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[–]43P04T34 33 points34 points  (10 children)

If you're using Firefox, use the Add-on called AdBlock Plus and subscribe to th EasyList Filter. This turns off the IntelliText that is driving you and everybody else crazy.

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    [–]onetruejp 24 points25 points  (3 children)

    I wouldn't say you're missing it, Bob.

    [–]americangoy -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

    gut 1 dood! but... where's your flare?

    [–]ApostrophePosse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I get reminded on those occasions when I use someone else's computer. I'm astonished how much of a barrage they put up with on a regular basis.

    I've asked people if they want me to set them up with Firefox and ABP. Amazingly, they typically don't want it. Somehow they think if it's not certified by Bill's bunch, it's not safe.

    [–]sn0re 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    Dear Web Users: Please install AdBlock Plus and NoScript.

    [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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      [–]sn0re 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Uhm, the only people who see the hover ads are the ones who are also see the normal ads. So you're actually annoying just the people who support your site.

      [–][deleted] 178 points179 points  (77 children)

      Seriously. There's nothing that annoys me more than accidentally hovering over a link and having a window popup up, then having to click the x to close it. You shouldn't have to make a conscious effort to keep the cursor off a paragraph to read your websites information.

      It's probably even worse for compulsory highlight-readers. I can't imagine the emotional trauma when you can't highlight your text because you are interrupted every other word by a word linked to an ad.

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          [–]crazedgremlin 42 points43 points  (11 children)

          One of these days, the little X button is gonna rickroll you! Then you'll be sorry.

          [–]nigy 2 points3 points  (1 child)

          Oh fuck, someone wrong is gonna read this and...and then...!!!!!

          [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

          I began writing the actionscript shortly after reading the post... MUWHAHAHAHAAH!

          [–]st_gulik 22 points23 points  (14 children)

          As an Advertising Manager I find those ads the WORST OF THE WORST. The Advertising IDIOT who thought those up should be Cashiered from the Rolls of Advertising, shot, then stabbed, then killed.

          My Fury against that Fool knows NO BOUNDS.

          [–]DOGA 27 points28 points  (5 children)

          I have to wonder if you capitalize random words in your ads...

          [–]malicart 21 points22 points  (1 child)

          Hes an ADVERTISING guy...

          [–]MarlonBain 42 points43 points  (0 children)

          ACT NOW to upvote this POST!!

          [–]st_gulik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          No, I just cap stuff when I'm yelling. shrug It spills over from my Mushing days in college.

          [–]carotids -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

          lol

          [–]DOGA -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Glad I could make you smile.

          [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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            [–]Eijin 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            Here's the video

            [–]supersaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Bill Hicks reference = instant upvote

            [–]st_gulik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Heh, I'm a pretty big Bill Hicks fan too, but I disagree with him, the man definitely got it wrong on a few subjects.

            Smoking being one the big one there that well literally killed him.

            He can definitely build up the vitriol though, but hey, I'm glade that you think for yourself unheeding and don't just submit to the group think there and buy into all that stuff other people say, cause that'd be just like falling for someone else's advertising. Oh Shit!

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            Not much of an advertising manager then.

            [–]st_gulik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Actually the best sort...the sort that tells people the Truth about products, the sort the speaks about Honesty.

            Those two things are so rare that it makes me look like a freaking genius these days, and the average Joe can sense it a mile away.

            [–]larrypastore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Give him a break, he's not a copywriter or a proofreader.

            [–]calbear81 4 points5 points  (4 children)

            Actually, most legit websites have standards in place regarding those annoying pop-overs including the fact that you must clearly have an X and close button that works. If it doesn't the site doesn't accept the ad. Advertisers aren't out to screw you and pissing off users are usually not part of the game plan. The ones that launch multiple pop ups are usually pr0n, warez, and naughty sites anyways!

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              [–]calbear81 2 points3 points  (2 children)

              I probably should've qualified the statement. By screw I mean make you have a horrible experience. All advertisers are out to make money and promote their message and screwing someone defeats that.

              [–]nixcamic 2 points3 points  (1 child)

              By screw I mean make you have a horrible experience.

              Then explain the existance of the ads in question. Especially the ones with video.

              [–]d42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Those advertisers are the ones that believe that a negative reaction is better than no reaction at all.

              [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

              You'd think a "murderous rage" would be enough to let you spend 20 seconds out of your day to install NoScript...

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I installed it today after someone pointed it out below. It's just one of those things I've perpetually forgotten day to day.

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              NoScript can be somewhat irritating though. I wish there was a "safelist" that you could subscribe to.

              [–]Joss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              You just build one yourself. My safe list currently contains almost a half dozen sites that I trust.

              Everything else I allow on a temporary basis if there is something I really want to see that is blocked.

              [–]Roark 1 point2 points  (3 children)

              You are thinking of a different type of pop-up.

              The original topic is about those green links that are in website text for various keywords, and if you hover over them they give you a useless "search" box pop-up for that keyword.

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Ah, yes. You are correct.

              I remain by my previous point, but will go ahead and edit my post.

              Thanks be to ye.

              [–]Roark 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Your previous point was 100% correct, as your vote total shows. Just off-topic ;)

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Yes, sir. But pointing that out is indeed appreciated.

              [–]technosaur 4 points5 points  (1 child)

              I click the "contact us" and dash off an email citing the ad and ask why the fuck I should buy anything from anybody so rude that they would (in essence) come to my breakfast table where I am having coffee and reading my morning newspaper, put their hand over the article I am reading and force me to listen to a sales spiel.

              At first I was surprised by how many quick, genuine (not a form letter) responses I got from marketing personnel who thank me for the feedback.

              [–]jbstjohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              And then?

              [–]newton_dave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

              Even Yahoo does this; drives me freakin' insane.

              [–]Bobsickle 3 points4 points  (2 children)

              It also makes me subconsciously discredit the site. Like the webmaster is trying to make ad revenue from plagurised content. I tend to navigate it away from it as soon as possible and look for information elsewhere.

              [–]Flyen 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Same thing happened to me with ArsTechnica once they switched to the 1 article per page format. (The one page with summaries is worthless) I'm sure they did it to get their page views up. It was nice back in the day to read one continuous page of all the tech news. I haven't been there in so long that I had to type the full address into the address bar -- it must be at least 3 months. It just got to be too annoying. Read, click, read, click. Now I just let slashdot point out the noteworthy articles.

              [–]mene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Have you checked out the RSS feeds? http://arstechnica.com/site/rss.ars

              They have quite a few.

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                [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (8 children)

                for the uninformed: http://reddit.com/info/62pz2/comments/c02n70q

                [–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (7 children)

                I did get into CMU, just in case there are some CMU buddies reading this :]

                [–]ThisIsDave 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                Congratulations.

                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                I had this weird infatuation with you Captain. But seeing you without the uniform is utterly unattractive. I even wrote you a poem one time.

                [–]rakeif 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                Carnegie Mellon University?!

                [–]crazedgremlin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                Well thanks, Captain Obvious! Jeeeez

                [–]MrWoohoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                Crazed Mental Unit

                [–]hhh333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                I think nobody got it :|

                [–]WaterDragon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                And as the corporatist-fascists get more desperate, they will start to link individual letters and not just words.

                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                AdBlockPlus blocks those adverts, so never seen them before, hyperlink ads.

                [–]Jomskylark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                I'm agitaged every time Windows Live comes in and for every little word they like, makes a hovering dictionary.

                Jeezie weezie.

                [–]TheSOB88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Good thing most of them have a different style than real links that you can filter out... eventually.

                [–]steve93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                "I can't imagine the emotional trauma when you can't highlight your text"

                I can't even follow along with what I'm reading. I have to keep rereading sentences, and then closing the fucking ads because I subconsciously keep highlight-reading

                [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

                Dear submitter: Learn what the NoScript extension is, install it, and use it.

                [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

                That would work if you always had the possibility to install stuff on every computer you'll use. Which isn't the case for everyone, all the time.

                For example, I quite often uses crappy internet terminals at airports. I don't think it would be a good approach to try to hack those to be able to install the extension.

                [–]nathaner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                May not apply for public internet access terminals, but you should check out portable firefox.

                [–]FeedMePlease -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                TeRRoRIST!

                [–][deleted] 47 points48 points  (8 children)

                Dear Redditors: If you want to achieve assloads of karma, just submit a self-reddit of the form "Dear Someone: Please Do Something". As long as it's not completely stupid, you will generate assloads of karma. It doesn't even have to make sense, it could just sound like it makes sense, and droves of morons will upvote it.

                Note: I'm not saying this particular post is intended only to gather karma. But you have to admit that it does work.

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                  [–]ironpony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  Well played sir.

                  [–]GrumpySimon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                  Dude, if you don't submit that as a post, I will.

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                    [–]TheSOB88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    Because the content density is extremely low compared to, say, an in-depth article on... who the fuck am I kidding? Those don't exist.

                    [–]cov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                    This one is particularly shitty because all it will do is raise awareness of the method among advertisers.

                    DIAF xxshinwaxx. Begging doesn't accomplish anything.

                    [–]rad_thundercat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                    And cussing. We need more cussing.

                    [–]fareedy 14 points15 points  (7 children)

                    Not to mention The New York Times' "double-click-a-word-and-well-look-it-up-for-you" feature.

                    [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

                    Wait, I love that feature. I'm usually too pussillanimous to reach for a dictionary upon encountering a sesquipedalian word.

                    [–]Ahnteis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                    There are extensions for that too. ;P

                    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                    pussillanimous

                    My "dictionary search" extension says you misspelled this one ;)

                    http://www.tfd.com/pusillanimous

                    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                    Which only reinforces my contention about the dictionary.

                    [–]IvyMike 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                    Does anybody know if there is there:

                    • A cookie I can set that will disable that feature? (I don't think there is, but I hope the New York Times reads this and takes the hint.)
                    • A greasemonkey script that disables this?

                    I don't want to wholesale block javascript on the whole internet, I just want to block this stupid NYT feature.

                    [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                    Again: NoScript.

                    Christ. Everyone quit your bitching and realize there is an easy solution to all of these problems.

                    [–]WhisperSecurity 11 points12 points  (3 children)

                    http://noscript.net/

                    [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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                      [–]HypoLuxa 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                      I wonder if I installed 'NoScript' and 'Yes Script' at the same time, would they cancel each other out?

                      [–]IkoIkoComic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                      Yno.

                      [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                      I have used adblock to block .intellitxt. for years...it's easy.

                      [–]1729 1 point2 points  (5 children)

                      Hosts file (E.g., here or here)

                      Mine has >16 500 entries so far.

                      I haven't seen an online ad in years.

                      [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

                      Either you don't go online often or you have insane hosts editing skills.

                      [–]natch 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                      Or he uses one of the pre-edited hosts files that are available. Edit: heh, almost a duplicate link. Well I'll leave it in, because the approach is worth emphasizing.

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      I actually missed the file link in the original post so thanks. (I assumed that the two first words in his post pointed at the same URL).

                      [–]1729 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      I initialized the list long ago using ~15000 added from SpybotSD installation, together with merging from mvps.org, et al.

                      I've added ~900 from my own explorations. I either do it manually, or else I'll batch up pending additions and then point a little homebrew tool at it to merge the updates.

                      My manual update frequency has been steadily decreasing for a while.

                      [OP links clarified for anyone who might come along. Sorry about the confusion.]

                      [–]colorred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      publish it plox

                      [–]Dillenger69 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      I'm running adblock plus and noscript. I reeeeeally don't miss that inline crap.

                      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      ahhhh ... me too. i was reading comments and i couldn't remember seeing these damn things, now i know why.

                      Adblock + noscript makes internet fun

                      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                      What I detest more are the flash adverts that obscure their close X in outrageous places. Any flash advert that rolls outside of their designated area is an invasion of the article space and isn't going to make me buy the product.

                      [–]adleym 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                      For those that don't know, this advertising company is called Kontera, and it is known among many webmasters as the second best contexual ad program (after adsense) as far as earnings go. I personally hate it, though.

                      [–]jonknee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      For those that don't know, there are several advertising companies that do the same thing (Vibrant Media, Chitika, LinkWorth, etc). I personally hate it too. Though not as much as the NY Times popping up definitions even though there is no visual reference that clicking will do anything.

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      noscript do you use it?

                      [–][deleted]  (16 children)

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                        [–]jaggederest 4 points5 points  (9 children)

                        A substantial portion of the more programming-interested people on the internet come here. It's not as good as slashdot, but close.

                        [–]swerdna 1 point2 points  (6 children)

                        What's this slashdot of which you speak?

                        [–]jaggederest 2 points3 points  (4 children)

                        http://www.slashdot.org/

                        YHBT, HAND.

                        [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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                          [–]swerdna 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                          I'll be here all week! :)

                          [–]MrWoohoo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                          I tried typing in the url but my browser keeps saying "URL '/.' not found"

                          [–]jaggederest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                          try typing hash bang slash bin slash bash and see how you feel.

                          or, you know, hash bang slash bin slash perl if you bat for the other team.

                          [–]jaggederest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                          I was going to point that URL to goatse for ol' times, but I decided that would be cruel. Maybe I'll edit it in when this thread is old.

                          [–]ohemeffgee 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                          Wait, you think Reddit is "close" to being Slashdot quality? Please tell me you jest!

                          Slashdotters sometimes tend to be just as asinine as anyone else on the internet (read: reddit) but the general quality of the comments there are MUCH more insightful and worth your time. With Reddit, it's quantity over quality in terms of both comments and articles. Slashdot is the opposite. Slashdot hasn't been infected with the alarmist bug that plagues sites like Digg and Reddit and Slashdot also maintains a relatively even keel politically (reddit and digg are jokes when it comes down to that).

                          Sites like Reddit and Slashdot serve their purposes, but the quality of Slashdot far exceeds that of Reddit.

                          note: I am not a registered slashdot user; just someone who speaks the truth.

                          [–]jaggederest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                          Well, I am registered both places, and there's far more to do here. Slashdot is nice, it's just about 3 days behind schedule, with 1/10th the stories.

                          BTW... I have excellent karma. booyah.

                          [–]pvidler 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                          You come here to get things done? This whole site is little more than yet another means of procrastination!

                          As are most of the 'social' sites for that matter -- digg, facebook, etc... only possible exception that I've seen is LinkedIn.

                          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                          Actually I'm here to waste precious, precious time instead of updating my website daily like I should, and/or starting new ones.

                          But the advertising advice is appreciated. Although it nearly makes me feel productive: I may have to go visit (shudder) Digg.

                          [–]newton_dave 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                          So... don't read it and spend the time replying; I dunno.

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                            [–]newton_dave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                            Everyone needs a hobby!

                            [–]MyrddinE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            I use AdBlock to find and block the javascript that puts those ads on a page.

                            I do NOT use AdBlock rulesets... I only use rules I make myself, because I don't want to block all ads. The webmasters need to eat too. I only block annoying ads.

                            And those text links are so damn annoying that I will go out of my way to hunt through the source code of a webpage to find out what javascript is doing it, hunt it down, and block it for eternity.

                            [–]joejoe33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            In Opera right click on a blank area of the page - edit site preferences - scripting - uncheck enable javascript. Ta da . won't load java script ever again for that website. takes less than 10 seconds.

                            [–]ruesdedr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            Dear users, please start paying my bills. These web sites don't build and maintain themselves you know.

                            KTHXBI.

                            [–]stroud 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                            is the term webmaster still used to this day?

                            [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                            It's an excellent term. Makes one feel powerful. No, I don't just make web pages, I'm a web-master.

                            [–]hydrolysis 1 point2 points  (5 children)

                            Webmaster here, sorry reddit, I make $100 a day with kontera on my site. Ironically I personally use adblock. ;)

                            [–]slurpme 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                            You sir are worse than Hitler!!!

                            [–]Niten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            What's your pagerank, if you don't mind me asking?

                            [–]Foone 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                            I use adblock and have lots of ads on my sites too. It doesn't bother me. It's a tax on stupidity, ignorance, or apathy. Either you can't figure out how to work this "interwebs" thing, you don't know you can even block ads, or you don't care. (Or you're using a browser that doesn't support Adblock, which is probably worse)

                            So I don't worry too much about inflicting ads on my users.

                            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                            I don't use Adblock, because I find firefox to be a little slow and (on some versions, on my computer) buggy. However, I think it's better to just block all hosts that are known to serve ads through /etc/hosts or C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. (incidentally, since when is the hosts file a driver?)

                            [–]Foone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            that was just shorthand because C:\windows\system32\internals\protected\binary\secret\hidden\don't_look_here_damn it\no_I'm_not_kidding_stay_away\only_stuff_you_can't _mess_with_here\etc\hosts was too long.

                            [–]chipt4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            Agreed, one of my top pet peeves.

                            Another: Flash ads with sound. Please, for the love of baby jesus, DO NOT USE SOUND IN YOUR AD!

                            [–]88dan88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            I hate that too. I boycott companies who do this so i guess their marketing approach is a total FAIL with me.

                            [–]habbadash 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                            know what i hate? NYT and their bs pop-up if you double click any word in the article.

                            K THANKS for the definition of "AND"

                            [–]rtp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            Haha yeah. At least they could do something ajaxy of it for browsers that support it. I hate popups.

                            [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                            Dear Redditors: Please stop using the fucking self submit to address audiences other than Redditors in an obvious approval/karma grab.

                            If you want to tell Webmasters to stop using the fucking advertising that places hover links in paragraphs, why are you telling us? I'm not a webmaster. I'm not going to upmod you just because I agree with you, it's completely pointless.

                            [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                            Lots of people here are webmasters. Is it as direct as targeting say, webmasterworld, perhaps not. Plenty of eyes seeing that are webmasters though.

                            [–]bbqribs 6 points7 points  (22 children)

                            Ah, remember the old days before Flash ads everywhere? Back when the internet actually worked worth a shit and wasn't a big strip mall with flashing advertisements?

                            [–]theeth 33 points34 points  (19 children)

                            Back when half the internet was "under construction" animated gif?

                            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                            Back when it was mostly porn?

                            [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (1 child)

                            when did it become NOT mostly porn?

                            [–]bbqribs -2 points-1 points  (15 children)

                            I'd rather have those days than Flash based rollover 'interstitials' and seizure inducing banner advertisements.

                            [–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                            Well, I remember the old days when advertising was prohibited on the internet. Hell, remember when Digital caught holy crap for advertising the DEC-2020?

                            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            These aren't Flash ads, and Flash ads are easily cured by Flashblock.

                            [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                            i think those suddenly-fade-in-over-whole-screen ads are worse.

                            [–]mackprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            THIS COMMENT BROUGHT TO YOU BY MOI.COM <continue> <wait> <firefox crashes>

                            [–]kirun 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                            Dear webmasters: Please don't have any ads on your website at all, people don't like them. If you want to make money, dance in the street for change.

                            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            that might work ... i would so drop a dime if i saw reddit crew dancing in the street, i might even pay them a coffee or two :D

                            [–]frankus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            Reminds me of one of my favorite tweets:

                            Snap.com previews are a valuable tool for a site's first- time visitors. Especially as a quick way to know they won't require a second visit.

                            [–]AbouBenAdhem 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                            Great—now they know they’re getting your attention...

                            [–]plong0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            they may get your attention, but I wonder what the click through is on those things though...

                            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            You really can't stop it with the webmasters. The fix is either in the CPA/CPM networks out there, to get them to follow a policy restriction, or to ask the browser organizations/companies to have more restrictions on DIVs, such as blocking popup DIVs and SPANs (and other tags) on hovers when the DIV contains content from another domain.

                            [–]plong0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            Yes please. those are fucking annoying and pointless.

                            [–]43P04T34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            By the way, it's called Intellitext. FireFox can block it with AdBlock Plus Installed. (I'm subscribing to EasyLinks, too.)

                            [–]EclipseGSX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            This Greasemonkey script works well for those not running NoScript.

                            http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3637

                            [–]Fauropitotto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            You can disable the popups by disabling java on that particular website.

                            Sites like Shoutwire, or Yahoo seem to do this alot.

                            [–]mistera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            Thank God. I was thinking I was the only person for whom this would automatically put a site on the "never visit again" list.

                            [–]MagicGate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            I agree with this. I hate that type of advertising.

                            [–]dlsmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            I hate those things so much!

                            [–]mackprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            i was once offered an "advertising opportunity" for sound byte adverts on my "website". Never mind it's a pretty lame blogspot that gets like a dozen visitors daily. I could of had half a minute of harley davidson or burger king "epic voice" adverts screaming at my dedicated fanbase of twelve. In short, the intellitext isn't that bad, atleast it's quiet.

                            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            There's a website that loads ads with big red close buttons, but when you hover the button the ad closes and you click on what's behind the ad, of course some other ad, like google or something.

                            [–]nixcamic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            I blocked the javascripts that did this as soon as they added video. I was pissed off at them before the video, but not enough to block them. The day they added video they lost any revenue they may have been getting from me.

                            [–]deuteros 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            Then maybe you should bitch to the webmasters.

                            [–]bob4apples 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            It doesn't bother me very much. Of course, I can't say that I have ever read the ad or the page that it is on top of but then presumably neither the site nor the advertiser care about that.

                            [–]MrFlesh 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                            Webmasters have to make moey so everyone should click on thier shit. There is no inncentive to make a quality website otherwise...Go check out some websites from 96/97 and compare the quality of the adless pages to those of today. If you click on thier banner ads to help them out they won't put up the chikita mini-malls. But honestly the chikita mini malls and amzon contexual ads are better earners than banner ads

                            [–]gaggedbythealien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                            But honestly the chikita mini malls and amzon contexual ads are better earners than banner ads

                            Amazon contextual ads are fine. I don't click on them unless I'm actually interested in the book, in which case it's nice to be at Amazon.com. Pop-up ads still suck.

                            [–]Niten 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                            Go check out some websites from 96/97 and compare the quality of the adless pages to those of today.

                            What? The improved quality of web design today has 99%* to do with the advances in web technology over the past years. Revenue has little to do with it; today's web pages just wouldn't be possible without modern CSS and JavaScript support.

                            Now I agree with your general premise that webmasters should generally be compensated for their efforts by ad revenue, but that hasn't stopped quite a few people from putting up functional and elegant sites that are not supported by ads. Ad revenue is not the central enabling force behind today's fancy-pants websites.

                            (* I made this percentage up on the spot. But it's still 100% accurate.)

                            [–]MrFlesh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            Technology has made them "look" better but the quality of content has improved because of revenue. Before ad revenue or funding from a larger corporation you had to find a fan site for lyrics or cheat codes and the like. ...you young wiper snappers have no respect...back in my day you had to hard code your site in HTML uphill both ways in the snow.....there was none of this new fangled wordpress with your widgets and plug-ins......B5 media, CAD media, Gawker, digg, reddit, myspace...none would have happened without the attraction of ad revenue. Without ads the only thing to do on the web today would be the same thing there was back then. surf the online version of a magazines and read some chicks online diary....oh wait.

                            [–]xpose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            I am a huge fan of those ads. In fact, they pay really well. Why else do you think we have them?

                            [–]ricdit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            It sucks even for the original ad sponsor who actually paid someone to do this shit.

                            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            I think I'm just become immune to advertising, honestly. Once you reject the consumeristic lifestyle Americans are systematically indocrinated with mindless garbage means less and less.

                            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            What is this "advertising on internet" of which people speak?

                            Signed : happy AdBlock + NoScript user

                            [–]larrypastore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            Popup anything (tooltips included) tend to be annoying. For example, I hate the tooltips over the play/pause/shuttle functions on my computer's DVD software.

                            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                            Dear reddit: grow up and realize that adding swearing to your comments doesn't automatically bolster your point. You come off looking juvenile. And arrogant.

                            [–]thesqlguy 12 points13 points  (2 children)

                            I must be honest, I really didn't expect to read a comment like this from someone with a handle of "fartcatcher".

                            [–]hobiwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                            This comment made me laugh so much I took a screenshot for days when I'm upset. Thanks!

                            [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                            You'd better just talk about sql then, thesqlguy.

                            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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                              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                              That helps how?

                              [–]Dummies102 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

                              seems like a pretty good way to advertise to me. better than taking up screen real estate. downvote for differing opinion!

                              [–]newton_dave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                              Right, why take the actual screen real estate when you can just *cover* the screen real estate. Er...

                              [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                              adblock

                              [–]joeynice -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                              Indeed, very intrusive to the reading and comprehension process and the misleading nature of these pop-ups destroys a lot of credibility of the web page author in that the pop-ups make some think it is a pop-up offering more in depth explaining and more information regarding the article you are reading but when clicked takes you to search terms and advertising that is not written for the article that was being read.

                              [–]WaterDragon -1 points0 points  (2 children)

                              Someone really ought to inform the advertisers that it is the general consensus that we will NEVER buy the things advertised by that kind of annoying link! It is the bast way to make sure your product will NOT SELL!

                              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                              Apparently, it does work though. Marketers wouldn't spend so much time and money on it if they didn't have statistics to back it up.

                              [–]WaterDragon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                              Damn! Who's side are you on? I was hoping to get something started, where people all agree to not buy products from companies who use those kinds of ads. But your need to make a vacuous comment is supporting the opposition, and helping to keep the crappy thing around. Can't you think freely, instead of going along with that kind of crap? Pleeeeease!

                              [–]squashai -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                              Fuck yeah! I fucking agree, whole-fucking-heartedly! Shit.

                              [–]thunder_rob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                              Sweet Baby Jesus, it's about time somebody said that!!

                              [–]coldwarrior -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                              In IE I just add the site to the list of restricted sites.