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From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Mar 2010 02:40 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > > > >Adverts seem to bother a lot of people. They don't bother me at all- I > > >can easily concentrate on what I need to see. > > > > I'm the same. I'm vaguely aware of them but can easily ignore them. No-one with normal vision can `easily' ignore blinking flashing animated moving picture adverts - it's a plain lie, that claim. They are intended - carefully crafted, indeed - to grab your attention without you having any say in the matter at all. And they work very well. Perhaps people who are greatly exposed to advertising of that sort might be able to develop an immunity, but for those of us who have kept ourselves away from that kind of grossly antisocial intrusion into decent society, it's utterly unbearable. > How do you ignore them when they grind your browser to a halt, consume > all your CPU time and make the fans spin up like a 707 taking off from > Nairobi in the hot season? Not to mention sit there doing their level best to intrude upon your consciousness so that your attention is dragged away from the content that you're interested in and distracted by the adverts - as they are intended to. Me, I keep adverts blocked. Most commerical Websites are, for me, totally unusable unless I have an ad blocker. I can't even read the Grauniad on-line without ad blocking. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Mar 2010 02:40 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > btw, Peter: do you *really* not use anything to block adverts and > > intrusive Flash, or Javascripts, or cross-site access, and so on? > > Of course not. Why should I? `Of course not' is a sneer of a response. `Why should I?' is not an honest question. You know the answer to your question, Peter, don't you? You're just sneering again, that's all. Go stick your head in a pig, Peter. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 22 Mar 2010 02:55 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > [reinstate] > >He's not refusing to accept your report! He's saying that whatever > >problem you (and others) are seeing *he's not seeing it*. And, for that > >mater, neither am I. > > > Why can't YOU accept THAT? > > Why do *YOU* keep having to stick your unwelcome oar in, Jim? I'm sorry if you don't like the fact that neither he nor I am seeing this issue, despite quite a few other people seeing it. That doesn't alter the fact that we're not. Get over it. If you can't then I suggest you killfile both of us and/or stay off usenet for a while until you're better able to cope with it. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you.
From: Steve Firth on 22 Mar 2010 03:13 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > > > It is *currently* (OK, this week) being talked about by developers, and > > > possibly just related to some plugins. Not a legend. > > > > Could be. > > > > Clearly not a plugin I use. But then I only use Downloadhelper. > > I've got lotsaplugins. And lotsaproblems. Do you think, by any chance, that the two could be related? <rolls eyes>
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Mar 2010 03:30
Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > >Adverts seem to bother a lot of people. They don't bother me at all- I > > > > >can easily concentrate on what I need to see. > > > > > > > > I'm the same. I'm vaguely aware of them but can easily ignore them. > > > > No-one with normal vision can `easily' ignore blinking flashing animated > > moving picture adverts - it's a plain lie, that claim. > > Drivel. Ah - the Firth creature begins with an insult, let's see if it gets any better... > Anyone with normal vision can ignore advertising in a web page. > It takes place in a different part of the page to the content. Nope - the Firth creature is just showing off the fact that it understands nothing about human vision and human psychology. [snip more of the Firth's standard personal abuse] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |