New advertising box really sucks!

I'm in the boat that the ads suck but we are getting a very valuable site for free. I pushed the owner of a different site (forustryforum.com) to offer a subscription model to the members, as his site was being a bit overrun with ads, ruining the experience, but also providing some of the needed funds to keep the site running. Like HEF, FF also provides huge value to the masses. He finally relented and offered premium subscriptions (removing the ads) and a bunch of folks give him some value back for the value his site provides. I'd be happy to do it here too, to help support Steve or whomever is running the site. Running a forum, especially a popular one, is not always fun or trivial. Fighting bots and spam and poor behavior can be a real PITA.

Duckduckgo no pop ups here

Android phone accessing HEF via the native Chrome browser vs AdBlock browser.

AMBMike said: Android phone accessing HEF via the native Chrome browser vs AdBlock browser. Click to expand... Second pic is how it looks for me with Brave. It's almost like a big portion of Google's income is tied to advertising....

MarshallPowerGen said: Second pic is how it looks for me with Brave. It's almost like a big portion of Google's income is tied to advertising.... Click to expand... And selling your data.

I'm blaming @colson04 This is the ad I see coming on a lot now.