What do you think: Advertising invasion!

[JaY_III]

I cant stand Pop-ups
If a website needs adds to pay the bills thier are other way to go about doing it other than pop-ups. Myself, they will be blocked as i have a very hard time reading the front page with pop-ups poping up while i move my cursor over text as i read.

[Sean Lindstrom]

thier are other way to go about doing it other than pop-ups
Like what? Shameless plugs?

[JaY_III]

Add more banners, even a banner that always stay at the top of the page is better as I can still read the text.

A pay-pal donate button would also work. I have donated money to overclockers.com a few times before and if they are having problems, i would do it again. But pop-ups one the main page.... not cool

[Aphex_Tom_9]

It might be beacause im using firefox, but i dont see any of this...

[PLOBBY]

I dont minnd it unless its something really really pointless

[9mmCensor]

I hate them, but I will live with them, because I like OC.com.

[Kendan]

If you hate popups then try this one on for size:eek:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/19/2112208&tid=127&tid=98&tid=1

Yes you heard it right that is ads inside of the games we play:mad:

[dicecca112]

yeah it must be firefox, I hardly notice them using firefox

[9mmCensor]

If you hate popups then try this one on for size:eek:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/19/2112208&tid=127&tid=98&tid=1

Yes you heard it right that is ads inside of the games we play:mad:

Yeah saw that. Its sad to see how low gaming has become.

[mjw21a]

I moved to Firefox specifcally for this reason.

No ads, popups etc etc.

Also, supposedly better security, faster browsing, tabbed browsing, there's just more features. I also love the abillity to put all your fav bookmarks in the navigation bar!

What more could you want?

[mjw21a]

Woohoo, I just got to 4 stars!!!!! :D

[Voodoo Rufus]

I noticed the highlighting links. Annoying but I just keep my mouse from hovering over the text. :D

As for the popups, never noticed we had any (Firefox) but I still hate them.

I'd donate money to Overclockers if they need help to keep going with less ads. I'd rather see more banners instead.

Then again, I can't remember the last time I clicked on ANY banner ad ever.

[lilxvietxboi]

Hehe the ingame ad...

http://www.adsingame.com/

i beta tested these and ran them a couple times in a league i was helping. originally called "runningmann technologies"

they tend to distract from the game lol... really i missed some kills and died cuz i was lookin at the ads hhaha

oh yeah im against popups/unders/banners or what not but,... if advertising didnt work then why do people spend thousands of dollars on it? which means that those advertisings do work... i had a friend who clicked every banner that poped up and i had to reformat his hd to get rid of everything he picked up

[yanz]

i don't mind about text ads, but i still think it is ridiculous..

[socket7]

Non moving banners are ok. Provided there aren't more then 2 or 3 on a page, and they aren't in the middle of content.

Animated ads and ads in the middle of content I block immediately.

People who use pop-ups /pop-unders should never be allowed to code another line of HTML.

People who use flash ads that cover content, make noise, are animated and can’t be closed should never be allowed to touch a computer again.

Advertisements in a game are downright asinine. I play games to get away from reality. I don't want the scummiest parts of reality (advertisements) intruding on my gaming experience. I don't even want product placement in my games.

Someone has to put a stop to advertisers. It's getting out of hand. They're everywhere, and I feel like in 5 years I'll be living in the Philip K Dick story Sales pitch, where advertisements (both visual and audio) are beamed directly in to your brain, and robots come to your home to sell themselves and will not leave until you buy them.

EDIT: Just the other day I was on the subway staring out the window like I normally do, to avoid the awkward staring at someone you don't know thing. Suddenly, there's an ad for Target on the wall, animated by use of the train’s movement and a strobe light! Can't I even stare at the wall of a dark tunnel without having ads pushed at me!?!!??oen :mad: :mad:

[yanz]

haha.. you should go hiking or something.. or live in village or mountain like i do.. http://www.geocities.com/bandung2k/pencet/smile_china.txt

[amdperson]

I dont see any pop ups. Im using Opera and i have pop ups blocked. But when i was using IE i got very fustrated with pop ups, hence the reason I'm using Opera now.

[ozzlo]

I don't know about you guys but I have never seen a popup AD for the front page (except for flash player 7 which is required for some flash images on the page, but a leet overclocker would allready have flash installed and thus never see this). again like others i am using firefox... as for the highlighted text i thought that was a great idea to raise a little extera money and the text will never take you to the advertized link unless you click on them. Besides that one of the links interested me to click on it and took me to a good ram review which I found pretty relevant to the overclockers.com main page.

If there are popups that are getting through to IE users those popups need to be rid of as soon as possible... I often look at popups as a CREDITABILITY sort of thing where you question wheather or not the site's goal is to provide information or make some quick cash... I also automatically associate popups with spyware... basically if people notice popups on the front page it is going to drive them away... I allready have the link to newegg through the front page bookmarked whenever i go there and that is a great way to raise some funds for the site.

where i stand...

Hyperlinked green text---> Great Idea
Popups on front page (If we have any) ----> get rid of em.

*edit* I diden't see the flash thing on my rig, it was a school comp... and I know it's spelled 1337.... sorry had to defend my 1337|\|355 :)

[yanz]

hey, i got this popups.. this is too far!!! it's so annoying..
OCForms has some built-in spyware detector (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=340679)?

http://www.geocities.com/bandung2k/my/det_popup.txt

[yanz]

eh, im sorry. i find out that this is most likely a spyware/malware on my system. i believe the ocforums doesn't do this kind of annoying features or scans my system without my permision. we'll do spyware removing now... :)

[HousERaT]

Firefox here...... don't see a ton of them.

[mjw21a]

I don't see ANY ads on the sites I frequent. I use Firefox PR1 + the Adblock extension. Brilliant as it lets you use wildcards to block everything!

[Free_Loader]

I use IE, its not a smart move but I do use SpySweeper and that blocks anything I don't want to see 98% of the time, especially those annoying pop ups!! Banners are fine, thats capitalism at work. I know we have all at least clicked on it once and thats all they want.....IMO....as humans we are susceptable to having our subconsious help make decisions. That is what advertising does.....it burns that NewEgg banner into your brain cells!!!!!!!!!!.....Everyone who enters the site will see the NewEgg banner and when asked you will definitely know the name........."cccaaannttt ggeeettt iiittt ooouuuttt ooooffff mmmmmyyy bbbbrrraaaiinnn!!"

[mjw21a]

All newegg is blocked..... Thats why I love the wildcards.......

[speed bump]

I don't really mind the little green text links in the articles since I usaully keep my cursor off to the side of the text. I haven't had any pop ups with the exception of flash player 7 download request, so if its helping overclockers and obviously not to many people hate it then its a good thing.

[I.M.O.G.]

mjw... Firefox does not block the ads this thread was started about - it blocks pop ups, these are mouse hover activated text links that pop up small boxes in that area which feature usually very poor advertisements (often for dell or resellers with terrible pricing schemes).

If you aren't seeing these green links, it is because they are blocked by your adblock extension (neat feature and I use it occasionally also) or your host file. ;)

EDIT: How did sjaak get two votes in for this?

http://www.ocforums.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=409

And more people don't mind this than I expected. As a dedicated frontpager, I hate them, however it will have no effect on my reading habits.

[Mark620]

Adds??? What adds???

[PachManP]

popups are just wrong on overclockers.com and kind of a waste since i would suspect that most of us prob have 'em blocked by default.

Banners are just dandy cause they're not intrusive, and always use the oc banners to get to newegg etc just cause it does support oc a little.

but I HATE those stupid green text links. They're annoying and dumb and i almost wanna start boycotting sites that use em, or I might just look around and find out how to block 'em.

[syberspy9]

good old POPTHIS does my pop up blocking and now that im on firefox its even better.
i havent seen any pop ups on this site i see the banners bu i dont mind the banners i hate pop ups.top and bottem banners are cool they dont bug me mutch and i even see the od thing that i click on.
but the paypall butten thing is new to me i have never seen that on a site, if i had money i would donate but i dont.

[kraven]

I hate pop-ups, spyware, adware, malware, all of it. I think it goes along the same lines of putting anti-piracy tools in hardware. I don't like someone thinking they should run my system for me. As for overclockers.com needing help paying the bills, I would much rather see banners than pop-ups. I'm surprised more tech companies don't look to overclockers.com or ocforums for more advertising. Are we few of many?

[syberspy9]

all the junk on the net slows it down i think.
i mean if you think like 40% of the net is just spam and cr@p

[CrystalMethod]

I just find it annoying more than anything else. It's hard to tell where the author has linked to something you should look at, or just an ad. It's also annoying when you're scrolling throught the article and your cursor ends up on one of the ads. Makes it difficult to read.

[johan851]

And more people don't mind this than I expected. As a dedicated frontpager, I hate them, however it will have no effect on my reading habits.
That's pretty much my opinion as well. I hate them, but I like the site enough to continue reading. It would take a lot more than some annoying popups to make me stop doing anything, but they're still darn annoying. I have a habit of hovering over and highlighting text while I read it, so I always run into them.

[JaY_III]

mjw21a mentioned the adblack extention for firefox, just installed it this morning and it makes the web FAST again.

You can stop adds being from being downloaded and scripts from being run...
this program does it all.
And using wildcards, make it superfast to set up and stop over 90% of the crap that is plaging the web.

Best part is, its more than a blocker as it prevents the downloading (watsed bandwith) of whatever you block...

Anyhow here is the link.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
MUST HAVE EXTENTION FOR ANYONE WITH FIREFOX

[yanz]

by CrystalMethod :
I just find it annoying more than anything else. It's hard to tell where the author has linked to something you should look at, or just an ad. It's also annoying when you're scrolling throught the article and your cursor ends up on one of the ads. Makes it difficult to read.

that's why i think it is ridiculous.. :D a browser that can interfere/blocked the code/tag before it is showed in our monitor is.. well.. perfect! :D

*/me loading the adblock now*

[JTanczos]

I first voted "I dont mind" because I thought they were those lil text ads sites have instead of banners. I didnt know it was those annoying as hell stupid f'ing lines of text that pop up over what you are reading. I use mozilla netscape 7 and the pop up blocker works great. I dont mind banner or text ads but those things are just terrible. Luckily im adapatable and just changed my reading habits to avoid them. Only problem is like someone said earier in the thread about not knowing if its useful info or an annoying ad. Heck if they provided links to vendors on review pages would be better than random ads. If I could ide change my vote to "Hate em" but oh well.

The ads that annoy me the most over all others are those flash ads that float over your screen then sit at a corner and play some annoying sound and music thing while im trying to listen to music. Ones even worse are the sites that have the flash ad sit in the middle of your screen while it plays then shrinks away. Half the time I just click the back button and leave the site figuring "That site isnt worth my time" the other time its kinda a last resort thing.


*added*
I am completely against ads being in most games. The only way ide ever let em in is if I was playing a modern or furureistic MMORPG thats FREE and passed ads running on tvs in the lounge areas. Or if a future one play one on my starships screen every once and while. Maybe giant screens out in space that show ads like billboards as you come out of light speed into a system. "EAT AT JOES!"

If im paying $10+ a month to play the game they dont need ads in the game..... EVER. Not on the loading screens. Not in the game. EVER!!!! If I have to pay for the game and then pay a monthly subscription fee they shouldnt flood me with ads. Similar with movie theaters. Except ya spend $7 a ticket and watch 15 minutes of car ads. :mad: I am going to watch a movie not buy a car.

JT

[Sentential]

...adds? what adds?

[JaY_III]

the green text.
that would be the adds.

If anyone has firefox and the add block extention add this to your rules.

!Filterset.G[http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock]=2004-12-12a
/(/_|ad|assets/|live|net|promo|sales|serve|video|view)_?banner/
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/(banner|promo)s?\.\w+\.(\w{2,2}\.)?\w{2,3}//
/(bf|careerc|flyc|unic)ast\.com/
/(casaleme|rightme|travi|vibrantme)dia/
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/link(buddies|exchange|share|synergy)/
/market(ingpromo|banker\.com)/
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[gvblake22]

nice, thanks jAY!

[Vento1]

I don't mind static advertising banners at the top of a page but i hate pop ups

[ghettocomp]

Pop-ups? what pop-ups? :D

[PLOBBY]

Yea same, ive never seent his green text. Where is it? I was talking about earlier anout the banners that i dont mind.

[dumpa]

I did not see any ads, text or otherwise. However pop ups are a bad idea. Well advertising is a bad idea in general but I guess whoever runs this site has a lot of bills to pay.

I don't really care because in the last 2-3 years I visited the frontpage maybe 3-5 times...

[dAvies.lOcker]

i hate the little green bleeders!

They always get in the way as i'm reading thorugh the forum and as someone has already said, its a pain having to hover over them just to see if it is a link or ad.

D.L

[Jognt]

i dislike adds

from the adsingame site:
For Gamers... they get a more realistic and creative game experience.

:wtf:

[Kendan]

i hate the little green bleeders!

They always get in the way as i'm reading thorugh the forum and as someone has already said, its a pain having to hover over them just to see if it is a link or ad.

D.L

I have found that if you use the IP to Overclockers.com instead of the name the green links do not show up;)

http://63.74.115.230

[FoxBat]

Blocked! Using Firefox, etc.

I hate adverts of any description! :mad:

And don't give me that " gotta make a living, need to pay..." stuff. I DON'T CARE!

[Freddie]

I also think that the ads have got a bit too much. There are now so many of them and they are normally unrelated, so I have gone off and blocked them. I am happy with a little bit of related advertising but when you cross the line I go and block all of it.

[Sjaak]

Ok very weird..today i visited the frontpage and suddenly i was over-annoyed by all ads and banners and stuff, while usually i wouldnt notice them.

did anything change? the banner to the rights seems VERY annoying suddenly...also..what are the chinese signs doing on the left?

[Freddie]

There is also now a small add on the top right and after the link to the first article you get an add 'banner' and then the rest of the articles. Overclockers has been getting more and more ads over the last few months, those annoying text things too. Is it greed or despiration?

[killermiller]

Non moving banners are ok. Provided there aren't more then 2 or 3 on a page, and they aren't in the middle of content.

Animated ads and ads in the middle of content I block immediately.

People who use pop-ups /pop-unders should never be allowed to code another line of HTML.

People who use flash ads that cover content, make noise, are animated and can’t be closed should never be allowed to touch a computer again.

Advertisements in a game are downright asinine. I play games to get away from reality. I don't want the scummiest parts of reality (advertisements) intruding on my gaming experience. I don't even want product placement in my games.

Someone has to put a stop to advertisers. It's getting out of hand. They're everywhere, and I feel like in 5 years I'll be living in the Philip K Dick story Sales pitch, where advertisements (both visual and audio) are beamed directly in to your brain, and robots come to your home to sell themselves and will not leave until you buy them.

EDIT: Just the other day I was on the subway staring out the window like I normally do, to avoid the awkward staring at someone you don't know thing. Suddenly, there's an ad for Target on the wall, animated by use of the train’s movement and a strobe light! Can't I even stare at the wall of a dark tunnel without having ads pushed at me!?!!??oen :mad: :mad:


AMEN . Except for the subway part, I like in alaska we dont have subways. I dont know why we have busses, everything is in mushing distance. (I'm joking since everybody think we live in igloos)

[Seven]

God they are annoying.
It's annoying as hell when you're reading an article and a huge ass "SAVE 20% ON MEMORY" tabbed thingy pops over all the text.

I know bandwith costs money...but come on...this is almost too rediculous.

7

[=ACID RAIN=]

I was going to take a screenshot of the OC front page and make a thread, until I saw this one. It'll practically give you a seizure lol.

I can see how ads are useful to the site, but when they dominate the WHOLE front page until you scroll down, it's getting excessive. 10 ads give or take on one screen is bad. I still read the front page though, because I like the content, but as ads seem to reproduce on the page and take over, I'm losing interest.

Bear in mind I'm on a 1280x1024 resolution and they STILL take up the whole page. I just dropped my monitor to 1024x768 and I don't even see the first article, just ads. That's unacceptable IMO.

[RoadWarrior]

Damn, crap and bloody hell!!!! I wasn't against the damn things just "being there" until today.......

I'm on an old webhack right now with overheating issues (yeah I know I should fix it) so it's not folding and is running CPU cool that has a CPU usage meter in the system tray and.....

The stupid ads are running the system at 100% load

This is very, very "not okay" with me, I don't know if they are loading modern CPUs by so much, but just imagine, people coming to our front page for advice with heating problems on thier prescotts or marginally cooled A64s because they want to get advice on better cooling, could be crashing due to full load without getting to the information they want just because of the damn stupid adverts!!!

They have not just become annoying, at this point I say they are an extreme liability and could actually be injurious to attracting new people to our site, I mean, if your PC locks up every time you view a page for more than a couple of minutes are you going to go back there?

This is also a complete slap in the face to our distributed computing teams, I mean we're all doing our best to get the overclockers teams in the lead and what does the front page do, penalise us our damn production when we're looking at it! Great "team playing" that is!

This issue should be looked at very seriously, I mean a bit of gaudy eye candy is one thing but loading down our PCs for whatever reason that is not subject to our choice or control is NOT OKAY.

So, I obviously can't visit the front page with this PC any more :(

I can block them sure, but there's going to be hundreds out there with marginal overclocks coming flocking to the front page for advice and they are going to crash before they get it, is that good business sense for a few extra bucks now?????

Sorry for the ranting, it really got my goat when I discovered that, I've had low production days of folding on my main rig and couldn't figure out why, now I know.

Road Warrior

Edit: Only some sets of ads are loading the CPU fully 100% I have just discovered, there are some sets that "only" average about 80% CPU usage after everything's done loading on this rig. Still this is a ridiculously large impact for something that's just meant to be saying "Buy Joes Soap"

[Gnufsh]

I think that we, as overclockers, work hard for our cpu cycles, and it's a shame to waste them on advertising. If the ads didn't use cpu time, I wouldn't mind as much.

[emboss]

internet - javascript - images - plugins (esp. flash) - java = no problems!

I've probably been image-less for the best part of two years now, about since when internet advertising became "too much" for me, especially with popups/popunders. You get used to it, and modern browsers are pretty good at doing it. Basically, there are very few situations where the image is not either eye-candy or advertising, and even then (diagrams, etc) these can easily be loaded if need be. There's a few websites where I have to allow javascript (WindowsUpdate, etc) but I find the image-less/script-less browsing much more enjoyable (and faster) than with everything enabled. Not to mention drastically reducing the chances of anything nasty sneaking through.

[WarriorII]

I haven't noticed any pop ups.

I must have a pop up blocker turned on. :rolleyes:

[geek2005]

you suck :) What's sad is when I first installed Windows XP SP2...it blocked the pop-up ads great. But now the SP2 pop up blocker is laughable. I guess they figured away around it already.

[JaY_III]

you suck :) What's sad is when I first installed Windows XP SP2...it blocked the pop-up ads great. But now the SP2 pop up blocker is laughable. I guess they figured away around it already.

Firefox my friend, firefox is tha way to go if you dont like pop-ups and adds

[Gnufsh]

firefox with the adblock extension and the filterset from here (http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/) work very nicely for blocking ads and pop ups. It helps a lot here on my 56k connection.

edit: you may also want to check for spyware:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=308187

[redwraith94]

I use FF, and I highly recommend it...though sometimes sites that use pop-up windows won't work properly, and I haven't figured out how to allow them, so I keep a copy of IE only for when I have trouble w/ FF.

[JaY_III]

firefox asks you if you want to allow them for the site
if you click not by mistake
Tools-> options ->web features -> Block pop up windows allowed sites

[qwertyuiop]

I didn't notice the pop-ups, because I am using Firefox as my browser. :)

[Goshawk]

I didn't really notice any ads until now o.O


weird.



~ Gos

[diggingforgold]

The amount of banners, plugs, and ad menus are rediculous. I understand bandwidth costs money, but you don't need a dozen ads and plugs.

1 Large Banner
3 Medium Banners
1 Large Tower
4 Image Blocks
1 Small Google Block
1 Shopping Search
1 Large Products Menu.

And that's all just on one page. Come on.

Too many ads, and poor site navigation are the reasons why I avoid the front page.

[harryinny3]

What bugs me is that theres an advertisement for a weather bug type Program. All the Fuss we make about spyware around here, I think that one is going a bit far. Its a banner add right at the top of the front page.

I Use firefox also, Wouldnt use anything else ever again.


Harry

[Benvanz]

I HATE THEM, but you gotta tolerate them at some critical times :bang head

[mx101]

I hate them so i went to fire fox

[I.M.O.G.]

Too many ads, and poor site navigation are the reasons why I avoid the front page.

Don't worry, the sites being redesigned. ;) On a related note, there are some of us around who hate the ads, but haven't missed an article in years and won't start any time soon.

I didn't notice the pop-ups, because I am using Firefox as my browser. :)

Overclockers.com does not have any popup advertisements. I would venture a guess that they never will have any popup advertisements, as it would go directly against statements Skip has made in these forums. I would be more confident about that though if it weren't for the intelliTXT hover ads, which are almost as intrusive as the more traditional popup. Ultimately, I don't know how much Skip is involved with the frontpage any longer, but I would still expect that the answer would be there will NEVER be popups... Refer to the following link:

http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=1670792&postcount=9

[Ogre]

pop-ups, spyware, adware, malware and all of that ...

it think its nasty but someone needs to make money ..

[Susquehannock]

Persoanlly, I hate advertisments online. If we PAY to get online why
should we have to endure advertisements?

My late Father always used to like to say how the i-net was originally supposed
to be free since we were using phone lines we pay to use anyway.
But then the corporations got hold of it all.

[Gnufsh]

On a related note, there are some of us around who hate the ads, but haven't missed an article in years and won't start any time soon.

I'm one of those.

[jaigandhi5]

Firefox all the way, blocks the ads

[=ACID RAIN=]

Firefox here...... don't see a ton of them.
Word.

Yeah I don't see any ads. The overclockers home page is clean and clear with firefox and adblock ;)

I recommend some of my friends to overclockers.com at times, but I always tell them to use firefox and adblock first, or they'll have a seizure after the page loads. I export my list of blocked domains and images and post it so they can have my settings when they load the page.

[ShadowPho]

Firefox...I see no ads :P

[gvblake22]

Word.

Yeah I don't see any ads. The overclockers home page is clean and clear with firefox and adblock ;)

I recommend some of my friends to overclockers.com at times, but I always tell them to use firefox and adblock first, or they'll have a seizure after the page loads. I export my list of blocked domains and images and post it so they can have my settings when they load the page.
Yeah, the adblock extension is great for FF. It would block ads just fine, but I was still having trouble blocking the little green text ads. I finally opened the options of the AdBlock extension and put in "*intellitxt.com*" (without the quotation marks) as an exception and I think that prettymuch took care of it :)

EDIT: and "*itxt.vibrantmedia.com*"

[JaY_III]

Yeah, the adblock extension is great for FF. It would block ads just fine, but I was still having trouble blocking the little green text ads. I finally opened the options of the AdBlock extension and put in "*intellitxt.com*" (without the quotation marks) as an exception and I think that prettymuch took care of it :)

EDIT: and "*itxt.vibrantmedia.com*"

Import the log i made, should take care of 99% of online adds

[jdrake90]

It might be beacause im using firefox, but i dont see any of this...

Same here, I only voted that I don't mind them, becuase I thought you were refering to the banner adds on the top and bottom of the forums.

Jdrake90

[-maddog-]

On IE didn't notice ads, but awful loads

[Ducatti]

Using IE (SP2) with NO changes made to browser. Have never seen a pop-up ad on the frontpage, ever. Methinks some of you need to check your plug-ins/systems for something you've downloaded/installed.

I'm not tooting MS's horn, just commenting on the frontpage.

[VinnyTAMU]

Haven't really noticed them. I don't really care for them but you gotta pay the bills.

[Splinter]

Pop-ups suck!

[Stephen Brooks]

What text ads? I don't see any, just graphical banners.

("adds"? Who writes this stuff :p )

[Super Nade]

I've blocked them using adblock. :)

[schnikies79]

text ads and general banners i have no problem with. the only thing i really HATE is flash ads and anything that flashes/blinks. if that happens it goes in the adblock can. might as well save the site owner and myself some bandwidth since i'm on dialup till christmas break is over.

oh yea, pop-ups suck but who has problems with them anymore?

[Deadbot1_1973]

funny. I use IE and Google toolbar. I don't get any popup/popunders from here.

Theres green text? It doesn't bother me. I don't use my cursor to read, so I never see it.

[Stoner51]

Didn't notice the pop ups until I saw the poll. Firefox is great.

[Gnufsh]

Didn't notice the pop ups until I saw the poll. Firefox is great.
You're talking about the front page, right? There aren't popups on the forums.

[SeasonalEclipse]

Yay for blocking pop ups!

[sephiroth_749]

pop ups are just annoying

[Femto]

I absolutely despise all forms of advertising on the internet. The only kind I do not hate but actually enjoy, are non-impeding computer related ads that I see on this website. They are fine and I have no problem with them. Just poorly made popups that have the XP theme border that say you have 6000 viruses would you like to do a free scan or you're #1,000,000 WIN A PS3!!!1!!. I absolutely, 100% want to kill those people. Extremelely irritating.

Femto

[Nef003]

I'm with you on that one.. lol

[-maddog-]

I absolutely despise all forms of advertising on the internet. The only kind I do not hate but actually enjoy, are non-impeding computer related ads that I see on this website. They are fine and I have no problem with them. Just poorly made popups that have the XP theme border that say you have 6000 viruses would you like to do a free scan or you're #1,000,000 WIN A PS3!!!1!!. I absolutely, 100% want to kill those people. Extremelely irritating.

Femto


Just get FF with adblock plus, filterset g updater, and dutchblock to kill virtually all annoying ads.

[mbigna]

I use FF 2.0 plus NoScript which blocks Java unless I specifically allow a site to run Java.

I have NEVER seen a pop up since I installed this combination AND some ads don't even appear in spaces where they are allotted to appear.

The thing is, I would have never known that overclockers began placing pop ups. While I would like to support overclockers.com, I'd rather do what I do now and just click the occasional banner or imbedded ad.

[ShadowPho]

I use FF 2.0 plus NoScript which blocks Java unless I specifically allow a site to run Java.

I have NEVER seen a pop up since I installed this combination AND some ads don't even appear in spaces where they are allotted to appear.

The thing is, I would have never known that overclockers began placing pop ups. While I would like to support overclockers.com, I'd rather do what I do now and just click the occasional banner or imbedded ad.

Ditto! Except that some websites require jave....

[-maddog-]

Ditto! Except that some websites require jave....



Noscript allows you to enable scripts on a per. site basis. Ie: on a site you might have scripts from googlesyndication, intelitext, some ad server, and the site itself. I prefer adblock, since it does not leave gaping holes usually and can be used to block custom elements(ads or not). I generally only use noscript for security purposes.

[CryptokiD]

inetrnet exploere 7 does everything i need as far as popups, unders, advertisments, etc goes. for the intellitxt i add their site to the hosts file. no more clickacle text advertising.

[robaal]

Is the poll about the intellitext ads? I don't see any google-style text ads...

Anyway, I try to keep ads if they aren't too intrusive; for me that means any flash ads that make noises, any flash ads that "grow", covering the contents of whatever I want to read and any ads that make highlighting the text harder, as I copy the text to a text-to-speech program to read them (intellitext loads after the page and removes any selection that you might have made before that >_<)

[DorianBrytestar]

tbh I never look at the front page, I am only here for the forums.

[wannaoc]

I picked that I already had them blocked because I use FireFox. Banners never have really bothered me but pop-ups make me stop going to a site though.

I'd rather just donate to the site than see a bunch of adds. I mean I basically pay for no advertising in the rest of my life with satellite radio and a dvr for t.v. so to donate to a site I frequent allot isn't really a stretch. I understand the need to make money but with all the members here it wouldn't be too difficult to pay the bills even with very small donations.

[Omsion]

I didn't even notice the ads, since they came pre-blocked in FF w/plugins.

In general, I don't mind ads, as long as the page isn't plastered in them, which I discovered this site is getting dangerously close to.

What I hate are pop-up flash ads, which are very annoying (they especially suck when they don’t load completely for whatever reason, and it’s missing the close button since it didn’t load – arrghhh!) and must die. Also, those intellitext ads. I despise those with a significant part of my being, since randomly moving your mouse results in a massive text bubble blocking what you were trying to read. No. F-you, intellitext.

Other than those, most ads are reasonable. Doesn’t stop me from blocking them, since blocking is so easy, but, whatever, I could live with a few banner ads.