Admins, what is happening to tFB?

Rocker

jasonbone75 said:

Jokes about topics of interest and browser history aside there are a number of "suitable for work" advertisers that use suggestive images for advertising purposes and as such will show irrespective of how "clean" the user history is. Temu are terrible. Even etsy can show things that need a second glance to confirm it isn't more adult than it actually is.

The only surefire approach is to pay and remove and that is no reflection on the admins and how tFB is run it is how the "system" works.

A good idea but very expensive from the Republic of Ireland.  Every financial transaction with a UK recipient or UK Bank incurs a charge of €15 as this is deemed an international money transfer.  Partly explained by anti money laundering legislation.

Sorry, but unless the adverts change from ladies underwear to male things like guitars or power tools, I am out.

Neilybob

mrkb said:

Rocker said:

Pictures of women’s underwear etc top and bottom of each page.  If someone looks over my shoulder on a train…..

please do something about this.  Thanks.

They have....   Patreon

SUBSCRIPTIONS! Get image uploads and no ads! - Help & Feedback Discussions on theFretBoard

This! 

Sporky

Rocker said:

Sorry, but unless the adverts change from ladies underwear to male things like guitars or power tools, I am out.

Women are allowed both of those these days. 

DefaultM

If you look at guitars and power tools online more often it will start showing you ads for those too.

Snags

If you can't afford the tissues, sub, or use a browser like DuckDuckGo and nubile women will no longer be a problem.

Snags

(After reading the thread) To be fair to rocker, ads aren't always closely tied to trackers and browsing habits. And the better you manage your config the less specific they will get. 

Even so, solutions for avoiding them are legion (no returns) and well documented.

digitalscream

Rocker said:

jasonbone75 said:

Jokes about topics of interest and browser history aside there are a number of "suitable for work" advertisers that use suggestive images for advertising purposes and as such will show irrespective of how "clean" the user history is. Temu are terrible. Even etsy can show things that need a second glance to confirm it isn't more adult than it actually is.

The only surefire approach is to pay and remove and that is no reflection on the admins and how tFB is run it is how the "system" works.

A good idea but very expensive from the Republic of Ireland.  Every financial transaction with a UK recipient or UK Bank incurs a charge of €15 as this is deemed an international money transfer.  Partly explained by anti money laundering legislation.

Sorry, but unless the adverts change from ladies underwear to male things like guitars or power tools, I am out.

Patreon is based in Dublin, so there's no such charge if you pay through the subscription there. There are other users from RoI who've not reported that they're paying 20 Euros a month for their subscriptions, and I think I'd have heard about it pretty damn quick if that's what was happening.

They do charge 2.5% extra since you're paying in a currency other than my Patreon account's currency, though, which comes out at roughly 10p. 

fastonebaz

The ads I see are never relating to anything I've browsed for.  Often they're for such random things I can't imagine what led to their sourcing.

Rocker

@digitalscream, who is Patreon and how do I pay them?  

TTony

@Rocker ;

Details here

fretmeister

Rocker said:

jasonbone75 said:

Jokes about topics of interest and browser history aside there are a number of "suitable for work" advertisers that use suggestive images for advertising purposes and as such will show irrespective of how "clean" the user history is. Temu are terrible. Even etsy can show things that need a second glance to confirm it isn't more adult than it actually is.

The only surefire approach is to pay and remove and that is no reflection on the admins and how tFB is run it is how the "system" works.

A good idea but very expensive from the Republic of Ireland.  Every financial transaction with a UK recipient or UK Bank incurs a charge of €15 as this is deemed an international money transfer.  Partly explained by anti money laundering legislation.

Sorry, but unless the adverts change from ladies underwear to male things like guitars or power tools, I am out.

Ladies collectively spend billions every year on power tools.

Also, demanding advert changes that suit you alone for misogynistic reasons is not a good look. 

You get ladies underwear advertising because your device or another device using the IP address regularly used by your device is looking at ladies underwear and similar items. 

Underwear isn’t porn! 

Clear your cookies on all devices and then search for manly things like the Blue Oyster Bar instead.

Revolutions

TTony said:

LionAquaLooper said:

slacker said:

I've got an advert for ebay featuring a motorbike and Meg Ryan. I don't have an ebay account, I've never been interested in motorbikes and I prefer Sandra bullock.

Could be worse. Could be Susan Boyle showing up in your ads. 

What had you been Googling???

#susanalbumlaunchparty

WYNIR0

I'm out until it starts advertising little wooden cones I can place in the corner of my living room to improve the sound of my Hi-Fi.

one for the old school forumites.

Philly_Q

Rocker said:

Sorry, but unless the adverts change from ladies underwear to male things like guitars or power tools, I am out.

Oh for fuck's sake.  Would you like some adverts for comfy elasticated-waist slacks and pipe tobacco as well?

digitalscream

Rocker said:

@digitalscream, who is Patreon and how do I pay them?  

All the details for subscribing are here:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/226662/new-become-a-subscriber-get-image-uploads-and-no-ads

Basically, we use Patreon as a way to handle recurring subscriptions without having to get a merchant account, payment gateway account, deal with recurring payments ourselves etc. They take a heckin' chunk of it, but it's worth it to not have to build and manage the infrastructure to do that myself.

Also, you don't just get an ad-free experience - you also get the ability to upload images directly to the forum, rather than faffing around with Imgur/Dropbox/Google Drive. That's mainly because I hate the idea of dumping ads on everyone and then charging to get rid...I'd rather subscribers got extra functionality.

Subscribers also get a decent discount on tFB merch, like the neck rests and pedalboard kits.

CHRISB50

Rocker said:

@digitalscream, who is Patreon and how do I pay them?  

She's really friendly. And won't bite. Unless you ask her, and then pay extra.

randella

Sorely disappointed to have read this only to have found something so manly at the bottom of the page as RS (as in Radio Spares) trying to sell me mains connectors.

Where are *my* knickers?

RocknRollDave

thecolourbox said:

Well the adverts showing on my page currently are for The Bear Tavern (a pub in a shit hole called Bearwood just outside Birmingham) and Tackling Climate Change, neither of which I have browsed for anything like recently as far as I can tell. I've also had the Temu ones, I suspected that my briefing history suggested I'd be interested in Temu as a whole, and not the random magpie style collection of tat shown in the flashing images

I live in Bearwood  ;(

Emp_Fab

If you want to become a 'member' and pay, that's your choice.  Likewise if you choose not to.  However, I don't think pushing membership as a means to stop inappropriate ads is quite the decent thing.  The ads shouldn't be inappropriate regardless.  It has the slightest whiff of "If you don't pay, you're going to get scantily clad women, potentially NSFW, on your screen."

That's morally debatable in my book.

Tannin

Nonsense, @Emp_Fab. The ads you and I and everybody else gets are not, repeat NOT distributed by or decided upon by The Fretboard. The particular ads you see are chosen by the advertising agency (presumably Google, or some other bastards of similar ilk) and completely beyond The Fretboard's control. If you don't like them, you can:

a: change your browsing and searching habits - you only see stuff if you look at stuff
b: use a decent web browser that does not show bloody ads
c: install an ad blocker on your existing not-so-good web browser
d: learn not to see ads - it's just a simple mental trick, anyone can do it.
e: give a small amount of money to The Fretboard
f: stop visiting The Fretboard (and pretty much everywhere else on the interweb)

I use (a), (b) and (d) and will go to (e) as soon as bloody Patreon stops insisting on taking piddly little amounts once a month (which makes your bank statements and accounts a pain in the arse) instead of a nice simple once a year sum.