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August 20

Home pages turning to ads

I've noticed a recent trend that when you click on any video from the home page of sites like Xhamster or Pornhub, their home page changes into some advertisement, while the requested video correctly opens in a new browser tab (the same stuff occurs both in Firefox and in Opera, even though I installed addon blockers in both). Is there a way to get rid off this? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 09:12, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Think that the OP is experiencing annoyance from pop-up windows etc. The 'target' to the pop- up is included in the link one clicks. See: Introduction to JavaScript Pop-up Windows. The only way to avoid them is not to visit sites that over- exploit this very useful feature... and inform the web master as to why you won't visit his site again, in the hope that he makes the site more user friendly in future.Aspro (talk) 20:01, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ad-blocking has long based itself on recognising techniques, like pop-ups, that are commonly indicative of ads. So to get round being blocked, the ad industry is now finding ways to avoid these. The 'window replacement' technique you describe is a powerful one of these, but quite annoying. Rather than popping up the ad (which gets detected, thus blocked) it now puts the ad on same the browser tab or window you already have (and so is hard to detect), whilst popping up the new content page, which the user wants and so won't block. It's mostly used (as yet) by sites that are either simple scumbags like affiliate marketers, or sites with a "high content motivation", such as pr0n, because the annoyance factor is so high.

You can't easily block it, with current blocking approaches. But you can close the window (if your browser allows that to be disabled, get a browser that's on your side, not the advertisers) and you can use other blocking techniques, like DNS blackholing the sites serving ads. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:41, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks. At least that appears to be a temporary issue, as sometimes there's no window replacement. 212.180.235.46 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:40, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GPU cards?

copyvio from https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6uw4ub/vega_isnt_a_failure_its_the_next_stage_on_the/ removed per WP:COPYVIO -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 22:21, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Posting a wall of text is a bad idea. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 21:10, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I'm not going to read through all that to attempt to extract questions from it. Break it down into paragraphs and questions with bullets, then we will read it. It's not just a matter of presentation, rather that wall of text implies you haven't organized your thoughts and questions properly. (I tried to break it up a bit where I think you wanted paragraph breaks.) StuRat (talk) 21:43, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]