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| Thread ID: 110936 | 2010-07-07 10:30:00 | Hope this does not happen here | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1116953 | 2010-07-08 02:45:00 | i use the firefox adblock plugin to block the ads. pressf1 goes alot faster without them since i blocked the ad's 3 weeks ago. | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1116954 | 2010-07-08 04:35:00 | The reality is that this might indeed happen. We're in a world where the economy is measured in dollars. The currency of wealth is measured in cash rather than measured in a population of happy healthy educated and productive people. It may well be that the day will come when the content you want will not appear until you've clicked through a bunch of ad screens first. Try going to Metservice on an underpowered PC. You have to sit and wait for the entire Uncle Toby's breakfast ad has completed a loop of the animation before you finally get to see the 10 day forcast! Painful! I hate you Uncle Toby! That is a taste of worse to come! hey,Come on, guy. Don't be so pessimistic. |
AdamLiuu (15875) | ||
| 1116955 | 2010-07-08 08:13:00 | Same as Wainui I went to the met site with addblock then closed the tab and reopened without addblock still no ads not an Oat to be seen | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1116956 | 2010-07-08 08:27:00 | This site has ads?? | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1116957 | 2010-07-08 08:37:00 | Of that happened there would be no mods left to ban people. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1116958 | 2010-07-08 09:19:00 | I'm sure PC World gets enough money from its magazine, it wouldn't matter if the forum had ads or not. It's just a way for them to get extra cash, of course. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1116959 | 2010-07-08 09:52:00 | Same as Wainui I went to the met site with addblock then closed the tab and reopened without addblock still no ads not an Oat to be seen It may have changed, but it used to be a banner ad showing a microwave with a steaming bowl of porridge, and I'd have to sit here and wait for the bleeding steam to finish slowly rising before I could get to the forcast data I wanted. Suppose I could always use a faster computer than this old 500MHz P3! The place is littered with machines 3 or more times faster... and I'm not using the darn things! Reality is though, with the exception of these stinking flash animations there is so rarely any need for a faster computer. If I'm gaming or processing media I use the sweet rig, but day to day computer drudgery doesn't even need 500MHz. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1116960 | 2010-07-08 09:56:00 | While on that subject, I've never established a means of blocking ads that use Flash... without getting a nag screen that 'this site needs flash'. The traditional trick with the Hosts file has been used with great success for asges though. THe only ads I see here are text ads from Google in a banner to the left... which I never really acknowledge as even existing. Fascinatinig how we learn to ignore these things. |
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