IMPORTANT: Ad's are coming back, YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!

[HoTWire]

Hey folks,

Ad's are coming back tomorrow morning (Monday 4th November). We can't live without them, and even if we could I need to give 30 days notice that I'm going to remove them. So whatever happens they will be back in the morning.

In order to solve the bug that occurred with them and slowed the forum down you need to clear the local data for this website.

There are a couple of ways to do this in most browsers. I'm going to detail the slightly more surgical way in this first post, and then the way that other people say to do it in the second post (and what you should know before you do it).

These instructions are for Chrome Desktop specifically but you can get similar results in other desktop browsers as they all have similar mechanisms.

1) Press F12 to get the Developers window up (you may have to click something to say that you are happy to open the developers window)

You should get a page that looks a bit like this:



2) Click on the >> highlighted in red on that picture and select Application from the list

You should get a page that looks a bit like this:



3) Select "Including third party Cookies" and make sure the entire list of things underneath are checked. Then press "Clear Site Data"

4) Press F12 to get rid of the developers panel.

5) Refresh the page and log back in to the forum.


If you want to check things are good now you can go to edit your profile and change your theme in Settings to RR June Update which currently has the adverts in it.

You can change back to the RR October Update theme to get back to the normal default theme.


Sadly you can't be this surgical with Mobile browsers.

[HoTWire]

For mobile browsers and if you can't get the above to work for you these are the normal steps to clear you browsers local data.

THIS WILL LOG YOU OUT OF PRETTY MUCH ALL YOUR SITES, WILL LIKELY REMOVE STUFF FROM SHOPPING BASKETS YOU'VE NOT CHECKED OUT OR SAVED YET.

This is also not a bad practice if you don't like being tracked across various sites, and some security minded browsers are actually set to clear this stuff when you close down the browser. So it isn't like a bad thing to do, just want you to be aware that you'll need to log back in to stuff and it is our fault (well our Ad suppliers fault, but ultimately I made the choice to use them, so it is our fault).

Here are the instructions:

By following the steps below, you can easily clear your browser cache and local storage:

Safari (Mac and iOS)
On Mac:
1. Open Safari and go to the Safari menu at the top.
2. Select Preferences.
3. Go to the Privacy tab.
4. Click Manage Website Data.
5. In the list that appears, click Remove All or select specific sites you want to clear, then click Remove.
6. Confirm by clicking Remove Now.

On iOS (iPhone/iPad):
1. Open Settings on your device.
2. Scroll down and tap Safari.
3. Tap Clear History and Website Data.
4. Confirm by tapping Clear History and Data.

Firefox
On Desktop:
1. Open Firefox and click the Menu button (☰) at the top right.
2. Select Settings (or Options on some versions).
3. Go to Privacy & Security in the sidebar.
4. Under the Cookies and Site Data section, click Clear Data.
5. Check both Cookies and Site Data and Cached Web Content.
6. Click Clear and confirm the action.

On Mobile (Android/iOS):
1. Open Firefox and tap the Menu button (☰).
2. Select Settings.
3. Tap Delete browsing data.
4. Select Cache (and Cookies if you want to remove saved logins).
5. Tap Delete browsing data and confirm.

Chrome
On Desktop:
1. Open Chrome and click the Menu button (⋮) at the top right.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Scroll down and select Privacy and security.
4. Click Clear browsing data.
5. Choose the Time range (Last hour, 24 hours, All time).
6. Check Cached images and files and Cookies and other site data.
7. Click Clear data.

On Mobile (Android/iOS):
1. Open Chrome and tap the Menu button (⋮).
2. Select Settings and then Privacy and security.
3. Tap Clear browsing data.
4. Select Cached images and files and Cookies.
5. Tap Clear data and confirm.

[mk2cossie]

I take it there's ads back for everyone from that post?
Or is it still ad free for members?

[HoTWire]

Ad free for members.

But I need to update the members list, so hang tight and I'll get that sorted (probably an all member email going out this week)

[mk2cossie]

Nov 3, 2024 19:57:40 GMT HoTWire said:

Ad free for members.

But I need to update the members list, so hang tight and I'll get that sorted (probably an all member email going out this week)

Perfect 👌
I was merely asking, to clarify. It wasn't a panicking moment at all, no sir, not me

(And hopefully clear the matter for others that may think the same way as I do)

[JoshB68]

For safari on mobile

Go to settings
Safari
Down to advanced
Website data
Search retro-rides.org
Edit
Delete

And cross your fingers that works, saves you deleting all browser data but you will be logged out of this site just need to sign back in👍
(if it doesn’t work ignore me and do as posted above 😂)

[HoTWire]

Thanks JoshB68 I didn't have an iPhone to try and work out if I could be more surgical with. Disappointed neither Firefox or Chrome on my Android give me more granular options.

[jimi]

Nov 3, 2024 22:15:58 GMT HoTWire said:

Disappointed neither Firefox or Chrome on my Android give me more granular options.

Most of the Android browsers I've tried (and I've tested many) are not much good in that respect, in fact compared to the desktop versions they are very poor in many respects
One that is better is the Samsung Internet browser, which can be installed on most Android devices

[brachunky]

Just performed these actions using Brave so hopefully all will be ok going forward