Very Obnoxious Ad on Website

[Telly]

This ad has so much video action, that it maxes out my poor cpu. It is (eventually, slowly, excruciatingly) advertising something called "True North" whatever the hell that is. I have never seen such a cpu-intensive garbage ad on a website before.

 

[samclem]

Are you using Firefox as your browser? I am, and I've never seen this ad.

 

[retire@40]

Me neither.

 

[FUEGO]

ad block plus with firefox. What ad?

 

[ERD50]

NOTE to any web site owners:

Obnoxious ads are self-defeating and counter productive.

I never installed ad blockers on my browser, because I felt it was a bit dishonest to enjoy a "free" site, and then block their ads. Then one day, on another forum, they started putting in some really ugly, context sensitive ads. It made the site un-usable.

I installed an ad blocker the next day. I'm not particularly proud of that, but I have my limits. And because of that, I don't see the ads on this site either. Now that I'm reading about these issues, I'm bothered a bit less by that. Sorry, but dat's da facts.

-ERD50

 

[Goonie]

Yeah, what they said.....Foxfire & AdBlock Plus! I went that route to get rid of all the ads on one of the weather websites quite some time ago.....it was taking forever and a day for their page to load with all the ads on it. After I installed the ad blocker, their page loads almost instantly! I feel NO guilt whatsoever about not seeing annoying ads.....I never clicked on any of them anyway.

 

[mickeyd]

The ads that you refer to remind me a bit of telemarketing, which I do not get any more now that the political season is over. I never buy any product that falls into this category.

 

[Achiever51]

I didn't see the ad either...and I extend a belated, but sincere, THANK YOU to someone's post I read awhile back that lead me to Firefox and Adblock Plus. It's so peaceful to be able to browse the internets without those intrusive ads!

 

[freebird5825]

what ad? i use IE with pop-up blocker on ALL the time.