I am experiencing great difficulty in playing your games whether im playing as a subscriber or non subscriber, I seem to be under attack from cookies ie;traking cookies and advertising cookies.When my computer is infected with these cookies the game play is impossible as i have said many times in the forum it causes my cue to stick,it moves on its own after i have taken my shot, so therefore its not aiming correctly.At times if i attempt to tap a ball with very little power the white travels at three times the speed of light, which in a normal game would be impossible to hit it so hard.I have been down all routes i believe in the past, i have raised queries in the forum about this issue.I have had more ad-ware, scanning and spy-ware programmes you can wave a stick at,also i have blocked the cookies to fly or die but it prevents you from playing the game at all.I have been playing this game for 2 years and have always had a subbed name and sometimes more than one.I believe you rely on the mass overturn of people on this site, ie; non subscribers that may come in once or twice to make your revenue through advertising, where i think your focus should be on the people that actually pay and stay, instead of subjecting us to violent attacks from cookies which makes it hard to play, all you achieve is people like me not subscribing again or just leaving all together. I know the subs are small in number so the revenue from this is small, but please give something back and stop the cookies. As i have said before i will not sub again until this issue is sortred i do hope it is sorted soon or at least i am responded to because the way the game play is i will also be leaving soon .This may not concern you as i am only one man but hey theres plenty more sites on the net that work.A couple of examples are;casale media cookie.doulble click cookie.served by cookie and advertising cookie.If you need any more info on these cookies or any more that i recieve from you do not hessitate to ask.And may i just say one last thing more than one of the cookies had a life span longer than the average life span of the best computer. thanks
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Hey mate, as a subscriber you don't get the tracking cookies from the advertisers... as there are no ads. How fast is your PC, how much RAM, how much FREE HD space, what other programs are running in the background, and how many tracking cookies do you have each time you sweep? One test is to run ad-aware and clean the computer, then run your favourite billiards program. Is it slow still? If yes, then run another sweep and see how many new tracking cookies appeared. It should be none, and if that is true then you have a completely different problem, possibly from resource limitation or another intrusive program. DO NOT BLOCK THE FOD COOKIE, otherwise it will forget that you are a member and load ads when you open the homepage or forum. If this happens, log on using the browser, then reload the home page - then the site will be ad free.
Thankyou very much Beppe for taking the time to reply,and for trying to help me. The state of my computor eg; speed,ram and hd space is fine and more than average.I dont run any additional programmes except spy sweeper which has no effect on my computors performance. I run ad-ware se, but i have found this in itself is not enough.I run a sweep then close it then run spy sweeper,these find unwanted odjects but these are still not fool proof so i also run aol spy-ware straight after and this will find 1 or 2 more,so the combination is good. I clear my computor with these 3 things then only access Fly or Die and depending on how long i spend on the site i am guarenteed at least 1-10 cookies. I will try to sub one more time but if the problem persists i will not continue to use this site. Thankyouy very much SSG Redeye
Thankyou very much Beppe for taking the time to reply,and for trying to help me. The state of my computor eg; speed,ram and hd space is fine and more than average.I dont run any additional programmes except spy sweeper which has no effect on my computors performance. I run ad-ware se, but i have found this in itself is not enough.I run a sweep then close it then run spy sweeper,these find unwanted odjects but these are still not fool proof so i also run aol spy-ware straight after and this will find 1 or 2 more,so the combination is good. I clear my computor with these 3 things then only access Fly or Die and depending on how long i spend on the site i am guarenteed at least 1-10 cookies. I will try to sub one more time but if the problem persists i will not continue to use this site. Thankyouy very much SSG Redeye
Indeed - Spyware is mostly about market research, and anti-spyware companies are a part of the market. It is often the case that they may use, have an interest in or be affiliated to some of the tracking companies. These products will then be deemed as useful rather than as spyware, so a cross check with different products is the only way to lose all the cookies. Note that one single product like ad-aware SE will remove all the harmful cookies and most of the tracking cookies, thus making it sufficient (but not perfect) on it's own. The important part of my reply was to make sure that you don't have the ads on the website. When I first subscribed I used the PC game, and was a little upset that the forums still had the ads after logging in. Make sure that you log in with the web version any time the website ads appear. Also note that programs run in the background on your PC - you only need to check the task list to see this. On the second computer in this house FoD billiards has a huge lag, making it virtually unplayable. This is even on the PC game with the internet disconnected. The owner has installed and removed all kinds of rubbish, and I cannot track what is causing the problem. All I know is that it is not spyware, a virus, FoD, the connection or the CPU. Maybe try the PC version in practice mode to make sure that this isn't also true for yourself.
Oops, did it ever occur to you that the spy sweeper you have is enough and that when you run the AOL spyware it loads a couple of spyware cookies itself onto your PC as AOL does every time you run any of it's programs? AOL is known for loading spyware onto it's customers PC's for it's market research, you may find that AOL is a part of your problem. ж2σξзж