these forums have lots of ads

[mkoryak]

do people live with the crazy amounts of ads on this site?

[SuperKoko]

You'd rather post on the feedback forum.

do people live with the crazy amounts of ads on this site?

They live or they leave.
Recently, an additionnal annoyance has been added at the top of every page.
It's sad to see that codeguru slowly becomes harder and harder to live with.

[goatslayer]

I've only been here a short time, but haven't really noticed, which means personally I can live with them.

At least they aren't those adds where if your mouse clumsily points over it it expands over half of your screen! - those are the worse ads. And those popups that don't open in new windows are pretty bad too.

[RaleTheBlade]

At least they aren't those adds where if your mouse clumsily points over it it expands over half of your screen! - those are the worse ads. And those popups that don't open in new windows are pretty bad too.

Agreed, or the ones that start talking to you. I hate those, if I wanted my computer to speak to me, Id bust out narrator and amuse myself with its incredible ability to say words that don't even exist.

[JVene]

My primary problem is with the streaming video commercials.

They should ask if I'm able to devote the throughput to them.

I open maybe 6 tabs in Firefox - throughput nearly stops on the web traffic because a video is on each page.

[SuperKoko]

@JVene: If you use FF, you can download ads-blocking extensions.
You can also download an extension that prevents flash animations from playing until you activate the plug-in explicitly by clicking on the box.

Or, you can simply disable flash animations. They're mostly used for ads.

[mkoryak]

if you have a firefox plugin called stylish, you can use this style to remove nearly all the ads

I just made this yesterday, and it blocks some other stuff too, like post times, ill probably need a few more iterations with this style before everything is blocked perfectly


-- begin cut here ---

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("codeguru.com") {
/*
blocks annoying stuff on the codeguru forums
as a side effect also blocks some other content, i need to see
if this content is important enough to unblock.
by koryakm
*/
embed, iframe, .rss_box, .forums_box, #collapseobj_forumrules, center table, td[bgcolor="#f1f1f1"], a[href="http://www.codeguru.com/"], td.vbmenu_control, a[href="http://www.codeguru.com"], body center {
display: none !important;
}

tbody tr td span {
display:none ;

}
span.navbar {
display:inline;
}
}

[Mitsukai]

i got noscript, and adblock plus but im thinking of removing adblock plus it doesnt seem to work 100% that stylish think is looking good. then i could have some fun making ad remove myselve for sites that i allow noscript for

[PeejAvery]

Blocking ads is against the Acceptable Use Policy of CodeGuru and will be punished by banning. Do not mention blocking ads.

[boudino]

Maybe, but the ads should not prevent users from using CG. They significantly decreases the performance, I think. Especialy the topmost toolbar, which is not exactly ads, but annoy me a lot.

Does anybody else have similar experience?

[SuperKoko]

Blocking ads is against the Acceptable Use Policy of CodeGuru and will be punished by banning. Do not mention blocking ads.

Where is it written?
The only statement regarding ads I see is about not posting ads.

BTW: Is it forbidden not to install the Flash plug-in or to have a browser that doesn't "support" Flash, or supports it in an alternative way (e.g. require a user action to play the animation)?

[PeejAvery]

...bypass or modify the features of the forum software at any Jupitermedia site.

As per Brad...the forums are an intricate part of CodeGuru. Attempting to block ads is a "bypass" of these features.

[mkoryak]

my style blocks much more then ads, it also blocks some other parts of the site... so perhaps i am accidentally blocking the ads? ah crap... oh well.

[RaleTheBlade]

The ads are blocked on my PC at work for various reasons to do with server authentication and possible malicious flash or ActiveX programs. Nothing I can do about that.

And isn't forcing us to see the ads like forcing us to see TV commercials we don't wanna see? If we don't want these ads on our PC's filling our drive space with tracking cookies, we should be allowed to block them.

I suppose the servers here at work do us that favor as a side effect to the real problems.

[dglienna]

I see an IP address being killed off...