Author: Jeff Murrish
Friday, 17 January 2003 - 02:51 pm |        |
I understand the necessity of having banner adds at the Casebook to pay for the site. Though irritating, they can be closed easily. Having said this, I do have a problem with an add that has been recently added that ends up with "www.sex.com" blaring across my screen.
I am a physician, and on ocassion will drop by the site to see what is up. One day I was just logging on when one of my employees drops by, and right then "www.sex.com" pops up on the screen. I could tell from the look on their faces that they were wondering just what kind of person they were working for. NOT GOOD for a person in my position.
Would it be possible to change this add so that it "doesn't scare the children and horses in the street" to use an old victorian saying? |
Author: Alegria [Moderator]
Friday, 17 January 2003 - 05:14 pm | |
Normally we don't have that type of ad on the Casebook; we refuse ads for sex or porn sites; this one came in listed as a Sports site and like you we never really look at the ads and click them off before they load fully. We will look into cancelling the contract for that ad.
In the meantime, X them out before they load.
Ally |
Author: Jeff Murrish
Friday, 17 January 2003 - 06:27 pm | |
| Thanks Ally. Now I have to figure out what to say to my staff. "Yes, I was looking at a site about a mass murderer that advertised porno, but it isn't what you think!" |
Author: Ally
Friday, 17 January 2003 - 06:34 pm | |
LOL...it might be best just to go ahead and change jobs.
Good luck,
Ally |
Author: Walter Timothy Mosley
Friday, 17 January 2003 - 07:09 pm | |
For those annoyed by the popup and banner ads and who contribute $$ often enough to feel that they are not obligated to read them and thus, in theory, help support this site, I offer the following:
http://www.proxomitron.org/
This works well, but it often has to be turned off to visit some sites such as when making airline reservations or when using on-line banking. I am sure that there are others, but this one comes recommended by any number of computer geeks.
WTM |
Author: David Radka
Friday, 17 January 2003 - 09:05 pm | |
I agree that people who use this site ought to consider contributing to it. I have made a preliminary contribution myself, and will be contributing more when my seasonal income is rolling in in a month or two.
David |
Author: chris scott
Saturday, 18 January 2003 - 09:35 am | |
I carry no brief for pop up ads - god knows I find them as annoying as anyone else. But in Casebook's defence I have to say that the banner ad in question shows the address WSEX.COM and not www.sex.com
This url stands for World Sports exchange and is not a porn site
Hope this puts the record straight - I have no connection with wsex by the way!!!
Regards
Chris Scott |
Author: Vila
Sunday, 19 January 2003 - 02:42 pm | |
Hello,
Another option available is to change web browser programs. I have found that the pop-up ads on the Casebook site only appear when I use the Micro$oft IE browser. Since I have been using Netscape as my browser almost exclusively since I first came online (many years ago) I was unaware that the Casebook even *had* pop-up ads. Evidently, Netscape screens out some, but nowhere near all, pop-up ads. It also does not load some of the Casebook web pages correctly, so this post isn't an advert for Netscape. No. Its an advert for Mozilla.
The free Mozilla web browser does have an option which screens out all pop-up ads. It can be downloaded from www.mozilla.org by anyone who wishes to try it. (I am not connected in any way with Mozilla, Netscape, or Micro$oft.)
The only downside that I have been able to discover from using Mozilla is that it does not run swiftly on older computers. I am using an antique Pentium 1 computer, with a 90 meg chip. Today's computers are Pentium 4 with chips that rate 300 megs or higher. If I recall correctly, Mozilla states that their browser needs a 220 meg chip speed or higher. So if you own a Pentium 3 or a 4, then you will get even better use out of Mozilla than I do on this antique.
As an aside of a personal nature, I am planning to replace this old box with an up-to-date computer in the very near future since I will be getting a big profit-share from the company I work for in the last week or so of February.
Vila |
