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    Posted: July 30 2007 at 14:54
It gets on my nerves that the only way around this annoyance is to switch browsers,which I really don't want to do.


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Points: 2760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2007 at 14:45
These are really starting to get on my nerves, I think there are 4 or 5 ads about iPods, iPhones, or laptops now, and it seems like they've increased in frequency, at least at certain times of day.  To me it seems like they pick up at night, but then again I've been seeing a lot of them this afternoon.... 
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2007 at 14:35

There's been a couple of adverts that "take over" the page, minimising the window and popping up an alert-box. If these are real Ads then they are very annoying - if they are trojan's then they need to be fixed.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2007 at 14:24
By now I should've  received like 10020 IPods... I feel cheated....Ouch
 
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Points: 1 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2007 at 11:07
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Points: 840 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2007 at 22:04
I do hate that advertisement, maybe I should get this adblocker thing of which you speak.
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Points: 28427 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2007 at 19:21
Firefox  and adblock have been working perfectly for me(infinitely better than IE), I've never even seen any of the ads discussed around here...
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2007 at 19:16
Opera IS great! I havn't gotten that ad either.
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Points: 4318 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2007 at 18:37
Actually, I think Opera blocks everything... maybe that's why I don't have a clue about the subject of this thread. Opera is great...
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2007 at 14:47
Yeah, that ad is evil. I haven't gotten adblock yet, but I intend to now. Thanks for the tip. Also, I second the motion to have more banner ads so we can get rid of those infernal lies about free iPhones. Does anyone fall for that stuff?
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Points: 4318 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2007 at 14:33
¿Why is everybody listening to something I don't? ¿The Ads are against me?...
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2007 at 10:12
I'll echo what other Firefox users have said here...Adblock is an absolute must.
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

The ads are a necessary evil. The alternative would be some sort of subscription, and nobody wants that!
 
I'd even be willing to have more ads per page, as long as they are silent ones!
 
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Points: 87 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2007 at 00:34
I have found great comfort in the fact that so many people hate this as much as I do. I feel that I have made an electronic bond in our group wrath.
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Points: 890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 15:19
I've been blissfully unaware of the offending audio ads. Out of pure curiosity I've turned my pop-up blocker off and still can't hear anything. I can't imagine it's in an advertisers interest to piss its potential customers off with such intrusive advertising, but hey, what do I know? If it didn't work they wouldn't pay through the nose for it would they?
One thing I must say, Easy Living, the ads may be "a necessary evil" but if I did hear them and couldn't block them I'd find another Prog forum PDQ. I think we all know that subscriptions would be a completely unworkable idea.
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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 14:17
I don't usually have a problem with noisy ads as I keep my volume muted.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 14:10
I have no problems with the ads, but most of us are probably enjoying music when we are exploring this site and after all that's what this site is all about.  Noise ads should be strictly off limits.
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Points: 2383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 13:57
If you have a problem, do something about it!

Adblock, anyone?
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Points: 37232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 12:46
As well as AdBlock, I also find the NoScript add-on useful.  There's a lot of stuff on this site that is not only irritating, but slows down performance and presents a security risk.  The last time I checked this site with IE, I couldn't believe how bad it looked.  After closing it down, Norton removed quite a bit of stuff too.  Malware can be a real problem here.  Lots of scripts, tracking cookies...

Only problem with using such programs is that this site depends on ads, so by choosing to blocking them you are not showing your support for the site when it comes to cost.  However, I personally would not use this site without AdBlock or some such program -- when i was first using this site not long after it got going, I had more aggressive ad-blocking software that automatically blocked out too much stuff -- including the mp3s (which were not streaming at that time),

In using AdBlock, you should export some blocking filter lists, and you can manually right click on the ads to remove them.  Actually, you can list all blockable elements easily.  By shortening an ad/banner address, and using an asterix you can easily block out more... e.g. say a script like http://ads.adserver.funkymonkey.js by changing it to http://ads.adserver*

That googlesyndication one is best done away with.


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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 12:22
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

The ads are a necessary evil. The alternative would be some sort of subscription, and nobody wants that!
 
I'd even be willing to have more ads per page, as long as they are silent ones!
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