I cannot see any suspect links within the stuff that people have posted on that page, but it could be true that one or more of the adsense advertisements generated by Forumotion are themselves dodgy. These change according to each person based on location, cookies, etc, so I cannot know exactly if this is the case.

However I strongly recommend you use an ad-blocker anyway. They are free to use and install and improve your browsing experience no end anyway.

These are the two I am currently using in Chrome myself. I recommend you install them immediately and then see if things have improved:

AdBlock Plus

AdBlock

They are two versions of the same program but use slightly different whitelists so work best when bot are used, I have found.

I used to have adblock on my desktop computer before it conked out but I've found that its memory consuming on the laptop.  Mind you it's not like my laptop is 'high end'.  It doesn't work for Res Historica of course but if there is a video with ads (and most do have ads) that I want to watch I copy its YouTube/Vimeo/Dailymotion or whatever address into VLC media player where the video will play without ads.  I originally downloaded VLC in the hope of being able to use it with my foot pedals which I bought to play audio tapes so that I didn't have to take my hands off the keyboard to go forward or back but I haven't been able to hook VLC to Pedable yet.

nordmann, I just had the same difficulties now on this "adjustments forum", that I mentioned on the "you tubes" site to read the last message of Vizzer and that when I enter with "Chrome" and as I enter with "Explorer" as I now do, it works as you see.

So I couldn't read anymore your help: AdBlock Plus AdBlock
I will give it a go on Chrome and thank you for the help.

Kind regards, Paul.

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nordmann wrote:

I cannot see any suspect links within the stuff that people have posted on that page, but it could be true that one or more of the adsense advertisements generated by Forumotion are themselves dodgy. These change according to each person based on location, cookies, etc, so I cannot know exactly if this is the case.

Funnily enuff - the 'Control and use of your personal data' pop-up message which one gets when accessing Res Historica was today in some Scandinavian language (I'll assume Norwegian). I clicked out because I couldn't understand it and when I went back in it was in English. My curiosity spiked, however, I tried to replicate it (i.e. the Norwegian message) by going back out and back in again but now it just keeps coming up in French. It's never been in French before either as far as I can recall but that sort of make sense as Forumotion is based in France. I now regret not having taken a screen shot of the Norwegian message for comparison's sake.

P.S. The above is not a complaint - just a point of interest.

I seem to be getting an ad which blocks my screen when I come here first but if I log in again it has disappeared. No, I don't even have to log in, usually that happens automatically but today when I was in the site I had to log in to reply. But I have to start again somehow.