MK
If I read Mr Growler correctly, the point is not "why can't I get free stuff without the adverts that fund it?" but "why do these people think that advertising in such an annoying way is MORE likely to make me buy their cars?". By all means put an eye catching picture of your new car, complete with a link to you (hopefully fully functional) website, NEXT to the article I'm trying to access for free. But not over the top of the article.
If I read Mr Growler incorrectly, I aoplogise for misrepresenting his views.
GJD
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Thank you GJD, you have grasped my point impeccably. The DT offered itself to me free, I didn't ask for it, and presumably it has no problem with that. When it doesn't and does a Sunday Times number then I and countless others across the globe will doubtless stop reading it. All newspapers carry adverts, I have no problem with that. But it is I and not some techno-jerk who can do fancy things with ads on websites, who will determine what I read and when I read it. This particularly applies to adverts, which may request my attention all they wish, but have no right to demand it. This is the guts of my gripe or the gripe in my guts, or...whatever.......
Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.
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Not about motoring, sorry. But those of you who are plauged with junk mail might like to consider regsitering with the "Mail Preference Service".
www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/html/default.asp
There are similar sections on the site for a "Telephone Preference Service" and "Fax Preference Service".
Hope this helps someone,
Kind regards,
Cyrill666
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plauged, Huh?
regsitering? What?
Plagued and registering respectively, sorry!
The worrying thing is that I proof read the message... It's Friday afternoon, that's my excuse.
Kind regards,
Cyrill666
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Easily done Cyrill
I offered to aoplogise to Growler before. I proof-read it too but I knew what I meant to say so I didn't spot it at the time.
GDJ
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I see I only got away with P*** for a short while and C*** always appears thus.
To keep this motoring-oriented, may I ask the following question (see joke about the blonde with the Jag): if I can't say c*** in the carburetor can I said Faeces? And since everyone knows what the asterisk-ed words mean, what pray, is the point?
I mean I don't care but I'm kind of a logical guy.
(That last statement is to allow a Moderator to save face by providing a potential opening for rapier-like reasoning in response :-)).
Today I saw my best bumper sticker in a very long time:
"For Feminine Protection Nothing Beats Smith & Wesson".
That's almost as good as "Guns Don't Kill People. I Do."
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You reminded me: "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces". Not sure if it's a bumper sticker though.
Agree with you about the asterisks. I assume they're there to protect minors, but it's only going to arouse their curiosity, surely? And what would they be doing here anyway..?
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An ancient innocent asks, how many four letter words are there beginning with "C", and how can a computer programme KNOW what badness was intended when only one letter is shown to it....?
(We are back to thw winter feeding season of coal, blue, great and long-tailed tits, by the way.)
I don't think we can expect total consistency.
Tomo
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All the minors I know are well aware these days of what it's all about by the time they've grown too old for the Nickleodeon Channel.
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Hi,
This is in response to an old thread I found after running a search.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what the best anti-pop up software there is available for free? All I'll say about them is that although I end up remembering the names, I get so wound up by them slowing down my connection (which can get slow when the Uni network is bogged down) and jumping into view when Im reading, that my first response is to close them! Last night, I didn't - just minimised each one. 35 explorer windows open after a couple of hours of browsing.
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www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html
Look for the FREE one.
Hey! and don,t tell any one that I told you.
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Or use the Mozilla browser which has built-in anti-popup software.
www.mozilla.org
Chris
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I use Panicware Pop up Stopper as described in a previous post, but it doesn?t stop the infernal video adverts that ?crawl? all over the screen, rather than pop-up.
They refuse to die, and you have to sit watching them until eventually, the ?close window? icon appears and you can send them in to oblivion.
Unfortunately, on many web sites, they appear to be triggered by certain common events, so within a few seconds, you?re waiting to kill another one.
Even when you get used to the advert, and know where the ?close window? icon is going to appear, pressing it early has no effect. Rrrrrrrrrgh!
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Opera (www.opera.com) is, in my opinion, a much better browser to use, and it kills pop-ups too. OK, so if you use the adware version you have to put up with ads, but at least you can configure it to show ads for things that you might be interested in.
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i started using opera because of that. I like the setting only show user requested popups. I've found some popup stoppers prevent normal sub windows opening
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A useful piece of sopftware called historykiller gets rid of pop ups, cookies and all the other nasties that jump onto your hard disc. I was amazed to find that it also reduced the total number of files from something like 250,000 to 75,000 or so, which means that most of the stuff on my hard disc was total crap. No use for anyone who wants to used their history files, of course.
HJ
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