Animated adverts on CUK forum...

[Churchill]

Grass.

How so?

[original PM]

Grass.

roll it dude!

[administrator]

If he was AussieLong then why hasn't that user been banned too?

Sorry for slandering the good name of AussieLong, I meant aussiedevil, thanks for spotting

[Churchill]

Sorry for slandering the good name of AussieLong, I meant aussiedevil, thanks for spotting

No probs.

[rhubarb]

...are doing my crust in!

The thing that annoys me is, when it first appears, it looks exactly the same colour and style as the facebook chat window. So I'm always drawn to look at it as I think someone is sending me a message!

[NickFitz]

I've just found that if I context-click on one of those ads (that's usually right-click) I can use the Flash context menu to stop it playing

Of course having to do that twice on every page isn't really a solution, but at least it prevents them hogging the CPU while I'm writing a post.

Incidentally, the fact that they're hogging the CPU so much suggests that they've been very badly written in the first place. A lot of Flash developers aren't very good; in particular, they find the concept of asynchronous event-driven code too confusing (despite Flash being built around the concept), so they busy-wait instead. I suspect that's happening with these particular ads.

[Clippy]

Opera is your friend:

Right click page
Left click 'Block content' on menu
Select Ads you wish to block
Click 'Done' at top of page

Sorted.

[expat]

Sorry for slandering the good name of AussieLong, I meant aussiedevil, thanks for spotting

Good work Churchill, you probably saved AussieLong from being burned. Tsk, I mean banned.

[d000hg]

Even in IE, you can add pages like http://view.atdmt.com/9QP/iview/1697...rect/01?click= to your block list can't you? Or just http://view.atdmt.com come to that.

[TimberWolf]

I use firefox and a plugin called flashblock which blocks all flash. I can then choose which flash to turn on ( like youtube video etc).

I rarely see any of the really weird ads anymore. MSN was a major offender. The ads on MSN used to be sometimes about some cow running all over the screen or pigs flying. Very annoying. If I come to know the designer who created them I will bitch slap them twice.

I've installed that now. Ahhhh, all is peace.