Jun 16: Responding to tarzan...


I don't know about "soon", right now would be good.

I'd like some way of turning things on and off like the way
Opera does it, by a simple F12 popup menu, and this would be
great if customising what content you load, on an "as you
go" basis, helped the surfer bypass turning their computer
into just another TV set for advertisers to flood with
flashy stuff.

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The thing is, I sort of prefer the text adds. Some of the flash ads
and the video ads are just thrown at you. I can tolerate ads being at
the front or end (preferable not both) of streamed videos, but if a
video is being played when I'm reading an article, I guess I'm going
to have to have my speakers and volume off 99% of the time. And also
the video would cripple the rest of the page I'm looking at.

I've run into some flash ads or ones that are like "pop-ins" without a
window. And so even after the little ad seems to have played and is
gone, I can't select the page that's behind it. I usually fix this by
refreshing the page but if the same stupid thing happens, I guess
there's not much I can do other than get mad. And maybe also complain
to the people that run the page for allowing such annoying ads. >:C

LK wrote:
> The thing is, I sort of prefer the text adds. Some of the flash ads
> and the video ads are just thrown at you. I can tolerate ads being at
> the front or end (preferable not both) of streamed videos, but if a
> video is being played when I'm reading an article, I guess I'm going
> to have to have my speakers and volume off 99% of the time. And also
> the video would cripple the rest of the page I'm looking at.

These extensions may be helpful:
"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765"
"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433"
"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865"

"tarzan" wrote in message
news:1182013268.336337.29870@n2g2000hse.googlegrou ps.com...
> Search engine ads projected to lose ground
>
> Mark Raby
>
> June 15, 2007 06:10
>
> Framingham (MA) - Though search advertising is expected to retain its
> #1 position in the market of online ads, research firm IDC says it
> will slowly lose market share over the next five years.
>
> Internet advertising saw about $16.9 billion in revenue last year, and
> IDC says that in 2011 that amount will grow to $31.3 billion, an
> increase of 13.5%. Emerging forms of digital advertisement will eat
> up a lot of that growth, leaving search advertising to drop in market
> share from 40% in 2006 to 32% in 2011.
>
> IDC says this could cause problems for Google, which relies on search
> advertising for more than 99% of its income. The firm says online
> video ads are quickly becoming more appealing to advertisers, as
> broadband penetration increases. Streaming video advertising catches
> viewers more easily, too, as most streaming players prevent users from
> skipping sponsored ad messages.
>
> IDC predicts that search advertising will still continue to grow in
> terms of absolute dollar values, but more advanced advertising areas
> like video will grow more quickly.
>

Adblock Plus kills most of it.

On 16 Jun, 21:53, Nir wrote:
> LK wrote:
> > The thing is, I sort of prefer the text adds. Some of the flash ads
> > and the video ads are just thrown at you. I can tolerate ads being at
> > the front or end (preferable not both) of streamed videos, but if a
> > video is being played when I'm reading an article, I guess I'm going
> > to have to have my speakers and volume off 99% of the time. And also
> > the video would cripple the rest of the page I'm looking at.
>
> These extensions may be helpful:
> "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765"
> "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433"
> "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865"


Disable autoplay! Thanks!!

And as for Flashblock. Best add-on ever made for anything ever,
anywhere! I would use Firefox if only for this extension. It
should be the number 1 extension!!