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Remove Advertisements from Hardwarezone

Forums sites such as Hardwarezone.com have been trying to monetise their page views by inserting advertisements into their pages. While a few well placed banners do no real harm, Hardwarezone.com advertisement banners have been putting more and more adverts onto their pages. When the Hardwarezone adverts started, there were only banners. Then it evolved to the so-called Catfish, " an ingenious ad unit that is subtle in execution and delivers click-through rate many times above the industry average of 0.2%.", which appeared at the bottom of the page on first load. Gradually, Hardwarezone started putting adverts after the first postings of forum threads. That is already a lot of advertisements floating on a page! The final straw is perhaps implementing floating advertisements that open right in the middle of the screen!! 3 ways to get rid of advertisements on Hardwarezone pages The simplest way is to pay money and subscribe to DMClub, Hardware Zone's premier membersh