Do you surf GFY with the advertising disabled? And why?
 

Just wondering how much of an impact the more annoying GFY banners have had on the number of people surfing GFY without ads. I wonder how much smaller the exposure is for advertisers since people started blocking adverts.

I didn't mind the adverts with sound that ended after you took your mouse away. Slightly annoying, but not to the point where i'd go out of my way to block it. But some of the more recent ones with sound that continues after mouse off... Too fucking annoying.

I shut them all off after the NaughtyAllie fiasco.

If they actually used a nice perhaps ambient sound, something that faded in and out and had normal audio levels it might not be too bad.

Why they have to use the most annoying nerve wrecking sounds I have no idea.

Yeah. The OCCash banner for example. I quite liked that one. Don't think it faded in or out from memory, but at least the sound did turn off after you took your mouse away.

Yes, I blocked the adverts after the flash banners with sound that didn't end on mouse-off emerged.


And the Hustler banner is another reason why I keep them off.

I turn them on at times to check out whats happening, everytime that banner comes on, it makes me ALT+F4 the page ASAP.

yea that banner with the whips and cash register noise is fuckin killin me everytime i roll over it SOB lol

i have disabled the ads long time ago because

1. i hate flash
2. i hate stupid sounds they make
3. huge banners slow down the board

I am computer illiterate, i don't know how to desible the ads ;-)

BTW a more interesting question would be - do you have sigs disabled :2 cents:

The StupidCash banner is great, I love that sound :thumbsup :)

Not really. I just wanted to see how much this whole sound issue has been affecting the advertisers here. It's kinda fucked up. The guys that make the most annoying banners get all the publicity, and it's the guys that don't rape our ears who end up getting punished the most 'cause their adverts are inevitably blocked along with the annoying ones.

Sigs don't really mean shit. If i were an advertiser at GFY, i'd be mighty pissed off about those who use sound. I mean, look at the results so far. 64% blocking ads because of sound. That's a huge difference to the exposure an advertiser is going to get. And i know only a few people have voted so far, but i'd be really surprised if the final result wasn't very close to 50%.

I surf gfy with sound disabled... I am interested in the ads.

No, because I usually like to know what 95% of the "FUCK THIS BANNER" threads mean.

i surf the web with ads off and no flash and have no ads on gfy as well.

maxthon for life

I leave them enabled but avoid those with sounds with my mouse :winkwink:
If by mistake I start the sound on one of them I hit refresh......:thumbsup

Yeppers

I have sigs turned off. I can't see any of the sigs on GFY. It's heaven. :glugglug

i have sigs on - there's always some interesting stuff in there

Ditto.. I'm willing to stop blocking them if Lensman stops letting advertisers use sound on their banners, though.

It's kind of counterproductive to surf a webmaster board with sigs turned off. One of the biggest reasons for being on the boards is networking and sigs are one of the best way to match up with partners. I've found many interesting things through people's sigs.

Ads on the otherhand are becoming another matter. The Hustler banner inspired me to try ad blocking software for the first time. Unfortunately the shareware I'm trying just blocks all flash by domain. I'm still trying to find a program that will let me block one specific ad without penalizing everybody:glugglug

not sure if can be done with this, but this is what i am using. you can block tons of stuff individually, click around in the settings

give it a try.

http://www.maxthon.com/en/index.htm

I block all ads now, it started with those annoying flash banners but I got everything blocked now.

Yep, all the banners are blocked. I just see a big white rectangle.

how do you turn flash ads off ? they suck nearly blown my speakers up a few times

I have sigs and images turned off in control panel.

In my browser, I have flash turned off and the content filter turned on, which blocks any kind of banner or any link with the word banner in it. I haven't seen an ad or heard an annoying sound around here in months. I fucken love it. And the board is so much faster.

I agree that it's nice to be able to see most banners and take advantage of the advertising and new programs. It's unfortunate that a few idiotic programs had to be so damn annoying and obtrusive that they pushed webmasters to block everyone. We're not goddamn surfers and we don't want to be bombarded with that shit. I've really never figured out why that's so hard to realize.

I do the same thing :thumbsup

I click on every banner to see what's behind them. One time I won $5,000.

I always mouse over the naughtyallie banner when i call the wrong girlfriend over and don't feel like seeing her when i hear her steps.. works great! :thumbsup

are you kidding? you won 5000? for clicking a banner?

the damn banner audio is anoying as shit

I just hit the back-button whenever the ads fuck me around.. and then forward
whilst avoiding having the mousepointer around the banner-area :winkwink:

I disabled flash, cause I like to listen to music, while surfing.

Almost 50% so far surfing without ads because of sound banners. Whoever handles the GFY advertising should problem take notice of that.

No. I always leave it turned on.

I disabled the images. This really speeds up the board and most sigs you can figure out.

Most flash stuff pisses me off, but the GFY sound banners take the prize. They are just so fucking annoying. I have never clicked on one, and don't promote the companies that run them...

I have however clicked, signed up, and promoted companies with informative or catchy banners (that don't include sound), especially ones promoting bonus signup days or new features. Unfortunately I don't get to see those ones anymore.

... and I don't miss a thing.

The sounds they use in banners are annoying as hell, well most of them are. I have flash disabled.

No ads. No sigs.

If people have anything worthwhile to contribute, they will write it. This is a message board. Not a billboard.

say here :)

Just looking at the results, i think it'd be nuts not to ban those sound banners that don't end on mouse off. Gotta be hurting the advertisers.

No after that horrible experience with the Naughty banner, I turned them off altogether in my browser. I will never turn them on again.