Annoying advert x_x

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

Is anyone else getting the uber annoying Karate Dog advert? It plays nearly every other page I go on and it sings "everybody is kung-fu fighting!" I can't stand it! I'm trying to avoid Neopets now, even though I don't really want to. I've tried to stop the music from playing, but I can't seem to get it off. No one else seems to have been complaining about it...maybe I'm just one of those people that gets easily annoyed.

[Ange]

Let TNT know...they don't like those ads either. They say to report any that make noise or cover the page, I think it was in an issue of the Neopian Times in the editorial. Just send a report and let them know about it.

[Officer 1BDI]

Gawd, I HATE that banner. It always gets stuck when I'm depositing money into my bank account: everytime I refresh, the stupid song starts over. I tried blocking it with Adblock, but it's a flash banner.

I didn't know ads were reportable. I'm off to complain right now.

Last edited by Officer 1BDI on Sun May 28, 2006 12:58 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

Heh, that's it! I'm complaining! I, too, didn't realise you could complain about the adverts. It does my head in x_x; is that reason enough to warrant a complete ban on this advert?

[Arka]

I haven't had that one, knock on wood, but I have had others with sound that were annoying.

Try turning off your sound or your speakers.

[Troggy7]

God I got that like, 4 pages in a row, skip a page or two, then its back e_e

[Gondra]

Can't say I've ever had that one, I always get an annoying pop up when I go to visit the slorg for my measley 50NP everyday though, I know Neopets doesn't like popups either, how would I go about complaining about this? Like what Neopets email address should I email?

[patjade]

I reported the annoying MTV Asia advert and they removed it. As for the ones that are NOT hosted, like Google ads and others, I blocked them by adding their locations into my hosts file and rerouting their IP's to 127.0.0.1, which is a local loop-back.

Whenever a browser or browser component encounters one of these, you will either get a blank, a red X, or a "Page cannot be displayed" message.

If anyone is interested, I have a copy of my Hosts available for download here:
http://jadephoenix.org/images/hosts.bak

When you download it, save it to:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc (For Windows XP. If you have a different windows, you can do a search for "hosts".

Take your original hosts and rename it to a backup or save file. Then rename the hosts.bak file as hosts.

If you suddenly find a site you need to get to that doesn't show, get the source information of the page and note the website. Then open the hosts file with notepad and try to find the site name. You can then delete the line.

My hosts file is the result of several years of editing and collecting site names. Some have been gleaned from Supertrick, Spybot, and other add-ins. There are over 2,700 sites in the file that have been known to upload adware, spyware, porn, and virus uploads.

Or, you can edit your own hosts file and add those sites you don't want to have your computer interacting with.

Here is an example of the format:

127.0.0.1 adserver.adtech.de
127.0.0.1 http://www.badwebsite.com
127.0.0.1 another.badwebsite.net
127.0.0.1 images.pornsite.org

You don't put the http:// in the blocked site, just the name. The name includes the prefix. Such things as images, download, files alpha, etc. are different locations and need to be blocked separately. images.badsite.com is not the same as http://www.badsite.com, or even badsite.com.

Hopefully this will help when you encounter ads, pop-ups, banners, images and even redirects you don't want on your computer.

[Magica]

For those who want additional filter for Adblock in Firefox, there's an old topic (Please don't bump it): http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14085 and there's also a petpage: http://neopets.com/~jetlab68

It also has my old filter list that I use. Hopefully it should block most of the ads on Neopets and other sites.

[smudgeoffudge]

I hate that ad. I have the kung fu song stuck in my head!

[Magica]

I hate that ad. I have the kung fu song stuck in my head!

Remember Crazy Frog? I used to get that on Neopets and DeviantArt all the time.

[Officer 1BDI]

Try turning off your sound or your speakers.

I listen to my playlist while I'm on Neopets. Hence the annoyance.

[jrtman]

There are some good ways to disable ads on IE at the below topic:
http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26046

[patjade]

While those may work when you are using IE and putting locations into Adblock works for Firefox, putting them into the hosts file blocks them for ALL your applications at the same time. It stops accidentally downloaded spyware from contacting their home sites, it works for your RSS programs, and it works for every program that runs on your system. That is why I enjoy adding unwanted sites to my hosts file. I don't have to remember to add it to SeaMonkey, FireFox, IE, Thunderbird, Netscape, RSSReader, JPodder, BitLord, and everything else. One file does it all.

[DiscordantNote]

Gawd, I HATE that banner. It always gets stuck when I'm depositing money into my bank account: everytime I refresh, the stupid song starts over. I tried blocking it with Adblock, but it's a flash banner.

You can still block them. Go to your Adblock options and look for 'overlay flash'. Choose that and you'll be able to click the ad to block it.

I've either been lucky, or my Adblock already filters out the site it comes from. I hate those ads too...those and the ones that cause the page to load slowly.