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   Tech 'N Artist, Dec 5th, 2001 @ 2:28pm

   
   

   Intrusive adverts will, and do, discourage me from visiting a web site. Pop-ups in particular suck, pop unders I almost never see because I can just quit program.
   
   It would help if the ads were not so cheesy looking, more aesthetically pleasing. Who designs these things, the same people who do design slot machines?

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   And ...

   

   Cory, Dec 6th, 2001 @ 12:34am

   
   

   And could someone PLEASE tell me how large X-10's freakin' ad budget is ? They have spots all over the place ! UGH !

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   The mad Accountant, Dec 6th, 2001 @ 5:51am

   
   

   Really big and really stupidly spent! I have done a personal non scientiffic poll over the last 3-4 years among cusomters friends and acquaintances - exactly 2.5 people have made a purcahse through banner ads (or their brethren pop-whatevers). Need I say more? The ads simply don't work. It looks like some marketing guy has the board snowed that traffic can somehow relate to sales. Same old saw - same old result - chapter 11 for x-10!

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   The uselessness of Yahoo...

   

   David, Dec 6th, 2001 @ 6:15am

   
   

   I haven't used Yahoo in about a year or more - the directory is way out-of-date, the 'sponsored links' are annoying, you have to scroll way down the page to find what you want, and there are, as you say, far too many adverts. And with engines like Google bringing so much more precision to simple searches, there's very little point to go there anymore.
   Having said that, my e-card site still gets more visitors referred from Yahoo than any other search engine.

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   Not a problem...yahoo still will lose.

   

   ltlw0lf, Dec 6th, 2001 @ 10:09am

   
   

   Just by turning off javascript (who needs it anyways, dynamic pages are best generated on the server using php anyways,) all of the pop-overs, pop-unders, and a majority of the ads (that require javascript) disappear. Problem solved...end of story.

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   Re: Not a problem...yahoo still will lose.

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 15th, 2002 @ 9:53am

   
   

   Unfortunatley some websites "require" javascript in order to run. Once you turn on javascript you see the requirement was for the ads. Check out ad-subtract (pc-only). IT's pretty good at filtering all the pop up/under nonsense as well as taken ads off the page. Occasionally it will mess with the formatting of a page though. That pretty rare though.

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