The Mosquito is back!

[MSB]

Oh curse the mosquito!!! The annoying buzzing thing is back and it's annoying as ever. That sort of advert should be illegal. It forces you to click on him and get your very expensive "free" laptop just to shut him up.

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Is there a way of silencing him while I view and post? Is there a way of removing him from the site forever?

[Tamur]

Turn your sound off?

[MSB]

Turn your sound off?
Oh yes, I didn't think of that :oops:

[drone]

If you were using Mozilla/Firefox, you can install FlashBlock, which keeps flash items from loading/running unless you want them to.

[Tamur]

Did not know about that add-in drone, but that's very nice!

[Mikeus Caesar]

I'm using Opera, and have only just taken notice of the fact Opera hasn't been loading up adverts in the year or so i've been using it.

Pretty handy that.

[Slyspy]

Not a good choice of adverts.

[caravel]

I spent a few minutes checking my speakers and sound card out!

[Caius]

Mosquito?What one?

I dont see it.

[caravel]

All ads now blocked. Previously I'd allowed ads at the .org, because that's what pays for it after all, and they never really bothered me anyway. Now, due to the zancudo, I've had to block them.

[Solon of Athens]

I thought my speakers had gone weird, or a Bee had come in through the window...

Down with the Mosquito!

[Dol Guldur]

It is indeed annoying - please, if it possible, can this ad be removed *permanently* and an email sent to the company so that they think twice about infesting other sites with it.

It's all very well blocking things but it usually has side effects, such as not displaying legitimate images for example.

Now, I am going back to the modding forums where I belong and I am taking my fly swat with me...

[Stig]

I doubt it's all up to Tosa, methinks he just rents some room online and therefore gets adds, you can't always choose what you get

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I believe we have complained about ads to the host before, successfully if I recall.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Most times, it is a very useful exercise to pass on complaints to the hosting company (which I imagine selects the ads rather than Tosa) and then on to the advertisers and their marketing agents.

Whereas a brash ad is sometimes good to grab attention, one that provokes customers so much that they install filtering software (which as others have noted, blocks out all advertisers, knocking the hosting company revenue) is clearly not doing the job.

The marketers need to know this and realise they are damaging their client's business.

[InsaneApache]

I use Opera so like CW no adverts, however I did wonder what that bloody noise was. I just get the noise and no adverts. I thought my sound card was about to pack in. :sweatdrop:

[Shahed]

Use a pop up blocker. It works too.

[caravel]

Just use firefox and install the Flashblock and AdBlock+ extensions. Block the entire frame at the bottom of the page. And you'll see no ads whatsoever.

[drone]

I haven't installed AdBlock, just disabled popups and installed FlashBlock. Popups and flash ads tend to be the most annoying, heinous, and disruptive aspects of web-surfing, so I choose to punish those advertisers. Straightforward ads and gifs aren't as bad, and this site needs the ads to remain as it is.

[naut]

Just use firefox and install the Flashblock and AdBlock+ extensions. Block the entire frame at the bottom of the page. And you'll see no ads whatsoever.
Done. :2thumbsup:

[MSB]

Hello all,
Something that I just worked out, is that RM safety search blocks them too. At my workplace I cannot see them because they are blocked by the safety filters. Goodness knows why, but they are.
Regards
Avlvs