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...DAmn...; spies all over the place!
Topic Started: August 16, 2008, 9:16 pm (223 Views)
Blue Phoenix
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someone (either lasher or Sargas, i think) recently spoke about not finding quite so many {cookies?} on our board as on his.


i've been watching the advertisements we've been getting...

now, i expected to get sci-fi advertisements, because i qualified us as a sci-fi board... but in a Doctor Who thread, i'm getting Doctor Who advertising, and in the Voltron thread, i'm getting Voltron links... that can't be merely by chance.

in a way, that's very smart of the Zetaboard owner(s) to target their advertising where it will catch the most attention, but DAMN i'm feeling really spied upon.


has anyone else been watching this?
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Cyrex Wingblade
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It's pretty much been every webpage I've been to in the last year or so now. They link up key words on the page with key-words for advertizing links.

Mention Darth Vader, James Bond, or Batman and you'll start seeing targeted adds.
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another reason I'm glad I use Firefox. I see no adds :)
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GC Rust
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No, there's still adds on Firefox. They're just at the top and bottom of a page.

Really, Pop Ups are kinda last decade. I rarely ever get that "Firefox has blocked a Popup" message anymore.
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Blue Phoenix
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true, pop-ups are so hated, the posters would leave the site that forces them on their viewers. but until i start paying for the board, we'll be seeing the advertising banner space on the top and bottom of the threads.

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Sorry Rust, but I have NO add at all. Not at the top or bottom.
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Yeah, the Invasionfree boards do the same thing. It's funny sometimes to see what adds show up.
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Blue Phoenix
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truedat, it's a real eye-opener.

LS? how come you don't see ANY ads at all? you don't even see the blank placeholder windows?
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Nope, its all because I use the FireFox browser, with the Adblock plus addon.
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and blocks inline videos >:-)

No, seriously, I've heard only good things about firefox, but I'm lazy and IE works fine.
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not all videos, I see them on other sites including Youtube. I don't know why its not working down in the Dr. Who thread.
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i'd like to have the YouTube videos right on the board, but it doesn't work well if the posters can't see them.

anyone else having that problem?

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i'm using FF v3 and i'm with LightSlayer, no ads here
and i do see the vids posted (altho for me, most things take forever to load anyways since i have no choice, i'm still on dial up V_V)
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January 31, 2009, 8:12 pm
(altho for me, most things take forever to load anyways since i have no choice, i'm still on dial up V_V)
56k DEMON!

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lol I didn't think they still offered dial up.
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i litteralty live out in the woods, short of satilite,
all you can get is dail up - and even w/a 56k modem, best i can
connect is 24k
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i remember those days. i also remember when i was too poor to BUY 56k service from any local company, and had to go through free places like Kmart's bluelight or whatever it was called, and watch their annoying advertisements in order to get to the net. That absolutely sucked, but it was better than being alone in the dark without my internet friends... **anguish**

i feel your pain, Nem!

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Advertisements? Heh, I didn't even know we had advertisements. Much like LS and Bad Wolf, firefox is my friend and apparently keeps the ads away too!

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Blue Phoenix
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yeah, but not everybody has that. :p so i paid for no-ads!

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