Basilmarkets advertising system is in need of an overhaul
To browse the internet securely, a bit more anonymous and without annoying advertisements I ALWAYS browse with a range of Firefox extensions, for example: [url=http://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/noscript/]No-Script[/url], [url=http://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/]Adblock Plus[/url] and [url=http://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/]Self-Destructing cookies[/url]. But I DO know this hurts the smaller websites that use advertisements to pay for their expenses. So every now and then I create exceptions for websites I want to support (meaning I will tolerate their advertisements).
I have whitelisted advertisements from hidden-street.net and southperry.net without any trouble, but the other day I wanted to whitelist basilmarket.com...if only I knew. See the differences for yourself, here are the graphs of 3 Maplestory fansites and their related domains:
hidden-street.net http://oi57.tinypic.com/262xikz.jpg
southperry.net http://oi58.tinypic.com/2m3ixax.jpg
and last but not least: basilmarket.com http://oi61.tinypic.com/2wn70ir.jpg o.o
WHAT THE FREAK IS THIS? Why is this absurd network of domains necessary, just to display some advertisements to make up for expenses? Why can hidden-street and southperry suffice with 3/4 ad-related domains? Does no-one consider this a security risk to all loyal Maple fans visiting this website? Because there are some shady domains between the ones shown (ehh google-sync.rutarget.ru... o.o), and this was just a snapshot, as the involved domains will be different every visit.
Long story short: I will not be able to whitelist basilmarket.com because of the extended list of involved domains, not because I don't want to support basilmarket, but because it will be a daily job to keep up with the involved domains and because of the impact on page-speed and my privacy/security. I sincerely advise you to take a look at the current advertising system and revise it because of the following reasons:
[*] Visitors wiil be able to easily whitelist basilmarket to support it.
[*] Visitors will be safer.
[*] The website will load faster.
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Oh god, that flow chart.
But yeah, while I'd like to turn off Adblock to support, I reeeeally can't for basil.
Basil used to have a "Please whitelist basilmarket banner" when I looked at the wayback machine. Takes half a sec to load pages with built-in popup blocker on my phone. Whitelisting on laptops for Basilmarket would lag everything for up to 10 seconds. The current General MapleStory community annoys me and are kind of ugly. The funded/trolly looking ones would post about breaking the ToS and bleh