Comments on: How To Escape Flashing Ad Annoyance https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7360 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:26:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7360

Everyone I know who uses Windows is constantly re-installing it.

Beacuse it’s broken, because they’re obsessive tweakers, or because it’s broken because they’re obsessive tweakers?

]]> By: Andrew https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7359 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:03:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7359 Everyone I know who uses Windows is constantly re-installing it.

]]> By: Todd https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7358 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:57:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7358 Another is that you use Windoze, and every now and then you have to totally wipe your hard drive and reinstall your system and all your software, and you get tired of re-configuring every stupid thing every time this happens and have fallen into the pattern of living with the defaults.I’ve used variations of Windows for about 15 years, and I don’t recall ever having to that for NT, 2000, or XP. Well, except for that time my hard drive crashed, but I blame Western Digital for that one. You sound like one of those Jobs worshipers, when you make stupid statements like that. Advocate Linux and open source software on their merits, and leave the misinformation to the Apple and Microsoft advocates.(see how I did that? I lumped Mac and Windows users together. heh heh)

]]> By: Jeff Hebert https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7357 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:07:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7357 Wow, nice tip, thanks Greg!You know, I actually created the ad that caused Yahoo to impose a 10-second looping clause in their contracts. I was under the direction of my boss who insisted we do it in the first place, but nonetheless it was my hand that generated something so loathsome and over-the-top it brought a change to a gigantic corporation.

]]> By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7356 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:43:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7356

Another is that you use Windoze, and every now and then you have to totally wipe your hard drive and reinstall your system and all your software

What decade is this? Seriously, it’s not that bad any more. I haven’t had to do that since I got rid of Win95.

]]> By: Matt Platte https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7355 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:19:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7355 Nice. And so well hidden, right there in the open. For a vim user, you’d think I would have stumbled across this a long time ago.

]]> By: Tony P https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7354 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:02:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7354 I haven’t re-installed XP on this machine in the 2.5 years I’ve had it. But then I’m an I.T. guy who knows how to keep my Windows machine running.And um, I just right clicked and selected “Adblock this Image” and poof, gone. I love Firefox and there are two extensions that are must-haves. The first is AdBlock Plus, the other is Flash Block.

]]> By: jjberg https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7353 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:25:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7353 genius…

]]> By: IanR https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7352 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:09:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/28/how-to-escape-flashing-ad-anno/#comment-7352 Wow. Cool. Thanks.

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