The 'Net is my market, I shall not want...

[thanate]

I keep opening the lj entries of people with ad-sponsored accounts and getting huge pop-up things that gray out the page you're looking at and won't allow you to close them until they've fully loaded. Has anyone else been having trouble with this? There are a few things I haven't commented on because I closed the window rather than deal with waiting ten seconds for an ad I didn't want to see to load.

(I'm particularly wondering if those of you with paid accounts get exempted from this, as every so often I contemplate upgrading... on the one hand, I like my basic account; it has everything I need, and I won't be able to get it back if I change my mind, but on the other I do use this an awful lot, and possibly it would be the thing to pay for my web hosting, so to speak.)

Comments

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Yep, paid accounts do not see ads. It's glorious.

[zagzagael.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I've not ever seen these ads and was stumped by your post until I read the comment above. Sounds like that alone would be worth the price of admission! And there's a pun in there, too.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

It's a little manipulative, though, to have a policy that you can still have a no-ad basic account, but you get driven away from your friends' ad-based journals unless you upgrade to pay. Ugh.

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

http://adblockplus.org/

I wasn't even aware the ad policy on lj had gotten worse until now.

[leimon-malakoi.livejournal.com]

I get those pop ups when I look at your page and am not logged in.... (lots of the time)

[cheshiretiffy.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a popup add on anyone's journal. Adblock on Firefox and disabled pop-ups take care of them 99.9% of the time. Every now and then an ad banner will load on Y!J but that's usually it.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Er... you shouldn't. I *don't* have an ad sponsored account, and at least as I look at my account, I don't see ads on it. (If you're sure they're putting pop-ups on a basic account, please do double-check and let me know, since that would definitely be cause to complain.)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

So basically you're saying I need to migrate to Firefox to solve the problem?

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

I can write that same script into safari for you. Don't know why I didn't think of that. Good call scraun23

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

there are a few things already out there that do this. I don't use Safari, so I don't know if they are any good, but...

http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

I was just going to load up grease monkey and start hacking :) this whole "downloading software" thing just sounds like it's too easy. I don't trust it :-P