Please can we lose The Sun ads?

[Neville Street]

Neil, I know I continue to be a free user, and perhaps this will turn me Gold, but please, lose the Sun ads, it really isn't good. I prefer the mature dating if it comes to that, cheers, NS

[Funkyfairy!]

Go gold - no adverts, it's the only way - well worth every penny to not get wound up by pop ups and adverts - which Neil needs to display

Go on you know you want to :-)

[dan05delaney]

its all done with google ad sence or something like that, its all targeted marketing done by your past searches and web browising via the stored cookies on your computer... clear your cookies and stop vising the sun

[gizmoman]

Sun ads? Mature dating?, those google guys certainly know their audience.

[Neville Street]

I know its targeted, google sense, etc., but I can promise you neither the Sun or mature dating have featured in my browsing EVER. I may have to go Gold anyway!

[dan05delaney]

I know its targeted, google sense, etc., but I can promise you neither the Sun or mature dating have featured in my browsing EVER. I may have to go Gold anyway!

Edited October 4, 2013 by dan05delaney

[prue]

*whispers* . . . Firefoc Adblock . . . .

[eFestivals]

*whispers* . . . Firefoc Adblock . . . .

SHOUTS - fuck off you freeloader.

Really, someone objects from a moral basis about Sun ads - and I get where they're coming from - but the answer is not to block the ads. The only reason those Sun ads are needed in the first place is because of the people who block ads.

I would love to have no Sun ads but the reality is that those ads have to be here or the site can't be here.

If you don't wish to see those ads or any ads at all then there is an option, which is based in morality and not just a selfish "me me me".

/subscriptions/">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/subscriptions/

[Guest]

Today I'm getting an advert for some new television show called Bitchy Maids or something, oh internet, how well you know me.

[mungo57]

I only ever seem to see ads at the top and bottom of my phone screen so it don't really bother me. Never once seen a sun ad here

Edited October 5, 2013 by mungo57

[jeffie]

Do you know I'd never noticed that option. How blind am I?

[eFestivals]

thanks to the couple of people who have just signed up for the ad-free option.

[Neville Street]

Just gone Gold

After a very long time, it seems the least I can do for all the fun, info and help I have had on efestivals!!

No ads either, cool!!

[BA4 4BY]

Regardless of the ads / no ads element, I feel that I have recovered the few quid it costs to go ad-free many times over during the past year both in real terms, such as the useful money-saving advice and heads-up on sales, bargains etc, and in terms of the entertainment etc the site provides.

Personally speaking my conscience would not allow me to take all this for nothing (although I appreciate some people don't suffer from this affliction!). I guess a few people possibly can't afford to pay, and others choose not to based on how they use the site.

[MrZigster]

I remember starting a thread on this same topic a while back.

Neil pointed out to me the irony of the fact that the likes of Murdoch and his ilk are (perhaps unwittingly) funding a site that regularly mocks them.

And that he drew the line at Conservative Party recruitment ads.

If I remember correctly?

[Penrhos]

Worth going gold to get rid of the Sun ad's.

Blacklisted since Hillsborough....

[prue]

SHOUTS - fuck off you freeloader.

Really, someone objects from a moral basis about Sun ads - and I get where they're coming from - but the answer is not to block the ads. The only reason those Sun ads are needed in the first place is because of the people who block ads.

I would love to have no Sun ads but the reality is that those ads have to be here or the site can't be here.

If you don't wish to see those ads or any ads at all then there is an option, which is based in morality and not just a selfish "me me me".

/subscriptions/">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/subscriptions/

Edited October 5, 2013 by prue

[daveinafield]

NEVER BUY THE SUN 96

[whisty]

[pie_and_a_pint]

Urgh... Bloody ads for the Scum appearing when I view this site on my phone....

I went to a really interesting talk/debate in Leftfield last year about feminism and closing Page 3. It's all quite grim and exploitative really. I wouldn't mind so much seeking The Sun ads on here if they went the way of the Irish version and stopped page 3!

[eFestivals]

Thank-you for your clarification. Not having read all the site I was unaware of your subscription option

However I've banned all things Murdoch for 30 years and for that reason I use Adblock on my browser, for all sites.

Murdoch hasn't got any of my money for longer than 30 years. That doesn't mean that, like you, I have to become as bad as him as you have become.

Murdoch robbed his employees; you rob me.

Murdoch denigrated Liverpudlians; you denigrate festival goers.

Yeah, freeloading is the moral choice.

[eFestivals]

Oh dear ... Prue blocks the ads here, and robs this site of the money to page employees wages.

And so efestivals blocks Prue's access to here. efestivals cannot afford to pay for other people's (laughably stupid lack of) morals.

Edited October 6, 2013 by eFestivals

[craiga]

Oh dear ... Prue blocks the ads here, and robs this site of the money to page employees wages.

And so efestivals blocks Prue's access to here. efestivals cannot afford to pay for other people's (laughably stupid lack of) morals.

[eFestivals]

It's important to highlight that the adverts are there for a good reason. Many will look on them as a nuisance, when in fact they are essential to keep things running. However, my view is still that the customer is right, and if they want to use an ad blocker, that's up to them. Visiting and posting, with an ad blocker, is better, in my opinion, than not visiting at all.

Nope, it's just not. It adds to the costs of running this site that there's not income coming in to support.

If you're a freeloading c**t, you're a freeloading c**t. Why do you think that others should pick up the costs of your lack of morals?

Edited October 6, 2013 by eFestivals

[craiga]

Nope, it's just not. It adds to the costs of running this site that there's not income coming in to support.

If you're a freeloading c**t, you're a freeloading c**t. Why do you think that others should pick up the costs of your lack of morals?