Originally Posted by
Jenbel
We do seem to have ad creep though - apparently some forums are now sponsored

When on the directory pages, there are little ad icons in some of the forum headers....
I noticed that too - and it does seem to be slowing down FT for me.
I've willingly paid for FT premium and happy to continue to do so to remain ad-free, but if ad-free doesn't mean free of ads then IB is just encouraging me to use (free) technical ways to block the ads.