Wow, I see your point... over 100 automotive sites alone. While I knew this site was run as a business for profit, I didn't realize it was primarily an advertising/marketing business.

Guess that explains all of the ads...

 

Seems that STP was called "Mechanic in a Can" by the old timers back when I was a kid and Andy Granatelli was shilling the stuff.

 

Hmm.

Well,

Some ads must be blocked individually. (their site that is)

here's what I'm using.

I have to say, that while I don't like ads on this site or others......In general I still buy products from the very companies that are advertising!




Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0

I don't have any problems with ad anywhere. (except certain Flash ads)

 

Well their gone now

 

OK to one and all, this is still the best, most freindly, most helpful site on the net. Its not perfect no site is, but when I need a place to get help or give somone else some help, or just keep up with everyones projects, this is where I will continue to come. I voiced My opinion, now its time for Me to move on with other matters. The truth be told I would not of got My truck built without FTE and friends. And for that I will always be grateful.

 

Right on. I know I get a lot more out of this site than I put in thanks to the experts here that are willing to share their knowledge and experience. But it seems like there is a real problem brewing if community leaders here, like mtflat, are getting so fed up with ads that they want to leave.

I think I can see both points of view. The folks that run the site need to generate revenue. BUT the regular, long-term members that produce the useful content of this site, and ultimately draw more viewers to the adverts, don't want to be taken advantage of. I hope there is some middle ground that can be reached here.

 

I really don't know enough about computers to tell you. It's a H/P Pavilion Slimline , with windows 7, I use firefox most of the time and have ' Adblock plus ' I can switch over to others like 'Explorer' but i don't like it as well.

 

Thank you to the FTE members in general for all the help and patience. And now, the membership strikes once again. I run FireFox and added AdBlock Plus. I absolutely LOVE it.

 

Well "DumbLuck" you must have all of the dumb luck, as you can see i am a paying member ,with Firefox Adblock plus and still have that add in the post but no others.L.O.L. JIM

 

Just checked,it's gone now. Is my adblock working or is it gone for everybody ?

 

I think it snakes its way from forum to forum - Kinda slithery - Know what I mean

 

Comes and goes, and it's not just STP. Saw one for Armorall on another FTE forum. Stu

 

Yep, just found it on the 67 to 72 and 80 to 86 , sneaky snakes.

 

I hate Sneaky Snakes - Especially when the drop outa trees and land on your head and say "Gotcha"

 

I'm stumped now - seems like the combo you're running should block the stp-type ads. FYI, your operating system is windows 7... so... (windows) XP doesn't seem to be the only OS affected...