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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:38 PM

Everytime I don't connect through my dns server or as a quick way view blocked sites the adverts these days irritate me so much.

For example go to Allwords.com, if you have JavaScript enabled click anywhere on the page and there is a slight pause followed by a popup. Even with the built in popup blocker for both browsers I think they exploit a hole in JavaScript. Poorly designed misleading adverts that asks questions that are not even real questions. Violates the eye with flashy colours and another kind of offender is flash based advertising. When I click stop it doesn't then a message states something about an illegal operation and to restart only in firefox.

In another case a flash advert consumed 100% of processor time but didn't stop as I clicked stop and even with that flash blocker which I no longer use. No way of stopping that unless I disabled flash or add the advert site address to the block list.

I read about some owners complaining that it should be made illegal for viewers to block adverts from their sites but these things do more than just advertise.

Unless these advertising firms stop this kind of silliness with flashing, popups and now sounds I'd say they deserve to be blocked if they are going to be mischievous.

What do you think?

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Posted 31 March 2007 - 02:34 AM

I think that pop-ups and spam are the two banes of the Internet. They serve no purpose except to annoy users and try to jam advertising in their faces, because on the Internet you can choose not to waste you time with it. And I think they're also there to trick poor Grandma who's purchased her computer to e-mail her family with before they get a chance to warn her of the horrors we've already experienced.
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Posted 31 March 2007 - 10:13 AM

i especially hate the ads that start talking to you. you know, with all these politicians doing stupid things to try to ban violent video games, etc...absolutely nothing is being done to place limitations on how companies are allowed to advertise on websites.

i do believe companies should be allowed to advertise on websites. i dont believe that they should be allowed to try to forcefully rub their product or service right into your face with obstructing lights, sounds, flashing banners, etc.

if i want something, i know where to go and get it. trying to pitch a sale to me only makes me more suspicious of your product/service, and less liking to give in to it.
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Posted 31 March 2007 - 12:07 PM

*pats his Adblock Plus Plugin* What'ch'all mumblin' 'bout? Whut ads?

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Posted 31 March 2007 - 01:06 PM

Adverts on some sites with scripts that bypass adblockers and flashblockers. Last year I first noticed it. Though the dns server which I frequently put large list of these advert sites solves the problem before having to use blockers. Sometimes to unblock a site that I think was not worth putting on the list I get lazy but the more problem this becomes the more it will make me become less lazy.

Now I have a little laptop on the desk for that purpose through terminal services.

What I am talking about is aggressive advertising that deserves to be ignored and the site owners who complain that they don't collect enough revenue because of people who block them out. With Firefox go to allwords.com with Javascript enabled and adblock and flashblock disabled. Internet explorer is the easiest.

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Posted 01 April 2007 - 06:00 PM

QUOTE (Gobbler @ Mar 31 2007, 05:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
*pats his Adblock Plus Plugin* What'ch'all mumblin' 'bout? Whut ads?


Indeed. I used to block all adservers but leave Google ads unblocked because I felt guilty about shunning legitimate, pastel-colored text ads specially tailored for the page I was viewing. I mean, this is their one chance to shine, and I'm just going to close the door on them? But I stopped that silliness once Google brought in those annoying animated ads. You know, the ones that advertise smileys no one in their right mind would want to use, let alone buy?
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Posted 12 April 2007 - 09:58 PM

Look this is another good reason why they deserve to be adblocked:

http://msmvps.com/bl.../22/701346.aspx

Services contracting advert agencies that contract other agencies who get away with this behaviour.

Looks like AOL benefited from the best of both worlds from their Money a Finance section whilst their contractors continue to take advantage out of vulnerable people into purchasing their rogue spyware scanners from a money advice site.

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 06:35 AM

I am going to get them!
I have just switched from my dns server just to try an experiment. Just now with that Google signication advert box ontop everytime it flashes my comments in the reply box disappears. It did that a long time ago and I lost a huge comment I wrote. I am going to look into that further and film my evidence before I have a go and complain to them. Since when did adverts became more important than what I write.

The culprit:
http://pagead2.googl...a...&u_nmime=52


The flash culprit and cpu time waster:

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http://img134.images...shadverthb8.jpg

Absolutely disgraceful!

Lets see. This laptop is a Celeron 2.5 GHz in speed with an Intel 3D accelerator so no overhead:
2500/100*42= 1025 MHz! or cpu time.

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 07:57 AM

Oops I used the wrong word. So disappointed. It should have been become not became.

It looks like Google is becoming as bad as the rest. Soon at this rate I'll be having graphical and flash adverts and popups on Gmail then they'll disable any email clients unless I pay a fee like they did on Hotmail.

With this sort of thing happening above like in Animal Farm when Napolean got into the master's bed I think it is similar to Google buying out Doubleclick.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 16 April 2007 - 07:58 AM

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