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    Ad Blocker not working on the site

    (Sorry admin) but I have adblocker turned on by default, mainly for other sites but as a consequence I forget it's on here too, but for some unknown reason even with adblocker turned on I keep seeing adverts for Dolan Accountants, is this just affecting me?
    Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
    I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

    I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

    #2
    no, - i've got it too, with adblock on

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      #3
      Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
      (Sorry admin) but I have adblocker turned on by default, mainly for other sites but as a consequence I forget it's on here too, but for some unknown reason even with adblocker turned on I keep seeing adverts for Dolan Accountants, is this just affecting me?
      Do they appear everywhere or is it just in specific threads that causes the advert to show?
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        #4
        Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
        (Sorry admin) but I have adblocker turned on by default, mainly for other sites but as a consequence I forget it's on here too, but for some unknown reason even with adblocker turned on I keep seeing adverts for Dolan Accountants, is this just affecting me?
        There's a value in your spreadsheet you need to change.

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          #5
          Who are...
          Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
          Dolan Accountants
          ?
          Taking a break from contracting

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            #6
            Originally posted by chopper View Post
            Who are...

            ?
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #7
              Got Adblock plus on chrome don't see any ads on here

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                #8
                Not seeing any ads here

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
                  Got Adblock plus on chrome don't see any ads on here

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                    #10
                    Sorry S'mac, saw this earlier but been hectic. We use an open source adserver on here, called Revive ad server, used to be called OpenX. It is easily spotted by AdBlockers and should disable all ads on the site. The ads for Dolan Accountancy are on the main site I think, we have three advertisers on the forum and they haven't changed for ages. The only thing different with the DA ones are that they are HTML5 ads rather than straight image ads.

                    SJD and Parasol also provided HTML5 ads a while ago and SJD have one of the banner slots on the forum so if you can see the DA ones on another section of the site but you can't see the Parasol / SJD ones then there must be some difference between them which means the ad blocker is only picking one of them up.

                    I would have thought that all of them would be blocked as they are all served by Revive - and the Revive ad server I sensibly put on a subdomain (ads.contractoruk.com) which was really clever as ad blockers looks for things like ads / adverts etc to try and work out what to block. Plus Revive is so widely used that it sees the Javascript includes like the one included on the forum (view source - line 80) so all of that should be blocked.

                    Post up a page where you are seeing the ads and I can see if I can work out why one is working and the other isn't as am interested in how I can squeeze more ad views out of you buggers why one is working and the other isn't.

                    Be prepared, we are working on an in house ad server to get around ad blockers all together

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