damn u guys got some new banner orso on top.. totally screws layout with internet explorer and mozilla.. the yellow text also hurts my eyes, and you can hardly read it :P
merry xmas tho ;D
11:13 am, Wednesday, December 22, 2004 (4 years ago)
So you don't mind that this ad rescales the window to an absurd size and makes most of teh fonts yellow so you can't read them.
That's like saying i don't care if people can't see my website.
And that Sudan comparismend is just sick!"
Well, I was trying to convey:
A. We can't do anything about it.
B. There's more important things you could be bitching about in this world.
Thanks for telling me how stupid and sick I am. I appreciate it.
More than likely the ad will be gone in a day or so, until then refresh, or if you're capable of following heylove's instructions (questionable) block it.
And please, accept my SINCERE apologies for this horrible inconvenience this has caused you, corto. I hope you're okay.
Can I offer you a hot beverage? A blanky?
colossus72 [c72] Customize.org Staff member relations, submissions.
hey colossus, maybe i was a bit too harsh but you post reaction gave me the impression that you really didn't give a f.
and especially that sudan sentence put me off.
I mean this is a message board and people were just saying that this banner wasn't normal because it changed the whole site.
and like i sayd before the ad wasn't easy to block with the adblock extension, i had to look in the source to find where the ad was comming from. After a copy paste in adblock i could block it.
Ads help the site stay free! It's not polite to complain about services being offered to you freely no matter how it might inconvenience you.
There's a human element to the site that volunteers thier spare time to help run it. It's not a big corporation that is just loaded with tons of money, have a little respect and quite being jerks.
customize.org staff member relations ~ accounts visionleague™
Well, blocking ads is just wrong. I can understand with one that screws with the site, but guys, this site gets most (if not all) of its revinew from those ad's. Blocking them from your view is like not paying for a movie ticket. You get in free, enjoy the movie, and hurt the theater which you love! I've read on slashdot how Mozzila FireFox is hurting the internet buisness market. It's not easy to offer a free site, more over, it's hard as fuck to make one work in the first place. Don't just rob these guys blind by blocking the ad's. Plus, every once in a blue moon, an ad runs which could actually help you in some way. Mozilla is the Tivo of the internet, forcing advertisers to come up with EVEN MORE ANNOYING forms of advertisment. Think about that while your fleecing free websites everywhere...
Mozilla and its variants aren't the problem; what you're saying is like blaming guns for killing people, and not the people holding the guns.
Considering the fact that IE is still being used by more than half of the people on the Internet, I would be more worried about Microsoft's built-in popup blocking in IE.
Regardless, if you're going to whine about the ads here, do everyone a favor and use that energy to buy something from the Customize.org Store.
i'd blame guns for killing peope ;) but anyway, i was agreeing with distortion about blocking banner ads being wrong. this wasn't about popups (as you said microsoft's sp2 has popup blocking) but rather banner ads.
Pop-up ad's are different. they will get in the way of the site, fill your screen and make you find a close button, and sit under your window popping up hundreds of windows again and again. They also transmit spyware by the thousands. I've always considered pop-ups to be very sneaky. Plus, Gun's and Browsers are a little differnet aren't they? When you go to a website, the pop-up doesn't kill you. Neither does an ad banner. I don't blame the Gun for killing, nor do I blame The company that made the gun. I blame the individual who had a choice to pull that trigger. When you download Mozilla, you have that same choice. The question is, how many of you would shoot?
PepeM4Y: Right, and I bet you blame the swords and the spears for killing people when guns didn't exist. =P
distortion311: The comparison between Mozilla and guns was more of an analogy than a direct comparison. It's painfully obvious that you can't kill someone with a web browser. My point is that you can't blame Mozilla for the actions its users take.
Mozilla isn't the problem, as you'd like to believe.
Mozzila FireFox is hurting the internet buisness market. Mozilla is the Tivo of the internet, forcing advertisers to come up with EVEN MORE ANNOYING forms of advertisment.
To expand on the guns analogy, the men who first made guns intended them to hurt people. They weren't oblivious to what they were doing. They were creating instruments of war. No, you cannot hold Mozilla directly responsable for internet buisness decline anymore than you could blame smith and Wesson for a murder, but it's hard to turn an eye to the fact that they do produce this thing that can be both good and bad. I think their should be an aspect of responsability there. Too easily today do we pass blame on to the next till it reaches the one with the worst excuse (or the least lawyers). If it isn't Mozilla's fault (and I'm not saying it directly is) then who would we blame? ourselves for not buying more? The economy for needing money? The website that doesn't charge you to use it? Wheres the little guy we blame for this? To my knowledge their is legal legislation underway to adress this issue in more detail. I for one hope that some regulations on what can and can't be blocked will be formulated.
Yeah, Mozilla and Firefox were designed to block ads.
You do realize that if the only thing Internet Explorer needed was ad-blocking, there's a pretty good chance that neither Mozilla nor Firefox would exist they way they do now, right?
The people to blame for blocking ads are (get this) the people who are blocking the ads. They're guilty of not wanting to see a blinking, animated 468 by 60 pixel image, probably for aesthetic reasons. It isn't Customize's fault that it needs money to run. And as far as I know, economies can function without money, but money facilitates the exchange of goods in much more efficient way. Besides, adding more money to an economy that already has enough of it leads to inflation, and that's never any fun.
As for regulations for blocking ads on the Internet... Well, I'm sure they'll get far. Really, I am.
