Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:34 am
I use Firefox with adblock plus (a free add on) and it works PERFECT. No ads, no social media links, nothing. And mostly I have no guilt about using it. This is not the only site made nearly unusable by high bandwidth, high CPU usage ads. The advertisers' greed has brought this on themselves!!
But, there's one small problem? I WANT to SUPPORT this site. For years and years I've loved this site. I gladly paid my $5 a month, often paying for a full year at a time. I've downloaded over 125,000 pictures from this site which I rotate through my screen saver. This is how I've taught myself to be a very good spotter.
With the loyal and tech savvy members this site had their new approach seems amazingly counter productive.
To me, even worse than the ads, is that so many of the current group of photographers mar their photographs (which are excellent, vastly better than most of the photos from the early days of this site) with big ugly watermarks. I'll never understand why you'd work so hard to take a beautiful picture and then ruin it by slapping a big advertisement over it BUT in the old days of paid memberships it was something I did not have to worry about........