Horrible advert

Well, I made my thoughts known, I highly doubt it will change anything though.

You can sign up there without too much bother if you want. It ties into your ProBoards account, you just have to pick a forum nickname again (or use the same one, if available). When you then sign into one, you sign into all.

I have been trying to find something to block Adblock detection but so far nothing works for this one.

I have managed to get rid of all the social media buttons which have been annoying me and blocking things I am reading on many sites, so the exercise has had some benefit.

Okay, I've had enough of the "Can we talk?" along the bottom, and more recently on another Proboards forum, where the "Can we talk?" took over the entire screen. But I think this might happen if you are not logged in, as I wasn't logged in when I saw that.

I tried Proboards, I honestly tried to run without an ad-blocker, but the ads were obviously tracking me despite having "Do not track" enabled, often played sounds/video (something which you claim doesn't happen), and some were outright scams. I'm never allowing that garbage onto my network or my computer. Simple as that.

Proboards have actually done a good job of trying to evade ad-blockers by assigning random IDs to elements. So if you ask your ad-blocker to block them, it will only work for a short while as it will only trigger the specific element with the ID used that specific time. It's also embedded into the main forum code, so if you block that script you end up losing a lot of functions. The usual game of whack-a-mole never changes.

So here it is, some custom uBlock Origin rules, hand written by myself. Tested on Firefox 54.0 with uBlock Origin 1.13.8 and with Chrome and uBlock Origin as well. This will probably work with other browsers with uBlock Origin as well but I'm too lazy to test.

This will work with other proboards sites as well. Change the p2pindependentforum.com part of the settings to whichever site you want. You can have multiple copies of this if you like, one for every site you want cleaning up.

This also removes the statistics of who is logged in etc and a bunch of noise along the bottom. Stuff that's just a further distraction in my mind. If you would rather keep those, then copy and paste this instead:

Before and after shot:


Let me know if you need help installing this

Yes.  Thank you Ribs.  I have been using your rules on Firefox / uBlock.  The forum screens works much better with these rules.  The screen used to keep jumping about using ublock without these rules.  It is just a shame that proboards could not find a less intrusive way of managing adverts then I would not need to block them at all.