"New?" Disturbing Ads on Neopets.

Dustin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:14 pm

I have mozilla, but I dont have to worry about ads thankfully since im a premium member.

Black_Panther · **Posts:** 353 **Joined:** Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:42 am

BeDeviled wrote:

Black_Panther wrote:

i just disable all the ones i can with firefox to bad you can't perm. disable the flash ads sure you can stop them but once you refresh they start running again oh well

on firefox you can disable all flash and have a button you can press play when you want to see it... like on games and stuff... the small hassle of having to click them is outweighed by how fast everything loads. The extension is called Flashblock

sounds kool but may be kind of annoying when i go to play games,since using firefox neopets seems to run like 3-5 times faster if not more, on IE felt like it was lagging all the time and neoquest 2 was unplayable cause it was just soooooo slow,the ads don't bug me to much,now if there was an option to always allow certain flash things to run all the time without the minor hassle of a button then that would be neat

DiscordantNote · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:32 pm

Adblock works with Netscape too. Also, once you block a flash ad with Adblock, it shouldn't show up again.

Trick · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:41 pm

I have flash ads blocked with firefox by just blocking the iframes they run in as well as their originating urls (unless you are talking about the little ones on the left sidebar?). When you manually block stuff with firefox rather than or as well as using the adblock extension then you can block everything

I'm sure you can do it with just adblock as well, I'm just used to the old-fashioned way, hee x)

Nani · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:03 pm

*not-so-subtly points to signature*

everconfused · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:20 am

Actually, if you have Spywareblaster, you can check something off there that will disable Flash content too. Problem is, if you're playing games or doing something else that needs the Flash, you'd be spending alot of time checking and unchecking the box to enable/disable. I believe IE has something too in Internet Tools. I know you can completely disable java in IE.

nacine82 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:05 pm

yeah i almost died when that one that the paper bounces around was going, i was like omg i have some weird virus lol took me awhile to figure that one out i was wiser with the fly one after that happened

VirtualMetal · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:28 pm

Oh my god. o_O

I got an add about enlarging something, and it was not a photocopy page.

CodenameSplinter · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:30 pm

I don't really pay attention to the ads. They don't bother me enough to look at them.

Flipsyde · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:23 am

Does anybody remember when Neopets said the ads at the bottom of the pages were only temporary and they are just testing it out? Yeah, I remember this clearly. How convenient of them to FORGET.

XenaAndGabrielle · **Posts:** 1225 **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:41 pm

CodenameSplinter wrote:

I don't really pay attention to the ads. They don't bother me enough to look at them.

I try not to look at them either ... but I just could not help but noticed that baby one. Ick.

VirtualMetal · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:43 am

Flipsyde wrote:

Does anybody remember when Neopets said the ads at the bottom of the pages were only temporary and they are just testing it out? Yeah, I remember this clearly. How convenient of them to FORGET.

Those are the worst. When I'm using netscape or mac ie it allways layers over what I'm trying to do... It's annoying.

Grundo · **Posts:** 33 **Joined:** Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:57 pm

Flipsyde wrote:

Does anybody remember when Neopets said the ads at the bottom of the pages were only temporary and they are just testing it out? Yeah, I remember this clearly. How convenient of them to FORGET.

Yeah, also the person who said they were bothered by the ads were the one who coded and picked which ads to put on the site. You would think a banner ad is enough revenue but apparently not, they had to add one more at the bottom(read somewhere a side one is in the work).

An established firm like Neopets could set up an advertising department or hire some ad personnel and look for advertisers related to kids/ gaming instead of rotating ads from notorius internet advertising firms which damage their image.

Pokemon Kid · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:16 pm

YO EWW!

VirtualMetal is not alone. >.<

shapu · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:26 pm

Here's another thoroughly un-good ad:

That's good for the kids to see. Right.

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