Banner ads that expand themselves down and require you to click a microscopic X to return them to their correct size! I just had one keep expanding itself 3 times before it stopped...
just had another one for the Taking Woodstock movie... Appears to be a rollover add, it expands when your mouse hits it, which is why it kept opening, after clicking the X I moved the mouse down to where I was trying to go in the first place... have to click the X then move your mouse around the side of the screen so you don't hit the damn ad again...
I would be a sponsor, but I don't trust paypal after they charged me for a bunch of stuff I didn't buy
I feel like some sort of renegade... running from forum to forum trying to hide from the dreaded drop down ads....
Please no... not TF2Maps.net too!
...anyways, it is sort of frustrating, especially when I'm pretty sure they're not paying the site to take up that much extra space. I'd just do it the simple way and donate but I'm currently in no position to do so because of school and extra.
I've always been too lazy to look for and try an adblocker or noscript, but this has driven me to it. after looking at them both, I'm trying out noscript, seems to work well so far
My policy is to allow things and then block whenever I get something truly obnoxious... like flash ads with @%#$ing sound.
If I could, I'd allow source-based whitelisting. In other words, I'd block everything from ads.advertiser.com, except when it comes through a site I choose to support.
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If only advertising networks would make it easier to block the obnoxious subset of their ads...
As I;m typing theres some ad of a kid eating a sandwhithc which means I can't even see what's here. It is rather frustrationg, but thanks for looking into it. Hopefully this is readable.
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