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[Ian]

Want for me to make my purchases through your Amazon links? Want me to gift BPL to my hiking buddies?

Stand by your word. Get rid of this garbage and behave like a professional. If you don't make an effort to repair your professional reputation, we are left to assume that it means nothing to you.

It's cheaper to keep a customer than it is to find a new one.

If you clean this up, then you have my financial support for years to come. In the meantime, I'm not "gifting" this to anyone.

"Backpacking Light is moderated, frequented by young people…" Who can click on this link and see a woman performing oral sex.

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Please flag this post.

[Ken Thompson]

Don't let us get started on the value of Ryan's word. Who all owns BPL now anyway? Can the State of Montana do anything for us?

Flagged your post Ian.

[Bob Bankhead]

As a Life Member, it's easy to turn off the ads once you've logged in to BPL.

Go to MY BPL and select HIDE ADS.

Done!

If you sign off BPL, you'll have to repeat this when you sign on again. It's easier to just use the REMEMBER ME function to remain signed on.

but I suspect most of you knew this already.

[Ian]

Bob, when I did this, it turned off the ads for the main page but they were on in the forums. I'll try again.

Edit yup. My ads are turned off but I still see them.

Edity edit since these are Google ads, I loaded Chrome to see if the turn off ads function would work on that browser. Still there.

Edit Edity edit but I do see that while I turned off the ads on the home screen, there was another option to turn them off in the sub forums. So now it appears that they are gone if I enter a sub forum, but they're still present on the main forums page.

Not fixed but better. Thanks Bob.

[BlackHatGuy]

"As a Life Member, it's easy to turn off the ads once you've logged in to BPL. Go to MY BPL and select HIDE ADS."

Been there, done that. As i wrote earlier, I sent a note to customer service about this issue a few months ago. A couple of months after I sent the email, I got a response, which simply said that MLIFErs receive reduced ads, not NO ads. I don't remember that being the deal when I signed up for MLIFE, so I went to the subscription page to check, and it does say (at least now) that there will be fewer ads. Doesn't say no ads.

[Ian]

It was "no ads" when I purchased my lifetime membership but it changed shortly afterwards.

I don't mind or notice the ads from the other websites I visit. I'm making a couple purchases today and would be more than happy to do them through BPL so they could get a piece of the action. As thing are with the current ads and apparent unwillingness to address them, I'm not inclined to give one more cent until things improve and the ads are more on topic, or at least less pornographic.

[Bob Gross]

"or at least less pornographic."

Ian, how much pornographic do you want?

–B.G.–

[Ian]

Somewhere between a Sears catalog and National Geographic.

[Ken Thompson]

"If you see ads that aren't suitable for your family members, please file a support ticket and let us know what the ad's URL is that's either on the ad, or the destination URL, take a screenshot, and attach it to the ticket.

I'll happily block them."

When?

And why don't the powers that be spend a little time visiting their own site and see what the eff is going on?

Shouldn't take a support ticket. You should know what kind of ads you are signing up for. Lame in 2015 already.

[W I S N E R !]

So this is new….
Instead of ads I'm now getting a "You Might Like:" or "You Might Enjoy Reading" banner taking up the better part of every page.

Hands down, BPL has the most irrelevant and obnoxious advertising of ANY website I frequent. Not to mention the growing plethora of one click away from porn links. I'd be pretty worried about how this would look from a distance if a student was looking over my shoulder while I was browsing BPL at lunch.

Edit: I'll retract my use of the a word to make a point. But it is a strange point that profanity is/was so heavily censored here when all off this garbage is all over every page.

[Greg Mihalik]

Flagged.

I do not want the image above removed.
I want it sent to Ryan Jordan.
Or his wife.

[W I S N E R !]

I normally have ad blocker running but it's the first time I've seen BPL from this particular computer at work.
I certainly wouldn't want this junk to be what the general public first sees if it was my site.

[Greg Mihalik]

Yep.

Happened to me in a public library, open lab of computers for public access.
Had anyone seen and reported, it could have become ugly fast.

As a school teacher, you would be out of a job.

[Roger Caffin]

Hi Craig

> But it is a strange point that profanity is/was so heavily censored here when all
> off this garbage is all over every page.
Not so 'strange': I can moderate the profanities. I don't know what has gone wrong with the adverts.

Cheers

[Nick Gatel]

Roger, you are a saint. Too bad you can't fix everything by yourself. I assume you get little or nothing out of BPL other than personal satisfaction for a job well done.

Thanks for all you do.

[Jack M]

"Roger, you are a saint. Too bad you can't fix everything by yourself. I assume you get little or nothing out of BPL other than personal satisfaction for a job well done.

Thanks for all you do."

+1 Thanks.

[Ian]

Well Jerry took a jab at me for looking at cookie porn (mmm… cookie…) but it turns out that this lead me down a path to a no cost solution where I can still use a normal browser.

I typically use Safari on iOS and will occasionally delete the cookies (for foil hat reasons in addition to my chocolate chip fetish) and leave the "Block Cookies" setting on "Allow from Current Website."

I switched it to "Always Block" and voila, the advertisements are now gone. There are only a couple websites I visit where this is a problem and it's easy enough for me to temporarily allow cookies when I visit them.

So thanks to Jerry for inadvertently leading me to a simple solution.

And no thanks to the powers that be for the lack of communication and apparent uselessness in resolving this. The problem is by no means "solved" as new visitors will be greeted with this crap, but hey, it's money out of your pocket when they never return, not mine.

[Jerry Adams]

you're welcome Ian : )

Myself, I went and made some peanut butter cookies

I turned on some ad blocker a long time ago

Occasionally, some website insists I turn it back on to do something, and then I have to remember how to do it which is a pain

[Ian]

Do… you have pictures… of the cookies?

No I mustn't!

But do you?

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