Get rid of these @#$% "roll over" ads. (e.g., Crisco)

[arendt]

It comes up without a click, just by accidentally passing your mouse over it. If you roll over it again while trying to close it, it pops open a brand new window.

These things are intrusive crap. They are beyond obnoxious. Why do we have to put up with this shit?

Just askin.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. Where art these ads?

Never see em. Firefox Adblock?

[devils chaplain]

2. +1

I don't see 'em, either.

[Skink]

7. the crisco one is attached to this thread.

[backscatter712]

8. I suspect your computer has some sort of malware.

I don't see the ads you're talking about. Might want to run MalwareBytes just to check...

[GoCubsGo]

13. No. He lacks a star.

Those with stars, and who are logged in do not see any ads.

[TorchTheWitch]

30. those that use an adblocker don't see ads anywhere ever n/t

[Toucano]

3. I don't block ads, but I've never seen such a thing on DU.

I bet you can find a software solution, though.

[shraby]

4. If you have a star you won't see them.

[kestrel91316]

10. Some of us simply can't afford a star these days.

[DainBramaged]

25. DU still has angels......

:evilgrin:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x629064

[xfundy]

5. I think they help pay the bills.

But, yes, they are annoying as hell. I hope DU gets money when their disgusting popups come on.

l avoided Crisco for my entire life, till I moved back here to help in my parents' care. My pie crusts sucked. I finally gave in and bought some of that garbage, and my dad usually likes my pie crusts now. When he doesn't, he just eats everything but the crust.

And, anyway, I'm not sexually adventurous enough to use Crisco for any of its other reported uses.

[Warpy]

6. Have you seen those drop down ads?

They're the little banner at the top of the page that drop down and keep moving the page content before they roll back up, moving the page content again. You have to wait for the fucking things to cycle before you can read what you came to read.

They're just as bad. Asshole advertisers need to be up against the wall come the revolution, along with health care CEOs and other enabling vermin.

[Phentex]

12. along with any company that uses a phone tree of neverland...

press 1 to be taken to the incorrect department, press 2 if you don't have a touch tone phone, press 3 if you wish to be hung up on...

[Aerows]

14. You forgot...

...press 4 if you want to be put on perma-hold.

[Phentex]

15. with BAD music or an annoying ad...

for the company you are calling! Your call is VERY important to us.

UGH! Now I'm all worked up. : )

[NYC Liberal]

32. Heh:

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.

Seriously though, if you are, do.

Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?

"What didya do today honey?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" "Yeah, you know the mums will love it."

Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?

-Bill Hicks

[pulledpork]

9. Crisco makes olive oil?

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. She was cheating on Popeye?

That's bad news.

[pulledpork]

20. I'll pay you Tuesday

For a hamburger today.

Had to be with Bluto. :evilfrown:

[TheCowsCameHome]

28. One thing is for sure...

...the stork didn't bring Sweet Pea.

Somebody's been messin' around.

[Festivito]

16. I believe they are locking my browser in eternal processor wait.

iexplore takes up all the processing time.

[Hangingon]

17. Yes!

[hunter]

18. I've never seen a "roll over" ad.

I must be doing something right.

[tallahasseedem]

19. They're necessary for DU to pay the bills...

Maintaining a message board isn't cheap. Donating makes them go away.

[shanti]

21. there are a lot of these rollover ads on newspaper sites

like the sacramento bee, for instance. i detest these intrustive ads! :grr: another ad thing that pisses me off is where they are placed. oftentimes, they put the ad right where you would normally click for something else, but many times you accidentally get them. slick....and not in a good way.

[madokie]

22. If you can afford to get a star and turn them off

[Thunderstruck]

23. Whew! I thought I was the only one pissed off at that Crisco ad! Thing startled

the shit out of me a couple of times.

[Godhumor]

26. Yeah, they have been awful

Haven't minded ads so much in the past. But those are invasive as all hell.

[DainBramaged]

24. Now you can turn them off

:evilgrin:

[arendt]

27. You gave me a star! Thank you. n/t

[Biker13]

29. I Agree!

I'm on dial-up, to save money, and these adds drive me nuts! As it is, it takes forever for DU to load, and these ads make it so much worse!

Can't afford to donate, maybe next drive if we're lucky.

I hate having to wait for ages for pages to load. Can't the PTB at DU realize that some of us are just too broke to donate?

Biker's Old Lady

[TorchTheWitch]

31. why are you not blocking ads if they bother you?

Use an adblocker or block ads on DU since you have a donor star. What are you complaining for when you have the ability to not see these ads???

[Thunderstruck]

33. arendt didn't have a star when he made the OP. Someone has since gifted him one,

a very nice gesture.

[TorchTheWitch]

36. you don't require a star to block ads - just use an adblocker

It's simple.

Complaining about something you have the power to do something about easily and for free is just stupid. It's like voluntarily standing in the sun when you so easily don't have to and complaining the sun is baking your head.

[DainBramaged]

39. (sigh) He isn't stupid, and inferring he is is just wrong

some of us ENJOY helping others instead of bitching about the price....now he is also entitled to features he didn't have before, or isn't that important?


Never mind. Don't answer.

[Urban Prairie]

34. The ad agency that created that roll-over made it so irritating and intrusive

That many internet denizens will remember it, as intended, but may purchase another brand purely out of spite when they go grocery shopping.

Might even email the company informing them of my intentions to do just that, letting them know that their ad backfired and had exactly the opposite effect. Cursor-activated ads that block most or part of the page are becoming more numerous, ESPN also uses that technique when your cursor passes over the embed links of the least clicked/viewed portions of their website, such as NASCAR and Soccer. If I want to view those pages, then I would click on them, I don't want their unsolicited "help" to navigate their site, and no drop-down links-list that covers a portion of the page that I am viewing will ever change that.

[Biker13]

35. Good Advice!

I'm going to do that!

My computer is so old, I'm cautious about down-loading ANYTHING new. But I can make my voice heard to these advertisers!

Biker's Old Lady

[cliffordu]

37. Buying a nice star might help.

Mebbe not.

:shrug:

[ReggieVeggie]

38. I agree

And there's this popup ad over at wunderground.com that automatically loads with the page but the actual weather info will not load