Build a wall - around that stupid ad

I fully agree Max.

This is one of the most annoying ads I have come across.

When I log onto TR using Mozilla, the add did not show up.
I will try again with the Mozilla Pop-Up blocker disabled.

Even with pop-ups enabled, the add did not show up with Mozilla.

Chas

I haven't seen the stupid WIN A SUPER DUPER PC ad in a while maybe this is the replacement.

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Just above the ad are two additional links. One says "Continue to TechRepublic", which bypasses the ad. The second link says About This Ad".

Click on "About This Ad" link. Included in that new description window is another direct link to TR looking for comments on the new ad. I sent my comments to them, and they replied within an hour. Perhaps if enough people send them a "please stop doing that" message, they'll listen.

That drives me bats too....but NOTHING pisses me off more than adverts for Intel or Microsoft.

And on TV too, every bloody computer ad has to do that ding-ding-ding-ding...frigging Intel thing they do.....you don't see AMD having to push their superior product the way Intel do, do you?

I suppose as Intel is now the worlds No. 3 processor manufacturer, I guess they need to push their product!!! But if I hear that 'Intel Pentium 4 ..... ding-ding-bloody ding-ding' once more I'm likely to throw a large concrete brick at the telly!

Do these guys actually care what products or services they promote? Do they actually care what companies they deal with?

The Vonage PC phone network for example. Has anyone actually looked at this junk?

They offer paractically no information (other than sales pitches) until you provide them with all of your user details, strike ONE.

911 service MUST be activated by request and needs to be updated as you mvoe, also any actual emergencies like 9/11 or the power grid failures and you get NO access to emergency services, what's even worse is ANY power outage or even the common NO BROADBAND AVAILABLE and you haev no emergencey access. 911 is useless if not deadly when it can't be used in an emergency. STRIKE 2.

It relies on third party hardwaer (digital line converter) to proces and scomplete calls. another point of failure for emergency services, STRIKE 3.

To cap it ALL off, this well below standard telephone service wannabe actually has the audacity to use the following statement to advertise: "This is like the home phone service you have today - only better!"

It os NOTHING like the hone service you have today, not even remotely close in any way, except your phone 'looks' the same. It is definitely NOT better in ANY way, unless saving 1 or 2 cents per minute on LD is BETTER and not just a tiny bit cheaper. Isn't LD cheap enough since deregulation already?

This ad and the company that PAYS Tr to display it just goes against everythnig that TR stands for: quality, reputation, accuracy in information, professionalISM (lol) etc.

They obviously don't give a damn what they promote or how their new site and it's advertisers do not compliment each other. Makes me wonder why they ever cared about our discussion rants and slanders. I guess money talks and BS walks as always, I always thought TR was a little bit above the rest.

I really didn't like that it covered the buttons I wanted. I almost left at that point, as it took slightly longer than I would expect to get the hell outta the way...

But I haven't seen the ad since this morning. I wish I could comment on it... But maybe it's already gone.

I just plugged into my other connection and lo and behold BOXES!!! What a crapper of an ad, who in their right mind would allow such tripe to hijack their entire home page (1024X768)?

YUCK!! Get it together TR, that REALLY sucks, I may as well be running Gator.

Sorry Max, I guess either we fit the same demographic (what a broad one that would be, age, location, skills are all different)or TR just let someone take over their homepage. Desperate?

Use a Mortar bomb not Mortar cement!

how about they put the 'wall' in the 'Shopping Cart' and wheel the lot away. ??)

i'll also register my objection as per maxwell edison suggestion

JohnM

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I sent an email complaining about that MOST annoying ad, and you were very kind to reply. However, in that reply, you indicated that the ANNOYING ad would only appear once a day. If that is how it is supposed to work, why do I see it EVERY TIME I click on a different link - EVERY TIME?

I go to your homepage - I see the ad.
I click on the discussions link - I see the ad again.
I click on a discussion thread - I see the ad again.
I click on reply to a discussion message - I see the ad again.
I click on submit my comment - I see the ad again.
I click the Back button on IE - I see the ad again.
I click on ANYTHING - and I see the ad again
And on and on and on and on it goes.

This really is MOST annoying.

Will you please either remove the ad entirely, or make it work like I was told it was supposed to work, appear only once a day.

Thank you very much.

maybe you should wait until tomorrow to make sweeping statements like that

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I guess I didn't read that chuckle from you.

And I missed it on a day that I sent an office-wide email to everybody saying the network would be down for 4 hours this morning so some routine preventative maintenance could be performed. (My network is NEVER down - knock on wood.) You know, some people just don't have a sense of humor.

I woke up my neighbour at 6:30 this morning, I had a fire extinguisher in one hand and was screaming GET OUT OF THE DAMN HOUSE NOW!!!

He knows I ofetn run some pretty high-end fuels in my shop so he didn't ask any questions and just put on his slippers and flew out the door.

Once he was outside, I handed him a cup of coffe with a smile. It took him almost a full minute to put it all together, and YOU guys think I'm an A**hole, just ask my neighbour what he thinks today. :-)

Sine you live in Canada, never have I been prouder to be a US citizen.

What a stupid comment, if taken at face value, which I suspect is how it was intended.

I just don't get what comment you are referring to, did I slag you off or something?

If not, I'll play too just to keep you happy. I don't like you because you are an American.

Nah, it doesn't make sense and there's no satisfaction in it. Did you have a point or are you just being a typically proud Yank?

If so, just keep 'yanking' it and quit pulling MY chain.

Being a citizen of a different country, I don't live in the dwelling immediately next to yours. Therefore, you're not letting me have it with the April Fools jokes.

Are you just that pessimistic?

New challenges require deeper understanding to resolve. Learning to extract the good from the bad is not easy. It requires deep understanding, patience and long term vision. Fighting wrong with more wrong will only further the down slide. Building walls is basically accepting the concentration camp concept - By choice.

I am actually the forever optimist but I see things for what they are and often will sound pessismistic toward grand ideas that have been proven not to work or just don't make logical sense.

Now as to your post, I assumed you were responding to my neighbours wake up call, it was just the way you worded your post that had me questioning the intent.

Personally I thought it was absolutely freakin' hilarious!! I love practical jokes and thrive on shock value. I can shock the heck out of anyone with just a few offish comments. My personal shock value is nonexistant these days, nothing seems to get me anymore after the accident and freaky things I've lived through.

EVen my neighbour was laughing with his wife about the way I got him up in the morning, what's even finnier he says is that his daughter had calle dhim and tried to suck him in but he knew it was April fools day. I guess the urgency in my look and voice got him going in a tizzy without time to think. LOL!

Oh, wait... I refuse to use Internet Explorer for visiting TechRepublic (or most other websites).

I highly recommend Mozilla Firefox. Pop-ups are not an issue, and it has nifty downloadable "extensions" that add desirable features. My favorite extension is called "Adblock" - I spent a little time building some filters (with judicious use of wildcards), and now I see very little advertising in the sites I visit regularly.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I hope I'm a lot funnier in person.

I have only seen it a couple of times, perhaps ONCE since you started this thread. I wonder if it is domgographically profiled (doubt it but it can be done). If so, change you profile, it seems they think you're gonna love the oppotunity to break out of these boxes or walls or whatever it was about. In total, I think I've seen it three perhaps four times in all.