Reply With QuoteDitto,Originally Posted by stoneyloon
I've just started getting adverts in the Tapatalk app. Have I been lucky so far or is it new for all?
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Adam
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Ditto,
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Yup me too. It's really intrusive.
I started getting them a few weeks ago and you are right they are very intrusive and it spoils the experience. I’ve started using the dedicated TZ app to read the forum and you don’t get them.
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I’ve had them on Tapatalk for about a month. Very irritating at first, but now I just accept it and scroll past them.
Something else I’ve been getting on Tapatalk is when I click backpage to return to the index it’s opens up a page saying “ like this? Give (forum members name) some Kin. You have 20 Kin left.”
I have no idea what this “Kin” is and have to shut the app to remove the Kin notification.
Anyone else being hit with Kin?
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There’s a cross to close, top right.
Same here - and I think I only started seeing the ads yesterday. The ads have been there for Watchuseek and TRF via the Tapatalk app for ages now so I guess the forum owner has changed something?
Not a big issue as you do see past them but signing up is like £1/month for the ad-free experience so not too bad.
I use Blokada on my (Android) phone and I never see any ads in Tapatalk - or anywhere else.
Same here for last month. Probably a drive to get us to switch to 'Premium'.
Ads on website also more virulent recently, having to tweak ad-blocker.
Is this just an ad blocker or something more? Looks good.
I'm just using it as a (free) ad blocker and DNS provider, but they do also offer a (paid for) VPN.
Lots of good info about it on https://old.reddit.com/r/blokada/
Thanks! How do you enable it on Tapatalk?
You don't specifically enable it for Tapatalk - basically it acts as a man-in-the-middle and all your internet traffic goes through it.
There are various lists of ad-hosting sites available - I currently subscribe to 6 of them (StevenBlack Unified, Energised Blu, Goodbye Ads, AdAway, Social hosts file, Coin Blocker), although there are lots more available (they are all integrated into the app and you just click to enable them, after which they automatically update themselves). Whenever an app (Talkpatalk or any other) tries to access one of these ad-hosting sites, it blocks the connection. You can also Whitelist or Blacklist specific apps if you are having any problems.
It provides a notification showing which sites it has blocked - I'm currently at 433,340 (!) connection attempts blocked, the most recent being ssl.google-analytics.com.
https://blokada.org/index.html
Sounds good, but I'm a tech-noob - does that mean it can potentially see all your passwords etc as all internet traffic goes through it?
Sorry - I described it badly. It's actually all DNS requests that it intercepts - if that request is for a site which is in one of your lists, then it's blocked - so Blokada will never get to see passwords.
It also allows you to choose which DNS server to use for those sites which you don't block - there are 21 to choose from (I'm using CloudFlare).
Blokada is Open Source so (if you have the time, inclination and skillset) you can view the source code. I'm not aware of any particular security concerns with it.
Thanks for that sir. I wonder how it works money wise.. do these ads help generate income for the owner of the forum, cos if it does I'd rather keep the ads on. If we use a blocker, will it impede that?
Pay for Tapatalk premium they'll stop.
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