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    Posted: October 30 2010 at 08:59
Hey guys,

I'm not completely sure where to post this, but this Metallica/Megadeth/Anthrax/Slayer advertisement is extremely annoying, and we would probably be best without it. It pops up in a similar way as the Kiss advertisement did, but this one makes sound as well. Is anyone else having this problem?

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They are very annoying but I never see them because I use adblock plus with Firefox...
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I use it with Chrome.....
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2010 at 10:27
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

They are very annoying but I never see them because I use adblock plus with Firefox...

Ditto Big smile
But we should really keep it a secret.


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 30 2010 at 10:28
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2010 at 10:39
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

They are very annoying but I never see them because I use adblock plus with Firefox...

Ditto Big smile
But we should really keep it a secret.
 
Yes I never see these adverts 'cos I........oh yes.....mmmm???........shhhhhh! (Never said anything)
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It is amusing sometimes to hit the site with a browser that doesn't have an ad block. LOL
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No it isn't...unless one is very easily amused.
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I did say sometimes, which actually means never unless I have no choice. LOL
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2010 at 11:04
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I did say sometimes, which actually means never unless I have no choice. LOL

Damn get out clauses!

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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2010 at 11:15
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

They are very annoying but I never see them because I use adblock plus with Firefox...


I have Firefox... where do you get adblock plus? Embarrassed

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Originally posted by J-Man J-Man wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

They are very annoying but I never see them because I use adblock plus with Firefox...


I have Firefox... where do you get adblock plus? Embarrassed

Here. I have Adblock Plus disabled on PA and MMA though.
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Here you go pal:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/
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They're annoying, yet they pay for the site. The old paradox. Maybe it's worthwhile notifying M@X about this, he might have possibilities to limit what type of adds the ad services forward to PA.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2010 at 12:53
Hey, as long as they are music related I don't really care if they are prog related or not.  Plus I usually don't see them anyway.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2010 at 22:36
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

They are very annoying but I never see them because I use adblock plus with Firefox...
Yes, but I don't use adblock because I like PA. The only saving grace of this one is that it's a video, so it takes a second to load and I can mute it, unlike the god-awful Nickelback one we had a while ago.
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I enjoyed the ad the first time I accidentally moused-over it. Now, virtually every other time it appears, I activate it without meaning to via my trackpad. All I'm trying to do is scroll down the page. Cry
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2010 at 05:37
The ads don't pay for anything unless you click on them. 
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

The ads don't pay for anything unless you click on them. 
Not true, loading them in the page also counts. This is even more likely to be true on PA since Max doesn't use Google Ads. There was a minor drama when some large tech website asked everybody to please turn off adblock because preventing the ads loading was killing their revenue. I don't remember what website it was, though.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2010 at 10:40
If it's pay-per-display then yeah. From what I knew we had pay-per-click, but I don't remember if I actually read that here or if I imagined it.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

The ads don't pay for anything unless you click on them. 
Not true, loading them in the page also counts. This is even more likely to be true on PA since Max doesn't use Google Ads. There was a minor drama when some large tech website asked everybody to please turn off adblock because preventing the ads loading was killing their revenue. I don't remember what website it was, though.

Ars Technica?
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