Dumbest ad EVER!

[Calum]

quote:Gooseberry Clock:
AntiAdBlocker

when will you learn that one word replies which are some irrelevant link will only make people irritated? nevermind.

 

quote:Zombie46273462:
(like my new firewall..it blocks ads and pop-up windows)

yeah, i hate it when windows pops up like that, never mind, now that more people are using linux than ever before, windows is popping up less and less!  

 

quote:Sadly enough, alot of those ad banners you see implant a spyware cookie in your system(so it can gather info about your likes to send to the ad companies so they can popup ads that will interest you). That is invasion of privacy...screw that anti-ad blocker.

sadly enough windows hides some of these files from you and protects others. Of course you have complete control over all your files if you own a *nix system, but that's another matter.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
sadly enough windows hides some of these files from you and protects others. Of course you have complete control over all your files if you own a *nix system, but that's another matter.

If a person wanted to they can block most cookies or they can block all cookies with the greatest of ease. Oh yeah, the Cookies folder is not hidden, get your facts straight buddy. ;P

I can block cookies from certain sites(the sites I choose) using my firewall..so the spyware cookies are not an issue for me. I don't rely on a browser to do the ad blocking, cookie blocking or site blocking, I do it all from my firewall so the config will work with every browser I use...not just one browser.      

 

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
yeah, i hate it when windows pops up like that, never mind, now that more people are using linux than ever before, windows is popping up less and less!

Shit, the total Linux user base(users of all distros combined) doesn't even make a pimple on the Windows user base's ass.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

[Gooseberry Clock]

Have any of you actually tried AntiAdBlocker? 'cos you should. Then post on his forums and tell him what you think.

[Master of Reality]

you are a fucking retard. antiadbliocker doenst work at all. The ads are still fucking blocked when i go to the sites using antiadblocker. and why the fuck would people talking about blocking ads want to make it so they cant block ads!!! That has got to be one of the most retarded things i have ever heard. go to hell, go to hell and die.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
 Oh yeah, the Cookies folder is not hidden, get your facts straight buddy. ;P

i didn't say the folder was hidden, 'buddy'...

 

quote:Shit, the total Linux user base(users of all distros combined) doesn't even make a pimple on the Windows user base's ass.

And you get your figures from... where? linux does not have a market share because it is not marketted. If 90% of the world used linux and BSD, then windows would still have 90% of the market share and apple macintosh would have most of what was left, because free software can multiply as fast as bacteria and never go accounted for on any forms or lists.

[Gooseberry Clock]

OK, let me break it down for you:

1. Go to http://www.vg-network.com/
2. Click on a download (emudl.phtml)
3. It should say "Testing, please wait... Don't close or refresh this window!"
4. If you see the file's details, then "congratulations, you're not blocking ads". If "We've determined you're using popup blocking software", then what is your course of action?

[Calum]

pat yourself on the back for successfully blocking ads?

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Blob:
3. It should say "Testing, please wait... Don't close or refresh this window!"

Mine says:

 

quote:Testing, please wait... Don't close or refresh this window!

Your browser doesn't support JavaScript, which is required on this site.


Please turn on or unblock JavaScript in order to use this site. To turn on JavaScript in IE: Tools Menu->Internet Options->Security Tab->Custom Level->Scripting->Active Scripting->Enabled. Once JavaScript is turned on, try again. (error: 3.2)

My course of action? Stay away from this particular site!

[Zombie9920]

LINK TO IMAGE!!!!! (COME ON ZOMBIE426746238, BE A SPORT!)
[EDIT - It wasn't all that huge actually, i just thought the image quotient here was getting a bit high]

Well, it looks like Anti-Ad Blocker doesn't unblock ads when the blocking is done at firewall level. Sadly, admins who can't unblock your ads can just redirect you to crap saying you can't block thier ads and download from them. Oh well, it isn't like there aren't thousands of other places to download most of the stuff I download anyways. If admins choose to cram ads down my throat I simply won't visit thier site.

I prefer getting files via FTP or IRC anyways. ;P

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[Chooco]

yeah i've had that...... i was about to post in a forum how stupid it was then i wasn't really sure if everybody broadcasted an IP (like when all ports are stealthed by firewall)

[slave]

Just go to the public library or something and post it from there  

[slave]

quote:Originally posted by * Red Ranger Software * / Blob:
OK, let me break it down for you:

1. Go to http://www.vg-network.com/
2. Click on a download (emudl.phtml)
3. It should say "Testing, please wait... Don't close or refresh this window!"
4. If you see the file's details, then "congratulations, you're not blocking ads". If "We've determined you're using popup blocking software", then what is your course of action?

Gods, you're stupid.  All I had to do to bypass the stinking "AntiAdBlocker

[Master of Reality]

nice one XP Luser.

 

quote:Originally posted by * Red Ranger Software * / Blob:
OK, let me break it down for you:

1. Go to http://www.vg-network.com/
2. Click on a download (emudl.phtml)
3. It should say "Testing, please wait... Don't close or refresh this window!"
4. If you see the file's details, then "congratulations, you're not blocking ads". If "We've determined you're using popup blocking software", then what is your course of action?

i got in fine... and two ads on the site are blocked (so is the counter).

need proof? according to the site:
 

quote:Visual Boy Advance Goes Open Source
Visual Boy Advance, currently one of the best Gameboy/Gameboy Advance emulators for Windows, Linux, and BeOS has gone open source under GNU; and been submitted to SourceForge.

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
nice one XP Luser.

 

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

Go to  http://www.vg-network.com/emudl.phtml for tha stupid ad-blocker test. I can get into the main page(the news section) of the site just fine with ad-blocking. BTW, I trie that ad blocker test with my firewalls ad blockig disabled but with a modified HOSTS file(I have alot of ad sites blocked in the HOSTS file) and it works just fine.  

[foobar]

ok. tell me, that when you have a proxy or browser (opera) that can block ads, what do you need an anti-ad program for?
Isn't that just for browsers like IE 5, which can't block ads by them stupid selves? (I dunno shite about something beyound IE 5, so I'm not sure.)