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NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4630
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 17 7:33 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

tahir wrote:

Is it time we got rid of banner ads? Most of them are dead anyway

If we are going to ask that kind of question, is it time to properly take stock of where we are at, and where we are wanting to go?

Steady on now

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4630
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 17 7:34 pm Post subject:
Just clicked the Merionwen ad, there seems to be a bit of Polish (?) up on the blog there. From a year ago. Time flies! Edit - "From The Hills" is now apparently a slightly goth band.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28239
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 17 9:23 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Is it time we got rid of banner ads? Most of them are dead anyway

I think its reasonable to say that downsizer.net needed to get with the times on security, it is only reasonable that people who want banners are asked to do the same.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 17 11:10 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

is it time to properly take stock of where we are at, and where we are wanting to go?

Not with you, most banner ads lead to dead/non existent pages. What are we taking stock of?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 17 11:13 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

tahir wrote:

Is it time we got rid of banner ads? Most of them are dead anyway

I think its reasonable to say that downsizer.net needed to get with the times on security, it is only reasonable that people who want banners are asked to do the same.

Yep.

I think we need to ask people that still want a banner ad to confirm that they're happy with their banner and that it points to the right page.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28239
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 17 12:07 pm Post subject:
Would it make most sense to simply kill banners that break us, and to put up a new thread re-advertising the banner service with the new rule. It would take ages to chase people down.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 17 12:54 pm Post subject:
Yep

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 17 12:54 pm Post subject:
We need to notify those people too

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46247
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 17 10:38 pm Post subject:

a while back my system refused to accept most of the banner ads , a new style might be better.

i dont mind ads as such but i do mind any that might lead to " odd" places rather than where they are/were supposed to go to.

more secure and stable seems a good idea, apart from serious counter intel protocols no form of communication is secure but sensible precautions against the likes of phishing, ransomware, data harvesting, scammers etc and using basic security measures is worth learning to make adjustments to details of everyday operations.

being "banned" for a proxy switch for a non DS tab while still connected to DS on the browser was a bit of a shock the first time it happened but having such protocols in place makes sense

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8956
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 20 6:05 pm Post subject:
I am now getting a warning every time I post that " this site is using an unsafe connection and your details will not be secure " ... can't remember the exact wording, but you get the idea. Is it ds end of things or me?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8956
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 20 6:06 pm Post subject:
A connection that is not secure....

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46247
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 20 6:08 pm Post subject:
seems ok here

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8956
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 20 7:22 pm Post subject:
Wonder if there is something up with my modem?

sean
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 20 7:42 am Post subject:
Still getting the little lock symbol here.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28239
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 20 8:31 am Post subject:
Not seeing an issue and not a lot has changed. I refreshed the certificate a week or two ago which is a normal routine.

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