everconfused wrote:
Mxytdvc, I have heard from other people that the adblocker does block the ads from being seen and the white space, but it doesn't actually block the ad from d/l in the background. I don't have firefox, so I can't say for sure.
I noticed it wasn't blocking the ads when it wouldn't load certain pages, or took a long time to load pages. I saw it was trying to load some page for an ad. That's when I used the firefox list all blockable elements, block it, and then refresh it.
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Tried the css thing for IE - that wanted to work. Unfortunately for some reason it kept crashing my IE, so I took it out.
It's probably because the instructions you have are messing with the real functions of other websites. It's very unfortunate they decided to put the ads in their own frame, because it just isn't too fun
. I'll look into seeing if it can be blocked for only neopets.com, that might stop IE from crashing so much.
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My main account I do have premium on, but I'm not going to (and couldn't afford) it for my other account. It is SO much slower with the ads, I'm on dial up, have my privacy set to not accept third party cookies, I'm constantly getting an Active X page - something's trying to d/l from a banner ad - partner-source is in the view source for that page.
I let my firewall take care of that. It's just awfully annoying, isn't it?
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My roommate plays on Neo, much less than me. She works a long day, and likes to go on the site, do whatever - I think just plays with her pets and plays some games. She's about ready to quit. The banner ads are getting to the point where they're interfering with her being able to play some games. The internet is just locking up and she has to keep rebooting. This did not happen pre-banner ad. Like she says, she goes to Neo to destress from the day, relax and have a little fun. But anymore going on the site is becoming more and more stressful. I even offered to buy premium for her for her birthday this month and she said no, that she's not on the site enough to justify the cost. I don't want her to quit, she doesn't really want to quit, but she's just about had it with the ads.
I feel her pain. I play neopets when I'm at work (I'm a bad girl), it's normally the only time I can get a few hours to play NeoQuest 2. It takes forever to load, and thankfully the settings on the work computer don't allow anything to be installed, or I'd have spyware problems. It's gotten to the point where I just bring my computer in so I don't have to deal with it (and the restrictions on the work computer, I don't like having shockwave and flash disabled, because you can't access a lot of websites).
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Plenty of other sites have the larger banner ads and none of them slow down or crash my internet like this - just Neo. I don't understand it.
Some do, some don't. I blame it on poor coding.
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