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Please bear with me and read along, I am not asking you to turn AdBlockPlus off, I swear.
I don’t like ads either and I understand they can be intrusive or increase loading times. But for better or for worse, ads are the best way we found to pay for the costs of this website (this includes server costs and remunerating the people working on the site).
I have pledged to not prevent ad blocking users from accessing the site, and to reduce the number of ads on the site as much as the budget allows. I’ve tried to keep my word as much as possible: we are not preventing any ad-block user from accessing the site, and in 2015 we removed all ads from our forum for registered users. We will remove more ads in the future whenever budget allows.
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thankyou this is very informative.
Adblock Plus doesn’t block all ads by default. If you use non-obtrusive ads, they will appear, and everyone wins.
Frankly, it bothers me more that this site is very resource-heavy. I need a powerful computer just to visit it normally. It’s insane.
Thanks for the feedback. About the resource thing, is it something that happens when you turn off adblock plus, or all the time? Trying to understand if the performance issue is coming from ads, or form the site itself, so I can look into what to improve.
How do you “know” that this site in particular is heavier than others? Do you have specific tools or is it just that the site “feels” slower than others? Thanks.
Hello, I know this website is particularly heavy because it’s one of the few sites I can’t load at all on mobile. When it does load, it is very sluggish, I thought this was a conscious decision on your part. The change occurred with the new website theme switch from a while back. I personally don’t think it’s the ads though, I have them enabled now (I didn’t realise I was blocking this site, is it hard to be considered a “non intrusive site”? It might be financially worth it to look into).
A fix I would personally love (if it’s feasible) would be an option to use the old layout. I just noticed now that it’s a wordpress website, so I’d hope that such a change would be easy. Thank you for your consideration.
I am sorry to bother wololo but how would I be able to sign up to be a beta tester for ps vita home-brew applications.
I would be more than happy to sign any non disclosure and I feel bad for the leak of Vitamin. I have been following the scene since before Dark Alex when the psp came out and Version 1.5 was like the golden version. If there is any way I can help out the scene even though I have no special coding skills I could test things out. I am not worried about bricking or anything like that. Thanks
Hey XxmannyxX, typically the best way to become a beta tester for homebrews is to gain the trust of the developer. Follow their work, provide good feedback, help others on forums, etc… as you become someone people go to for help, homebrew devs will naturally come to you for their tests
what i would like is for all the old content tobe sort of seperate from newer.
You read or look into one area and get other stuff as links to go look out, come to find out its 2-3-5 yrs old. I mean really, you think its more news, no it was news, 5yrs ago!!
If its older than 1 month i say move it along and dont let it appear with newer stuff unless youre searching for it. Its annoying.
Also if you guys know the people hacking the vita or you guys do, make a way to really easily be able to hack it, im so annoyed that its frustratingly hard, even in 2016. I do have a 3.57 extra side vita, but i plan on selling it and i dont want to hack it.
I tried once more like a year or two ago with vhbl?? everything seemed like it was cool until i started trying to move content over to the vita, nothing worked.
In other words, please make an easy hack for it, and also if the hack is not fleshed out, let it be. It seems like they are always released in a half *** way, i mean why bother then? i appreciate the hard work anyone puts in, but if we cant make use of it, and waste our time trying to understand how to do it, what is accomplished? lik i said last time i tried nothing worked, i wasted 3hours trying to do it.
Okay, so like I know this comment is like a month old (and irrelevant in regards to the original post…) but to say that hackers shouldn’t release software or hacks unless it is in fully fleshed out software packages is just ridiculous. That’s not how this works, that’s not “hacking” and you ARE on a hacking site. The way hacks work best is when it is open sourced so we can all work on it and improve the software and to not release things because it is too complex for you to sort out, is just non-sensical. I’m not trying to be rude to you, but you clearly hadn’t thought through your comment. I hope you do figure it out soon, as you’re missing out. A hacked Vita is a Glorious way to play PSP and other emulated platforms on the go. Good luck.
I don’t see what the problem is, you don’t like ads, you know where people are coming from. I highly doubt the “Budget” is so easily swayed by people using adblocker when you shill your referral links in nearly every article.
“this includes server costs and remunerating the people working on the site” – There it is, quite simply the best way to bolster the “budget” is to recruit people that would want to work on this site, instead of paying people, then maybe the quality of content will go up.
Referral links will be earning you more than Ad’s ever will, being greedy has lost you a reader.
What about making a donation ?
I hate ads, I will never unblock something.
Do your amazon affiliate links work on european amazon stores? If they do I may consider using them as a way to help but I’ll never unblock ads and honestly people that use adblock cannot really be blocked as there are ways to circumvent anything websites throw at us (specially if you’re technical enough)
Our affiliate links are for the US only, but thanks for the offer. You don’t have to unblock adds if you don’t want to.
If you want money get a job, or go *** yourself
Thanks for your constructive suggestion…?
Like a previous user stated, all adblock software allow non obtrusive ads by default. I actually think “wow what a good site” when i see ads these days, unfortunately its few and far between, as I’ve never seen an ad on this site I can only conclude that they are obtrusive.