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    Default What's Going on With FPN?

    I've been inactive on FPN for a very long time, just went back and couldn't remember my password. Tried recovery, but the Captcha was broken. Tried creating a new account, but the Captcha was broken. I didn't see any way to let admins know without having to log in first. It also looks like they have paid tiers for accounts now, I don't recall that from before. Anyway, the site seems completely broken. I'm getting the feeling that it's not what it used to be, what's up with that?

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    Quote Originally Posted by Giant_Pens_Are_Silly View Post
    ...I didn't see any way to let admins know without having to log in first....
    You should have seen a link off to the right of the forum index called "Contact info." Anyway, send an email to: fpnadmin@gmail.com

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    Quote Originally Posted by FredRydr View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Giant_Pens_Are_Silly View Post
    ...I didn't see any way to let admins know without having to log in first....
    You should have seen a link off to the right of the forum index called "Contact info." Anyway, send an email to: fpnadmin@gmail.com
    Thanks, I didn't see that.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I sent them an email just before I signed up here. They never responded.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I've found FPN admins to be pretty slow to respond, but that's okay I guess for a volunteer type outfit that is trying to monetize with advertising. They eventually will respond. I find great quality feedback here on FPGeeks, just not as many folks are active here. If you can parse through the many for sale posts, you can find some good stuff. And I've never had issues with malware, etc from here like I've experienced over on FPN.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I'm surprised you got past the capture ads and that you didn't win a 1000 gift card from Target.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    Quote Originally Posted by Farmboy View Post
    I'm surprised you got past the capture ads and that you didn't win a 1000 gift card from Target.
    Me too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farmboy View Post
    I'm surprised you got past the capture ads and that you didn't win a 1000 gift card from Target.
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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I find that browsing FPN with an ad blocker, despite their complaining, makes their site load considerably faster and has the added benefit of blocking a lot of potential malware vectors.

    Sadly, the site is almost unusable without an ad blocker.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Lou View Post
    I find that browsing FPN with an ad blocker, despite their complaining, makes their site load considerably faster and has the added benefit of blocking a lot of potential malware vectors.

    Sadly, the site is almost unusable without an ad blocker.
    Phone version. No ads.
    Don't know whether this works if you have an account but it does if you don't have one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Lou View Post
    I find that browsing FPN with an ad blocker, despite their complaining, makes their site load considerably faster and has the added benefit of blocking a lot of potential malware vectors.

    Sadly, the site is almost unusable without an ad blocker.
    Also my experience. Adblock+ and ublock and Adblock.

    No issues at all.

    All I need now is a blocker to get rid of anyone's post that is boring, pompous, repetitive or annoying.

    But then it would be a very short read.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    What's the most popular Adblock software for MacBooks?

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I'm using ABP with Chrome browser on my Macbook. Typically it is catching 30+ intrusions whenever I visit.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    Quote Originally Posted by countrydirt View Post
    I'm using ABP with Chrome browser on my Macbook. Typically it is catching 30+ intrusions whenever I visit.
    Thank you. Maybe I should have said I'm using Safari.

    ABP is probably still the way to go though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy View Post
    What's the most popular Adblock software for MacBooks?
    I've been using AdBlock Ultimate for several months on my MacBook Pro and am totally satisfied. To date (according to AdBlock) I've been spared from over 193,000 ads. I run a similar ad blocker on my iPad.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I use adblock on FFox and Chrome if I need to mine FPN for data.

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    Just ran a test, ublock stopped 37, Adblock stopped 30. running Firefox and Windows.
    Last edited by Bzzer; April 20th, 2018 at 07:53 PM.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    Start by using private browsing mode in a browser instance that has no history or cashe. If you are using FireFox it will automatically block some of the tracking for you in private mode. So will other browsers to some extent. Then just block the services and you don't need to worry about individual ads.

    sovrn and SkimLinks are the ad services on FPN that seem to have the problem ads that I see. They are completely and fully blocked. Several ways to do this. Pretty easy turns out to be Ghostery. Just install it and then block all. Of course if you run the firewalls at work or influence the people that do, you can just trash all the packets from them and be done with it.

    While you are at it, turn off the tracking services Alexa Metrics and Google Analytics. They don't need your data either.

    Then note that FPN is not a secure site. Note you do not see https: in the URL. Might be the last site on the internet that isn't secure. Even browsers are giving you a warning that you likely ignored and don't see anymore. Then there is the cookie crap. They don't really need to store anything on your computer unless they are giving you warm milk with the cookies block them. Tell your browser to tell them to pound sand.

    Best part is someone took the time to code an error trap if you are ad blocking and you get the nice notice below.

    Screen Shot 2018-04-20 at 10.25.32 PM.png

    Nothing personal but if I'm going to provide content and be served ads you damn well better not be capturing my IOS device and blasting me with audio ads that auto run. As I posted there the ads crossed the line for me. Also worth noting is I actually don't mind the ads, they are fairly easy to ignore and if you zoom the screen just right you don't see them anyway. Interrupt my meeting with audio because I didn't close a browser window but minimized it and you get to send me the love note above.

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    I use the best ad blocker of all: I don't go there anymore.
    "Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." -Epicurus-

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    Default Re: What's Going on With FPN?

    The more I read about that site on here, the more I think I dodged a bullet by signing up here instead.

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