Reply to: Animated adverts on CUK forum...

[Churchill]

Quiet office today. Nobody looking over my shoulder. Expect lots of ignore list alerts later!

Will do!

[MarillionFan]

Morning MF! Have a , you feeling better today?

Quiet office today. Nobody looking over my shoulder. Expect lots of drivel later!

[Churchill]

Psshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :

Morning MF! Have a , you feeling better today?

[MarillionFan]

Psshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :

[Churchill]

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That football is still pissing me off!

[MarillionFan]

We could always burn him too! Along with dang65...

Admin. I have noticed a very similar posting pattern like AOTN/North25/HueHull/AndyW from a small lo-profile poster known as Churchill(sic).

Not really noticed him before, but to be on the safe side I'd ban him too and possibly nuke the entire site from orbit just to make sure.

HTH

[cojak]

Me too.

The headache is beginning to fade...

[NickFitz]

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

"Thank you for advertising with CUK. We are happy to report that, as a result of your campaign, >95% of our visitors are now using ad-blocking software."

[Churchill]

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

We could always burn him too! Along with dang65...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!