to play videos constantly for products we can't buy is becoming infuriating.
However, lately it seems as if nearly ALL ads are bandwidth hogging videos that play automatically and can't be turned off. Sometimes there will be three of these on a single page, and my older (2012, but running Linux Mint 19.3) laptop simply can't handle them. I will type and the letters simply won't show up on screen for several minutes while the ads spin away, and when the letters do show up they sometimes will put up ONE letter every 10-15 seconds. My internet is cable, but due to where I live and the way the wiring is configured at my home I don't have the ultra-fast internet that Google Ads seems to think everybody has.
I know this really isn't Whipp Media's fault, they probably use Google Ads like everybody else and Google will put up most ads as long as they get paid, something that has led in the past to ads that automatically download malware onto your PC.
Sometimes video ads will download one after the other, making the site useless as video after video after video plays, three on a single page. Ultimately the browser will simply crash and I will have to force quit.
If I have to pay the upgrade fees in order for the site to be usable to me, I will do so. But I would like there to be some way to not have these video ads. A lot of users here are poor and have older PC's and inferior connections, and Google's tendency to force us to play videos constantly for products we can't buy is becoming infuriating.
