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Thread ID: 77551 2007-03-13 14:21:00 Who loves the new Peel Me advert? Greg (193) PC World Chat
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532699 2007-03-14 04:21:00 Well the Window users seem to love it. Pity the Linux users (with the latest flash-plugin?) are being tormented with the constant large purple square flashes. :rolleyes:

I have no choice but to block it unfortunately because of this. Hopefully it gets sorted. :)
Jen (38)
532700 2007-03-14 04:51:00 At least on this NetBSD machine I'm now using it only temporarily obstructs the page with a large "Click Here to Download Plugin" box. At home I have now blocked ads completely. I'm perfectly happy to have ads included in pages which provide content I enjoy but the moment they become intrusive whether through annoying positioning or excessive colour differences, both of which are a problem in this case, the ad will be blocked. TGoddard (7263)
532701 2007-03-14 05:41:00 It's cool. :) pcuser42 (130)
532702 2007-03-15 09:37:00 The reason it doesn't work on linux boxes is because flash player for linux doesn't support wmode (weblogs.macromedia.com). Wmode is a flash parameter you can set when including flash movies in a web page, and is what makes flash able to overlay on a page with the normal content underneath nicely visible.

Side-note: Moving swiftly over the ad towards the top right and out of the browser so that the visible yellow corner has no text in it but is still 'unpeeled' makes a 650px by 650px section of the screen un-clickable, heh (www.imagef1.net.nz). Well, it's technically clickable but any links in that area are unusable.
sal (67)
532703 2007-03-18 22:42:00 You can also find a version that supports Flash animation here, for those interested:

powerupmysite.com
iosys (12002)
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