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Re: Oh, great! this is just what we need...

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From: Holly Marie
Date: Oct 11, 2002 9:42AM

From: "Timothy J. Luoma"

| I am continually amazed by what people allow their browsers to do to
them.
|
| In Opera > F12 >
| [ ] Enable plugins (turns off Flash)
| [ ] Enable animated GIFs
| [ ] Refuse popup windows
|
| and if you really want to get crazy
|
| [ ] disable javascript
| [X] show cached images only
|
| This lets me use the web as I want to, without being subjected to all
| that crap.
|
| Why anyone who knows anything about being online ever sees a popup
| window is beyond my comprehension.

It's not beyond my comprehension.
The name is the same the game changes along the way.
Advertising methods get invasive.

And some Advertisers and web sites are now embracing and enabling this
kind of abuse and misuse of digital technology to destroy the very
medium, and it is getting crazy.

Why should I turn off my javascript? There are many good and important
uses for this feature.
Ditto on images, diagrams, charts. Maps?
Pop Up windows - believe it or not, there are also very good reasons to
have these available, too.

Now, what are these advertisers really doing? They are encouraging users
to actually turn off all these options and it takes away another level
of usability or features on web sites that employ these in better ways.

Of recent note, and I cannot recall where... MS plans to put some
advertising blurb on its Win OS crash screen. I suppose it figures that
users are staring at a blue screen of nothingness, it may as well fill
it with some more useful advertising, while the user waits.

Here it is:

Wednesday, September 4 12:32 AM EDT
Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/10/bsod_ads.html.

Now I like to use or visit sites that have media, imges, javascripting,
etc... I should not have to turn all these items off to visit sites on
the web or use forms, or get more information in different ways. I think
the best thing is to leave sites quickly and never return, if they abuse
their use, and maybe pop off an email or publish a piece about it for
others to see.

holly



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