You know what I hate?

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Thu May 09, 2002 1:35 pm

Those friggin ads that go floating across your screen right in the middle of what you are looking at

And you can't close them or anything until they are done

CiscoKid · Post by **CiscoKid** » Thu May 09, 2002 1:37 pm

yep, you and 99.999% of the worl...

that 00.001% being teh ones who make the ads...

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Thu May 09, 2002 1:46 pm

Site link???
I am interested to see if AdShield will stop them.

Croc.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Thu May 09, 2002 1:49 pm

http://www.weather.com/

has one of those I believe....

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:00 pm

Are we talking about the looping ad in the right side of the page that is linked here??

Croc.

I don't think this is one cause it doesn't float.
Right click the ad and select properties (if the option is there) and post the URL. It may be stopped already here with AdShield if it's a 3rd party ad.
No floating ad at the Weather site BaLa.

Crocedit.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:04 pm

no; that spray pops up in the middle of the screen..

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:05 pm

That ad is Flash

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:08 pm

Originally posted by Norm
That ad is Flash

I know

but I couldn't link to teh add from there..so I linked to the image which is also an add...

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:15 pm

I still don't see any floating ad at that site so it must be blocked.

Because AdShield blocks the first part of the address and not the complete URL it stops a large number of ads with one entry. This may be the case here. IE:
h!tp://image.weather.com/web/twc/common/animated_20th_anniversary_296x125.gif

will be entered:
h!tp://image.weather.com/web/twc/common

The rest is not needed to block the ad and any others that start with that URL.

Off to work now. It's 4.30am (EST Au). Back at 12noon.

Have fun.

Croc.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:23 pm

Gosh fellows, for every ad you block, some poor sap gets laid off at Micron!

Partial · Post by **Partial** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:46 pm

Gosh fellows, for every ad you block, some poor sap gets laid off at Micron!

Thats quite alright because advertising as an online business model is a sinking ship. Advertisers are slowly clueing into the fact that nobody pays attention to advertisements. Hey, at least they have jobs now. It hasn't been totally useless.

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Thu May 09, 2002 3:45 pm

I don't care who gets laid off. I don't like the ads blocking my view like that