music BLASTING from my pc - damn ads

[barocca]

anyone else getting mightily annoyed at the bad rock music blasting unexpectedly out from your PC becasue of the damn HP Ipod banner ad?

sign here

i'll forward a link to this thread to the reseller if enough of us are sick of it.

personally i just love waking my entire household up with bad rock at 3 am in the morning,
how about you?

B.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I always have the sound turned all the way down for that reason...since I have a volume dial it's easy to adjust if I need to.

[John86]

Yes i am. From HP. They hid a ad at the bottom of the screen.

[JAG]

Can't say I ever heard the 'back rock music ad', as I always have GOOD rock and metal on when i'm at my pc ~D

[LeeJackson]

I went to mozilla.org and dl firefox. I get a lot less of thoes ads now.

[Sjakihata]

yeah, 0.9 rocks. automatic ad blocker, keeps away the ads, i've not really received a ad in ages, thank god!

[barocca]

yeah, 0.9 rocks. automatic ad blocker, keeps away the ads, i've not really received a ad in ages, thank god!

you talking about the banner ads down the bottom of the page?
(scroll down)
you do, or do not, see those?

cheers,
B.

[Papewaio]

Those ads have put me off buying not just that particular item but any HP one unless it is truly the number one in its field and the cheapest to boot.

[Sjakihata]

you talking about the banner ads down the bottom of the page?
(scroll down)
you do, or do not, see those?

cheers,
B.

What banner ads?

edit:

interesting, I just included totalwar.org in the field saying, "always show popups for the sites listed below". There I put totalwar.org, and sure enough when I now load the org popups immediately appear.

*runs off to delete the site from the field*

strongly recommends firefox, it will KILL ads

[BDC]

Yes, I have Firefox and haven't seen an ad in ages. And I got the Adblock extension so I just right click and 'adblock' it if I see one. :-)

[Sjakihata]

do you have a link for that xtension?

[BDC]

http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10

I always have to download to desktop, then install that way though. Won't do it automatically... A little bug there. Works great after though.

[Sjakihata]

thanks

[Ludens]

Yes, it's annoying. It blasted right through the music I was playing on my CD-player.

[R'as al Ghul]

Some things get mixed up here.
There are two different forms of ADs:
Banner ADs + Popup ADs.
Popup ADs can be blocked with generic Mozilla Firefox. Very good.
What Barocca mentioned though, is a bannner AD playing sound.
Firefox is not blocking this banner. It will be part of the site.
But my version, until now, hasn't played a single sound. I saw some HP ADs but heard no sound.
It's a good Idea to use Firefox, it's the superior browser.
What you can do when using IE, is to look under
Internet-Options/Advanced/Multi Media and toggle "Play Audio in websites" to "off".
Might do the trick.

Apart from that, I hate every site that plays music without asking me.

R'as

[Oaty]

And all this time I thought it was some dumb hacker that was messing with me blasting rock music on my speakers. So I left the site and disconnected the cable for a while

[Sjakihata]

well, I never see banner ads on the org, so something is blocking them, maybe ad-aware live scan?

[ah_dut]

Yes firefox is very good, try adaware scan or something, i haven't got an ad like that in ages.
B. can you show me the site so i can see what is goin on, please thanks

[Steppe Merc]

I never saw any pop up, just random music... but then I usally play /real/ music.. ~;p

[Sir Chauncy]

Hell count me in, that bloody music irritates the life out of me

[eadeater]

yep, i got that poor excuse for music

[Quokka]

Sick of it.

Blasted straight through the CD I was listening too. First time was at 3am and I was wearing headphones, can I sue for a peforated eardrum?

[The_Emperor]

Man I hate that... I was really thrown by what it was as well. I thought my winamp was downloading something without my noticing. ~:angry:

Come noble knights, let us Crusade against the infidels and their loud adverts! :knight: