Advertisements on Web Pages

[Petro]

At 8:17 AM -0700 8/7/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
>
>>Just a note about what's happening with Web advertising.
>>
>>Went to a site, www.imdb.com, to check something about a film. Up popped 
>>a doubleclick.net ad. In front of the main page, obscuring it. I clicked 
>>the close box. Up popped a _different_ ad. I clicked the close box. Yep, 
>>up popped a third ad box.  I closed it. I think it stopped at this point.
>
>Simple answer: turn off javascript and java.  It is generally not 

	Even simpler, push that little window into the background. They usually spawn when the code that spawns them can't find them any more. 

>used except to make ads more annoying.  If your browser allows it 
>(I gotta put in a plug for the registered version of Opera here) 
>turn off animated graphics.  These three simple acts will kill 
>over 90% of web advertising. If you're actually after *content*, 
>you can usually turn off autoloading of images as well, and that 
>will kill almost 100% of web advertising.

	I figure looking at advertising (and the occasional random click through) is the price I pay for using certain web sites. 

	Silly me. 
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