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View Poll Results: Do you avoid some sites because of their advertising?
Yes - they make me want to hit the designers over the head with my monitor. 22 36.07%
No, I just block and go... 36 59.02%
No. I like 'em, and itchy wool underwear, and nipple clamps... 3 4.92%
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Old 01-29-2007, 09:53 AM   #31
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I find blocking/stoping adverts very lame, almost funny. If you block adverts with your webbrowser, why not just make your T.V go off each time an advert comes on there??? can you imagine that....
 
Old 01-29-2007, 11:50 AM   #32
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generally speaking , it like under the curse of the demanding public ... actually very hard to survive and at the same time be rigorously honest and principled ...


//i did said is a bad trend in the long run anyway ...

//ofcause , things are not beyond repair as some would like to make believed ...


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Old 01-29-2007, 03:25 PM   #33
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If you block adverts with your webbrowser, why not just make your T.V go off each time an advert comes on there??? can you imagine that....
You can get TVs that can do that? Where? I want one!

Seriously, I would pay good money for a TV that would cut the volume each time the ads came on.

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If anyone knows how to block flash and to leave an option somewhere near the address bar to let some sites go through, I'd love to know where you found it.
Are you using Firefox? You can download an extension called Flashblock, which replaces all Flash content with a "button" - click on it to view, or right click and choose the option to allow flash from a particular site. (Tools>Extensions>Get more extensions, iirc).
 
Old 01-30-2007, 09:16 AM   #34
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You can get TVs that can do that? Where? I want one!

Seriously, I would pay good money for a TV that would cut the volume each time the ads came on.

Rob
heh, why dont you invent one. Get rich, just send me a cut of the cash :P
 
Old 01-30-2007, 09:41 AM   #35
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>> " Do adverts driving you AWAY from websites?"

i have to say yes ... ever since i was young enough , especially sites that are selling things that we can purchase from ordinary stores on the ground ...

i think it was because of the buisness demand of more efficient and therefore more attractive on-line services that we have all sorts of "professionally" looking nonsense coming up in lightning speed and with ease ...

the internet now is really a land of wastes now ... in my opinion ...


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Old 01-30-2007, 10:15 AM   #36
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>> " Do adverts driving you AWAY from websites?"
the internet now is really a land of wastes now ... in my opinion ...


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you are confusing the Internet with the world wide web(WWW), the Internet is great but the WWW is not so great, though it is nice for somethings(like research etc).
 
Old 01-30-2007, 10:32 AM   #37
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because of the internet that we have www or is it because of the www(probably the conception of it) that we have the internet in it current form ...

how about power current and somekind of cooker(or a 50" <insert modern terminology that everybody seems to understand here> tv) ?? ^_^


//i cant wait people start linking me to wikipedia and the like ...


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Old 02-06-2007, 07:05 AM   #38
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... I've certainly never been bothered by the ads here (which are not blocked)...
Actually, I take that back. There have recently been some quite distracting ads from Splunk in the side-bar.

Rob
 
Old 02-06-2007, 10:21 AM   #39
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Actually, I take that back. There have recently been some quite distracting ads from Splunk in the side-bar.
That ad is so annoying, I've added Flashblock to Mozilla specifically because it made my experience here annoying.

jer
 
Old 02-07-2007, 10:04 AM   #40
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Try installing privoxy. All the bad stuff is just gone then.
 
  


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