prx984 Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 has anyone seen this thing here at the bottom of the forum pages or on the msfn.org home page?i saw it once and i didnt think of it too much because i didnt see it again for at least a week, then it just randomly came back.
gamehead200 Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 It's an ad. We don't control what goes into them. Google does.
prx984 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Posted August 1, 2006 (edited) It's an ad. We don't control what goes into them. Google does.i know, i just wanted to make sure it was part of the ad. i thought it might be something else, because it only just showed up about a week ago or so.im gonna try adblock for firefox. sounds something for me to do today.edit : yay it worked, no more adds for me Edited August 1, 2006 by Cygnus
ricktendo Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 Use this to update the adblock definitions.This is a companion extension to Adblockxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
prx984 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Posted August 1, 2006 installed and updating my ad blocker now thanks for the software
Shindo_Hikaru Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 Their is a better way to get rid of the ads, Become a MSFN Sponsor.
prx984 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Posted August 1, 2006 unfortuneatly, some of us cant spend money online. myself and my parents dont like to do it for fear of other people getting the information. i would gladly donate to MSFN, but i cant. maybe when i get older and out on my own perhaps i will do it.
Martin L Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 Use this to update the adblock definitions.This is a companion extension to Adblockxxxxxxxxxxthanks for supporting msfn.... if everyone does this then we finally dont have msfn anymore ... the google ads are the main source of money for xper to maintain this site...
IcemanND Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 the next time you sell something on E-bay and they pay your paypal account send 25 bucks to msfn. Easy and simple.
Shindo_Hikaru Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 OR, OR, OR let met have a poll, and donate up to 5 people, meaing i wish to donate but grant the normal status to 5 people.
Zxian Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 I used to use ad blockers (either an extension in Firefox, options in Maxthon, or AdMuncher) while surfing the web, but then I started up my own site and wanted to support it and keep it all running for itself. I started to see the discrepancies between what my site stats counter had been telling me, and what Google Ads had been telling me about my site traffic. It's kinda harsh when about 30% of your viewers aren't supporting your site by removing the ads. Mind you, my site only costs me $8/month, but it's far, far, FAR more expensive to keep MSFN running.AdMuncher gives statistics on how much bandwidth you've saved... a whole 30MB in 2 months. Out of how much BW used on the web? 1GB, 2GB? MSFN doesn't use flashy "click the red spider" type of ads, so what's the problem with having a small unobtrusive box at the top and bottom of the page? It helps keep MSFN going folks. If you don't want this site to disappear, please don't use ad blockers.@Cygnus - Donating online is more secure now than it has been. There are encryption protocols in place left, right, and center, and if you pay using a decent credit card, the company can reverse pretty much any charges that you didn't authorize. (Note - I said with a decent credit card - Visa, MC, AmEx, etc)
ricktendo Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 (edited) Sorry guys! Every day Im gonna click 100 of those suckers, cuz I think MSFN Rocks! Edited August 1, 2006 by ricktendo64
prx984 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Posted August 1, 2006 @Cygnus - Donating online is more secure now than it has been. There are encryption protocols in place left, right, and center, and if you pay using a decent credit card, the company can reverse pretty much any charges that you didn't authorize. (Note - I said with a decent credit card - Visa, MC, AmEx, etc)parents my parents and i dont beleive in credit cards. just a way for people to get money off of us. we already pay way too much for everything. 45 bucks a month for lite internet, 40 for cable tv with nothing on (aparently we need cable tv to have internet) and 40 a month for phone where advertising companies bug us none stop.in my opinion, and my parents, if you have a debit card, its just as good as a credit card. why do we need to have a credit card? debit is better than cash, its a card, direct to your bank, you dont pay much for transactions.id rather not take any chances and be safe if a msfn user lived close to me whom i could trust and they had an account to donate to msfn, i would give them the money. its not the money thats the issue, its the whole privacy/trust/way of getting it to you thing.msfn is a great site, dont get me wrong, i just dont have a safe way of getting the money in. im sorry im not up to date with everything
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