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Dumb me, I just noticed I don't have JavaScript running because I have NoScript I can see Google ads, but other ads that aren't hosted by this forum (which would be all of them) are well hidden, because the script for them doesn't run.
A kid walks into a candy store and steals a candy bar. Later that day, he walks into the same store eating the candy bar. When the store clerk asks where he got the candy, he says he stole it earlier. What should the store clerk do?
Obviously, you are not entitled to consume the candy bar until the financial transaction has taken place. As soon as it enters the human digestive system the chemical composition of said confection changes, thus causing physical damage to the store-owners property. The youth should be charged with willful damage and tresspass and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And then shot.
I think that prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law is a bit over the top.
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A kid walks into a candy store and steals a candy bar. Later that day, he walks into the same store eating the candy bar. When the store clerk asks where he got the candy, he says he stole it earlier. What should the store clerk do?
Were you asking us permission to ban Merri? Would you also like us to suggest an appropriate time for his punishment? i know, lets take a vote ...
A kid walks into a candy store and steals a candy bar. Later that day, he walks into the same store eating the candy bar. When the store clerk asks where he got the candy, he says he stole it earlier. What should the store clerk do?
You know, he only blocked the ads because you guys put them up. So really its you are guilty of entrapment. Crucifixions all around...
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and you just water down your vodka.
Its just a matter of not performing a few HTTP GET requests, and all the adverts vanish as if they had never been there at all. You can't punish people for getting value for money.
Were you asking us permission to ban Merri? Would you also like us to suggest an appropriate time for his punishment? i know, lets take a vote ...
Actually, I was hoping his posting would simply disappear, then the whole issue would go away..... Plausble deniability. If I were to delete it, then I'd have to put a ban in place at the same time - which I'd prefer not to do.
Slapping him around publicly also raises the point to others that there are some topics best to be avoided in a public forum. Besides, since he made the post, he deserves bit of grief at a minimum
I think I missed the memo on the pirates theme . Does anyone have animation software? If so, modifying my current one to show with the two pirate ones would be really cool. Do my normal one for a second, then one of the above for a moment, then back to my normal, then the other one for a moment. That would be different....
I think I missed the memo on the pirates theme . Does anyone have animation software? If so, modifying my current one to show with the two pirate ones would be really cool. Do my normal one for a second, then one of the above for a moment, then back to my normal, then the other one for a moment. That would be different....
I think I missed the memo on the pirates theme . Does anyone have animation software? If so, modifying my current one to show with the two pirate ones would be really cool. Do my normal one for a second, then one of the above for a moment, then back to my normal, then the other one for a moment. That would be different....
Arrrrr... ye landlubbers demand to much! Shiver me timbers. Blistering blue barnacles.
As for the admission of guilt, tell him to remove the perpetrating software and not to use it again or 'mention its existence.'
I think I missed the memo on the pirates theme . Does anyone have animation software? If so, modifying my current one to show with the two pirate ones would be really cool. Do my normal one for a second, then one of the above for a moment, then back to my normal, then the other one for a moment. That would be different....
I have NoScript extension installed for an extra browsing security and for development and testing purposes, to ensure a site works even without JavaScript. By default the extension disables all scripts, unless I allow a script from certain domain to run. I have allowed VBForums JavaScript to run. But I haven't allowed VBWire (never visit there) and the (multitude of?) advertisement providers; on this page that loaded it would be eyewonder.
NoScript is not specifically an adblocker: I do see advertisements and I can't choose to disable a certain ad. I just don't see the ones that require JavaScript to display in the first place. Because I never visit the advertiser sites and need to have JavaScript running there, I have no reason to enable their domain on NoScript.
If an advertiser decides to make an advertisement dependant of JavaScript, it is their own fault. It is not a fault of an user to have JavaScript disabled. Props to Hewlett-Packard: atleast their ad works even without JavaScript.
VBF could require advertisers to ensure their ad works without JS. Or you could change things so that the script files are on VBF server, in which case you'd skip the "feature" of NoScript for individual domain disabling; although that would be just a workaround.
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Besides, since he made the post, he deserves bit of grief at a minimum
The only grief I get of this is the increased delay until I can play Civilization IV I don't see how I could have done something wrong, for the above reasons.
I have to agree with Merri here, he's not using and adblocker at all, he's just running with the equivalent of having Javascript disabled.
No malicious intent with that.
Good point - but the moral of the story is don't post that you aren't seeing ads or I might have to give you some grief
The ads should degrade down to a picture if required features aren't supported. As such - I agree, javascript shouldn't be required for an ad
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Good point - but the moral of the story is don't post that you aren't seeing ads or I might have to give you some grief
The ads should degrade down to a picture if required features aren't supported. As such - I agree, javascript shouldn't be required for an ad
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Wear your pirate avatar if you wish to be taken seriously. Everyone knows that people with eyepatches and parrots on their shoulders have important things to say.
woa i will join the pirates club, the only time i put up a avatar on this forum was in when ad's were first introduced on this furm, it was a BLACK avatar, anyone remember those days?
Good point - but the moral of the story is don't post that you aren't seeing ads or I might have to give you some grief
If I didn't post, you wouldn't know they're not displaying. Also, this is the only forum I know that cares about talking about the ads; which is why I don't pay attention on the subject.
How interesting, I think I've seen much more ads lately on the site... I wonder why...
Maybe there is a setting for "Merri's ad-level from 0%-100%, set at: 200%".
How interesting, I think I've seen much more ads lately on the site... I wonder why...
The advertisers must be fixing their ads, since I don't believe we've added any new spots in a while.
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EditI can see Google ads, but other ads that aren't hosted by this forum (which would be all of them) are well hidden, because the script for them doesn't run.
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