In reply to a post by Chippy_Tea_:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

What's it look like with the ads / banners on it on that site, I have never seen them on there.

Paul

Awful - https://s1.postimg.org/6y43pgciwf/dddddddd.jpg

And another posted in a thread in our forum which is worse than the one i posted above
http://cdn.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/attachment.php?att...

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Man those look ugly

Paul

I run ublock in advanced mode. speedtest.net is way overloaded with ads so no chance of me whitelisting the entire site.

It works properly with me allowing the following.

cdnst.com noop
cloudconnx.net noop
custdc.net noop
netweaver.uk noop
proxar.co.uk noop
vooservers.com noop

in ublock origin noop means it will still check the domains against filter lists so not a filterlist bypass. So they will only be allowed if not in filter lists you have configured e.g. easylist.

My ublock config by default only allows 1st party and inline scripts for .com. co.uk .net .nl .de .fr .org .gov.uk tld's I think possibly also .uk and maybe few others not checked for this post.
So new tld's that are not widely used including .tv block all javascript by default.
3rd party scripts are blocked by default for all domains/tlds, but over time I have built up a whitelist with a mixture of noop or complete excemption so generally anything of importance now works. Such as payment processors and sites I use regurly.

Ublock origin in this sort of config works very well for security as its similar to noscript on firefox.

Edited by Chrysalis (Tue 03-Oct-17 14:15:56)

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Because it would end up being abused and visitor volume to police it would be an issue.

OK, thanks.

Sometimes I think I miss out too much on websites.

To be honest I don't worry about ads themselves, it's the constant referring back (and quite often waiting for) to Google etc that really gets me. Quite often if a page loads slow, I just look at the bottom and it's usually ads that are responsible.

I don't actually ban all ads. Quite a few websites that I use a lot, load fast and the ads don't actually interfere with the workings or downloads. What really riles me is pop under, pop over ads. Fortunately very rare for them to get a look in any more.

In reply to a post by 69bertie:

Sometimes I think I miss out too much on websites.

To be honest I don't worry about ads themselves, it's the constant referring back (and quite often waiting for) to Google etc that really gets me. Quite often if a page loads slow, I just look at the bottom and it's usually ads that are responsible.

I don't actually ban all ads. Quite a few websites that I use a lot, load fast and the ads don't actually interfere with the workings or downloads. What really riles me is pop under, pop over ads. Fortunately very rare for them to get a look in any more.

Oh I have no issues with ads / banners being displayed on pages, some sites need funding to pay for the services etc, its when they blatantly abuse the page with loads of them, when that happens I block them all from that site.

Just like I could block the video ads on Twitch, but I choose to watch the video.

Paul

In reply to a post by Chippy_Tea_:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

And you are posting on a site that has its own speed test

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest

The postcode is preferred but a second click will let you through

Thanks for letting us know about the postcode, could you fix it so it doesn't tell the truth as i find the end result where it doesn't show the burst as being the actual full speed depressing.

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Has the TBB speed test been altered as i have just got this which is much higher than any previous one i have run. ( i have tried it several times and it gives roughly the same speed every time)

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/_assets/speedtest/but...

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Edited by deleted (Sat 07-Oct-17 14:07:24)