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"Bigger and more intrusive"

Bloody adverts!

Anyone been to http://www.football365.co.uk lately?

Flash adverts, or whatever the hell they're created in.

Yes, I've whinged abuot them before. But it was bad enough when they just popped up in the middle of the screen; these new ones take up nearly a quarter of the browser window with a 'page turn' effect. They're bigger and more instrusive than ever!

I know these sites need the financial support of advertising, but there's surely no quicker way to p!ss off your readers than obstructing the articles they're trying to read?!

Nasty things... should be banned.

I use Mozilla Firefox, and again, the only site which it doesn't work with is the Odeon website. Has anyone found a work around yet? I'm tempted to create a PHP script to parse the site and return the useful information minus all the crappy JS rubbish. Any thoughts?

Do you try to avoid companies whose adverts p*** you off?

I figure it's a good idea, try to penalise them for making people unhappy/frustrated, but I guess it'd only work if people did it on a massive scale.

I like the title, and yeah, the Odeon site frequently crashes.

I can believe that!

If an advert is in the border like here at SR, and is of interest, I will - probably - click on it.

If it is forced in my face like those mentioned earlier, I will click nothing other than the 'Close' box, even if the subject may be of interest to be.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> I know these sites need the financial support of advertising, but
> there's surely no quicker way to p!ss off your readers than
> obstructing the articles they're trying to read?!

Recent studies have shown that internet advertising fails to work or generate revenue mainly down to the annoyanceof adverts taking over your monitor!!!

Captain Scarlet wrote:
> Googlebar its all you need (unless u want another web broswer that 50%
> of sites won't be compatible with)

I've got the Google toolbar - it stops popups, but does nothing to stop these Flash (or whatever they are) adverts.

The title of this thread just oozes innuendo.

Captain Scarlet wrote:
> Googlebar its all you need (unless u want another web broswer that 50%
> of sites won't be compatible with)

I use Mozilla, and all the site I have ever been to bar the Odeon Cinema site (and that is due to crappy coding in javascript to get the navs to fly on screen) works fine.

Googlebar its all you need (unless u want another web broswer that 50% of sites won't be compatible with)

I've still got pop-ups coming through from downloading kazaa. I made a weak attempt at getting rid of them, but it doesn't seem to have helped.

One came through as I was typing the above. Trying to get me to enter a competition for a mercedes. Someone must die.