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09-21-2004, 02:46 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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What's going on?
Anyone else notice that sometimes in the threads that certain words are green with two underlines and linked to other websites? What is that?
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09-21-2004, 03:25 PM
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Another way for a web site to make money from sponsors. Well as long as pcmech stays in business I will put up with it for now. But if this turns into anandtech.com I am running away
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09-21-2004, 03:33 PM
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hmmm i havent noticed anything like that so far. not that it bothers me or anything....as long as im reading the info i intended to read
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09-21-2004, 04:00 PM
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They are sponsored links. They've been on the main website for quite awhile, but I decided to try them out here in the forums, too.
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09-21-2004, 04:04 PM
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Must be only visable with IE becuase I have yet to see them.
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09-21-2004, 04:18 PM
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Yep, I see 'em. I was just about to ask the same question. I thought that they could be ads of some sort that worked their way into the site. I got a screen shot of them, but seeing as the mods know about them, I think we are ok.
~sd Last edited by swampdonkey; 09-21-2004 at 04:22 PM. |
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09-21-2004, 04:28 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Thanks for the explanation drisley. Cricket
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09-21-2004, 08:43 PM
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I understand the need to bring in revenue for the site but it causes my browser (Maxthon) to pause for a couple seconds and it is quite annoying. I tried it in FireFox and Mozilla and it does the same thing.
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09-21-2004, 08:45 PM
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Firefox handles it fine - I see long pauses and otherwise tedious ads in MSIE6SP1.
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09-21-2004, 08:46 PM
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Well it does it on my FireFox. I don't know what's going on. It must be something on my system.
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09-21-2004, 09:35 PM
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They show up on AOL also.
Curse AOL, can't wait till I get home and can use Firefox. |
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09-21-2004, 10:00 PM
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Seems like a non-issue, just don't click on the green words. Picking the brains of the members is why I come here, and the occasional chuckle.
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09-21-2004, 10:02 PM
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You don't have to click on them. It causes a 2+ second pause every time a page loads. For example, I click on a thread and start scrolling down. It freezes for two or more seconds before it goes to the bottom of the page. It's aggrivating.
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09-21-2004, 10:15 PM
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It's also an onmouseover thing - it freezes or rather crashes the browser when it loads up the description. I'm on MSIE right now, and it's lagging crazy...guess I gotta get used to Firefox.
Also, Hi Ho, congrats on #4000 kram |
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09-21-2004, 10:16 PM
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Thanks Kram! I didn't even notice that.
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09-21-2004, 11:59 PM
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Plz do not turn into anantech, that is so annoying, you just move the mouse to scroll and all these windows pop up, i hate it.
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09-22-2004, 12:38 AM
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I haven't seen these links yet so I pulled up IE and started looking through a couple of threads and sure enough, green links.
They haven't been showing up in Netscape. |
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09-22-2004, 08:17 AM
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That's what Firefox is for.
Also, I've been noticing a few pop ups here and there too...I'm wondering how, since I have the googletoolbar and MSIE from WinXP Pro SP2...which has a "built in pop up blocker". Wierd...partly at awe how it can get through my blockers, not necessarily annoyed. kram |
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