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January 31st, 2011, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: New Springfield, OH
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There was a time when DS was highly discretionary about what advertisers they would work with and what ads were permitted to run. It was also required that ads be relevant to the audience. (I don't see any reason for running Lysol ads, unless of course, you actually have a Perl Cookbook in your kitchen!)
It would seem that those days are long gone. DS has sold out and thrown themselves to the dogs.
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January 31st, 2011, 02:30 PM
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Sarcky
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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Did you guys HEAR me defending the ads and then run this? I mean, really. I can't even see a PART of the thread, and the header is all stupid.
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January 31st, 2011, 08:16 PM
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Editor-in-Beef
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: South Florida
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Thanks for reporting these. I'll pass them along.
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February 1st, 2011, 08:38 AM
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Sarcky
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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I think you know what I think already...
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February 2nd, 2011, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: New Springfield, OH
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February 2nd, 2011, 12:07 PM
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Editor-in-Beef
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: South Florida
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Sorry guys, we're working on removing them now. Thanks for reporting them.
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February 2nd, 2011, 12:31 PM
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'fie' on me, allege-dly
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: in da kitchen ...
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James, I know you're caught in the firing line, but it seems a bit cheeky to expect us to go on reporting the baddies, while DevShed makes money, and infuriates the regular members. Surely, it's in ZDE/Devshed's interests to QA the ad's before they cause regulars to have a sh!tfit, and drive people away.
BTW If it wasn't for subscription to threads, I wouldn't be here at all, and I'm sure there's a lot more like me...
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February 2nd, 2011, 12:49 PM
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Contributing User
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Katy, Texas
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Dueling adverts. Annoyance with a reverb.
I'll check back in a month. If not gone, I'll be gone.
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February 2nd, 2011, 01:25 PM
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Sarcky
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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Really now... Quote: | Originally Posted by IM Conversation (01:19:00 PM) ManiacDan: devshed video ads are now playing two at a time, without being able to ****ing mute them
(01:19:29 PM) Requinix: yep. can't browse at work with the computer unmuted anymore
(01:19:45 PM) Requinix: and chrome's adblock only hides the ads - doesn't prevent them from loading
(01:19:52 PM) Requinix: (as far as I've heard)
(01:19:58 PM) ManiacDan: I'm honestly considering write a PHP spider that fetches devshed content for me and strips out everything but the actual posts...then I realize I don't care enough about the community to do that
(01:20:04 PM) ManiacDan: true
(01:20:08 PM) Requinix: what about the rss feeds?
(01:20:14 PM) ManiacDan: still takes me to the posts
(01:20:18 PM) ManiacDan: the POSTS are running 2 ads at a time now
(01:20:21 PM) ManiacDan: not just the landing page
(01:21:44 PM) Requinix: no rss on the threads themselves?
(01:21:52 PM) ManiacDan: I want to reply
(01:23:24 PM) Requinix: so I'm looking at a thread. I think "well, probably not that bad. I'll unmute and find out"
(01:23:26 PM) Requinix: unmute
(01:23:29 PM) Requinix: hear a ****ing ad
(01:23:34 PM) Requinix: remute |
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February 2nd, 2011, 01:26 PM
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Still alive
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Washington, USA
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Sigh.
[edit]
So AdBlock on Chrome is awesome. You can block HTML by using CSS selectors, and apparently it doesn't just hide it - prevents it from loading and such too.
Last I knew (at least a year ago) Firefox's AdBlock only did URLs but that could be different now.
I'm still searching for stuff to block, but so far:
Code:
forums.devshed.com##IFRAME[src="about:blank"]
forums.devshed.com##IFRAME[src^="http://ad.doubleclick.net/"]
forums.devshed.com##A[name="top"]+DIV+TABLE TD[align="center"] TABLE
forums.devshed.com##A[name="latest_threads_table"]+TABLE+BR+TABLE+BR+TABLE+BR+TABLE
forums.devshed.com##A[name="latest_threads_table"]+TABLE TD[width="25%"]
forums.devshed.com##DIV.navbar+STYLE+STYLE+TABLE
forums.devshed.com##DIV.navbar2+STYLE+STYLE+TABLE
forums.devshed.com##FORM[action="newreply.php"]+BR+SCRIPT+TABLE+BR+BR+TABLE+BR+TABLE
forums.devshed.com##TD.navbar TABLE
forums.devshed.com##BODY>TABLE[width="100%"] TABLE+TABLE+BR+TABLE
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February 2nd, 2011, 01:28 PM
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Sarcky
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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I got 2 mucinex ads side-by-side earlier. They didn't load at the same time, so not only was I forced to listen to a talking ball of MUCOUS for 45 seconds, but he was echoing himself.
Even if you CAN mute them (which, on some, you cannot), forcing us to scroll 800px past the end of the content to do so is stupid.
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February 2nd, 2011, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: New Springfield, OH
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Lysol and mucus are perfectly normal ads on a technology site. 
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February 2nd, 2011, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: New Springfield, OH
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I have a solution for those who want to browse at work again. PM me for details.
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February 2nd, 2011, 03:52 PM
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Editor-in-Beef
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: South Florida
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Hi,
I agree with you - I would never expect that to be you guys' job. If you see an annoying ad and want to report it, its appreciated, if not, I completely understand that too.
The audio ads aren't supposed to make it onto our network, and we just started a new program where we can start to filter out the ads better. Hopefully we can work out the kinks on it sooner than later.
We are on top of the audio situation and some of the more overtly "unrelated" ads. Should be gone soon.
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February 2nd, 2011, 06:37 PM
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Gotta get to the next screen..
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Legion of Dynamic Discord
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Hi, the method I use prevents all the videos from loading. I do get an occasional static advert every now and then but that tends to be because I've fallen behind in keeping my hosts file updated.
I use the MVPS Hosts File with a minor adjustment so I can still use the video player on the BBC website.
It doesn't do any hiding or whatnot, it just stops prevents connections with the specified hosts.
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