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dude, thats a big dock.

333imacman wrote:

I'm going to go kick a squirrel in the nads.

Cool. Rock on baby.



Anyhoo, slightly off topic but can't you just disable Flash or is the whole page/site a Flash abomination? If so, feel free to export your vermin sterilisation program to my neighbourhood.

Floyd wrote:

dude, thats a big dock.

Looks like mine. I was thinking of jettisoning most of it this morning.

adndgamer wrote:

Flash ads should be banned by any halfway respectable site.  They're extremely tacky and annoying.

Sadly, it looks like the MAF have started to run some here. Yarg.

I'm starting to include "no Flash ads like that" as a criteria for "halfway respectable site."

333imacman wrote:

Floyd wrote:

dude, thats a big dock.

that's what she said...i mean...what?

a dock is where you put your boat.

After my vasectomy I picked up the nickname: Safe Harbor

Is that actually a flash layer? It could very well be a 24 bit image with some CSS and JS.

There's more then one tool that can be used to annoy a reader.

Flashblock.

Random User wrote:

Pariah wrote:

333imacman wrote:

Oooh....anger. I just want to read some movie news, and what does BoxOfficeMojo do to me? This crap.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/4847 … c1a49a.jpg

If you really have to have flash based advertising, fine. But it sure as hell better be closable. I mean, I had to wait ten seconds to read the opening paragraph.

I'm going to go kick a squirrel in the nads.

If you ever go back to that site you prove their strategy is the correct one.

You don't prove that the strategy is the correct one.  You simply prove that the viewers are willing to put up with that kind of in your face advertsising to get to the content, correct or not.

Their strategy is to be as annoying as possible, knowing that most web users are too apathetic to bother finding a new source of info. They have cleverly figured out the annoyance threshold— how annoying something needs to be in order to drive users away en masse. To come back after this annoying ad would be playing right into their hands and proving them right.

maxintosh wrote:

Random User wrote:

Pariah wrote:

If you ever go back to that site you prove their strategy is the correct one.

You don't prove that the strategy is the correct one.  You simply prove that the viewers are willing to put up with that kind of in your face advertsising to get to the content, correct or not.

Their strategy is to be as annoying as possible, knowing that most web users are too apathetic to bother finding a new source of info. They have cleverly figured out the annoyance threshold— how annoying something needs to be in order to drive users away en masse. To come back after this annoying ad would be playing right into their hands and proving them right.

Yep, people need to take a hard core attitude. If I hit a site that employs tactics like that I make a point of NEVER going back.
There are a couple of Mac related sites I used to visit that I havent looked at in a couple of years because they started using the flash popup exploit.
I dont know if they are still doing it or not and I dont care. All it takes with me is one single bad experience and I will never go back to a site, ever.
Thats the only way.

I never once got any kind of pop up ad on any page on that site using Safari, and i don't have anything currently installed on my system to circumvent anything.

I hate ads like that.  And the new ads that get past Safari's pop-up blocker.

Nice desktop pic though