Adverts on this forum

Starting to annoy me now.
I am quite happy to have adverts, I know they are needed to pay for hosting and suchlike but do we have to have ones that have sound as well?

In the last 2 days I have had some female telling me her name is Kim and would I like to meet her friend and today I have what looks like an egg timer that makes a constant drip drip sound.

It's driving me bonkers, I am all for covering costs etc so have not installed an Ad blocker yet but the time is not far off.

Since running Adblock Plus on Firefox I don't see the ads any more. It is, after the spelling checker, the best add-on I've found.

I've even got a Nikon advert up - definitely need a an ad-blocker now!!!!

Bob

What adverts???

(Running AdBlock Plus on FireFox )
Matt

The adverts are earning money far in excess of what it is needed to run a forum much larger and busier than this one.

You may well find that this is because the Pentax User forum is also run by the ePhotozine team, using the same (or similar) web code ePhotozine.com and ePhotozine.tv are *huge* in comparison to this one!
Matt

Yes I realise we are part of a money-making exercise for ePhotozine. That doesn't stop me being grateful for the forum though.

What's involved in "running Adblock Plus" please?

Ray.

If you run Firefox you can add extras onto it - like the spell checker, which I have in both English and Dutch for instance. Someone else on the forum pointed me in the direction of Adblock Plus a while ago.

If you go to link you can download it. You can tell it how much to block, and on which sites it is to block.

So far (touch wood) I have only adverts pertaining to our hobby appearing (e.g. genuine Pentax and lens dealers).

My virus checker (Trend Micro PCcillin) has reported dangerous spyware a few times:

[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee91/terje-l/trend.jpg[/IMG]

Sent a report to admin, but so far I have not had a sensible answer...