35 minutes ago, Paladin2005 said:

You want another website because you can not undermin its financing method with ads?

Have fun @ other ad infested sites with less content.

Bye! *waving like Forrest Gump*

It's a payware website. I bought a couple of airports and aircraft there.

Why would I need to look at ads. OrbX and the others have no ads.

It is still the best overall site out there for MSFS freeware addons.  Nothing else comes close.  And it is their site - their rules, so if you want it all for free, it's as simple as that.
Obviously you are very free to exercise your choice out of principle if you want to.     
All principles come with a cost to varying degrees, so you need to way up if it is worth the cost of never going back to FS.to just because you don't want to make a simple change.

A general comment on this... There is always so much misplaced loyalty with browsers and other things in life.
Now in my late years, I have learnt my lesson and I have very little brand loyalty for anything, and I won't get entrenched in these kind of things.
I go where I want, and I do what I want, to get what I want, without causing myself any undue stress over the little things.

You are asking for feedback, so I would just take a breath, install another browser, and run with it, even if just for that site.
You may look back on your post in a few days and think it might just be a tad over-reactive, for what it is.

I use Brave and have found it to be the best.  It is a cut down, fast version of the Chromium based browsers (like Edge and Chrome), and it doesn't send all the feedback telemetry like others do.

It simply takes five minutes to set it up at the start (I turn off all of the the digital currency stuff), and import your bookmarks.  I really like it and it can use Chrome plugins if you want to, like the Web of Trust (WOT) plugin etc.

 

Edited May 11, 20233 yr by bobcat999

1 hour ago, darshonaut said:

It's a payware website. I bought a couple of airports and aircraft there.

Why would I need to look at ads. OrbX and the others have no ads.

How much freeware do you get from ORBX? 🤔

2 hours ago, jcomm said:

Firef§cks... Go EDGE... 

Nothing wrong with Firefox, I use it fine with FlightSim.To and I run an adblocker plugin (which I disable for FlightSim.To). Edge is built on Chromium, essentially it's polished Chrome but your data goes to the Big M rather than the Big G. Firefox is a little bit more memory heavy right now than the other two at this precise moment, but it has better privacy functionality.

52 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

 I really like it and it can use Chrome plugins if you want to, like the Web of Trust (WOT) plugin etc.

I was with you all the way until you mentioned WoT... they sold identifiable user browsing data on to third parties and got banned from most app stores for violating their terms and conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOT_Services#Sale_of_user-related_data might be years ago but I have no trust in that organisation any more.

 

Edited May 11, 20233 yr by ckyliu

1 minute ago, guenseli said:

How much freeware do you get from ORBX? 🤔

Orbx has been a pioneer in offering tons of excellent payware-quality freeware for FSX and P3D, really good stuff. Still a little bit for MSFS but not as much. Then again, MSFS has opened a new era for freeware and lowered the payware general level of price.

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

It is still the best overall site out there for MSFS freeware addons.  Nothing else comes close.  And it is their site - their rules, so if you want it all for free, it's as simple as that. 

A general comment on this... There is always so much misplaced loyalty with browsers and other things in life. .

 

 

Admirative of the job done by these guys. Its a pleasure to browse and select these lovely works. This has a cost thought, disk space. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw yesterday that I was at almost 500 pieces of freeware 😱 !  

Couldn't agree more on brand loyalty. I left Firefox because I found tedious, some years back, the continuous updates and then Chrome because I couldn't solve a bug affecting some of us which mutes You Tube sound tracks. And, about their telemetry, they could send my browsing infos to the lizard men who rule the world from their Himalayas caverns for all I care. The browsers offer me a good tool I have to pay somehow.

Edited May 11, 20233 yr by Dominique_K

Eh, browsers... some years ago I discovered Vivaldi and been using it ever since. It's quite good at blocking unwanted adds among other things. For FlightSim.to I disabled blocking and never had an issue since. 

7 hours ago, FBW737 said:

Anyway, I've just tried to update some freeware of flightsim.to and I get a message saying Turn of your Adblocker. Fine I look at adblocker plus and see that its already set to allow adds in flightsim.to. I then look at the fine print and apparently they want me to scourer to find out whats interfering with their website and suggesting I use another browwer other than Firefox which I've used for years. Not worth the effort. Bye bye.

What the main alternative to flightsim.to for MSFS Freeware?

You can also use the Opera browser. It has an ad-blocker that you can configure to navigate in Flightsim.to and in many other sites as well without issues.

In fact, after using Chrome and Firefox for years, in my opinion, Opera is way better.

Chrome with adblocker, never a problem.

22 minutes ago, Jure said:

Eh, browsers... some years ago I discovered Vivaldi and been using it ever since. It's quite good at blocking unwanted adds among other things. For FlightSim.to I disabled blocking and never had an issue since. 

Vivaldi, a browser for all seasons 🙃.

Firefox since the year dot. Adblocker Ultimate switched on for Flightsim.to, no complaints.

5 hours ago, anden145 said:

Agreed. Me neither. Also using Chrome with Adblock Plus. Never had an issue with Flightsim.to.

Same here. And also, AFAIK, Chrome is the only one with a Chromecast extension, which is essential to me.

Chrome is the only browser that certain third party software tries to install. CCleaner being a classic example. I refuse every time.

I’ve used Firefox for years and will continue to do so. Google is too dominant and their attempts to get me to install Chrome is counterproductive.

The problem that every marketplace (and even FS.to is one) has is that there is no quality assurance behind it. Especially fs.to, which is actively deleting bad reviews even if evidence is shown, is not the best place for getting addons. Some may work, some others don´t, some produces conflicts with installed software, some are breaking installed software (e.g. liveries for Fenix that "destroy" the clickspots, as stated by Fenix themselves) etc.

So in my opinion fs.to is nothing more than a marketing platform. Yes, there are good addons out there, but a couple of them lead to (unnecessary) conflicts with MSFS and cause support-trouble.

5 hours ago, darshonaut said:

It's a payware website. I bought a couple of airports and aircraft there.

Why would I need to look at ads. OrbX and the others have no ads.

Nope. They started as freeware page and added the payware later. Freeware is still the majority of stuff there.

Go and find any other free MSFS content provider in this scale. Absolute ridiculous discussion.