Personal Opinion : Ads

[bluesman1951]

I am against ads of all kinds . When I look at my computer screen and see something I did not invite to be there its a unwanted intrusion . My computer screen is my private domain and people selling things are not invited it dont matter who they are or what they sell . Just because some one has harvested my email address does not give them the right to send me things . The time I spend throwing away their GARBAGE is time taken from my life that can not be replaced ,day after day 40/50 pieces of garbage every day to sweep and delete . Enough !!!!!!! If I wish to puchase something I will do a search and seek it out other than that I never need to see a ad . Pop up ads are in the same catagory and class as the AFRICAN scam emails . This I promise : I do not care what you sell if you put a pop up ad on my screen univited I will never buy any thing from you EVER !!!!! This is my personal opinion and my opinion alone . Some things just irritate me beyond my ability to endure and this is one of them . I have ad block installed and wonder why it does not filter these ads out ,rest assured a call is into my computer guy now this intrusion will be dealt with . Bill

[dirtclod]

What do you do about the crap that comes to your personal mail box ? Call the post office and ask / tell them to sort it out before it gets to you ?

Edited November 21, 2012 by dirtclod

[Cyberthrasher]

Where are you at when the popups happen? A lot of well meaning website get conned into popups by adding widgets to their sites, such as hit counters, that actually add the popup code. So, the vendor may not even be aware that they're sending popups. If it's happening here though, I'd lean more toward an infection on your computer and nothing to do with the site itself.

[WinterBear]

What browser are you running? Most of them have an option that when selected, it prevents nearly all popups and new tabs from being opened.

[bluesman1951]

What do you do about the crap that comes to your personal mail box ? Call the post office and ask / tell them to sort it out before it gets to you ?

I have not got a single piece of mail in years ,gave up mail box stuff long ago . No need to call the post office . Thanks Bill

[bluesman1951]

What browser are you running? Most of them have an option that when selected, it prevents nearly all popups and new tabs from being opened.

My computer is just fine ,I have ad block installed and for the most part it works . I am speaking of the new pop up banner adds on this site . Its in your face advertiseing and your only choice is not to vist this site any longer or put up with them . I am against having no choice or just having a bad choice . At the moment just fed up with junk ,I have 5 email accounts and so far today I have deleted more than 100 pieces of stuff from the spam folders combined . Thats a daily chore and I have reached my overload moment . Thanks Bill

[WinterBear]

How very odd. Bill, the only ads I get here are the 4 in the banners at the top of the screen, since I allow ads for LW. But I'm running Firefox, since IE kept allowing popups through and was hugely slow when attempting to show pictures.

[bluesman1951]

Where are you at when the popups happen? A lot of well meaning website get conned into popups by adding widgets to their sites, such as hit counters, that actually add the popup code. So, the vendor may not even be aware that they're sending popups. If it's happening here though, I'd lean more toward an infection on your computer and nothing to do with the site itself.

Thanks ,for the most part Linux is free of infections . Pretty tough to get in any thing unsafe sets off all kinds of alarms .Have you noticed the new banner popup ads on this site ? It is of those I spoke of , in your face advertiseing with no choice to view or not . My thinking is give me a choice by putting all the vendors in one spot and if I am searching for something I can go there and see all of them at once . My thinking is please dont force me to view something I have no intrest in . When there is no place to retreat or no choice or only bad choices Iam upset thats pretty simple . Let me have a good choice . Where does one go when there is no pace to go ? Thanks for your response . Bill

[Cyberthrasher]

Thanks ,for the most part Linux is free of infections .

Uhm, I'm a network administrator, so trust me when I say that Linux IS NOT free from infections. If it were, then they wouldn't write antivirus programs for it.

[bluesman1951]

How very odd. Bill, the only ads I get here are the 4 in the banners at the top of the screen, since I allow ads for LW. But I'm running Firefox, since IE kept allowing popups through and was hugely slow when attempting to show pictures.

Thanks for your response . I also use fire fox and linux as a platform . Have every filter going possible and I am burried in garbage every day 100's of mails to delete every day . Life is a constant barrage of people trying to sell you things ,thats funny because I sell things too . Must make me a hypocrite huh! Bill