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Post by mrcoke on Nov 19, 2015 15:46:47 GMT
I've just tried to pick up latest football news for the weekend, and as always found it almost impossible to read with text jumping up and down or covered over due to adverts. An absolute pain. Are the people at the Sentinel totally inane? I appreciate they need adverts to fund the site but it's just a joke trying to read anything.
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Post by BraveSirRobin on Nov 19, 2015 15:47:52 GMT
I've just tried to pick up latest football news for the weekend, and as always found it almost impossible to read with text jumping up and down or covered over due to adverts. An absolute pain. Are the people at the Sentinel totally inane? I appreciate they need adverts to fund the site but it's just a joke trying to read anything. Always been the same..worst website ever! |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Nov 19, 2015 15:53:07 GMT
Not this again..... Firefox, adblock, sorted.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 16:00:27 GMT
Not this again..... Firefox, adblock, sorted. Depends what device you're using. On a windows pc install adblock and it's fine whatever browser you use. On android adblock is no longer in the play store and it's a nightmare,adverts popping up everywhere.You can sideload adblock but I didn't have much success with it so gave up Edit that,adblock plus is now under another name in the play store but it's now a browser play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adblockplus.browser&hl=en_GB |
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Post by gonk on Nov 19, 2015 16:37:52 GMT
I've just tried to pick up latest football news for the weekend, and as always found it almost impossible to read with text jumping up and down or covered over due to adverts. An absolute pain. Are the people at the Sentinel totally inane? I appreciate they need adverts to fund the site but it's just a joke trying to read anything. As some of the guys have said try adlock plus, can't believe the difference since using it. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 17:38:38 GMT
Sentinel webshyte is the worst
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Post by Pugsley on Nov 19, 2015 17:56:41 GMT
Adblock works. Blocked 40 on the Sentinel website - FORTY!!!!
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Post by Menorca Stokie on Nov 19, 2015 19:25:24 GMT
I wrote to them over 12 months ago about this and they wrote back to me saying I'd written to the wrong department. I wrote back and asked then which email address I should write too and I never heard back.
Not used the site since.
.customer service at its very best, not!!!!
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Post by owenvadar on Nov 19, 2015 19:26:52 GMT
I gave up on the Sentinel website many years ago
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Nov 19, 2015 19:29:57 GMT
No problem on my pc with adblock but clicking off their links on newsnow on my windows phone is a nightmare. Constant pop ups.
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 19, 2015 22:58:24 GMT
Thanks for the advice guys. I've just loaded adblock plus on Chrome (using Windows 10) and now I have no problems.
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Post by djduncanjames on Nov 20, 2015 2:28:51 GMT
Thanks for the advice guys. I've just loaded adblock plus on Chrome (using Windows 10) and now I have no problems. It removes those annoying ads from the beginning of YOUtube videos as well. Check out a footie streaming site now you have it installed, you will love it!  |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Nov 20, 2015 2:55:58 GMT
Never had a problem with it.
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Post by WoodbineWright2@ on Nov 20, 2015 7:13:17 GMT
Ads or not, it's the Sentinel and therefore it's shite.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 20, 2015 7:18:52 GMT
We have same problem down here with Plymouth Evening Herald website. I complained but their answer was that as they were part of the Mail newspaper group they had no control over advertisements which were administered centrally. They advised Adblock for my iPad and it does work. I found that you do need to disable it sometimes to use some social media websites and some online games. This is a one switch operation in settings so very easy to do.
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 20, 2015 11:28:45 GMT
Thanks for the advice guys. I've just loaded adblock plus on Chrome (using Windows 10) and now I have no problems. It removes those annoying ads from the beginning of YOUtube videos as well. Check out a footie streaming site now you have it installed, you will love it! Thanks dunc. I usually watch matches via Kodi - SortsDevil and connect to my TV, which is usually OK if I can pick up a thread, which sometimes I can't, so I resort to one of the streams someone has kindly posted on here. |
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Post by foster on Nov 23, 2015 22:28:33 GMT
Just added adblock. Went direct to sentinel and it blocked 27 ads on the first page alone.
Next serious test will be the streaming sites on Saturday.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 13:19:19 GMT
Just added adblock. Went direct to sentinel and it blocked 27 ads on the first page alone. Next serious test will be the streaming sites on Saturday. Most are OK but some now are asking you to disable adblock to enable you to make it full screen if you get this move on and find one that does not ask you to turn it off. |
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Post by bringmesunshine on Nov 24, 2015 15:42:50 GMT
I don’t understand their logic, the more adds they have, the slower the site is, the less people visit it, the less advertisers will want to pay to use it.
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Post by kernowpotter on Nov 25, 2015 2:18:52 GMT
Gave up on the sentinel ages ago adverts popping up when your trying to read an article
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Post by Plave on Nov 25, 2015 10:34:40 GMT
They're always trying to sell online advertising space to me. A couple of weeks ago when I responded to say "Your advertising is shit, horribly intrusive and puts people off using the site" their reps response was "yeah we know"  |
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Post by bogeyman on Nov 25, 2015 10:37:50 GMT
Dreadful website.
Completely counter productive.
The owners need to understand this.
A joke.
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Post by Olgrligm on Nov 25, 2015 10:39:03 GMT
Not this again..... Firefox, adblock, sorted. Depends what device you're using. On a windows pc install adblock and it's fine whatever browser you use. On android adblock is no longer in the play store and it's a nightmare,adverts popping up everywhere.You can sideload adblock but I didn't have much success with it so gave up Edit that,adblock plus is now under another name in the play store but it's now a browser play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adblockplus.browser&hl=en_GBNo need to mess about with all of that. Just get the Firefox mobile browser, which I've found to be the best mobile browser by a country mile. It's also the only one that allows you to install adblock plus, which does exactly the same job on your phone as it does on your desktop. |
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Post by nicethrow on Nov 25, 2015 10:45:54 GMT
Yep. I don't even go on it anymore or click any links when I know it's for their site
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 12:35:37 GMT
Agreed. It is shocking! Worst I've ever been on!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 12:39:05 GMT
Works fine for me.
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Post by LDE76 on Nov 25, 2015 13:04:44 GMT
The silver lining here is that if you can't access the website, you won't be subjected to the moronic diatribes of that odious imbecile fromafar, who I'm convinced posts in the comments section under the name Penkhullranger.
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Post by nott1 on Nov 25, 2015 15:15:09 GMT
Just added adblock. Went direct to sentinel and it blocked 27 ads on the first page alone. Next serious test will be the streaming sites on Saturday. It works with them too! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 16:30:08 GMT
I've tried to read articles before but I always give up and find the whole experience rather frustrating.
Not tried it for a while now and don't bother clicking on any Sentinel links and haven't bought the paper for years now.
Remember the good old days ? Two Sentinels a day midweek and the Saturday Green Un, which was on sale with that's days match report faster than I could finish my first post match pint !
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Post by elystokie on Nov 26, 2015 1:11:06 GMT
I've tried to read articles before but I always give up and find the whole experience rather frustrating. Not tried it for a while now and don't bother clicking on any Sentinel links and haven't bought the paper for years now. Remember the good old days ? Two Sentinels a day midweek and the Saturday Green Un, which was on sale with that's days match report faster than I could finish my first post match pint ! I still buy the Sentinel every day when I'm back, if I lived there I'd have it delivered, it's like some weird comfort blanket for me :D It might be a pile of shit but it's our pile of shit :) I actually think it's (the paper edition) got a bit better over the last couple of years. Always remember when I was a kid my Dad saying nearly every night 'bugger all in this, all bloody adverts' :D |
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