Ads, Ads, Ads, they're everywhere!!

[glfklee]

Here is my gripe for the day.

Love to read posts here at the good old TDPRI, especially the ones with gear photo's. However, it seems like within the past year, the majority of the photo's have an ad on the lower portions of the pics, which gets very irritating!

As if there is a great need for ads in this world of ours. Everything from the constant channel logos on TV, the pop ups of upcoming programs in the middle of the one you're watching, internet pop-ups, and on and on....

SO, is there a way to eliminate these ads when I'm viewing everyones pics?

[Cunningham26]

I wish I could pay an annual internet fee that ensured i'd never have to wait fifteen seconds before the start of a youtube clip of a cat doing something funny for... ten seconds

[w3stie]

Get AdBlock.

[jas468]

Yeah they're everwhere you turn, whatever you look at, it seems.

One of these days they will start lining casket walls with them like on public buses, just in case the deceased has some pull on their way to the afterlife

[Brian blaut]

are you logged in? I see more intrusive ads when I'm not logged in.

[telex76]

I never see any unwanted ads on here.

[Hoopermazing]

Originally Posted by Cunningham26

I wish I could pay an annual internet fee that ensured i'd never have to wait fifteen seconds before the start of a youtube clip of a cat doing something funny for... ten seconds

I have never seen a commercial on Youtube. Thanks, Firefox/Adblock Plus.

[tazzboy]

Get Google Chrome with Ad Blocker and you won't be seeing ads anymore.

[DrumBob]

Originally Posted by glfklee

Here is my gripe for the day.

Love to read posts here at the good old TDPRI, especially the ones with gear photo's. However, it seems like within the past year, the majority of the photo's have an ad on the lower portions of the pics, which gets very irritating!

As if there is a great need for ads in this world of ours. Everything from the constant channel logos on TV, the pop ups of upcoming programs in the middle of the one you're watching, internet pop-ups, and on and on....

SO, is there a way to eliminate these ads when I'm viewing everyones pics?

It's "they're," not "there."

[Hoopermazing]

Originally Posted by DrumBob

It's "they're," not "there."

Thank you, Mr. Funk, for saying what needed to be said.

[Jupiter]

Whenever I feel this way, I have a nice, refreshing Coca-Cola.

[DrumBob]

Originally Posted by Hoopermazing

Thank you, Mr. Funk, for saying what needed to be said.

You're welcome, Mr. Wiseguy.

[1955]

I hear ya.

By the way, Bare Minerals is my miracle.

[guitarguytim]

They're everywhere because they're cheap, trackable, targetable, and effective. Sorry, but marketers (like me) absolutely love them.

[glfklee]

Originally Posted by DrumBob

It's "they're," not "there."

Thanks for the correction! Just got back on the forum and noticed this right away and I said the same thing. Sorry.

Also, yes, no ads when I'm logged in! Simple, I know, but ...slow.

[jhundt]

I agree with a previous poster - I use Firefox with Adblock Plus and I never, ever see any ads at all. Not here, not on Facebook, not even on Google's search page.

[lupowitz]

Originally Posted by jhundt

...I use Firefox with Adblock Plus and I never, ever see any ads at all. Not here, not on Facebook, not even on Google's search page.

The same with me. Adblock is more useful than the invention of wheel.
What I really like is that it doesn't just block ads, but gives you an option to turn on or rather off any unwanted page element, whether it be pics,scripts, stylesheets, backgrounds etc. Not only that, but you can edit the blocks too, ie. you can make them permanent on every page you visit. No more widgets for me thanks.
Don't forget to install Element Hiding Helper too. It lets you graphically choose items on the vistited page to be blocked.

But it can be dangerous and addictive sometimes. I constantly bump into pages that barely have anything on it 'cause I block so many elements. In this case I turn the blocker off, reload the page, and finetune my blocking accordingly.

A quote from a reviewer on Adblock Plus review section:

"Makes me a better person.
...the ads made the internet into a place I did not want to be. I switched back to firefox, and this add-on is the reason."

It is also available for Chrome, but it's less sophisticated.

[Tim Armstrong]

Ads are indeed annoying, and looks like you've gotten some good advice on dealing with them.

Having said that, I'd note that ads also pay for a heck of a lot of content on the Internot, including the TDPRI, just like they pay for TV shows and newspapers and magazines. If there were no ads, we'd have to pay a hell of a lot more for all this stuff!

Tim

[Boubou]

Originally Posted by Tim Armstrong

Ads are indeed annoying, and looks like you've gotten some good advice on dealing with them.

Having said that, I'd note that ads also pay for a heck of a lot of content on the Internot, including the TDPRI, just like they pay for TV shows and newspapers and magazines. If there were no ads, we'd have to pay a hell of a lot more for all this stuff!

Tim

So true
But everyone wants everything for free.

[lupowitz]

Originally Posted by Boubou

So true
But everyone wants everything for free.

Quite the contrary.

If it was true, Itunes would have gone out of business in a month.
The need for music whithout physical carrier born first and the industry providing the content failed to provide a sollution to this need. Or didn't wanted to provide one.
This is true to any content providing industry.
DVD Jon broke the code because he wanted to have a DVD-ROM in his Linux based computer, and the commercially available ones only supported Mac or Windows.

And the main thing overlooked is the fact, that the internet was a vital, vivid place based on sharing whatever you got, way before any legitimate business had a website. Now that all of them are here, they keep whining about not being able to make enough money on it.

Enough is a confidental, undisclosed sum of money descirebed by them, of course.

Adblocker is an answer to a need. A free one.
If the original business model of the content providers wasn't advertisment based, there wouldn't be an adblocker.

Tim is right, ads pay a lot of bills. But it looks like the people in the advertisment industry took Eric Idle word by :

http://montypython.joolsc.net/downlo...unds/ANNOY.WAV