Ads are driving me mad, I am not interested in Lemsip!

Oh, blissful peace!!

 

Do I gather mission accomplished? We have ad problems on one of the other forums which the "management" deal with by paying. Some people didn't ever get them and were quite confused by the complaints of those that did - lemsip would have been mild, ours were photos of oriental "ladies" offering their wares! Hardly of interest for a site dealing with a rheumatism mainly found in over-50s! I told everyone to get one of the ad-blocking programmes and save the charity's money!

Ha ha! Yes, mission accomplished,  I used the program you mentioned and got the extn for Opera and all of the ads have vanished completely, so I don't even have to look at a cooked turkey!

I don't know why Lemsip would suddenly decide that today it would start singing to me at every click on the page but, it did!

I have now installed Eileen's suggestion of Adblock Plus and it is wonderful and, thus far, hasn't caused any problems with other sites I use, though I have yet to see what it does to my Bank's site.

I will look into it--thanks!

Doesn't appear to affect hubby's banking. 

The bans on commercial links and dodgy ads in posts are more because this is a site also used by doctors and they want to retain its air of respectability I think. Alternative therapies (especially the wackier ones) are also to be kept strictly to that forum and not strewn through the others. You CAN mention links if it is in the context of what you have found helps you - but it will almost always be captured to be examined, if regarded as safe it will appear eventually, the post may appear with what they disapprove of removed. 

IMHO, Lemsip doesn't belong here either but obviously they think it's OK.

Did you know by the way that the main reason for people's smartphones batteries lasting a mere few hours is all these automatic play videos, especially on Facebook? Some of them drive me up the wall as they set off as you scroll down to see earlier posts. 

Hi EileenH,

Good point to raise about SMART phones and video advertising, and Facebook (need we say more!). But there's more to it than just batteries running down quicker.

Many Mobile Phone Tariffs offer unlimited everything these days, but as always this is FALSE advertising. If you read the small print there is always a clause regarding 'Bandwidth' consumption or as the providers state "fair usage policy". Go over THIS and expect very high phone bills.

On YouTube you can lower the bandwidth per video, by lowering the playback resolution, there is no need for 1080p HD playback on a phone, you can easily lower this and see no difference. Many children do not do this and just their bandwidth.

I always remember reading about a family going on holiday, thinking it was really nice to get away from it all. 2 weeks later on returning home, they had the biggest shock!! A £9,000+ mobile phonebill, generated from their daughters mobile phone - when they questioned her about it, they found out that while they were on holiday, roaming was enabled and the "Unlimited" did not mean to use more than 1Gb of data transfer per day of their 'Fair Usage Policy" - the said to her dad that she had only been on Facebook talking to her friends in the UK, and now the worse part on "video streaming"!! The most expensive way to send your mobile bill through the roof! Never heard what happened after that, if she had to pay it back out of her pocket money! LOL

Regards,

Les.

All such problems don't affect me! I have a Nokia 3310 with not a lot (and on its original battery I might add)! It makes phones calls...

We have an annual "stick" for the computers for Italy (we live here) but even then we use any free wifi we come across. Anywhere else we seek campsites with wifi, preferably included but otherwise with reasonable prices.

On Lake Garda this year a site asked 4 euros per hour - and it was only available at the restaurant/bar or reception. Nor did it get cheaper per hour if you were there for a week. The bars at the harbour all had free access wifi - far more pleasant to sit there and do the emails and FB. AND a beer and a spritz were cheaper than at the campsite bar!

Gawd, I remember the old Nokia 3310, I used to have one myself - I agree with you they were good phones back then. These days all the kids and teenagers (I only got one teenage daughter, aged 14 - nearly 15). Now, my daughter is clever, actually I'd say creative is more to the point. She buys various pieces from Ebay, and designs keyrings, earings, bags, t-shirts, and also sells sweets at school. Any money she makes goes back into buying more stuff on Ebay or cheap sweets, anything she has left over, she spends on herself with the latest clothes, trainers, shoes. Head strong at an early age, well that will get her far, she wants to get into digital designing, she already has a desktop PC, iPad and iPhone.

My wife does have a go at her somedays which I'm not surprised at considering she might change her clothes upto 4 or 5 times a day!! With her, the top must go with her skirt or dresses, and her shoes, then the jewelry and hair must be perfect with the makeup!! And then people wonder why she takes so long to just go out!

A lot of her clothes she makes herself, she amazed her teacher when she was 9 or 10, all she wanted for Christmas was a sewing machine! We bought her one, noting down the dangers, and she said she was fine, the first few days we let her use it the lounge, just in case anything happened, but she just got on with what she was doing, asked my wife for an old bedsheet, a few days later she showed us what she had done, made a top and matching bottom pyjamas. Course when she went back to school and about 6 months later, she had to learn how to use a sewing machine! So, she told the teacher what she could do - and the teacher ler her teach the others the dangers and how to sew properly.

What my wife and I find funny is she attracts the boys wherever she goes, but it's always the same reply "Sorry, thanks for asking, but I'm to busy for relationships at my age, I'm studying for my career!", she does have friends, but that's all they are.

Well, I went off topic a bit there, as usual...lol Basicaly, what I meant to say was I have a mobile for my daughter in my name on contract, and told her only to turn on data if really needed - and only once has she gone over - which isn't too bad. If they are told what to do initially, teens would not run up; such huge bills.

Regards,

Les.

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P.S - Any mistakes blame my Dyslexic keyboard!

Sounds like my granddaughter, same age, same mindset except she was into grunge and goth-type stuff. Very artistic, very musical, taught herself, got keyboard last xmas, guitar this year, has her aunt's saxaphone but nowhere to practise it without irritating the neigbours! Her younger brother already has a paper round. She has severe asthma so can't but would if she could. My two learnt the work ethic - and have passed it on. It's all down to the parents.