McRamFan Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Its rubbish, shocking site over burdent with rubbish adds. Apologises if this has been moaned about before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I moan about it every time I go on it, it's disgraceful. The whole newspaper/publication is now cynically influenced solely by exploiting etc.Why is it news that Niall of One Direction does or says something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Yes its one of this mass made tosh sites, the expanding google ads seem to stop the page resolving properly and I was trying to view it on my daughters windows phone and it came up with an error code so they are losing ads revenue through windows phones, im not a big fan of the official dcfc site either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Websites are not cheap to run and I'm guessing newspaper sales are down in general with social media, I understand the need for ads but the full screen mobile ads and the background ads on the main website are too much for me. Also sites you go on with the ad at the bottom which keeps popping up with a tiny X to dismiss it which you need pin point accuracy to actually click.Striking a balance of getting the ad seen and clicked without being too in the readers face isn't easy, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 It's self-defeating because the site is unusable from a PC. They run so many scripts that it generally freezes my desktop so I know nowadays not go there (when directed from the likes of newsnow). Even when that doesn't happen the continual unasked for launching of video is reidiculous and means that if there is a vid you want to watch, you can't because the machine's aleady playing something else!Daveo is right that every newspaper is desperate for a revenue stream, but this is the wrong tactic. It's the newspaper equivalent of Lenovo filling its computers with bloatware and then customers finding them unusable, with the inevitable backlash.I can (and do) access the site through various mobile devices and it's fine. But they desperately need to sort out the other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashz09 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I understand why they have these ads now as I don't know many who buy the newspaper any more. Unless you have a good pc/laptop/tablet you have no chance. I like to open multiple tabs that causes mass issues but I just wait for them to eventually work the more you scroll down the more ads which pop up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovis aries Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Its like you are riding a f/g horse , you head is continually bobbing up and down trying to read anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Just found this, bit fiddly, but works wellhttps://noscript.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 If you use Safari on a iOS or OSx device put it into reader mode when viewing an article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 How dust do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 How dust do that?Top left of the url bar you will see an icon with the 4 lines, works on all Apple devices using Safari and works on most web pages with articles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Crap paper, crap journos.Wasn't therams.co.uk a DET website? That was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Install the free Adblock Plus add-on on Firefox browser. Works wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Just tested the Adblock thing & compared to Chrome. Much better. Also, the private browsing in Firefox is far more effective than in IE or Chrome. For my work I have to log in and out of various client accounts on the EU database and previously had to delete my history and re-open the browser between every one, even with in-private browsing selected. With the Firefox private window, I haven't had to do it today. Happy boy.Just resumed using Firefox yesterday and very impressed. I used it years ago and can't remember why I stopped but recently have used a mixture of IE and Chrome. No more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 If you use Safari on a iOS or OSx device put it into reader mode when viewing an article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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