I thought you guys respected me for my taste in 20 year old cars that are slower than a modern Camry.

Why didn't you say something earlier? Why didn't you intervene? :icon_pale:

thrash;309684 wrote:
eh, i was a bit distracted while typing that message.
i was actually taking this in the "i'd chip in a few bucks to avoid ads that are this invasive" direction, but obviously re-reading what i wrote that doesn't come through at all and I sound like a whiny bitch. My bad

That said, I cannot beleive you guys are saying that i have shitty cars and shitty computers and that that is the problem. nobody likes ads that make your computer churn and constantly load shit [or play sounds, or put land mines all over your web pages etc]. I was focusing on the invasiveness of the ads.

when i see a site misbehaving that badly i have no idea if it is a server-side infection or ads run amuck or what.

My intent wasn't to bitch about the free service. It was "really? it has to be this shitty? i'd rather just pay for a less-shitty version"

And lest you think that it's all bullshit.. there are a couple people on here that may be willing to vouch for me helping them out. I haven't met most of you guys, I'm an outsider, nobody knows me, etc. I've still done a little bit here and there, and I like the site and would like to see it continue. I'd just hate to see it become unusable with crap-ware.

RE: vagcom. I used to do it for free for FS people I'd never met before. Then 1 guy [i think?] got the idea that I'd drop what I was doing to do it for them over and over whenever they wanted. Not how I roll. If it's not worth the pittance amount of money I now ask, that tells me something about the kind of person I'm dealing with.

A car guy likes to help out a fellow car guy -- I'm no exception. But you have to have an "out" for when it feels like people are going to take advantage of you.

For the times I've used someone elses VAGCOM, I've always offered to pay them for it. Nobody has accepted payment. I hope you can understand the difference there.

I think what I stated here on FS was "PM me for details", and I'll stand by that.

Thrash, relax. I'm just giving you shit like I give everybody.

I removed those ads this morning.

PSiedTSi;309682 wrote:
More than your badass 89 BMW is worth. Believe me tho, we are all impressed, especially charging for vagcom. Way to help out the community!! Thanks trash, I mean thrash!

eh, i was a bit distracted while typing that message.
i was actually taking this in the "i'd chip in a few bucks to avoid ads that are this invasive" direction, but obviously re-reading what i wrote that doesn't come through at all and I sound like a whiny bitch. My bad

That said, I cannot beleive you guys are saying that i have shitty cars and shitty computers and that that is the problem. nobody likes ads that make your computer churn and constantly load shit [or play sounds, or put land mines all over your web pages etc]. I was focusing on the invasiveness of the ads.

when i see a site misbehaving that badly i have no idea if it is a server-side infection or ads run amuck or what.

My intent wasn't to bitch about the free service. It was "really? it has to be this shitty? i'd rather just pay for a less-shitty version"

And lest you think that it's all bullshit.. there are a couple people on here that may be willing to vouch for me helping them out. I haven't met most of you guys, I'm an outsider, nobody knows me, etc. I've still done a little bit here and there, and I like the site and would like to see it continue. I'd just hate to see it become unusable with crap-ware.

RE: vagcom. I used to do it for free for FS people I'd never met before. Then 1 guy [i think?] got the idea that I'd drop what I was doing to do it for them over and over whenever they wanted. Not how I roll. If it's not worth the pittance amount of money I now ask, that tells me something about the kind of person I'm dealing with.

A car guy likes to help out a fellow car guy -- I'm no exception. But you have to have an "out" for when it feels like people are going to take advantage of you.

For the times I've used someone elses VAGCOM, I've always offered to pay them for it. Nobody has accepted payment. I hope you can understand the difference there.

I think what I stated here on FS was "PM me for details", and I'll stand by that.

Jesus man, I'm just kidding about the funding needs for FS, I just have been trying different ads to see if any of them could make FS self sustainable (which these would).

I'm sorry my free service to you doesn't cut it.

thrash;309675 wrote:
there are some serious horseshit ads / shitware showing up. lots of yellow-bar shit ["IE blocked this bullshit for you"]

Constant grinding/loading.

Thumbs down.

want to come clean about what the funding needs are? this is bullshit.

More than your badass 89 BMW is worth. Believe me tho, we are all impressed, especially charging for vagcom. Way to help out the community!! Thanks trash, I mean thrash!

Constant grinding/loading.

Thumbs down.

want to come clean about what the funding needs are? this is bullshit.

amicheze;308535 wrote:
Apparently my antivirus doesn't like your new ad system.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4301/49591560.jpg

Avast! threw a fit again today. First time for me since you got rid of Clicksor. This time it was www.byklit.com/e/index.php

amicheze;309379 wrote:
It's getting kind of old hearing the same dude saying "Congratulations, you won!" every time I come here.

Maybe you need to go claim your prize and it will stop??

Bookem;309367 wrote:
pxsmowmotion.com, adyieldmanage.com, d-tradex.com, ad.netmediwhiz, thiscontent(something, something something).com Vipre security cleans out all the tracking cookies, but come back as soon as I'm on here?

Those are ad servers. You get cookies every website you go to.

Bookem;309360 wrote:
My phone was going crazy yesterday when I went on the site, logged history to a bunch of the ad sites in between each thread I looked at. (same as the little deals that show up in the lower left corner when a fargostreet page is loading) Then it turned off like they do when it's doing something it doesn't like.

What little deals that show up in left corner?

PSiedTSi;309354 wrote:
It was when I was trying to reply to a topic, I saw the java thing pop up and my computer was grinding away, then it brought me to the red security warning pages, I clicked continue and boom spybot hit me up, and my background was the green "warning" screen lol

Should only be flash and animated gifs...

Jim;309353 wrote:
link

It was when I was trying to reply to a topic, I saw the java thing pop up and my computer was grinding away, then it brought me to the red security warning pages, I clicked continue and boom spybot hit me up, and my background was the green "warning" screen lol

thrash;308606 wrote:
i was getting "this bitch needs java" on every tab, i ended up killing off my browser becuase i didn't want to put up with that shit.

it was those inline text links. anyway killed that shit, made $.15 for the day.

Anyway the CPC is horrible on clicksor, so I'll prob remove it.