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You're looking at your favorite website, it's a popular website that has many ads on it, but that's ok. They're out of the way, and you can easily ignore them. Unless you have ADHD/ADD and you're memorized by the pretty flashy ads.....what was I doing? Oh...right...well anyways, but then one ad decides to pop out of it's frame and cover up the link that you want to get to. Worse, the ad that pops out doesn't has that little "X". So you have to sit while the annoying ad gets done with it's animation. Now there are some ads where they don't automatically pop out, but if you get near them, they do. You pull away, they pop back in, but get near them again..ugh!

Of course this viruses of distracting and annoying ads are spreading to TV. Now they're running ads during TV shows! What next, am I going to watch House and hear him say "The patient's problem is, he hasn't had enough Pepsi in his system, for that cool refreshing taste, drink a can of Pepsi and call me in the morning!"

Ugh, ads on TV need to stay between shows, and on here they need to stay in their little boxes.

Adblock Plus is your friend, Wil.

One right click, one left click, and BOOM, the ad is destroyed in a glorious explosion of fiery fury!

...Never mind, they're just blocked. :D

"The patient's problem is, he hasn't had enough Pepsi in his system, for that cool refreshing taste, drink a can of Pepsi and call me in the morning!"
Haha I couldn't press quote but this is meme of the year!

"The patient's problem is, he hasn't had enough Pepsi in his system, for that cool refreshing taste, drink a can of Pepsi and call me in the morning!"
Haha I couldn't press quote but this is meme of the year!

Kids, some very strong men with bats and me would like to have a word with you.

Kids, some very strong men with bats and me would like to have a word with you.

Which leads them to say "The patient's problem is, he hasn't had enough Pepsi in his system, for that cool refreshing taste, drink a can of Pepsi and call me in the morning!"
after I end up in the hospital.

Ads in your tv programs isn't a progression, it's a regression. TV shows used to be dominated by a single sponsor who injected their product as much in the show as they could get away with.

The problem is that if an ad blends too far into the background, it's no longer as effective. It's worse than being annoying, which isn't as detrimental as you'd like it to be.

They have to come up with ways to get around to you as come up with ways to avoid them. TiVo? Alright then, we'll advertise when the program is on.

The thing is, someone has to pay for it and if you're not going to it's got to be the advertisers. It's all a matter of how much of a devil's bargain do you want.

Adblock Plus is your friend, Wil.

One right click, one left click, and BOOM, the ad is destroyed in a glorious explosion of fiery fury!

...Never mind, they're just blocked. :D

Include noscript and you reach a new level of Zen mastery.....

my objection, still living in my caveman dial up dungeon, is the bandwidth they rob, often requiring multiple reloads to finally get to the content of a page.

i pretty much tend to avoid commercial sites anyway. if i want to buy something i'll go to a store or a yard sale where i can see and fondle what i'm going to buy while making up my mind what and whether to do so.

the net i'm here to share my thoughts on forums and illustrations on archives/galleries.

e-bussiness e-sucked from jump. about the only thing good about it is the number of people who now have modems and isps, and how that demand has made such things more available then they were to begin with.

but i really see this as a major degrading of the value and usefulness as a kind of ultimate library and conference room the Internet started out to be when it first went public.

To avoid ads on your computer, you can do one of two things:
1) Just fucking get adblock. Seriously, it takes five minutes to get it running and find a Filterset. No more ads, easy as that.
But, if you don't want to do that . . .
2) Get a large, heavy cloth and hang if over the front of your computer monitor. Now the ads cannot get through, and your precious eyes are protected. Also, since some ads contain audio content, I suggest trowing your speakers out the window.

I just want to know why that one as was lazy and claims both Bush and Obama have exactly the same IQ.

I just want to know why that one as was lazy and claims both Bush and Obama have exactly the same IQ.

Umm...what?

Umm...what?The stupid little "Take our IQ test" things.
"Bush/Obama/Harry Potter has an IQ of 125, are you smarter than him*?"

*Take our free IQ test, results will be sent after you review and buy one or all of our promotional offers!

I just command + w that shit. But feel your pain, they are shitty.

For some reason the ads on Jolt have started crashing my browser recently, which is going to drive me to install an ad blocker.

I have a hard time using any browser but the one on my computer. I have AdBlock Plus and NoScripts (disables flash unless I want it to play as well as java scripts), which is good for disabling ads that would otherwise get around AdBlock because of coding tricks.

In the beginning the internet was fun, real fun.

The software to connect with the net wasn't that easy to use, so the rate of dumb people online was low. In those times everything was possible. You could even use the word 'fuck' on any forum. When using a search engine, the retrieved results had more worth than today. You could encounter really exciting and sometimes weird websites. SPAM wasn't invented yet.

Today, your mum and dad are using the net (yuk). Google is presenting the search results which are best for their bank account. The rate of dumb people online is just killing me and yes...

...you have ads everywhere.

They call this progression.