I think it's time to move on. I have been a poster on here for 15 years and really like the community but the format is well out of date.
I hadn't realised that the Proboard Yellowboard was still up and running. I can't believe it's 7 years since that was started! I liked the Proboard format then and I like it now. FWIW I never see/saw any adverts. I use ublockOrigin as an adblockker on my PC, phone and mobile with Firefox and never had a problem.