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    Posted: September 15 2005 at 19:49
What do you all think of the new spyware related advertising under the --Advertisement (beta)-- banner at the top of the page? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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Points: 31157 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2005 at 20:07

Bad!!!

I hate those They ruin the whole fu*kin' site
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they make the pages load slower and they're annoying
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The Miracle- I am just noticing that myself, and was going to post about this as well. Contacting the fasttrack server seems to add quite a bit more time to the page load.
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^yeah You should've put this in the "report bugs" section btw.
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Points: 1149 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2005 at 20:42
It's not a bug. M@X and Rony have sanctioned this and included the scripting to make them work, so not really a bug.
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Points: 1149 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2005 at 20:58
On the home page now as well, and the first entry, like fasttrack now owns the site. Here's me thinking this place was about music, not money. Time to go!
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Yes, this is over the top
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Points: 55 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2005 at 02:48
i don't see it because i'm using firefox and adblock 
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I don't like them but presumably it brings some benefit to M@x and Rony.
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Well... they are gone again.
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Originally posted by vava vava wrote:

i don't see it because i'm using firefox and adblock 
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The advetisement is soooooo unnecessary!
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Originally posted by Badabec Badabec wrote:

The advetisement is soooooo unnecessary!

Without advertising, there would be no site!
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Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

Originally posted by vava vava wrote:

i don't see it because i'm using firefox and adblock 

Well, I have the same effect but with using explorer!
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2005 at 11:32
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

Originally posted by vava vava wrote:

i don't see it because i'm using firefox and adblock 

Well, I have the same effect but with using explorer!

You mind telling me how?
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

You mind telling me how?



In Firefox go to Tools, Options, Web Features. Check "Block Pop-ups" if you don't like them. Only automated pop-ups, not ones you click youself. Check "Images for originating web site only" to leave the space for ads blank.

But then you won't see all your images in your signatures also. Ever thought of them, giantic as they are in some people's signatures, being more annoying than the few ads that bring Progarchives the money it needs to give you the space to complain and whine about it? Get a life.
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