Annoying Flash Ads with Sound desired?

Mustrum_Ridcully · 18th April 2009, 12:14 PM

I was just surprised by some "noise" while surfing EN World.

Apparently there was a flash add for some kind of online racing game (German, at least the commercial text, LevelR or somethinglike that) in the top add section.

Have there always been flash ads with sound? Are they desired?

I don't want to block or remove the adds necessary, I know that EN World needs to pay its expenses. But I don't want to be surprised by roaring motors (especially not if I am at work!), either. Is there some way to disable this, or make it impossible for such ads to even appear?

Or do I have to mute my browser?

Blackrat · 19th April 2009, 12:59 PM

It's the google ads. They tend to give out all sort of ****. And the noisy ads are becoming more common and common. I usually browse on mute myself at work just because of that kind of ads.

Mustrum_Ridcully · 19th April 2009, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Blackrat

It's the google ads. They tend to give out all sort of ****. And the noisy ads are becoming more common and common. I usually browse on mute myself at work just because of that kind of ads.

But.. but... Google does no evil!

fba827 · 19th April 2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Blackrat

It's the google ads. They tend to give out all sort of ****. And the noisy ads are becoming more common and common. I usually browse on mute myself at work just because of that kind of ads.

I was going to type a response, but Blackrat typed almost exactly what I was going to say, so I'm just quoting him.

I find it as a growing occurrence on other sites that also use google ads.

So, regardless of anything ENWorld related, I think it best to keep the browser/computer muted while at work in general unless I'm specifically working on a presentation or something with sounds.

frankthedm · 20th April 2009, 11:07 PM

If you surf with firefox your computer can be yours again. The NoScript & Adblock Plus plug-ins really help deal with such things.

**Plane Sailing** · 20th April 2009, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by frankthedm

If you surf with firefox your computer can be yours again. The NoScript & Adblock Plus plug-ins really help deal with such things.

You may not have noticed, but in his initial post Mustrum indicates that he is well aware of the availability of ad-blocking stuff, but chooses to support ENworld by allowing ads to be displayed.

Regards

Mustrum_Ridcully · 21st April 2009, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by frankthedm

If you surf with firefox your computer can be yours again. The NoScript & Adblock Plus plug-ins really help deal with such things.

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Originally Posted by Plane Sailing

You may not have noticed, but in his initial post Mustrum indicates that he is well aware of the availability of ad-blocking stuff, but chooses to support ENworld by allowing ads to be displayed.

Regards

Thanks for the tip (really, I am sure many people are unaware of such possibilities), but see Plane Sailing or my initial post.

frankthedm · 21st April 2009, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Plane Sailing

You may not have noticed, but in his initial post Mustrum indicates that he is well aware of the availability of ad-blocking stuff, but chooses to support ENworld by allowing ads to be displayed.

Regards

He also said

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But I don't want to be surprised by roaring motors (especially not if I am at work!), either. Is there some way to disable this, or make it impossible for such ads to even appear?

And that is why i mentioned ABP and Noscript, they let the user keep displaying ads that are desired and they have precise enough controls to toggle annoying ads off individually and keep track of which ads are blocked, while letting ads the user feels inoffensive though.