> Sounds like SOMEONE is annoyed with ign.com!
> -SSZ
> -SSZ
: Not our problem. The web used to be about the *free* exchange of
: information. Non-intrusive banner ads are ok if you need some income,
: but these commercial bastards trying to ***all us for $$ are full of
: shit.
Who's forcing you to get information from this banner-heavy site?
--
hoy xatx hawaii xdotx education
>> Try pop up killer.
>> small/free and you can use the Alt key to let through what you want.
>> http://www.panicware.com/product_pshelp.html
>Waugh. That program is like killing mosquitos with a bazooka. I did
>actually use it for a while; it's better than nothing, but having to
>play the "control key" game whenever I launch a new IE window got very
>annoying (almost as annoying as the popups :) In addition, the popups
>still were created; PopupStopper just closed them quickly (so they were
>still distracting).
>I now push Proxomitron (http://www.spamblocked.com/proxomitron/download.html)
>It takes a small bit of configuring (and blocks way too many things by
>default), but it's extremely powerful and very "forget it's even
>running" once it's configured properly.
> >> Oh, you can't afford the time? You don't have the resources? You feel
> >> others should sacrifice their time and effort to maintain a website and pay
> >> for the bandwidth, just not you?
> >Ever heard of a loss leader? Of cultivating goodwill amongst your
> >customer base? Some businessman you are. This is why some folks are
> >trying to run the commercial enterprises off the WWW. They think
> >*everything* has to be $$.
> Oh, I see, you're a customer! From your original post I thought you
> were just a random freeloader.
>> >> Oh, you can't afford the time? You don't have the resources? You feel
>> >> others should sacrifice their time and effort to maintain a website and
> pay
>> >> for the bandwidth, just not you?
>> >Ever heard of a loss leader? Of cultivating goodwill amongst your
>> >customer base? Some businessman you are. This is why some folks are
>> >trying to run the commercial enterprises off the WWW. They think
>> >*everything* has to be $$.
>> Oh, I see, you're a customer! From your original post I thought you
>> were just a random freeloader.
>Ahem.
>Pet peeve:
>So if he didn't block the ads he would pay for the resources used?
For a website that shows ads, the money comes from the company making a
product. For the company making the product, the money comes from
customers. The customers pay the company because they have found out
about the product and would prefer having it to the money they would
otherwise retain. Simple enough for you?
As for the costs being off-loaded, it's quite possible that economies of
scale coming from having more customers pay for the ads - indeed, it
might be that without advertising the product would not exist. Also,
customers who learn about the product from ads benefit from them.
- Gerry Quinn
Went to the link, but they say Webwasher does not work on WinXP
yep they do say that - but it works fine for me - only trick is not have it
on auto browser setup - then it works correctly regardless of OS.
> >>Those that throw up full page pop-up ads to make money, instead of the
> >>next page of information as requested. We are web site visitors, not an
> >>income base. Everything doesn't have to be about making freakin' $$.
> > Who pays for the web site development?
> Not our problem. The web used to be about the *free* exchange of
> information. Non-intrusive banner ads are ok if you need some income,
> but these commercial bastards trying to ***all us for $$ are full of
> shit.
> And people wonder why there are so many anti-capitalists around! :-)
Non-intrusive ads don't pay sites anything like as well as they used to,
because advertisers finally cottoned onto the fact that nobody clicks on
them. These days, a commercial site can't support itself on simple banner
ads - not if it's providing the range of news and services most people
expect of a decent game site.
And if visitors aren't a site's income base, what is?
--
Mark.
* Never cross the streams!
> You go to a site page 1. Read it. Then click on the 'next' button to
> advance to page 2.
> BUT.....before you get to page 2, a web page (in that same window not a
> separate window) with nothing but a single big ad and a 'continue'
> button, shows up.
> You are then forced to click on the 'continue' button to finally advance
> to page 2 of the article.
> Any way to by pass this? It's becoming annoying as hell.
http://www.spamblocked.com/proxomitron/
You can find more info and some fairly remarkable filters here:
http://asp.flaaten.dk/pforum/
This thing will completely rewrite web pages on the fly. You can add
your own toolbars, remove ads, reply with false cookies, cloak your
browser, just about anything can be done.