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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
 Posted - 19 October 2003 : 09:47:00
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How much more annoying will they make ads on web pages?!? I just went to groups.msn.com to visit a group that I'm a member of, and all of a sudden this annoying "music" starts, which turned out to be part of a cellular phone company Flash ad  That stupid thing scared the poop out of me!
They used to add buttons to close the ads, now they add buttons to turn off the sound but you have to keep watching. No wonder more and more people get pop-up and ad blockers installed... |
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UGBC
Junior Member
143 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 11:36:47
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http://toolbar.google.com
Very highly recomended, but those stupid ones that float there and don't pop up are the worst, and when they have sound like you said, it's painful. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 11:41:03
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It's not a pop-up, it's a Flash ad that moves over the content of the page. Next time I'll add it to the URL blocking list of my browser, I just had to rant a bit  |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 13:07:11
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| I've seen these as well, scared the hell out of me one time. I was visiting a site and all of a sudden I am having a 6 Million Dollar Man flashback... it was a dumb AOL flash ad. |
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 14:05:33
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Rants eh?
I can't stand when you minimize an IE window and the #@#^$# thing pops back up to full view, WTF!!!!
Ahh, better now =)
Is there any way to stop that? |
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weeweeslap
Senior Member
USA
1077 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 15:02:30
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| Even worse when you're blasting your music loudly to some good tunes and then their ad starts up, that REALLY makes you jump up and hit the ceiling. |
coaster crazy |
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ajhvdb
Junior Member
Netherlands
392 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 16:21:34
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 17:34:31
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quote:
Originally posted by weeweeslap
Even worse when you're blasting your music loudly to some good tunes and then their ad starts up, that REALLY makes you jump up and hit the ceiling.
Now guess what happened to me that made me start this topic |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 18:15:53
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Originally posted by Dave.
Rants eh?
I can't stand when you minimize an IE window and the #@#^$# thing pops back up to full view, WTF!!!!
Ahh, better now =)
Is there any way to stop that?
I have never experienced that anomaly. |
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 18:20:36
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quote:
Originally posted by dayve
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Originally posted by Dave.
Rants eh?
I can't stand when you minimize an IE window and the #@#^$# thing pops back up to full view, WTF!!!!
Ahh, better now =)
Is there any way to stop that?
I have never experienced that anomaly.
Maybe it has to do with that I minimize pages that are loading and It'll finish loading and then will "pop" up. I think that may be normal, but I'll minimize it again and it'll "pop" up again... |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2003 : 21:06:01
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| I don't think that is normal, regardless if the page is still loading while minimized. You have yourself a problem IMHO. |
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weeweeslap
Senior Member
USA
1077 Posts |
Posted - 20 October 2003 : 01:38:02
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quote:
Originally posted by Roland
Now guess what happened to me that made me start this topic
LOL
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 01 November 2003 : 17:20:09
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| I wish I could block all flash animations unless I have added them to my safe list. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 01 November 2003 : 18:45:31
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quote:
Originally posted by Nathan
I wish I could block all flash animations unless I have added them to my safe list.
Sometimes on a new machine I just don't bother to install the plug-in .. sure you don't see any Flash banners or pages then, but sometimes it's not a bad compromise. |
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snaayk
Senior Member
USA
1061 Posts |
Posted - 01 November 2003 : 20:56:33
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quote:
Originally posted by Gremlin
quote:
Originally posted by Nathan
I wish I could block all flash animations unless I have added them to my safe list.
Sometimes on a new machine I just don't bother to install the plug-in .. sure you don't see any Flash banners or pages then, but sometimes it's not a bad compromise.
That was my solution..until the kids wanted to play games on nickjr, cartoon network, etc.. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 02 November 2003 : 00:50:52
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heheh .. Kids, theres one problem I don't have  (no offence to anyone with kids!) |
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