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I found my fix for safari on http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/ It's a good site for picking up odds and ends. Lots of free stuff too.

The ads are a necessary evil. The alternative would be some sort of subscription, and nobody wants that!

Finnforest wrote: I have Firefox and still haven't figured out how to block it.  I went into Tools/options/Content and check "block pop-ups" but the ad still launches the audio every time.  If someone can tell me here or PM me on how to block this I offer my first born son as a thank you.

If you have firefox installed, what you need to do in order to get read of the adds and banners is to install an add-on called Adblock. You can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

God bless Wladimir Palant and his programming skills!

Feel free, M@x is always receptive to feedback and suggestions.

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.


Edited by Logan - July 14 2007 at 12:47

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.

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?

Man With Hat wrote: 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!

¿Why is everybody listening to something I don't? ¿The Ads are against me?...

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...