I hate the new Promotion !

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Yes, I find the new wave of advertisements detestable... I hope the technical team does lots to alleviate this situation.I think that's debateable. And there are companies that automatically block pop-ups and ads from proxies.I agree with Cilu here.

Apart from the fact that many company policies may block advertisements, etc - this is also a privacy issue concerning the user's rights and preferences. Many advertisements consume (if not guzzle) bandwidth making it inconvenient if not expensive for a user to browse the web - this expense is subtly incurred and does not contain user's explicit permission.

So... While I understand that websites will not like Ad-Blocking software - they've got to live with it, and any punitive action on grounds of someone using Ad-blocking software may not stand the scrutiny in many courts of law.

As far as CG's AUP goes - there is no crisply worded clause against using ad-blocking software - but, of course, the webmaster wouldn't encourage it.

I had a phone call with a Senior VP. The intel corner ad is coming off the site (should be down now). He stated that the ad did not operate as it really should have, so in listening to what you guys were saying, he has had it removed.

Brad!

...what you guys were saying, he has had it removed.
Brad!...Thats great news. At first it shows that we are also heard here about our wishes. As a second in my sight of view, its more promotion for this firm to show that they respect our wishes then if they would have continued with a promotion which is more like overwhelming users , because it really needs me to switch it of more then 10 times for only reading and answering one post. When my mouse had come into the upper range of the screen for example to tye in the subject title it has switched me off and disturbed my intentions. So its great, its off.
Basically I have nothing against aid which catcjhes peoples attention, when they do in a way that I can decide tofillow their link - or not. Because as I am in a business myself, I know that promotion is the basic of each business. I also can accept slight forms of agressive promotion and would enjoy to see this promotion in an altered form again, where it's not heavily intruding in the intentions of our community members. Maybe then I really would have been interested what they have wanted to learn us. Because in thefirst time, I was so pissed off that I really didn't remember whatfor this promotion was. I havn't read a single line of it :D The only thing I know about was - I hate it !! --:lol: --not really the sense of good promotion ;) , isn't it ?

So lets say thanks to the seniors here who acted on our complaints and also to the obvously great firm who instantly agrreed with our wishes.

That's great! Much appreciate for putting effort to help us and making CG usable. :thumb:

Brad, I know you said this a while ago, but I feel it needs a response anyway, even a late one:This site is supported solely by the sell of advertising. As such, blocking the ads prevents its ability to pay for the cost of the site operating. Blocking ads is considered a violation of the site's acceptable usage policy, so those admitting to blocking ads may be banned from using the site. Those telling or showing others how to block ads will be banned.
It might be true that the financial aspects of the site are supported by advertising, but it's completely untrue that the site is supported "solely" by ads. The site is supported in large part by the community and the experts here who donate their time completely free of charge, and who make this an interesting place to visit. Without them, the site is uninteresting and unhelpful. If the site is uninteresting and unhelpful, nobody would visit, and no vendors would be interested in buying ad space.

Please don't sell the users short, and especially please don't underestimate the frustration of the most active members amongst us, me included. What would be left of this site, and how many ads would be sold, if valued members like Andreas, Paul McKenzie, gstercken, JohnCz, cilu, kirants, Siddhartha etc., all decided that the ads were simply too frustrating to deal with, and just left.

The site needs balance. Lately, the ads are over the top.

Mike

I was browsing CG from a PC with 256MB RAM, 900MHz processor and it took an eternity to do it. Now I realized why: the IBM ads are loading the processor to heavly. On my home PC, wiht Sempron at 1.83GHz, 1GB RAM, it constantly eats at least 70% of my CPU. That doesn't look good to me.

The man between the rollers one is the most terrible and funny.. :) Can they not just write in bold bigger font "Man rolling between Gears" instead of that graphics :D

Sorry.. I am just having fun. But my question to Brad would be - do you have an internal compliance test for those ads before hosting them on dev-archive.. something some data that they should abide by based on CPU usage etc? That would help reduce such complaints to a minimum setting up a compliance system.

Yeah, your are right about them being hosted elsewhere too. Good point. But I think benchmarking them should be beneficial to all. Different sites may have different things to do - so they may affect them differently. It is a very wide thing to discuss about but that would surely provide you much peace. :)

May be we complain more because they are taken care of, are noticed! That is in a way an appreciation to your efforts and concern you show. We thank you!

With the guy playing around with the magnet, Firefox still goes into 90s.
With the guy just dangling from the magnet, Firefox ranges from 35-50, usually in the mid 40s.
Without the ad? 0 but I don't care about IBM so..

And the cpu stays used even when I'm using another program.

I tried with IE6 and its about the same. The new crane
ad took less - 20-30%.
Of course, this machine was made ~97 and is only 1ghz I figure most people are more blessed, Mr Dually :)

Hm.. I don't see the IBM ad anymore. Is it gone ? Or, do I just have to be patient enough to see it ?

First crash, trying to REPLY to a post. Also, I don't see any cursor with this new editor. Might switch back.

I had the usual 2 CG tabs open. Closed Fx. A few minute later, reopened the 2 CG tabs. Clearly lies the problem! :)