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Thread ID: 56230 2005-03-31 02:18:00 Annoying Ads on PressF1 Oxie (1318) PC World Chat
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339788 2005-03-31 03:14:00 Susan, the fish can't swim unless you enable the water in your monitor. Graham L (2)
339789 2005-03-31 03:16:00 Actually some people pay good money for that screensaver with the aquarium tank and fish look. You get to have it free here! :p

At least it doesn't make noise, like that reindeer one did a few Christmas ago - drove a few people nuts looking for the source of the jingling bells before realising they were part of an ad on PF1 :D
Jen (38)
339790 2005-03-31 03:20:00 I don't get any floating fish ads.

Trevor:)
Trev (427)
339791 2005-03-31 03:22:00 I am happy to have ads as it supports this great free forum without ads it would be hard to maintain

(I can always block them anyway www.pressf1.co.nz )
Dannz (1668)
339792 2005-03-31 04:29:00 I'm gonna chop that freekin fishes head off!!
What a pain in the butt!
bartsdadhomer (80)
339793 2005-03-31 04:33:00 Those ads are too much for me. I'll be back when they go.
And I will never buy anything from HP again. :mad: :mad: :mad:
JJJJJ (528)
339794 2005-03-31 04:35:00 I'll put up with advertising, especially to support a site like PF1 but, as soon as they get over intrusive they go to the ad bin. Which kind of defeats the purpose don't it, will marketing/ad people never learn that the net is not a TV or a paper medium. Murray P (44)
339795 2005-03-31 04:53:00 will marketing/ad people never learn that the net is not a TV or a paper medium.

That's the thing though. 99.97% of users look at pop-up/floating ads and go "damn, that's annoying" and react pretty much like Jack has. But when an advertising/marketing person sees the same ad they go "Wow that's cool. We should do some of those ..."
Biggles (121)
339796 2005-03-31 05:00:00 I am glad I am not the only one who doesn't appreciate the ads.

Mary, you are right - they sure were an 'eye-blaster'. Of course I have not seen them since on the times I have returned to my computer. I hope they won't appear frequently. Now, I did not mind Santa on his sleigh with the bells as he stayed at the top of the screen.

FoxyMX, I assume they appear in IE, but will check when they next appear. I am sure you will have seen them by now. My five year old liked the fish!

JJJJJ, I agree with you - they put me off buying HP products.

Oxie
Oxie (1318)
339797 2005-03-31 05:11:00 That's the thing though. 99.97% of users look at pop-up/floating ads and go "damn, that's annoying" and react pretty much like Jack has. But when an advertising/marketing person sees the same ad they go "Wow that's cool. We should do some of those ..."

Them context-sensitive Google ads aren't too intrusive. You could put a whole strip down the right-hand side of this board. Fits right under the ad for the PCW mag. Especially now that pressf1 is now so popular with great warez fans.
vinref (6194)
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