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Blazinghand
United States25546 Posts
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On October 02 2015 03:45 Blazinghand wrote:I turned off adblock for TL and when TL+ became available I bought it and didn't look back. I understand why people use adblock, and I use adblock, but when I think about the amount of value I get from teamliquid.net I feel like it's 100% worth turning off adblock or getting TL+ Show nested quote +On October 02 2015 03:36 BingbingBOPOMOFO wrote: I want to respectfully say ads are unwanted information. I don't want more. TL has been on the whitelist until this point, I'm afraid I will remove it from the list when this update drops.
If you need money for operational costs simply provide a donate button. If TL is all about the community then it should be us that make it work. The idea of "milking" your community members sometimes doesn't sit well with others but I'm okay with it. I'd much rather you relay on the community that makes this website instead of website organizers slowly putting in unwanted changes.
Bingbing TL+ exists, but not enough people buy it. The fact of the matter is, TL requires a staff and requires servers and bandwidth, and these things literally cost money. If not enough people buy TL+ and 55% of people use adblock, then yes, TL will have to have a second ad. There's actually no way around this unless you can make more money appear somehow. Things TL isn't doing: gating content being bad using intrusive ads Things TL is doing: providing many ways to support TL (store, TL+, seeing ads)
Agreed. Quite frankly, buying TL+ is the least I can do to support a forum that I spend over an hour on pretty much every day. That's also why I buy a ton of stuff from the TL Store (besides the fact that the stuff looks frickin' awesome).
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Turned off adblock for the domain.
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Ok, I'll adjust my AdBlock settings to view your ads, TL.
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I understand the reasoning behind it but I remain with the 55%.
adblock was a gift for my 8 year old laptop. everything runs so much smoother because of less ads especially while on twitch. some other ads that appear on forums or sites that are similar to TL have sound or are so misleading that I casually click the wrong links and end up buying a czech espresso maker. I get confused easily. thats just my semi-honest reply to this honest thread. go coffee
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I turned off adblock, but it still doesn't show anything. Probably noscript...
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Poland3743 Posts
On October 02 2015 02:51 BisuDagger wrote: Skip the fluff and give us the TL checking account number, and we can start depositing all our e-checks to the account. TL+ servers this purpose.
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On October 02 2015 04:44 vhapter wrote: I turned off adblock, but it still doesn't show anything. Probably noscript... The ad isn't live yet.
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unrelated question, if i have ad block on at the same time i own tl+, does it count towards the 55%?
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I am officially a dumbass, I missed the TL+ announcement back whenever and haven't really thought much about what it might be.
Given that I love the site and lurk a lot without managing to actually contribute in any meaningful manner, and that TL+ actually is a lot cheaper than each of my billion Twitch channel subscriptions, well. Not that I have a problem with ads, and have never used adblock, but TL+ here I come!
Maybe you need more frequent ads for TL+ too, to remind more zombies like myself that it exists
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I'm a proud member of the 55% \o/!
While I am never really a fan of advertising, I think it was pretty respectable to make an actual post explaining it to the users instead of having ads just randomly appear. So thanks for that.
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ad block switched off now. its on by default and never gave it much thought. thanks for reminding me.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On October 02 2015 04:56 dAPhREAk wrote: unrelated question, if i have ad block on at the same time i own tl+, does it count towards the 55%? It does not!
On October 02 2015 04:35 trada wrote: I understand the reasoning behind it but I remain with the 55%.
adblock was a gift for my 8 year old laptop. everything runs so much smoother because of less ads especially while on twitch. some other ads that appear on forums or sites that are similar to TL have sound or are so misleading that I casually click the wrong links and end up buying a czech espresso maker. I get confused easily. thats just my semi-honest reply to this honest thread. go coffee Thanks for the honesty. We know ads suck, we don't make decisions like this lightly. Unfortunately there aren't viable alternatives but I do hope that the site can find those eventually. Until then, if you appreciate the work that we do and you have a spare $4 lying around consider grabbing TL+. It may not seem like you're helping out much, but you really are.
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I forgot to take add block off for this site after my last system reinstall. Consider it rectified.
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Unfortunately my wife doesn't want me to meet all these hot single russian/asian women near me. And before you ask yes those ads also show on HER computer so I'm pretty sure it is not my browsing history :D (I have all google tracking services JavaScripts disabled anyway)
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I support everything you guys do here. Great work and thanks for the heads up.
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I don't mind if sites advertise their own stuff on their site. I have zero use or want to see third party stuff. The latter isn't good advertising at all, it's an annoyance.
When I need to run a video on youtube to demonstrate something in the classroom, I cringe at having to use a browser without it. Things at max volume, commercials that have zero to do with the content, just a i will punish you for using it...and you think that gives a good feeling? Hm.
Once commercials began to appear within the production itself, about the products at hand...I had zero issues.
I like teamliquid a lot. They have to get a good chunck of change to do what they do. I don't mind a separator like this at all if it's esports related.
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Doesn't stop them from showing up. Disabled, saw one immediately, re-enabled.
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On October 02 2015 03:06 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: I have a confession that just due to the shittiness of Flash and limitations of both hardware and internet, I sometimes have to use adblock to prevent everything from lagging to shit because of Flash ads. I turn it off for normal browsing, but when I have twitch open I have to turn it on or everything lags horribly. Seriously, some of the ads that you see are just straight up videos that autoload. For someone who watches low on twitch to begin with, and has a toaster that can't handle too much stuff at the same time, this is a huge problem. I know this isn't TL's fault, but it is a big reason why some people are forced to use these sorts of things.
I have Flash set on click to activate. There are only a handful of sites where I bother to activate it. It speeds up browsing experience so much.
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