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Lenght of advertising videos

• Stefano0178 200 Posts

  Fri, Oct 24 2014 1:47 AM

  Hello everyone.

  I don't know if this is the right forum for posting this but I imagine it's right.

  Today I was loading a tournament and the loading videos showed "Watch this video or wait 560 seconds". Seriously? I need to watch a video to avoid almost TEN MINUTES wait before playing?

  C'mon, this is ridiculous. Ten seconds, ok. Fifteen, so and so. 560 seconds, I close the window and go do something else. It's a matter of principle.

  And not, I'm not interested in watching a girl showing how to dress for halloween if you're a cool teen. I'm a man, I'm 37 so my "teen" age is ended loooong ago.

  Please.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Fri, Oct 24 2014 3:08 PM

  Get the appropriate Ad Blocker for your browser.

  No ad plays at the start of a round.

  No ad plays at the turn after  9 holes.

  No ad plays during a replay.

• JFidanza 1,676 Posts

  Fri, Oct 24 2014 10:23 PM

  Since I installed the popular ad blocker recommended by the kind people here in the forums, my laptop is loading pages so much faster. No doubt, the CPU load has be lessened,

  Thanks, all.

• Stefano0178 200 Posts

  Sat, Oct 25 2014 12:29 AM

  ApexPC:

  Get the appropriate Ad Blocker for your browser.

  No ad plays at the start of a round.

  No ad plays at the turn after  9 holes.

  No ad plays during a replay.

  The fact is that I have AdBlock installed. I see no advertising on the WGT page or in the replays. Only when loading a course, and not all the times. Probably there is some advertising site that is still unknown, or worse, I suspect they are youtube videos, which are not blocked by AdBlock by default. In fact, the about 600 seconds videos are the only ones I see and I can't avoid them except for closing the WGT window, and reloading the match again, In this case, there is a good chance I will not incur in the video again for a while.

  Anyway, It's not the advertising that gives me trouble, it's the lenght of the wait if I don't want to see it... I understand they need to have ads to sponsor the site, but heck, not if I have to wait ten minutes to play! :)