Pulsing Piggies Must Go

I have a suggestion for you, next time you install a web browser, stop installing the Macromedia Flash plug in.

That will eliminate your piggy nightmares

Posted by FireWolf at January 28, 2005 11:50 AM

Isn't that a bit of a "blame the victim" mentality? The problem lies on the Market'droid side, if you ask me. No ad is considered offensive or obnoxious as long as it gets results.

Posted by Stephen B at January 28, 2005 2:14 PM

- Over time its becoming more and more obvious that the browser people, specifically types like Yahoo etc, are in fact colaborating with the mass advertisers such as the one you cite. I recently fired off three questions to the help center about aspects of the Yahoo mail accounts that "aid and abet" spamming rather than reducing it....

1) Why can't you set the "discard" period to 1 "day" in the spam guard section. they only allow "immediate" or "1 week". We all know how much junk you can accumulate in a week and immediate precludes glancing through it for any misplaced proper emails which happens all the time.....

2) Why can't you use wild cards in the typically non-changing portion of the mass ad sites URL's in the spam blocking list. Mass Ad people all use dynamic "front end" URL's but generally are limited to a few servers. Not allowing you to use wildcards really reduces the effectiveness to near zero, since every change of the dynamic portion of the addy can get by the spam block if the Ad server can't be blocked outright...

3) Why can't you totally kill the screen center pop-ups announcing the latest "you've got mail" details of every damn piece of crap that hits your mailbox....even the "blocked" spam emails. Whats the point of blocking them if you're going to plaster the screen with announcements anyway. BTW those pop-ups badly interfer and mess up other design software I'm tryin to run when they occur....

- I've gotten Zilch answers and I'm not surprised..Apparently they don't call the mass ad junk "spam", but thats exactly what it is. I think they get part or most of their revenue from this crap, and so they just pretend to be against it....

Posted by Big Bang Hunter at January 28, 2005 7:56 PM

The whole suite of these ads are really obnoxious. I find that I leave sites I WANT to visit because of these ads and the flashing red/white "Your A Winner" scams. Never click, never point, leave the site.

I'm with you on this.

- Jim

Posted by Jim Phelps at February 1, 2005 6:27 PM