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busterwa
busterwa
3782 posts
3782 posts
15 Jun 2010 11:52am
Going camping and getting guitar tabs.
Noticed that some of these sites like ultaimate guitar tabs are a complete waste of time and the level of advertizing is apaulling. You have to continually listen to tv comercials blaring thu your speakers non stop.Comercial television has less advertising.
Its pretty bad when you have to wait for the 30seconds for a page full of advertising to load and get stuck listening to tv comercials which cant be turned off or turned down.

A little advertising is ok and understandable but surely some sites are excessive
doggie
doggie
WA
15849 posts
WA, 15849 posts
15 Jun 2010 11:58am
I guess they need it to keep the sites running, American sites seem to be the worst for it tho. Porn is hopeless
pooman
pooman
WA
293 posts
WA, 293 posts
15 Jun 2010 1:27pm
I'm ok with the advertising, after all it pays for the site to stay up...

what ****s me is the adverts that auto play with sound...you're having a nice quiet browse (usually at work)...forget your mute is turned off...then next minute...advert starts playing letting everyone know in the office what you're doing.
westozwind
westozwind
WA
1418 posts
WA, 1418 posts
15 Jun 2010 3:44pm
Use Firefox with the Flashblock Add-On installed.
All flash then displays on the site with a little "play" icon inside it.
You choose what you want to see.
Ad Block Plus is also good for blocking all the other pop ups that come your way.
GalahOnTheBay
GalahOnTheBay
NSW
4188 posts
NSW, 4188 posts
15 Jun 2010 7:49pm
^^^ what he said!

The "NoScript" extension is also useful
Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse
WA
592 posts
WA, 592 posts
15 Jun 2010 5:57pm
There's a Futurama episode on this whereby, by the time it's set nobody dares go on the internet because of all the viral advertising

D
busterwa
busterwa
3782 posts
3782 posts
15 Jun 2010 6:28pm
The other pet hate about the internet is when you go and download somthing you get redirected thru like 8 sites and you end up download some program that is not even relevent to what you were looking for..example chacing a specific driver. (end up with some poxy driver detective or some other crap)
Then when you do find the so called "free version" its a 3 day trial ;-( this really or its an even more poxier demmo this really grinds my chops....
Its getting worse were all doomed !!!!!!
HAHA remember this movie!!!

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