There are Temu ads appearing at the bottom of my forum page here. China is not only attacking us with AI, propaganda, but their fake coins as well.
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Will that work here? I have an ad blocker. This site needs advertisers. I never complain because that's the price of having a forum that isn't subscription, I don't mind closing down ads because of that. But Temu rubs me the wrong way. Their ads for fake coins on Facebook makes my blood boil.
I have the Opera GX browser which has a built-in adblocker. It's pretty sweet, up until YouTube started implementing adblocker blockers and now I have to turn them off to watch a video.
These are not popups and are at the bottom of the page. They are not obtrusive but just annoying. I'm really not complaining. I'm just complaining about Chinese companies that are ruining the coin collecting community by flooding the market with absolute crap. It will eventually make everyone paranoid about collecting when so many counterfeits are floating around.
I don’t remember right off but being a supporter isn’t expensive at all. Probably cheaper than the ad blocking software.
I was thinking it was $24 or $25, but I can't see the price while my membership is in effect. Look at it this way: for the price, you could get 12 issues of CoinWorld in digital format, one issue per month. Here, there's no limit on how many issues someone can have. Clearly.
And as far as ads, my new nemesis is the one that's showing up on multiple sites with a big green START button and something about "three easy steps to join". I actually got sucked into the beginning of it on another site, because I was looking for information that someone might have put behind a registration wall, and I was considering registering. When I just now hit CoinTalk's sign-up page in a private window, I got that same ad. It's a particularly nasty bit of social engineering, and I'm afraid the perpetrators will catch a lot of people -- possibly even some paranoid old computer guys, based on my experience.
The amazing thing is, I used an out of date operating system on my computer for years and years. And then the time came where it absolutely needed to be upgraded or I couldn't open up anything on the internet to read. My computer operated on Window's 7 until about 4 months ago. Seriously. And then when I was forced to upgrade to the newest, the biggest difference I saw was all the stupid popups, the running little movie thumbnails. I absolutely cannot just click on an article to read without it either being just a video or with little videos playing on places on my computer. Totally irritating! Whatever happened to just having the option to "read" and not "watch". Wish I wasn't forced into updating the operating system. I wouldn't have all these popups and videos playing everywhere I go on the internet. But this is how they make their money. By forcing everyone to continually upgrade or it won't work. Same with iphones. If the battery doesn't take a dump after a year or two, forcing you to buy a new phone, the operating system will need to be updated, which I found out the hard way, many of the apps you purchased will need to be upgraded too, and for the most part, some apps are discontinued and so your SOL.
Yes, yes, yes. I can read an article despite all the motion in my peripheral vision, but it hurts. It's like trying to do something with my hands in a bucket of ice water. That, and when I'm traveling, I need to use my phone data plan, which charges based on usage -- and the vast majority of my usage is from those stupid unrequested video streams. So they're costing me real money, in addition to the attention stress.
How about email accounts When I attempt to delete an email, so often the order the emails appear just suddenly shift and change to a new order. This causes me to tap an ad, which I cannot stop from appearing, thereby causing me to click the ad. This action causes the AI to think for the future, that I'm interested in this type of solicitation. The internet, of just things, anything, is infuriating.
