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Audiogon infested with pop-up ads

I use an ad-blocker on my phone. Recently the forum crashes on one type of browser so I switched to Google Chrome and have no blocker on it. I'm stunned as how almost unusable AG is with the infestation of ads. Even since yesterday, a new type appears slap-bang in the middle of the feed. 

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dill
2,545 posts
 

Seems to.

gdnrbob
4,460 posts
 

Duck Go Go and Google Chrome is another choice. I also use AdBlock Pro, but it seems to make Audiogon go nuts with checking to see if the browser is 'safe'.

 

I say, too bad, if you want to make it unusable for me, I have a bunch of other forums to waste my time on.

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dill
2,545 posts
 

"Duck Go Go" - They have a night club now? .... 😉

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curiousjim
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@noromance 

Are you IOS or Android?

 I’m IOS and am using Safari and get none. I tried Chrome years ago and don’t remember why I didn’t like it,  but now you gave me a good reason to stay away from Chrome.

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noromance OP
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@curiousjim Android. Samsung S21. The native browser croaks on the forum. Started a few weeks ago. So I switched to Chrome. That had the ads. They were top and bottom but tolerable. Yesterday, they started popping up in line over the posts. It was impossible to interact. After firing off my irate post, I switched to Edge and that fixed it. All good now. I guess my point is that if you do experience the ads, how can you stand it? 🤔 Hopefully, this will help those in that position. Note, I understand AG has to make money, and that the ads help in that, but they are so omnipresent that the site on a phone is challenging to use.

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