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Q about adverts...
Is it just me or have the banner ads here gotten worse lately?
I usually don't like to suppress banners from sites I like (so as to help support them) but I'm getting fed up with the decreasing quality of ads that you have been serving.
Particularly annoying are:
Ads that masquerade as dialogs
Ads that jitter or cycle colors more than once per second
Ads that masquerade as popup notifications from other programs
Ads that include a blatantly deceitful 'X' or "Cancel" button
Ads that give false warning of security risks
Ads that provide false information or advertise scam services
I mean, a banner ad is one thing, hell at UF I specifically click on the banner ads once a week to contribute, but having a banner that mimics a windows dialog box and telling me that I have 7 messages waiting, or a banner mimicing a microsoft outlook email notification, just annoys me.
Would you consider reevaluating your choice of sponsors?
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Yeah, and don't forget the Crappy Java Applets
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Well Opera takes care of the java and the popups nicely.
I can get rid of the banners too, but I would really rather not, considering that is what covers the bandwidth costs. But if the general direction the quality is going is maintained, they may get axed too.