WHY SO MANY NEW ADS????

[CaBeaver]

Try Brave browser. No Ads at all.

This is the first time I have heard of it. I will check it out. Thanks

 

[canadavisa000]

This is the first time I have heard of it. I will check it out. Thanks

This browser automatically blocks ads from all the websites and the browser performance is also good. So I hope you will love it.

 

[CaBeaver]

This browser automatically blocks ads from all the websites and the browser performance is also good. So I hope you will love it.

This reply is using it. I like it. There is truly no ads using it without disabling JavaScript and have all the features. That's great. I also like how you can choose if you want ads for a specific time like 1h 2hs ... for some digital money which you can use later and elsewhere. This can be a model for solving this free vs. ads stuff. But this is for another discussion elsewhere. Thanks for pointing it out

 

[novascotia27]

You are forgeting that canada visa forum is free.

They have expenses for servers, maintanence, etc.

Are you willing to pay not to see ads

Example Spotify free vs paid, youtube free vs Youtube paid

This forum helped me and my feiends many many many times and i do not mind scrol through ads if that helps them

I am not forgetting anything, I know there is no thing such a free lunch, and no one is critizing the value of this website brings to most IRCC applicants.

In economics, there is a concept called "diminishing marginal returns", meaning that for every one more unit of marketing Ad, you are actually decreasing the user percieved value of the website and ultimately results in less traffic to this website. Therefore, these Ads are at the expense of users' experience in the website... They are aggresive and they pop up everywhere compared to just few days ago.

 

[novascotia27]

Exactly!!! People take stuff for granted as if its their birthright

Such a lame comment.. no one takes anything for granted.. Sometimes is better to zip it up..

 

[novascotia27]

If you are using Chrome, go to Settings -> Site Settings -> JavaScript.
You can also use search box in Settings tab to find this option.

Most likely you will see JavaScript set as "Allowed" and you can leave it as-is.
Down below you will see another section where you can selectively block websites to run Javascript. Thats where you can put www.canadavisa.com and thats about it, you wont have JavaScript running on this website and thereby no Ads for you.

Hope this works for you.

This works 1000%.. thanks for sharing this

 

[CaBeaver]

This works 1000%.. thanks for sharing this

Try Brave browser. It was suggested by canadavisa000, and it works even better by keeping JS enabled.

 

[mandhaata]

I still prefer disabling JavaScript option more.

I need more analysis before deciding to switch my browser choice from Chrome (Google product) to Brave (much lesser known platform). I wont feel that safe on such a less known browser from Data privacy and protection concerns per se.

 

[jamezmoran]

Just turn on your ad-blocker of choice, problem solved.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

Simple.

 

[jamezmoran]

Also "the forum is free" is truly an asinine comment. Speaking from experience, a message board this small costs virtually nothing to run, not compared to the obvious advantage Campbell-Cohen get from their name being right on the banner of every page of the most popular immigration message board in Canada. Why do you think so many companies put out youtube advice videos and detailed blog posts completely for free without ads? It's this little thing called "Content Marketing". That is, putting out high quality honest content completely for free draws trusting users into your products, it's a win-win for companies and users (potential customers).

Spamming ads everywhere on the other hand is an obviously poorly thought out cash-grab which ironically reduces trust in you and your products while also simultaneously causing the user-base you are trying to extract easy money from to decline. From a user's perspective, this results in less people coming to the forum, resulting in less and lower quality advice, resulting in less people coming to the forum for advice and hence feeding back into the whole user base declining, and so on.

Frankly it doesn't bother me, I rarely come to this forum these days, but I would be surprised if it's here in several years. Most of the userbase here turnsover every few years once people no longer have any need to deal with Canadian immigration, and it requires new users all the time to keep it alive. If the forum disappearing from lack of users is of no concern to you, then please by all means continue to propagate the whole "obnoxiously placed ads are good for the forum" nonsense.

 

[CaBeaver]

I still prefer disabling JavaScript option more.

I need more analysis before deciding to switch my browser choice from Chrome (Google product) to Brave (much lesser known platform). I wont feel that safe on such a less known browser from Data privacy and protection concerns per se.

But Google itself has raised many concerns on how they collect data and use it. Using a brand browser doesn't mean it's safer. Having said this, I haven't switched completely to Brave, which in fact I haven't heard of until recently, but I use it for browsing these forums for the sole purpose of getting rid of the ugly ads. I have researched it a little before I started using it, and it seems to have good reviews and user experience, good enough to use it for something like general browsing.

 

[CaBeaver]

The biggest problem of Brave is open source. Nobody stands behind it and nobody is responsible if it goes wrong

Firefox is also open source. Does it have the same concern? Maybe complete switch to a new less known browser needs more research and investigation, but I think using it for only these forums, doesn't need much investigation. I found better experience with it than disabling JS on Chrome, as JS controls some interactive features of the pages.

 

[jamezmoran]

The biggest problem of Brave is open source. Nobody stands behind it and nobody is responsible if it goes wrong

Brave browser in particular has hundreds of regular contributors. Open source software also underpins virtually every tech sector you can think of because it's not owned by one entity and it's completely transparent. If "open source" is the only reason you don't trust a software, then you may as well stop using your computer entirely, because everything you do on your computer most likely has some open source element to it.

 

[jamezmoran]

Hi

I studied Computer Science and work in this field. We learned a lot about open source.

If you read my post, I mentiomed that who will be responsible if something goes wrong with Brave ( information stolen, hacked, etc. )

Yes google collects information on all of us but they do it properly and they give something back

Your comparison with computer has no to much sense. Are you talking about capasitor or resistor? LOL Maybe Intel CPUs have open source components?

If you close your browser you will probably find Microsoft Office icons on your desktop, why not Libra or Open Office?

I don’t believe for a second that you have studied computer science, or work in this field, because if you did you would know that every web server is open source, that the operating systems those servers run on are open source, that your web browser is open source (yes chromium is open source), the databases your personal data is stored on are likely open source, the encryption on your data and communications is open source, that the video games you play likely have some elements that are, yep you guessed it, open source. How can these most influential technologies and companies in the entire world all be wrong? They should really get forums poster anton1990 on the case to sort it out for them.

 

[canadavisa000]

If you read my post, I mentiomed that who will be responsible if something goes wrong with Brave ( information stolen, hacked, etc. )

Yes google collects information on all of us but they do it properly and they give something back

I also come from computer science background and works in this field for 15+ years but it does not mean that I know everything about softwares & stuffs.

Just remember one thing - No one gives anything for free whether it is google/Facebook/Brave. As you mentioned in above, even google/Facebook steels our info and even their server can also be hacked (and this happened in number of times). So understand the risk and make of it.

Firefox/Chrome was also once up on a time not known to many people but you like those browsers/apps now. So it is always to good to know about new technology and explore what is good & bad about it. Totally ignoring the new feature/technology seems to be not good at least for our generation.

Based on my study and analysis, Brave browser is booming up and does not have any negative impact so far. Brave browser's performance and security system seems to be good. But it does not mean that you will never face any issue with this browser. Feel free to post if you come across any issue with Brave browser rather than having assumptions. Move on folks.