I agree no advertising. FR is one of the few political sites that doesn’t crash the browser in my aging IPad II because of all the advertising scripts running in the background.
Any body remember when reloading a thread all responses would have to reload instead of just 50 or so. Was especially hard for us on dial up at the time when thread was full of pics. At that time there was a thread asking for suggestions on how to improve the site, and the problem was fixed.