Anybody notice that if your browser has ad blocker that Thingiverse won't let you download files. I was just on there the other day using Safari on my MacBook and was able to download fine. Today I went to grab this cute trash can I saw the other day but didn't download and it wouldn't let be cause I had ad blocker, this was Firefox on the Linux laptop. So a while ago I tried to download it on the MacBook and it would let me because of ad blocker. Nothing has change in Safari. I used to see ads on there so I have no idea what has changed. Time for a new source or STL files.
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Irv Shapiro I did find 1 issue with the site: 1 of the models had an F3D file. I could find no way to download it using the site. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Here is a link to the public detailed roadmap for the models project. In the app you can click on the "Report Bugs" link in the footer on the right side to report bugs and feature requests right in the application.
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Originally posted by Gramps View PostBV3D was talking about the download all feature. I'm talking about Thingiverse won't let you download at all if you have ad blockers. Tried it for the ad blocker issue and it worked. 2 birds killed with one rock.- Find the model you want to download;
- Click on the model to open its page;
- Click in the browser's URL box, at the end of the address;
- add "/zip" to the end of the address;
- hit Enter.
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Originally posted by Ender5r View Post
I researched this a little more. The workaround Country_Bubba linked to does work:- Find the model you want to download;
- Click on the model to open its page;
- Click in the browser's URL box, at the end of the address;
- add "/zip" to the end of the address;
- hit Enter.
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Originally posted by Gramps View Post
Guess I wasn't clear, I did say it worked for me but the video was about another issue.Last edited by Ender5r; 02-23-2022, 11:32 AM.
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I tend to agree. My feeling is that MakerBot considers thingiverse a financial drain and they're trying everything they can to derive more revenue from it
I am considering whether or not to allow Thingiverse to show ads. My issue with ads is always that I don't know how much risk I'm taking. Do the site owners vet the ads, at all? If they do, what are the criteria? Are the ads just being fed to the site by an ad agency? If so, how reputable is the agency (is there such a thing as a reputable online ad agency)? So much can be done with cookies. It's a real risk.
Perhaps, what I need is to dedicate a cheap tablet or such just for Thingiverse browsing, a tablet that doesn't connect to anything else on my personal LAN and doesn't have any personal info whatsoever.Last edited by Ender5r; 02-23-2022, 11:36 AM.
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I do not believe Ultimaker owns Thingiverse. Ultimaker is the sponsor of Cura. MakerBot owns Thingiverse and MakerBot is owned by Stratasys.
Stratasys, an Israeli-based 3D printer and additive manufacturer has just agreed to acquire 3D printing company MakerBot for a proposed amount of $403 million in stock.
From the above article:
"MakerBot reports that during the first quarter of 2013, the company generated $11.5 million in total revenue, compared to $15.7 million for all of 2012. Thingiverse.com, MakerBot's online content portal for the sharing of user-generated digital design content, has more than 90,000 3D product files available for sharing, and generates more than 500,000 unique visitors and 1,000,000 downloads each month. The accessibility and ease-of-use of this 3D printing content helps promote system usage."
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@Ender5r I will make downloads of all NON-STL files available. I added it to the backlog which is now starting to grow.
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This change is coded and I expect it will go out with a large release sometime next week. The next release will work properly on mobile devices (a lot of work), will have user controllable push notifications if you want to know about updates, more UI/UX improvements, a refinement of the shadows in the 3d renders, and some backend stuff that will hopefully be transparent.
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