Rotating Subtitles?

This may have nothing to do with anything, but where did the Google ads go? I liked how they prompted me to buy skipping ropes while I was skipping the boost ball. :D

nate

2004-11-22 02:39:04 pm

hmmm ... they show up fine for me. are you seeing all image ads, or no ads at all, or something?

Izo

2004-11-22 02:40:59 pm

soaking through

Oh, they're back now. It was really disconcerting having the section selection thing right at the top of the screen. Any idea why they went away?

nate

2004-11-22 02:44:04 pm

google did a spittake when it saw how awesome hilary duff looks?

that's just a guess. it could have been for another reason entirely.

Izo

2004-11-22 02:48:40 pm

soaking through

Hilary Duff? Spit Take? LOL!

Crap, I am so banned.

nate

2004-11-22 02:50:03 pm

;-[

Yoshi348

2004-11-22 03:13:45 pm

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Ready and willing.

Heh, up until now this page has been the Nate and Izo conversation page... :P

Izo

2004-11-22 03:15:53 pm

soaking through

And you spoiled it. Hang thy head in shame! Yeah.

DominicanZero

2004-11-22 04:07:56 pm

直死の魔眼使い

I actually never see ads, in almost all sites I visit, thanks to a little Firefox extension called AdBlock. Mr. Green

KennyMan666

2004-11-22 04:52:03 pm

Viking

Precursor

Quote from DominicanZero:

I actually never see ads, in almost all sites I visit, thanks to a little Firefox extension called AdBlock. Mr. Green

You tell me how I enable/get it, right now.

Yoshi348

2004-11-22 08:00:35 pm

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Ready and willing.

Personally, I've never seen quite what the big deal is for ordinary, non-spastic banner ads... plus full adblockers tend to screw up websites with a small but significant frequency.

DominicanZero

2004-11-22 08:06:26 pm

直死の魔眼使い

Quote from KennyMan666:

You tell me how I enable/get it, right now.

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Doesn't get any easier than that. :P

And Yoshi: Firefox AdBlock does not screw up sites, believe me. I've toyed with it beyond belief, and they always look right. :P

Zeke

2004-11-23 01:41:15 am

Time bomb set get out fast!

I wouldn't feel right blocking all ads. Popups yes -- Opera handles that nicely for me -- but generally if a site has ads, it needs the money it makes from them. The company knows how many times its ad has been downloaded, so if you don't at least let the ad load, you're not helping the site.

(Some people go farther and say if you support a site, you should click on an ad once in a while, but that part I don't agree with. Clicking an ad that doesn't interest you defeats its purpose.)