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Really annoying online ads

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Chuck., Apr 30, 2011.

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Are there online ads so annoying your will never consider their product?

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  2. No

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  1. Chuck.

    Chuck. Former Honda Enzyte Driver

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    At places like Hotmail, they will have ads like these:

    • Someone dressed as Wonder Woman? in tights jumping on some online degree ad
    • Someone dancing
    • A kind of gross animated gif of a woman dropping a lot of pounds
    I know an ad has to stick out to get results, but some of these are over the top....is there a point it backfires?

    For me, there is. If it's annoying enough, I will NEVER consider them. Actually there is worse. The adult spam that questions your manhood in graphic language....do they REALLY think I'm going to their site and buy?...who are the wusses that do?
     
    #1 Chuck., Apr 30, 2011
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    My defense against annoying ads has been to use Firefox+AdBlockPlus on every computer I use. Voila - no more annoying ads:).
     
    #2 walterm, Apr 30, 2011
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    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    +1 exactly.
     
    #3 2k1Toaster, Apr 30, 2011
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    Not all ads are popups.

    I have the popup block on.
     
    #6 Chuck., Apr 30, 2011
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    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    I think you misunderstand what adblock+ is... It scrapes the raw HTML, compares image and div links/src/ids to a database of known advertisers, and strips that content off the page.

    Here is a site that is horrible with ads. Usually for adult "services".

    First in Internet Exploder:
    [​IMG]

    And now in FireFox with ABP:

    [​IMG]
     
    #7 2k1Toaster, Apr 30, 2011
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    I voted yes, but long ago I solved the problem with Firefox and Adblock+.

    Tom
     
    #8 qbee42, Apr 30, 2011
  9. Chuck.

    Chuck. Former Honda Enzyte Driver

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    I should have mentioned I use Google Chrome. :eek:
     
    #9 Chuck., Apr 30, 2011
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    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    Then deal with the ads. There are solutions out there that prevent all of them. You don't have to use them, but why complain? And the solution is free...
     
    #10 2k1Toaster, Apr 30, 2011
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    Just found AdBlock for Chrome

    Thank you! :)
     
    #11 Chuck., Apr 30, 2011
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    Another one who was forced to use Adblock. Even on sites I hate taking revenue from (such as, oh, PriusChat) when I whitelist in Adblock still throw unacceptable crap in my face. My hatred of unacceptable crap is more than my desire to give the site the $0.005 or whatever it gets per hit. As I've said several times, I'd gladly PayPal more than what they're losing by me using Adblock (in Chrome, btw), but nobody listens to me (except when I say too many dirty words).
     
    #12 Stev0, Apr 30, 2011
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    +5 (I'm assuming that Tom is trying to say "+4" in his posting)
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Ahh, so there is a pattern. Let me see if I have it: two follows one, three follows two. I'm good up to that point, but then it all gets fuzzy.

    How about x++

    Tom
     
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    Until yesterday, I thought only popup ads could be blocked, then after this thread went on awhile, I found out Google Chrome has AdBlock and installed it.

    I do allow ads on PC and CleanMPG as I want them to pay their bills and they don't have the really annoying ads I talk about.
     
    #15 Chuck., May 1, 2011
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    + +

    ff+ab+
     
    #16 amm0bob, May 1, 2011
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    My second favorite Chrome extension is "Hide Facebook Questions".
     
    #17 Stev0, May 1, 2011
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