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Tired of the Ads?

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John.
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After hearing people complain about these necessary evils, this is a good solution. It blocks pretty much all ads and is free and easy to set up. Newschoolers gets money, you don't have to be bombarded with ridiculous advertisements, everyone wins.

Here's the Firefox link:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Safari: http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/


Disclaimer: I haven't personally tried the Safari version but it looks legit. And I'm pretty sure this isn't the case, but if somehow Newschoolers only gets paid per click or something similar this might not be the greatest idea. Hope this helps!
Feb 10 2008 5:43PM
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doritos
Posts: 7368 - Karma: 53
I prefer this, but yeah... either works well.

http://noscript.net/
Feb 10 2008 5:54PM
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Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
Some of them are definately weird but when I think about the increase in revenue from ads leading to sick new things like the US Open coverage, I suck it up and just scroll down.
Feb 10 2008 7:08PM
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freestyler540
Posts: 13083 - Karma: 18,725
yeah, if you have Norton, there is a feature to block them


Feb 10 2008 8:00PM
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John.
Posts: 1327 - Karma: 11
This is free though.

And Ryno^, I'm pretty sure that NS still gets revenue even if you black them. If not, then of course we should just suck it up and deal with the ads, but if they still get the money then we can still have sick coverage and not have to assaulted with stupid ads.
Feb 10 2008 8:05PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Dude, sweet! Cleaner ski porn for all!
Feb 10 2008 11:23PM
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Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
The firefox ad blocker is dope...i;ve never used one before
Feb 11 2008 8:28AM
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,635
Sadly the revenue is hurt by turning on ad blockers.   Less impressions + less clicks = less revenue. 

I know that these ads are really annoying, but we're trying to prune them a little (we can block some of the worst ones) and as well I'm busting my ass to get more ski sponsors in there.  

If you can find it in your hearts to not install ad blockers that would be amazing.   I will surely do everything in my power to get you better ads going in there, its just a bit of a process and will take some time.   These annoying ads are really bringing in dollars where we came short with advertisers, but the #1 goal right now is to replace them ALL with decent advertisers.


Feb 11 2008 9:47AM
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masta_LE3B
Posts: 3397 - Karma: 62
thanks!:)
Feb 11 2008 3:59PM
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Kevski
Posts: 7056 - Karma: 2,785
Looking forward to it! I'm getting tired of seeing "Find your graduating class", in places there used to be skiing pics.
But I guess more money for NS is definitely a good thing.
Feb 11 2008 4:14PM
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VT_scratch
Posts: 8786 - Karma: 6,250
exactly man
Feb 11 2008 5:36PM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,386
do you get money per click on the ads?
Feb 11 2008 6:50PM
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andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
I don't even notice ads anymore... seriously the only time I realize they're actually there is when i read threads like this.
Feb 11 2008 7:59PM
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John.
Posts: 1327 - Karma: 11
Look above, Bishop said that they do.

So never mind this then, at least for NS. I guess we'll just have to suck it up and deal with the ads, I'd gladly trade that for the amount of sick new shit NS has been pumping out.
Feb 13 2008 12:09AM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,386
I was just trying to clarify.... so this means that everyone should click on teh ads allll the time!

Mo' Money Mo' hos for NS!
Feb 13 2008 2:43AM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
i can think of ten thousand treasons for bishop to delete this thread
Feb 13 2008 5:28AM
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freeskibum82
Posts: 6355 - Karma: 5,055
i have opera and just modified the unifilter.ini file to exclude all the ad sydicates.
Feb 13 2008 2:41PM
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Pman13a
Posts: 3800 - Karma: 452
how much money do u get for a click, cause we shoul djust have a day when all of ns clicks ads, im gonna do that now
Feb 13 2008 2:47PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
clicking on adds good, blocking them bad...don't block!! who even looks at that shit anyways, i don't even know its there.
Feb 14 2008 8:31PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
the good stuff's in the middle :)
Feb 14 2008 8:31PM
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doritos
Posts: 7368 - Karma: 53
I do, every time I want to see Alexi and his yellow pants do some mind-bending nose grab on the top of my screen, and there's some stupid ad shielding his glory from my eyes. Plus, being ad-free is just the cool thing to do these days. Once a week I'll get really high and click on ads nonstop for an hour to make up for my blocking, I promise.
Feb 15 2008 12:05AM
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mski
Posts: 4791 - Karma: 3,803
yah, they just need to cut down on the flash ad's. those slow everything down.
Feb 15 2008 11:41AM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
Honestly, the ads don't bother me at all. Except for sometimes it blocks the top banner (The education you want. The way you want it - no thanks...still in high school). I hardly notice them there, though, and it's just part of the site to me now. As long as NS are still getting their $$ and not using stupid popup ads then I'm happy.

Do you guys get paid per click or paid for that ad space? In fact, I'm going to click at least one ad a day now.
Feb 15 2008 2:12PM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
I've used this for years.
Feb 17 2008 9:40PM
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jibmaster_josh
Posts: 2369 - Karma: 23
i was just about to make a thread about this. could it be that these shitty ads are delaying my page loadage? cause fuck man every time i click something on this site it takes like 4 days (exaggeration) for it to load. it never used to be like this :(
Feb 18 2008 5:25PM
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