............... been OFF and ON at FlyFishingForum all evening
monitoring the sale [NOT] of some of my gear
seems members are getting continuously hit with dubious popups
and 2 members have intercepted attempted virus attacks
my attempts to load various pages dropped the connection...maybe just a co-incidence, but it seems stable here
anyway their ADMIN seems to be working hard behind the scenes,
but maybe if you are just browsing - perhaps worth waiting 48hours
not bad-mouthing FFF - just a 'heads-up'
john
I discovered FFF was placing tracking cookies and other third party rubbish probably connected with their mass advertising on my PC and stopped visiting many weeks ago.
I don't get any of that :)
I have Adblock Plus on both PC's and the Tab. I use Opera set to block third party cookies (i.e. cookies that aren't from the site domain itself) and a 'do not track request'. These are set up in Opera settings.
On the computers I have Iobit Malware fighter, Microsoft Essentials, Comodo Firewall and Advanced System Care all running in the background. On the Tab I have Adblock Plus, Advanced Mobile Care and avast! Mobile Security running. All these are free.
Adblock is awesome. I don't think my cookie blocker and do not track comes from additional software though. I'm sure I have a setting ticked on Google chrome that takes care of this.
I think FFF admin are chasing the bucks etc . It's all about advertising over there . Very rarely visit it now . Used to get a laugh at the rammy's but even that had a short life span lol .
It's really only the controversial stuff, usually non fishing related, that get much attention on FFF these days. They lost most of their best members years ago. It's a real shame, it was a great forum before it became a commercial circus. It's all about numbers, numbers sell advertising.
I love it when the usual suspects, those who "left" here and who brought our community into disrepute before they "left", go off on a tangent. It's hilarious and invariably brings more members to the WFF and also boosts Wildfisher Fly Line sales. :lol: This is one of the few fishing forums that has maintained a steady level of active membership, 10 years on it goes from strength to strength.
Quote from: Fishtales on January 28, 2014, 09:46:30 AM
I don't get any of that....me neither
I have Adblock Plus ...and just installed ''Ghostery'' [which has blocked 10 ''trackers'' on FFF]
block third party cookies ...........how do i acccess that function on FFox ....DONE.
On the computer I have Malware AntiMalware, Microsoft Essentials, and Super Anti-Spyware Pro
cheers.john
Quote from: Fishtales on January 28, 2014, 09:46:30 AM
I don't get any of that :)
I have Adblock Plus on both PC's and the Tab. I use Opera set to block third party cookies (i.e. cookies that aren't from the site domain itself) and a 'do not track request'. These are set up in Opera settings.
On the computers I have Iobit Malware fighter, Microsoft Essentials, Comodo Firewall and Advanced System Care all running in the background. On the Tab I have Adblock Plus, Advanced Mobile Care and avast! Mobile Security running. All these are free.
Or get a Mac. No separate malware, firewall or anti-virus software needed its all built in. There are even 3 layers of malware protection :D