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Thread ID: 108409	2010-03-27 23:13:00	Ad blocking? please think again	Deimos (5715)	Press F1

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870465	2010-03-29 08:46:00	I block all the ads on this site now. I never used to though, and boy, did it take forever to load pages at times. Now, the pages come through almost instantaneously. I run a CPU usage meter all the time you can see how those fancy Flash ads use up CPU cycles! It's quite surprising how much CPU power they suck.	Rod J (451)
870466	2010-03-29 08:53:00	I block all the ads on this site now. I never used to though, and boy, did it take forever to load pages at times. Now, the pages come through almost instantaneously. I run a CPU usage meter all the time you can see how those fancy Flash ads use up CPU cycles! It's quite surprising how much CPU power they suck. So you run a CPU usage meter all the time? How many CPU cycles does that use one wonders? In my humble opinion it's lack of Bandwidth rather than CPU that slow things down.	Sweep (90)
870467	2010-03-29 20:12:00	So you run a CPU usage meter all the time? How many CPU cycles does that use one wonders? In my humble opinion it's lack of Bandwidth rather than CPU that slow things down. Who knows if they are linked. The fact is that flash is CPU intensive and people are using it for everything. Try using no javascript for awhile and compare.	pkm (13527)
870468	2010-03-29 20:14:00	Been done, but sadly only for digital recording. I don't know if the techniques have been circumvented by the media barons, but it did work fairly reliably. Cheers Billy 8-{) I find the just the VOLUME on ads to raise my blood pressure. Its like the shows and the advertisements use completely different compression/limiting on purpose to blast you out of your seat. edit I also find sites like lifehacker,engadget to make my CPU fan go nuts, even on a clean xp machine.	pkm (13527)
870469	2010-03-30 01:24:00	So you run a CPU usage meter all the time? How many CPU cycles does that use one wonders? In my humble opinion it's lack of Bandwidth rather than CPU that slow things down. I'm only using the little CPU usage meter in the Gnome panel of Ubuntu and as far as I can tell it's using less than 1% of my CPU. If I click on it it opens the full System Monitor and that uses 2-3% CPU occasionally.	Rod J (451)
870470	2010-03-30 05:20:00	I have some computers which are rather slow, and anything running flash or even a large animated GIF image can cause severe problems. I don't need some of my systems crippled, so I block ads. On the faster PCs I could run the ads but why would I want to when they are f**king annoying? Bandwidth wise it's not much of an issue, so if someone could work out a way to have an ad blocker that downloads the ad (so the site gets money) but doesn't actually show it to me, that would be acceptable to me. Otherwise, ads, along with spammers and Nigerian fraudsters can all go to the deepest pit in hell.	Agent_24 (57)
870471	2010-03-30 11:59:00	Quote > Otherwise, ads, along with spammers and Nigerian fraudsters can all go to the deepest pit in hell < End quote. Well said that man. My feelings exactly. Give yourself a pat on the back!! :D	DUNK (1527)
870472	2010-03-31 02:55:00	Well, after giving this matter considerable consideration I have decided to block every Add or Pop-up that I encounter! :( Blocking the sods should in fact be a crusade! :ban Further, that Judy Dobson who interrupts my tea whilst watching the 6 O’clock News on TV1, with Worm cures and Healthy Bowels, has been placed on the “Endangered Species List” and will be moved to the “Extinct List” if I ever catch up with her. There should be a “Hate Add’s” week held every week! :D	B.M. (505)
870473	2010-03-31 03:08:00	Been done, but sadly only for digital recording. I don't know if the techniques have been circumvented by the media barons, but it did work fairly reliably. Cheers Billy 8-{) Billy, I seem to recall that a guy invented a way back in the old Analogue Black & White days. From memory there was something in the top part of the TV spectrum where the Horizontal Sync pulses were that identified an Add and this could be used to block it. There was another annoying feature of Adds where the sound appeared to be turned up for the duration of the Add. Officially I think they described it as compressing the sound but it certainly turned the sound up. :annoyed: Just can’t remember all the finer details. Maybe someone can jog my memory? :)	B.M. (505)
870474	2010-03-31 03:18:00	Good on you B.M. I already block everything I can on every web site I can, plus I use Stylish to alter ALL web pages so that only pictures and white text appear on a black background, I hate other peoples, so-called web designers ideas of artistic layouts and colour combinations. My version in link	zqwerty (97)
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