A Very Irritating Advertisement Panel Down the Right Side of Screen
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Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
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A Very Irritating Advertisement Panel Down the Right Side of Screen
Anyone else getting this or have my browser settings taken on a mind of their own? Really don't want a panel of Google ads. taking up 25% of the screen, shove them at the bottom perhaps?
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Yes, that extra side panel has started appearing on my computer as well.
So, if you leave 'Favorites' open in IE6 - and now have this panel cluttering up the right hand side, the available screen area becomes unacceptably small.
Yes, I know the geeks can use Godzilla or whatever it's called, but the website should be compatible with the most widely used browser, Internet Explorer 6.
Currently, without the 'Favorites' panel open, contributors' text occupies only 50% of screen width; with 'Favorites' open, that shrinks to only 31%..... When PPRuNe loads a forum, only 9.5% of the available screen area is now devoted to thread content, the rest is either advertising, the 'welcome' bar or white space - and that's without the 'Favorites' panel open.....
So, if you leave 'Favorites' open in IE6 - and now have this panel cluttering up the right hand side, the available screen area becomes unacceptably small.
Yes, I know the geeks can use Godzilla or whatever it's called, but the website should be compatible with the most widely used browser, Internet Explorer 6.
Currently, without the 'Favorites' panel open, contributors' text occupies only 50% of screen width; with 'Favorites' open, that shrinks to only 31%..... When PPRuNe loads a forum, only 9.5% of the available screen area is now devoted to thread content, the rest is either advertising, the 'welcome' bar or white space - and that's without the 'Favorites' panel open.....
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A HOSTS file - Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File - dispenses with many ads as a side benefit of its primary purpose of keeping nasty stuff off your computer.
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I wonder how long it will take before the ads cover most of the screen and the latest crash theory is listed in a narrow box?
Seriously this is a retrograde step for pprune and it will annoy all the regular readers.Can anyone suggest a way of blocking it?
Seriously this is a retrograde step for pprune and it will annoy all the regular readers.Can anyone suggest a way of blocking it?
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The sidebar ads are indeed a new IB initiative.
As I use FF with Adblocker they don't appear - for now. I guess that when the side position is sold like the banner ads, then it'll be a different story.
Yes, but it makes your posts very ugly!
SD
As I use FF with Adblocker they don't appear - for now. I guess that when the side position is sold like the banner ads, then it'll be a different story.
Meanwhile, my ad shifter widens the thread view area sufficiently to shove the junk off the sides......
SD
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Get FireFox with adblocker plus....That'll cure it.
Perhaps not surprisingly, page loading is also faster.
But I also heed SD's comment - measures and counter-measures will probably follow!
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I'm using Firefox, and have just had the problem. It is very annoying and is very intrusive. It might be alright for the corporation that owns PPRUNE and their geeks who showed this to management sitting back in an airconditioned office with big computer screens. Sure it looks OK then.
But in the real world of PPRUNE, we log on from all sorts of places and (my guess is) many of these are not good, with no big screen, and where this new 25% loss of the screen is affecting the quality badly. I'm on a laptop today, with a torch in my mouth because the lights have failed. I actually want to read PPRUNE without that interference. I can't load all the various PCs I use with cute adblocker software (I'm lucky to get an internet connection let alone anything cute). Time to protest.
What about a poll of our views? - or is that forbidden by corporate headquarters.
Let me at least write to the current advertisers on my screen - fatloss4idiots, pilotswatches and findapilot saying that I will try very hard not to let anyone use their services in the meantime.
But in the real world of PPRUNE, we log on from all sorts of places and (my guess is) many of these are not good, with no big screen, and where this new 25% loss of the screen is affecting the quality badly. I'm on a laptop today, with a torch in my mouth because the lights have failed. I actually want to read PPRUNE without that interference. I can't load all the various PCs I use with cute adblocker software (I'm lucky to get an internet connection let alone anything cute). Time to protest.
What about a poll of our views? - or is that forbidden by corporate headquarters.
Let me at least write to the current advertisers on my screen - fatloss4idiots, pilotswatches and findapilot saying that I will try very hard not to let anyone use their services in the meantime.
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I've downloaded the adblock plus, installed it and it's still there, any ideas?
SD