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Not just you.

Scott Wilson
Oh well that's a relief.

Cuajete
I can see them with Internet Explorer, but not with Chrome. I have not tried other browsers.

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(some) AdBlocker issues

Cuajete
It is possible to solve this, Tim?

scalemates
Fastest is turn off your adblocker when on scalemates.

Scott Wilson
Is this issue going to be fixed soon?

Scott Wilson
Surely not...

Scott Wilson
I mean that would be...
bad!

Olivier
Well, this is the kind of question one could ask. One can also live without little thumbnails and without adverts.

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New Articles and Topics Matching Your Favourites are fine. Hot Kits and the new stuff aren't on Firefox and Chrome with AdBlockerUltimate. On a bare Edge/IE/MsChromeWrapper - whatever it's called this week - works and Chrome and Firefox without ad-blocking all fine.

Olivier
Everything was fine until something changed. The question to solve is what did change and why. And then to go back to the old version.

scalemates
puts back his laptop to figure out what is going on and will watch a movie instead. These comments make me very very sad.

Not seeing the thumbnails when people come in via Google is BAD BAD for people sticking around.
If I wanted to block adblockers there are is far better content available to block.

really using SCM without thumbs? it s*cks bigtime from a user experience

Fort the record
1) I have no obligation to any advertisers.
2) Scalemates advertising ONLY shows scale modeling ads, is NOT leaking privacy data and IS super fast. (read the privacy policy explaining in detail ). => typical reasons why people use an adblocker
3) 1.5 years ago, just before GDPR we made the switch to this NEW self hosted solution. Literally dropping Ad Revenue with 95% in the first month in favor of better speed/privacy and more relevant ads. (yes I was fed up seeing TV ads on Scalemates when 3s before I was on an electronics website).
4) Making the switch to Google Ad provider would straight away increase ad revenue with 50%. (I have not a noticeable difference since the issue was first reported.)

Further comments/allegations will be ignored.

ps: also no need to defend your position/my position.

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..... and .... fixed

Cuajete
Thank you, Tim.
I hope that a solution that satisfies both the financing of SM through advertising revenue and the ease of user navigation can be reached. Sorry for my bad english.

Thanks again for the effort.

Choppa Nutta
Apologies Tim and thanks

Scott Wilson
I apologise for my poor attitude/humor Tim. It was uncalled for and I'm sure you don't need it. Its a wonderfull website and thank you for all the work you do to make it such.

scalemates
FYI. When going to your preferences you now have the option to disable ads as well as the marketplace. (Based on your personal preferences)

Olivier
And you also have the possibility to make a donation if you prefer using the wonderful scalemates site without adverts. I like that. Thank you Tim for taking so well into account our various whims.

Nathan Dempsey
Honestly I like the ads here. I've found a few things that were useful.

Cuajete
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