Admins, what is happening to tFB?

I would rather still have a forum like this that showed adverts than no forum at all, so for the drop in the ocean that is the Patreon monthly payment I am more than happy to contribute in a very small way to the forum's continued existence and I very much appreciate the amount of hard (and completely unpaid) work that is done behind the scenes in a largely unrecognised way by @digitalscream and the other people like @Roland that keep the forum running.  Sorry if I missed anybody, but my ignorance of who actually keeps this forum alive is probably common to a great many users of this forum.  50 years ago I learned a saying that has served me well through life: "Don't shit on your own doorstep".

I wonder if advertisers have the option to specify work/family friendly content only?

I think it’s about 4 quid a month innit? I reckon in today’s money it must be there or thereabouts equivalent to me buying The Beano (with my parents hard-earned of course) circa 1977. Get on it peeps. It’s more than worth it.

I can't recall if the Beano had advertising in it, but some of the others were a rip-off in that several valuable pages were consumed by the most inappropriate and reckless advertising.  You had really vicious things like a fake chewing gum pack that snapped a mousetrap on the unsuspecting finger of somebody; really dangerous fiery pepper chewing gum; abhorrent severed fingers and fake "nail through finger" prank items complete with gut-churning fake blood; absolutely vile abuse of wildlife with the "sea monkeys" (brine shrimps - "drop into water and watch them come alive"); and all kinds of other disgusting adverts.  Thank goodness they never showed people in underwear 

BillDL said:

 Thank goodness they never showed people in underwear 

Err, yeah. I had to venture into my big brother’s ‘cupboard’ for that. The 70’s were great.

On numerous occasions, as 2 year member, suggested brave browser as an ad free solution on threads like this. The mods have never even suggested/ called me up on ..thats ruining membership opportunites. So stopping ads doesnt feel like the mens rea for membership at all.
It feels much more about choice of putting something back into the community, discounts on stuff etc. Thats a good thing and a sign of a healthy forum.. using brave for 4+ years completely free and earned £400+ in crypto for the pleasure. Tens of millions of trackers blocked (away from here) and the internet is just a better place. No youtube ads or trailers for example.

In this day and age, you really should take responsibility for your own surfing and how you digest the internet. Plenty of options.

I like seeing ladies in knickers. I can't see a problem 

Ad blocker?

It's the cookies that concerned me. As in, there seems to be a lot? 

I viewed the forum logged out for the first time in ages last week (I have membership) and had the same Temu advert with loads of products on it and for whatever reason it showed a load of scantily clad women mixed in with whatever random tat and being at work at the time I momentarily thought "shit I don't want this on my screen"

It actually seemed to be quite innocent products, but presented in a racy way. For example a T-Shirt, but the woman appeared to be otherwise naked and was pulling it down past her crotch etc. My wife does share my Amazon account and a few other things so it's possible I am associated with womens clothes etc.

I just checked to see if it was consistent so I logged out and scanned through about 50 pages and it was all adverts for financial services, guitar related, or Shark vacuums (which I own) so must of been a weird one off. 

Kurtis said:

Ad blocker?

It's the cookies that concerned me. As in, there seems to be a lot? 

Shouldn't be - through all my testing, it only shows a google.com cookie and a doubleclick.net cookie (which is also Google). There was a brief period when we were using a different supplier (as noted above), which dumped about 100 cookies. That's one of the (many) reasons I stopped using them.

digitalscream said:

Kurtis said:

Ad blocker?

It's the cookies that concerned me. As in, there seems to be a lot? 

Shouldn't be - through all my testing, it only shows a google.com cookie and a doubleclick.net cookie (which is also Google). There was a brief period when we were using a different supplier (as noted above), which dumped about 100 cookies. That's one of the (many) reasons I stopped using them.

I mean when you sign in there's a lot of stuff you need to switch off. 

Kurtis said:

digitalscream said:

Kurtis said:

Ad blocker?

It's the cookies that concerned me. As in, there seems to be a lot? 

Shouldn't be - through all my testing, it only shows a google.com cookie and a doubleclick.net cookie (which is also Google). There was a brief period when we were using a different supplier (as noted above), which dumped about 100 cookies. That's one of the (many) reasons I stopped using them.

I mean when you sign in there's a lot of stuff you need to switch off. 

Oh. Not loads of cookies, then?

digitalscream said:

Kurtis said:

digitalscream said:

Kurtis said:

Ad blocker?

It's the cookies that concerned me. As in, there seems to be a lot? 

Shouldn't be - through all my testing, it only shows a google.com cookie and a doubleclick.net cookie (which is also Google). There was a brief period when we were using a different supplier (as noted above), which dumped about 100 cookies. That's one of the (many) reasons I stopped using them.

I mean when you sign in there's a lot of stuff you need to switch off. 

Oh. Not loads of cookies, then?

digitalscream said:

Kurtis said:

digitalscream said:

Kurtis said:

Ad blocker?

It's the cookies that concerned me. As in, there seems to be a lot? 

Shouldn't be - through all my testing, it only shows a google.com cookie and a doubleclick.net cookie (which is also Google). There was a brief period when we were using a different supplier (as noted above), which dumped about 100 cookies. That's one of the (many) reasons I stopped using them.

I mean when you sign in there's a lot of stuff you need to switch off. 

Oh. Not loads of cookies, then?

I mean when you sign up /sign in to this site you have to reject a lot of cookies compared to other sites I have used?

I'm not a computer nerd so I don't know what the correct terminology is or whatever. 

I got sacked today because my boss saw the what was on this site  :'(

She said it was a disgrace & I should know better. Even went as far as saying she was disappointed in me. I tried to explain that there’s nothing I could do, that I can’t help what appears on the site, and none of it is illegal. I think that made it worse, because then she accused me of deliberately opening that page with the photo of the PRS & leaving it up to deliberately try and offend her.

With the exception of people who work for tFb, frankly no-one should be visiting tFb on work devices. 

Use Yr own personal devices in your own time.

Grinds my gears when people complain of disapproving looks from colleagues whilst casually browsing pronhub and tFb on their corporate work device.

fastonebaz said:

With the exception of people who work for tFb, frankly no-one should be visiting tFb on work devices. 

Use Yr own personal devices in your own time.

Grinds my gears when people complain of disapproving looks from colleagues whilst casually browsing pronhub and tFb on their corporate work device.

Yes, heaven forfend that anyone should relax for even so much as a second during working hours.  Let's put the Great back into Britain, everyone.

Philly_Q said:

fastonebaz said:

With the exception of people who work for tFb, frankly no-one should be visiting tFb on work devices. 

Use Yr own personal devices in your own time.

Grinds my gears when people complain of disapproving looks from colleagues whilst casually browsing pronhub and tFb on their corporate work device.

Yes, heaven forfend that anyone should relax for even so much as a second during working hours.  Let's put the Great back into Britain, everyone.

Not about relaxing,  about misappropriation of equipment. BYOD.

"Bring Your Own Desk"?

I can honestly say I've never searched for slippers from Temu, yet there they are, alongside a risque metal sign for WD-40 asking if I have "tight nuts" or a "rusty" tool.  30% price drop though.

I quite like the eye candy whilst I’m perusing the classifieds whilst sat smoking my pipe in my smoking jacket in the drawing room……..is that wrong of me? 

My adverts are currently offering me hip holidays. 

Golf clubs for me. Specifically ones I can't afford.

If you click on a ladies knickers ad, will you then get a Fretboard ad on that site?

fastonebaz said:

My adverts are currently offering me hip holidays. 

Yep. Go on holiday & get new hip/teeth/hair...

I am getting VST plugin ads

I was logged out and the only advertisers I saw were Etsy and Temu .

Shrews said:

If you click on a ladies knickers ad, will you then get a Fretboard ad on that site?

Victoria's Secret users get ads with Emp modelling Telecasters whilst wearing lace hosiery. 

I'd do it if the money was right.

Emp_Fab said:

I'd do it if the money was right.

Will the same rates as last time be ok?