+1.

Also, at one time, FireFox has a Harley-Davidson theme browser, it was gone after an update, and I'm too lazy to look for it .....

 

Notice the amount of Spam mebers that have been showing up also. The Admins need to have an idiot test in the sign up to reduce them.

 

Holy Cow Drew, I installed both of these and what a difference. Thanks, you guys are awesome!!!

 

So what your saying is if you become a member you don't get all the advertising ads? I was actually thinkin about signing up, I'm on here a lot (guess I've got more time on my hands than most?)

 

Something Ive started to notice on this thread is the guys that have asses in their avatars seem to be chiming in here a lot. Is it coincidence or are the **** lookers the ones having most of the problems?

 

IE is junk, Firefox runs a close second but if you want something that works well run Google Chrome runs like a champ!

 

Have you tried going to your internet options and clear all your cookies and browsing data , this can help a lot.Cleaning out the history on the search page helps also.

 

If you had a choice of a free site with advertisements, or no advertisements and a small monthly fee... say $5, which would you choose? I know which way I would go.

 

Its not the ads, its the site traffic, pages loaded in a flash just now. You might also be running backgroung junk on you computer. Besides this site is free and it cost money to run it so.....

 

I totally agree with this.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a born-again capitalist, so I'm ok with any company's success. But the larger the company...well, you know. And don't be fooled by the "it's a free site" comments, as the users (us) are draw here organically from search engines and directories that have Internet Brands websites registered with them. As well as very good SEO (search engine optimization). As in, all traffic ends here. Why? So they can sell more advertising. Simple.

I found it mildly amusing a while back when there was a discussion about how well this website has done, and how other similar sites have died or don't match the traffic we have here. Well, I think a lot of that has to do with IB picking up the site, as well as pure luck with timing. But that's just my humble opinion.

Sorry...back on track. As far as the ads are concerned, firefox and adblock. And, if you want to get rid of everything, there's also an add-on called "No Script", but that one can be a little tricky, and if you're not internet or very computer savy, I might stay away from that one.

And, it's not their servers, it's your ISP and your machine.