# Webwasher and this board. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 18, 2000, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130 "2000-12-18T10:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/1 "2000-12-18T10:19:00Z")
A while back I was pointed to the Webwasher program in a thread somewhere on this board. ( I don’t remember where, and am too lazy to look.) I installed it and am very pleased, except that, when I am here, I have to disable webwasher or I get nothing but a blank screen. Does anyone know why that is? If there has already been a thread addressing this, I am sorry, but let me know, please. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/3 "2000-12-18T17:52:53Z")
Summing up, you are too lazy to look for something on your own and you wish us to help you bypass our advertisers, who happen to be our only (small) source of revenue? Sorry man, ain’t gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/4 "2000-12-19T00:59:21Z")
Hee Hee. Hee Hee Hee Hee. Ha ha ha ha ha ha hee hee. BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/5 "2000-12-19T02:58:32Z")
I agree with manhattan and Uncle Beer. Especially Manny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/6 "2000-12-19T17:12:21Z")
Gee, I guess I deserved that. I really hadn’t thought about the impact on the Board’s advertising banners, and wasn’t trying to get rid of them. I was just wondering. I would like to thank UncleBeer for pointing it out. I would like to thank manhattan, but cannot, seeing that instead of helping fight my ignorance, he just chose laugh at me. Very nice. What amazes me the most is that a BANNED user was the only one who gave me any real information. Oh and I would like to thank Alphagene for making that info easier to view. So to sumarize, the Mods are rather against software that removes banner ads, and have no qualms about being very rude in voicing it. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/7 "2000-12-20T01:46:29Z")
You think that was _rude_? I suppose I’d better not laugh at that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/8 "2000-12-28T13:03:42Z")
I myself use Guidescope. Do a google search for it and the first link you’ll come across will help you decide if you need Guidescope or Internet Junkbuster. Useful site, that. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/9 "2000-12-29T04:44:13Z")
At the present time our only source of revenue on this site is the piddly amount we get from ads. Glad to see our continued survival means so freakin’ much to you, Derleth. Thank you very much. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/10 "2000-12-29T05:06:02Z")
Wow - and all this time I’ve been routinely clicking on the ads, to 1) see if they are interesting, and 2) to try and help out the Board. Come on guys - the ads here are so small and so unobtrusive. And they help the Board out. I guess we’ll have to do it this way, since the way I and others suggested for Board funding was not acceptable (I guess Zotti didn’t like my story after all, since he never even mentioned me). I don’t know how it could be defensible to wipe the ads out, unless you are posting from a computer in Ghana with a 1200 baud connection… ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/11 "2000-12-29T06:23:27Z")
There are ads on this board?!? Oh yeah, now I remember … that tiny litle banner in the upper left-hand corner, which disappears as soon as I scroll down, and reminds me to keep my breath fresh. Right… > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Anthracite_: > \*\*I’ve been routinely clicking on the ads … to try and help out the Board. \*\* Do we need to click on the ads for them to have any effect, or is just viewing them enough? > [@](#): > > **I guess we’ll have to do it this way, since the way I and others suggested for Board funding was not acceptable** **Anthracite** , may I ask what you (et al.) suggested? A summary or a link would be fine… thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webwasher-and-this-board/46130/12 "2000-12-29T06:43:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StephenG \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > **I guess we’ll have to do it this way, since the way I and others suggested for Board funding was not acceptable** > > **Anthracite** , may I ask what you (et al.) suggested? A summary or a link would be fine… thanks! \*\* [Join the Straightdope PBS Fund Drive! Help our Board!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47771)