As we all know, the site has had some trouble lately. I saw that cg said in the chat room that it's just simply not able to keep up with the load on the current servers. The next step up is about 2.5 times more expensive than the current plan.

I'm sure a lot of us just install ad-blockers and never think about them... but if it's a site you love like steamgifts (and steamtrades, steamgamesales), please whitelist in your ad-blockers (I had to do it in AdBlock, Ghostery, and Disconnect).

It only shows one ad, at the very bottom of the screen. I don't even see it most of the time because you have to scroll all the way down for it.

Let's give more than just games, let's give our ad revenue too!

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I've seen a lot of sites use scripts to detect if ads are being blocked or not. If they are, they instead show a little message saying something along the lines of "if you enjoy this site, please disable ad-block".

That could be something worth looking into?

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'and never think about them'

True, disabled for Steamgifts as of now.

12 years ago
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Done.

12 years ago
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Thanks for the reminder, disabled.

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I have AdBlock Plus and it shows ads at the bottom.
In AdBlock Plus options, there's a checkbox to "Allow some non-intrusive advertising".

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disabled ^_^

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:p MY dedicated server costs me 10€ a month it haz memory: 23.59 GB total / 11.76 GB free Swap space:
and ze cpu
CPU load averages: 2.60 (1 mins) , 2.90 (5 mins) , 3.05 (15 mins)
CPU type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz , 12 cores
so :P

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done :D

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This is good advice. Done and done.

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I don't even use Ad-Blocks when i go on this website, but i do on other websites. Most of the ads on this website when i go in this site revolves around video game sales anyways. But i never never ever dare click on them, i ignore them on this site.

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I dont know where to whitelist:P

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I dont see any advertisements even if disabled

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if you have noscript remove all the ad host like Google-analytics, double click etc from your untrusted list

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Wait, what ads? I never really thought about them O_o (I don't use Adblock)

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He's probaly talking about the advertizing ads that normally shows up on the lowest part of of each webpage on this web site. Unless your browser is blocking them out.

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didnt think about that, done.

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Bump. More people need to see this.

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adblock disengaged

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I tried, but Adblock+ is counterintuitive, and I couldn't find a way to whitelist. Maybe later.

EDIT: I had to add the stupid adblock button back to my browser and then use it. Done!

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Crap I completely forgot to do it. I usually do, but someone keeps uninstalling my adblocker so I re-install it >.>

I'll make sure to shut it off for good on this site.

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forgot I marked Google-analytics and all the other trackers as untrusted in no script

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Done !

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Done as soon as I saw the topic-thanks for the reminder. :)

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I had it unblocked before, but when I reinstalled Chrome I must've forgotten. Thanks for the reminder. Hopefully with all this new ad revenue CG will get a server that will let me load more than one page per hour >.<

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meh

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you dont like this site?

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Yes, sir!

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https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

Cg just has to follow those guidelines and send the adblock team a message to have the site whitelisted.

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Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. You might want to submit a support ticket with that suggestion, as there's no guarantee any of the mods will see it here.

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Closed 12 years ago by bobofatt.