| I've disabled adblock for a while now, but when I start seeing bad ads and annoying redirects I'm done. |
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| I had enabled it again on my Phone because the redirecting Ads pissed me off. Wouldn't have minded to see some Ads, but not when I get constantly redirected and honestly, it feels too bothersome to report them or rather the URLs I'm getting redirected to. Wouldn't mind to support MAL with that MAL Supporter Thing instead (even if I block the Ads, anyway), but then there's no Payment Method I can use (like Paysafe Card). So meh. |
| So, I am using MAL for years now, just to be informed about interesting Mangas and Anime. I am not a total Otaku, I watched probably 20-30 Animes and have about 80 Mangas at home, you see I am not the typical User here. So recently I created an account here because I use this site more often. What I noticed when I disabled Adblock was, that the Servers for the (german?) Ads are pretty bad. Even If I am at work(At a Internet and Server Provider where the Internet in the office has about 20Gigs per second) MyAnimeList needs to load with Adblock disabled about 15 Seconds till all the Ads are loaded. While with Adblock it's less than a second. When I am at home it's worse. Without Adblock: ~45 Seconds With Adblock: ~5-6 Seconds (Of course I can use the page earlier, the 45s are just the time till the Ads are loaded correctly. the time till use is at home with adblock about 2 seconds and without adblock about 20 seconds. Still pretty annoying, because its 20seconds for every link I click... Even Youtube loads faster) Because of that I won't disable Adblock for now, I'm really sorry but yeah... Maybe it's only in germany that bad... The second thing is, that I would really like to support you by being a MAL Supporter, but as Noboru stated, it's not possible to pay. Especially here in germany literally noone has a credit card, they are pretty unpopular here. I already asked pretty much every friend and familymember for a CC but no one has any. Bitcoins or normal Bank Transactions would be nice. My last problem is that even though I would pay that much, 2,99$ is pretty much per Month. I don't know the server hosts in the US, but here in Germany I get a server to host all these for about 50 to 60€ a month. Given that 3$/Person it would only need about 20 people to cover the costs for the server itself. I can't believe just 20 Persons here are having this plan!? But yeah, without Adblock you would make about 9000$ from Ads, now with Adblock only about 1800$ per month. So it's a big loss, I understand that. But maybe you should create some plans for less money... Animes are generally for younger people. I have a job beside highschool, but most people don't. Or maybe you could make an "Ad-Account" What do I mean by Ad-Account? If a User registers you create a function wich detects Adblock(not that hard). Now a User with Adblock can watch some ads and has to click on it. For that he gets points. So you could say for every Week you are using Adblock you have to pay 10 Points. If he has no points left but Adblock enabled, he gets an error till he has enough points or disabled Adblock. Because they have to click on the Ads you are making more money, and a user could click every week for 5 minutes or so on ads in advance to browse an entire week ad-free. I think that would be awesome, and it's definitly possible. |
| Well, after almost the entire month that I disabled ad block, I have to re-enable it again since I'm getting redirects. |
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I'm sorry to crush your dreams. Noun: Anime m (genitive Anime or Animes, plural Anime or Animes) In addition you have to write capital on the beginning of a sentence. And because Anime is a foreign word from Japanese, it's a proper noun, so you write it capital too. Want-to-be Grammarnazis these time, my gosh. Come to Germany and learn from us. ^^ |
Neo-XMay 14, 2017 2:34 AM
Aniruddhayo said: Neo-X said: I'm sorry to crush your dreams. Noun: Anime m (genitive Anime or Animes, plural Anime or Animes) In addition you have to write capital on the beginning of a sentence. And because Anime is a foreign word from Japanese, it's a proper noun, so you write it capital too. Want-to-be Grammarnazis these time, my gosh. Come to Germany and learn from us. ^^ hmm I am sorry the plural remain Anime ! i do not agree with you there It's not what you agree on, it's what Websters, Oxford Dictionary & co are sayin' In addition this is an Adblock thread, we shouldn't discuss something like that here. Feel free to PM me, but just stop it here please. I will remain quiet too ;) |
Neo-X said: I'm sorry to crush your dreams. Noun: Anime m (genitive Anime or Animes, plural Anime or Animes) In addition you have to write capital on the beginning of a sentence. And because Anime is a foreign word from Japanese, it's a proper noun, so you write it capital too. Want-to-be Grammarnazis these time, my gosh. Come to Germany and learn from us. ^^ What a good way to fail as a grammar nazi. |
ddddddddddddd said: jakewil85 said: Thrice i whitelisted MAL. Thrice I blacklisted MAL. Why? Each time, script runs too long and take up browser memory. Seems like there are complains of this too but seems like the issues never resolved. Guess MAL will stay on my blacklist forever. get the adblock element hiding helper and your mal page can look like this  Yep, that's quite nice. But since you posted it here the Admin could find a solution to it soon... IUt's not that hard... |
Neo-X said: Yep, that's quite nice. But since you posted it here the Admin could find a solution to it soon... IUt's not that hard... Doubt it. You can't 'kill' anything they try to prevent for adblockers to use MAL. Don't you think Google has tried with YouTube? lol. |
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| The Youtubething is more complex, but the filter for the myanimelist-things are easy for the admin to override. Just change the div's names/ids |
| Yeah after some time here I can clearly say: It's the Administrations fault, that so many are using Adblock. I think the topic is done, till they got acceptable ads. |
Neo-X said: The Youtubething is more complex, but the filter for the myanimelist-things are easy for the admin to override. Just change the div's names/ids people will still keep fighting to get their way. adblock is actually pretty serious for its users. |
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ddddddddddddd said: jakewil85 said: Thrice i whitelisted MAL. Thrice I blacklisted MAL. Why? Each time, script runs too long and take up browser memory. Seems like there are complains of this too but seems like the issues never resolved. Guess MAL will stay on my blacklist forever. get the adblock element hiding helper and your mal page can look like this When you realize that's what MAL used to look like before/after/inbetween the shitty updates, but now it's something to be awestruck by. *Hits blunt* 😭😭 |
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jasager said: I realy like this Site and i want to support it, but you are macing it extremly difficult for people located in germany. CreditCards aren't very common here and i haven't one so i disbled my Addblocker a year ago. Since then pages on this site are constantly loading. This is realy annoing, but still i eep it deactivated. But now it isn't only reloading. Aftre some tome it is redirecting me to another site: fafb.gdn and from there to an addpage. Well now you included PayPal. When i triyed it to become a MAL supporter PayPal says to me "(translated) Your PayPl-Account is registered in a country wich doesn't allow automatic payments. Go back and chose another way of payment". I realy wan't to ssupport you and pay. But as for now i can't and i was forced to re-enable my addblocker. Sorry. Adblock is free. You don't need a credit card for it. |
| I have gotten lately malware alerts from my iobit malware fighter when browsing MAL with adblocker disabled. I'd like to keep it disabled, but I don't want my PC to get infected : / I don't have specific decription on what ad cause it, but it opened another page on my browser. I think it would trigger again if I disabled my adblocker, but I'm bit afraid to do so. |
| My main problem with MAL ads is that they never finish loading properly. For example, I'm browsing a forum thread, and two minutes in, an ad suddenly pops up in the middle of the thread, bumping down the text body half a page. And often the page itself just keeps loading for minutes on end, using serious processing power for God knows what. This issue is specific to MAL, and I have reasonable internet access (48 Mbit/s). I'm EU, by the way. I basically want the ads to stay outside of the content, and load properly without causing jitter and eating resources minutes after the page claimed to be done. |
LeeTailorSep 14, 2017 5:23 AM
| Category: playing sound, hiding content Description: keeps pooping out whenever I visit any other page aside my panel and the video starts playing Country/location: Italy Device: PC MAL URL: https://myanimelist.net/anime/31812/Kuroshitsuji_Movie__Book_of_the_Atlantic https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1513863 |
| I have ad block off as I type this, but normally if things are slow, I turn it on. Ads are meh honestly, just as long as nothing lags or stops me from what I'm doing. Hopefully that won't happen lol. |
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| After a long ass time with my adblock turned on, I tried disabling it just now to see if the problems are still there. It seems that the problems everyone here is complaining about (and has done so for months) still haven't been fixed... My specific problems? Videos slowing down the page and sometimes the whole browser, videos that show VERY different colors and being extremely distracting with flashing text, ads showing gross and repulsive images (An example: "Here's how to remove toenail fungus" with an image of, well, take a guess) and the list goes on. This website is probably the worst website I know when it comes to what ads they display. I don't think the admins / owners of this site gives a damn about us and just wants to make money, even if it means p´ssing on its users. Adblock is now enabled once more. |
teubert2Oct 12, 2017 4:01 AM
When people tell me to stream anime on CR instead of downloading from fansub sites.  |
Again: I will not disable adblock as long as these trackers are available! respect your users' privacy!! |
| I have disabled adblock as instructed |
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| I'd only consider whitelisting if I had a better computer. If I disabled ublock, my whole PC would probably freeze. Plus some of those ads are distracting. Edit: Just tried disabling and it almost froze my computer. Plus the page takes ages to load. |
RaidenNov 11, 2017 10:19 AM
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| The reason I use add block is primarilly because my PC is garbage. Anything that can get in the wa does get in the way. Ads are no exception. I do intend to become a MAL supporter as this site is just absurdly useful for me to keep track of my anime and manga. But at the end of the day. I dont work and dont make money so like. Not like I can at the moment. Occasionally I do turn it off but thats when ive had a stupidly good day. So yeah. Its out of neccesity that I use Adblock |
| So like... my adblock wasn't working and MAL's ads were getting through. It was using up 700 to 1200 MB of RAM per tab! I had to update Firefox to get Adblock working properly again (they just dropped a huge update), and now the site is working fine. But seriously, that means MAL is basically unusable without adblock. And you expect people to whitelist you or support you to be ad free? All you have to do is take a look in the specific ad complaints thread to see nothing has been fixed. You know, I was going to stick with this site, but... after seeing just how bad it is I'm seriously thinking about looking for an alternative. Considering this site is largely built by its own community, I'm surprised that the community hasn't just packed up and made a new community elsewhere. EDIT: 1000th post. Woo. |
| Omne Solum Forti Patria |
| I'd disable adblock if the ads on the site were so small that I couldn't see them. I'm not going to click them anyway, advertisers are wasting their time, they could just give the site the money they hope to make with the ads, because it's certainly not going to happen the other way around. The ads are huge, distracting and ugly, also don't feel like clogging up and possibly crashing my browser. Until I'd see some unintrusive mini-ads, ad-block will stay on. |
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| God there is a new ad and for some reason I cant see half of what I should be able to see so guess unti lthis si fixed adblock is activated again |
FzBlade said: God there is a new ad and for some reason I cant see half of what I should be able to see so guess unti lthis si fixed adblock is activated again Same for me... Welcome back Adblock ;) |
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