Comments on: Behind The Bad (People At Telltale)

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:41:36 +0000

Same here, I use adblock, but only for resource-heavy ads.
Sadly, that means I block quite a lot of them on rps! And I honestly wouldn’t if my laptop wouldn’t overheat and die from them. I even routinely click ads every now and again, although I’m not always sure if the particular system of advertisement actually takes that into account.

By: Michael Pearson

Michael Pearson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:47:43 +0000

Oooh ooh .. that’s a motorbike behind him! Which sort is it?

(re adblock: I have it, but only use it to disable CPU-chomping flash ads)

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:24:11 +0000

Actually, how many RPS readers use adblock as opposed to plain browser pop-up blocking? I suspect it’s higher than the internet average. Personally, I’d rather adblock and subscribe rather than be distracted by ads. It’s like having the TV on in the corner of the room – many people can ignore it, but for someone like me who rarely watches TV, it’s like having a whining child in the room, advertising detergents.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:07:50 +0000

Er, A-Scale, if the sites you frequent rely on pageviews, then your switching the adverts off means you are absolutely hurting the business. The ads know how many times they’ve been loaded – not loading them means you lose money for the site. Thanks!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:54:51 +0000

If you feel guilty you can always subscribe.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:20:59 +0000

I disable all ads via adblock and don’t feel a bit bad about it. I wasn’t going to click the ad, and odds are that the sites I frequent sell ads through pageviews rather than clickthroughs, so I’m not hurting your business.

By: Rosti

Rosti — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:46:22 +0000

Best RPS Article Images Meta-Joke 2008. Merry Christmas, Merry Internet Men.

By: BooleanBob

BooleanBob — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:28:03 +0000

I agree with Stromko in that almost all flash adverts have a canny knack of completely totalling my browser, causing within me an intense irrational anger at both the hawker and the site carrying its ads. So I use adblock, which I find to be morally nebulous (which is just a fancy way of saying I feel greedy and selfish for leeching my content) – but if the ads are preventing me from surfing the web, I’m not entirely sure what choice I have. And with google ads moving from their classy understated model into obtrusive, annoying browserfucker monstrosities, I can’t even whitelist their servers in a futile gesture of compromise.

Instate an internets license fee, says I. The BBC is just lovely.

By: dozer1986

dozer1986 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:45:04 +0000

No, scorch those wretched tables, if they’re not bright enough to use heat-resistant tabletops in a college then they deserve to have them scorched!

By: Stromko

Stromko — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:55:07 +0000

The only complaint I have about the ads is there’s so much animation and layering on every page that it managed to overheat and crash my laptop all by itself.

I’m amused that the page I’m on right now has not one but two highly animated World of Warcraft ads. Blizzard — thank you very much for advertising on my favorite blog, but everybody on Earth that wants to play WoW, is playing WoW. Crashing my laptop hasn’t broken my resolve, indeed, now that the cooling element on it is well and truly fried (took 30 minutes just to get it back down before 70 C!), that’s one less machine that I could run WoW on.

Though honestly my laptop’s been a piece of crap for years and for home use I’m going to switch back to using a secondary desktop as soon as possible, so this was just a call to action. Hopefully I can still read PDFs and check my email without scorching any conference tables at the college.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:34:06 +0000

Great stuff, you massive corporate whores.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:58:28 +0000

Gratuitous crotch shot opportunity missed!