anthony_brookes5 Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Anyone else like me who has stopped using photo.net till the iPod ad goes ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric friedemann Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 If there were, they wouldn't be around to post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie chishty Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 What iPod ad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 ...or keep using anything with ads. but don't buy anything, then they might realise they don't work (not on me anyway, unless I want something, how do I know I want something, ads I suppose, gad an infinite loop) Use an ad blocker. In a computer glossary 'Loop, see loop' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_doyle Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Oh pahleese, get a life. What would you rather a Creative Zen ad be there in place? Or that Olympus device... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof-K Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Well, ads may be boring, but they do support pnet, right? They need the $$s to keep things going smoothly, I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I'm fairly sure that if you pay the subscription most of the ads go away...<p>Worth considering, especially if you use P.net alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof-K Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 yah, i don't see any ipod ad either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 today i have a 'ritz camera' ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich815 Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Today is the first day I had an ad pop up in my face on photo.net. Surprised the crap out of me because I rarely see pop-up ads at all. It popped up, did it's little song-and-dance and then shrunk to the top bar of the screen. Neato. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan flanders Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I suppose I will have a good cry every morning when I don't see a post with your name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morthcam Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 And make sure you stop using broadcast TV and radio until they stop their ads, too. (and before some wise-ass can say he doesn't have ads on cable, the point is you're paying for the cable service). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan flanders Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 And whereinhell do you find cable service without ads? Even Public Broadcasting has "sponsors"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Exactly when did you stop with this free, for you, service? http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member-all?proc_name=bboard&user_id=982809 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aric_rothman Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 <i> Anyone else like me who has stopped using photo.net till the iPod ad goes ?</i><p><p> If you stopped using photo.net, how do you hope to see the answers to your question?<p><p>By the by, I had no trouble putting down $20 annually for the use of photo.net, when the ads were limited to innocuous text-only banners. Even graphical ads don't bother me overly much, provided they aren't animated (shudder).<p><p> If I ever see a pop-up while I'm logged on as a donor, though, I've payed my last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_r._fulton_jr. Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 From the headline I thought you'd gone over the top for iPod and were listening to your iPod continually until the battery went dead. Or something. Sorry but I don't know about the iPod ad. What's the problem again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I never see ads on my PC. Firefox 1.0.5 and the ad blocking in my Security/Firewall package seem to take care of it all. I have stopped seeing any tribalfusion activity lately as well. (Used to see their URL flickering at the bottom of the browser a lot but my activity reports show no attempts any more.) I dont know how that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Oh and some of the white areas where the ads should have been used to come up with the little cursor 'hand' and the ad's URL at the bottom of the screen (google ads usually). That has stopped also which is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbing Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I wonder if the ads are somehow context sensitive. For example, of the main screen I have a banner ad (from google) talking about Toronto photographers (among others. It is variable.) and at the bottom of all of the forum screens there has been a persistent ad for Photographer PT Potter from Hamilton, Ontario (also with its source in Google). At the bottom of this very screen as I write this posting there are menu items insinuated into the internal Photo.net links. I don't think 'Disaster Recovery', 'Concert Tickets', Discount Bridesmaid Dresses' have much to do with Photo.net's main purpose. and, as much as I might be interested in "Excellent reviews of...Laptop/Notebook Computers" sponsored by DigitalAdvisor.com (which is a pure sales site posing as a review site.) That 'sponsor' line seems to change as well...sometimes it is called 'Camcorder HQ' which looks remarkably similar to the 'DigitalAdvisor' site...you would think they were run by the same bunch of sleeze balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_sprague Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 >>Anthony Brookes , jul 18, 2005; 12:13 p.m.Anyone else like me who has stopped using photo.net till the iPod ad goes ?<< Wow. You sure have posted a lot and for a long time not to consider this site worthy of the subscription price. I have a hunch PN will survive without you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin jackson Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I paid my dues recently and still get ads, though not popups. I get the bar at the right with Adorama for example and all the Google stuff. I didn't pay up to get rid of that but rather that I have had so much help and enjoyment from the forum. It's a real bargain as far as I'm concerned. But I shouldn't be getting any ads now, should I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny massey Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I'm with Trevor, Firefox is the dogs danglies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil_parker Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 If you stopped using photo net how did you post your question? Personally I'm just glad the annoying nokia ads are gone. I haven't seen the ipod ad, but perhaps that's because I have 'block pop-up windows' selected in safari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_m4 Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 You can use firefox, download the adblock plugin, I see no ads with photo.net at all. Also you could stop using the internet, watching TV, movies, looking at buses, billboards, or anything else with an ad on it. yeah thats the ticket. -Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 There's ads on photo.net? I use a combination of an ad-busting hosts file, filters for Safari, and turning off Flash (by dragging the flash plugin out of it's folder) and haven't seen ads here in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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