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Easy Livin 
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 21 2004 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 15585 |
 Posted: November 11 2007 at 15:58 |
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In what way? Mine runs entirely in the background.
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Poser
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Joined: August 31 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 121 |
Posted: November 11 2007 at 21:27 |
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There's still a bar that pops up at the top of the browser to tell me what a great job it did blocking it, which is very distracting and I have to close that anyway. And when I open a new tab, it doesn't let me click on it right away because it's sucking up to me again.
Er. I mean, I'm patient.
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bhikkhu
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 06 2006 Location: AČ Michigan Status: Offline Points: 5109 |
Posted: November 11 2007 at 22:46 |
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For those using Safari, there is something called Good Vibrations. It goes right into the style sheet in your preferences. Blocks everything.
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MonkeyphoneAlex
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 234 |
Posted: November 11 2007 at 22:51 |
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My least favorite is the one that loudly congratulates me for winning two free ipod nanos every time I refresh the page. Anothe rtime I was trying to relax listening to a very excellent piece I'd never heard before on the internet prog radio station called Aural Moon and an ad on PA kept making a noise. Took me damn near an hour to figure out where it was coming from and I missed the whole song due to the distraction. It was LAME!
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST."
-FZ |
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micky
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46843 |
Posted: November 11 2007 at 22:55 |
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hahahhah... you obviously haven't ben around long enough if yoiu didn't know where it was coming from. The ipods and nanos and whatever that crap was are as much a part of PA's folklore now as blue font.. hahhahha's.. and the damned Velvet Room. Seriously though I feel your pain brother.... I no longer bother listening to music on the computer and posting on PA's. The damn volume stays off... |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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MonkeyphoneAlex
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 234 |
Posted: November 12 2007 at 21:28 |
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HAHA, yeah, it was a while back, before I even joined the forums. I honestly wouldn't mind the visual ads if it weren't for the obnoxious sounds and verbal ads. I can understand trying to make a little cash to pay for the site and whatnot. Unfortunately, being 16 and working part-time for minimum wage at Party City doesn't leave much money for cds, so my computer is my only option for listening to music. I buy cds whenever I can, though, if only to support the artists. Edited by MonkeyphoneAlex - November 12 2007 at 21:32 |
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST."
-FZ |
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M@X
Forum & Site Admin Group
Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4077 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 09:18 |
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Hi guys,
I manage to stop the Intrusive Ads Popup. Let me know if some re-appears. Thanks Max Edited by M@X - November 13 2007 at 09:18 |
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Prog On !
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Tapfret
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8634 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 14:14 |
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Thanks for all the hard work M@x and all your fellow developers/founders. All minor annoyances with ads aside, I am extremely happy with the site and the developments I have seen in the short time I have been here. That being said, let me throw my hat in as being one who would gladly make a financial contribution as an advertisement buyout (particularly the noisemaking ones). I have seen other sites do it (can't think of one right off hand). I am sure it isn't an easy implementation and won't hold my breath for it, just thought I would make the pledge to fork out some dough if that was an alternative.
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mrcozdude
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 25 2007 Location: Devon,UK. Status: Offline Points: 2078 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 14:38 |
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Did you have to block it, i want to meet more singles in my area lol nah good job!they can be annoying.
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Offline Points: 66802 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 14:39 |
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The only ad that annoys the hell out of me is the Apple Iphone one. |
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Ghandi 2
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 17 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1494 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 23:09 |
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The interstitial HP ads are way more annoying, as are the YOU HAVE WON A FREE IPOD! Also, those blue inforum ads (i.e. I really love The Flower Kings! and Flower is a link that goes to Googling for florists or something) have been irritating me a lot lately as well.
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MonkeyphoneAlex
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 234 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 23:12 |
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Greatly appreciated, that should help quite a bit. I actually din't realize they were coming from thsi site. I thought my comp had contracted an adware virus because I normally use mozilla and the ads were coming up in explorer. |
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST."
-FZ |
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Vibrationbaby
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6898 |
Posted: November 14 2007 at 17:48 |
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Well, I`m still gettin the Monster.ca ones and it forces me to re-enter the sit all the time.
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micky
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46843 |
Posted: November 14 2007 at 18:32 |
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oh man....I've been in Party Cities before.. .those managers are assholes hahahhahah again..I feel your pain brother.. we were all 16 once and had to save lunch money.. or steal others  to afford the next hot album by Huey Lewis and the News.  |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Peter
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: November 15 2007 at 01:48 |
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Thanks Max!
 The situation seems to have improved, but as Vibe said, the Monster.ca one (the worst of all) still appears very frequently.
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Poser
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 31 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 121 |
Posted: November 18 2007 at 21:11 |
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Find An Asian Wife
Chinese women seek men for love and marriage. Join today for free.
www.chnlove.com Is this one of the insulting ones? I don't get it... The google Ads always brighten my day...especially the one that says "Respiratory Therapy Prog". I want some! |
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Peter
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: November 19 2007 at 08:09 |
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Well, I think that one could be seen as demeaning, at least, but it was an invitation to "pimp your profile" that originally raised my ire.
(See my first post.)
The main issue, though, is pop ups that cover the screen, and take time to get rid of. The main offender in that regard (Monster.ca) is still here.
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Peter
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: November 19 2007 at 23:53 |
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 Ha! For that charming, oh-so-romantic little exercise in duplicity and Internet scamming, read: "Desperate Chinese women and the evil snakehead gangs who prey upon them seek lonely, gullible Western suckers for hasty marriage, emigration to a free country, and expensive divorce."Men significantly outnumber women in good ol' one-child-only, girl-baby-aborting China -- as if Chinese women can't find husbands there!
 Don't say I didn't warn ya, ya buncha proghole horndogs!
 Edited by Peter - November 20 2007 at 00:02 |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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KoS
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 17 2005 Location: Los Angeles Status: Offline Points: 16310 |
Posted: November 20 2007 at 00:05 |
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You people still don't know of AdBlock?
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Peter
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: November 20 2007 at 00:24 |
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 There are PEOPLE here now? I thought we just had progholes! Vast ist this AbBlock you speak of, mein King of Spam? Some kind of exercise regime?
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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