Those bloody expanding banners

Loomis

You know the ones...they expand across the page when you mouse over the image. Few sites I use that always have them are bebo, hotmail and skysports.com. Every time I navigate back to the page the mouse inadvertently goes over the image and it expands over the page you're trying to read.
This wreck anyone else's head?

qz

Didn't Boards have one at one stage?

Hal1

The worst are those 888 ones, but a descent pop up blocker should prevent most of the html banners. Its the flash banners that are hard to block.

bluto63

The ones on hotmail get to me the most cause they're not your usual where you move the mouse off them they shrink back down. The ones there stay open for the whole ad and cover up the inbox button so you almost have to sit and watch it

ditpoker

the ones on entertainment.ie annoy the f*** out of me... and this one is just so annoying!!! :mad:

Sherifu

ditpoker wrote: »

the ones on entertainment.ie annoy the f*** out of me... and this one is just so annoying!!! :mad:

I'm guessing that's a rick roll.

Mimikyu

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lostexpectation

adblcok isn't working very well for me, i can't see the block tab and then it give me all these url to choose yet still does't seem to block

joe_chicken

Sherifu wrote: »

I'm guessing that's a rick roll.

Yep, just googled the URL and it came back Rick Roll positive.

Edit, just watched it though cuz it says it's a Muppet rick roll... it's funny

Sherifu

Muppet rick roll, heh

mp3guy

You people really need to run firefox with adblock and filterset g updater. Also flash block. I pretty much never see any ads anywhere.

chopperbyrne

Firefox + Adblock Plus = Happy Browsing

Overheal

Mr. Anderson wrote: »

You know the ones...they expand across the page when you mouse over the image. Few sites I use that always have them are bebo, hotmail and skysports.com. Every time I navigate back to the page the mouse inadvertently goes over the image and it expands over the page you're trying to read.
This wreck anyone else's head?

1) Use Firefox.

2) Install the 'NoScript' Firefox Plug-in. This allows you to control which sites are allowed to run fancy stuff on your machine like expanding crap. Eg. I don't let Bebo show me all of those ****ing Apps. Helps prevent malicious code execution, too.

3) Install 'Adblock Plus' Firefox plug-in. This removes 99% of all web-ads.

bluto63 wrote:

The ones on hotmail get to me the most cause they're not your usual where you move the mouse off them they shrink back down. The ones there stay open for the whole ad and cover up the inbox button so you almost have to sit and watch it

your first mistake was using Hotmail. http://www.gmail.com

Archeron

I'm just glad I kept my abacus and my sundial somewhere handy. No such problems for me!! (well except for the blimps with ads on them, but they're still quite rare).

thelordofcheese

Overheal wrote: »

Adblock for firefox info

Or, if you use Opera (and you should)

right click anywhere on the page, then select Content Blocker
Then hold down shift and click on any offending banner image.

Then click on 'Details' most of the ad ones will be something like this

http://affiliates.jlist.com/media/1974/82

So just change that to

http://affiliates.jlist.com/*

to block everything from that server, ever.

There you go.