Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

So how much do I have to ante up to get google off this site?

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007) Donate to DU
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:29 PM
Original message
So how much do I have to ante up to get google off this site?
On occasion i clicked on the paid ads on the left of the screen. I will not ever click on a google ad, not ever. I want them to go away. I see them as everything we are against being shoved in our faces.

I hate being marketed to. I am a consumer by default not because I can be bought or sold.

Google ads suck..:puke:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:32 PM
Response to Original message
1. Google ads are everything we're against?
Not me.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. rampant commercialism
just gets in the way of real discussion. I just don't like it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:37 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. Is it really getting in the way of anything at all?
I tend to disagree with you, however, if you use Firefox with Adblock you don't see them at all. I didn't even know the ads were there until I saw all the threads about them. So, I hung out on DU using Internet Explorer for a while. I didn't find them intrusive at all, but I went right back to Firefox of course. ;)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
petersjo02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #8
15. Where is this adblocker
on Firefox? I find pop-up blocker but no adblocker. Thanks.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:54 PM
Response to Reply #15
25. Check it out...
It's an extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Dem2theMax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:56 PM
Response to Reply #15
28. Go here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php?app=%7bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7d

Adblock can be found under "Top Extensions" towards the bottom half of the page.

It works like a dream. NO ads anywhere. Period. It's heaven. Enjoy! :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CONN Donating Member (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:17 PM
Response to Reply #28
37. This works for me. Thanks!
Too bad, though, for the general-user who is turned off by these Ads
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:24 PM
Response to Reply #28
40. I can't get it to install
I get the message that "software installation is currently disabled. Click Edit:Optoons to enable it and try again". But I don't see what I have to change. I tried allowing that page to allow popups but that didn't help.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Dem2theMax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:46 PM
Response to Reply #40
42. Lucky you. I'm the last person on earth to tell you how
to get it to install properly. I got it to install by sheer luck. LOL? Someone help here, OK? ;) If no one answers here, go to the computer/software forum. They'll know what to do! :) It's worth the effort. Adblock is great.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:54 PM
Response to Reply #40
43. Its easy...
all it means is that the site you are trying to install the extension from isn't an approved site. This is for security reasons, because a bad extension could theoritically hijack the browser. OK, so, if you trust the site, when you attempt to install the extension then you click the "options" button that is up in the yellow bar that appears, and click to allow the site to install extensions.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:59 AM
Response to Reply #43
48. It's the Mozilla web site
I opened the "Edit Options". Then I opened the Downloads tab and see the list of allowable extensions. But there's no place to allow the site to install the extensions nor to add the extension for this download. It's not intuitive.

Btw, I have the latest verson of Firefox. Maybe I need to reinstall it. It could be buggy.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:06 AM
Response to Reply #28
46. "Top Extensions?"
Sounds kind of peverted to me.

Oh wait. I just noticed who sent this. Never mind.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Dem2theMax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:22 AM
Response to Reply #46
47. The "P" word. SEE. It's ALWAYS the "P" word!
(OK, so it wasn't PORN, like usual. But it still started with a "P"!!!)


LMAO Poiuyt. I miss you! ;)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:33 PM
Response to Original message
2. but have seen Skinner's new house?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #2
6. ROFLMAO! Botany, you're
a classic! :rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:39 PM
Response to Reply #6
11. No joke


Lili Von Shtupp: Oh. It's twue. It's twue. It's twue, it's twue!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #11
16. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?
Edited on Thu May-25-06 10:47 PM by Patsy Stone


ed: link
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:59 PM
Response to Reply #16
29. The greatest movie ever made.
Lili Von Shtupp: Vhy don't you admit it? He's too much of man for you. I know. You're going to need an army to beat him! You're finished. Fertig! Verfallen! Verlumpt! Verblunget! Verkackt!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:33 PM
Response to Reply #29
41. Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
We could do a whole thread.

"Pass some of these out to the boys in lieu of pay."

"I'm just glad these children could be here today to hear actual frontier gibberish."

"I'm not a wabbit. I need some west."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:02 PM
Response to Reply #11
31. I don't remember what film that comes from.
But here's how weird my mind works. I know the guy was wearing this-
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #2
9. THAT is the guest house
silly.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Berserker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:34 PM
Response to Original message
3. One question?
Why are you still using IE?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:36 PM
Response to Reply #3
7. Because fire fox bogs down if I have too many windows open
I have to close it down. it becomes unresponsive. I think it has to do with pagefile fragmentation. Almost never happens with IE.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Berserker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:56 PM
Response to Reply #7
27. Never happens to me
and all I use is Firefox.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:03 AM
Response to Reply #7
44. that shocks me! are you using the tab feature to open new windows, or
are you opening multiple separate browers? that might be the problem, I don't know, I never use anything but FF and it kicks IE's ass. Not one hijacker since install, and IE gets me an attempt every single time it is opened (for those few sites that don't support ff)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:34 PM
Response to Original message
4. Awe comeon. I use Google all the time for searches!
I don't click on ads either, but why are you letting them get to you so much?

Ads help DU pay the bills, s they do on every other web site. Just ignore them.

The ones that piss ME off are the dam popups! THOSE are the ones that really get in your face!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #4
10. I use google too. Lately I have been using clusty
Google is becoming the elephant in the room.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:40 PM
Response to Original message
12. 10 million dollars
Wire me the cash and I'll send you a postcard from Tahiti with the details.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:45 PM
Response to Reply #12
18. i'll give you $9.99
send me the detail from your current location.:spank:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:40 PM
Response to Original message
13. I just scroll down past them. It seems to be pretty easy.
:eyes:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:40 PM
Response to Original message
14. It's not so bad. I thought the sticky's were worse! ....n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. lol!
I tend to agree :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:47 PM
Response to Reply #14
19. I donated and tried to make a sticky
told me i wasn't logged on......oh well. guess the admins were preoccupied with the google deal.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:14 PM
Response to Reply #19
36. Oh, you need your sticky! awwwwww! ....n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:48 PM
Response to Original message
20. It makes the site VERY hard to read
The ads just aren't visually appealing. They make the site very hard to navigate and read.

But oh well..
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:53 PM
Response to Reply #20
24. I think the google ads should be
a different color at least. I spend most of my time in "latest" and the relevant center column is more narrow than the right column.....due to the ads I guess. It just doesn't make sense. It give priority to the ads and not the content.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:59 PM
Response to Reply #24
30. Agreed! eom
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
wiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:51 PM
Response to Original message
21. If every registered DU user donated $20, we would have....
$1,795,200

I bet we wouldn't need Google then.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CONN Donating Member (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:52 PM
Response to Original message
22. Are there alternative sites like the old DU?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:55 PM
Response to Reply #22
26. DU is the best. There are no substitutes
that's why i'm so pissed.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
WildClarySage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 10:52 PM
Response to Original message
23. I had to chuckle at the sight of an FBI recruitment ad
at the top of a discussion about the FBI's searching Jefferson's offices.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:09 PM
Response to Reply #23
34. or the one: 'How to Sell to Government" List yourself as a supplier
available for government orders...."

Maybe we could sell them some voting machines?
How about some software for the VA to scub hard drives before they donate PCs to Goodwill?
We could sell them some old information that was freely available on DU before the Iraq War that Zarqawi was camped out in the Kurdish region of Iraq under the Northern no-fly zone. So they would quit trying to scare us about how he is 'on the loose' now. Maybe if they bought that information from us they could shut up about it so they don't look so fucking stupid when they spew about him now?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
union_maid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:03 PM
Response to Original message
32. I like Google ads
I don't buy much on the web..or anywhere else. But I like Google ads. Google's contextual text ads and copycats have enabled all sorts of free and excellent services that had pretty much disapppeared from the web prior to AdSense appearing. Even before the ads, Google basically saved search. Search sites were going pay-for-placement and results were getting useless and if that kept up, that would have been the end of the web providing an even playing field for the little guy. Google has played a big part in keeping the web as free to use and even publish on as possible.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:07 PM
Response to Reply #32
33. yeah, but there is now a banner ad just below your post.
I just don't need that. I think it will turn off newcomers to this site. It will look like every other commercial site to them.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
union_maid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:11 PM
Response to Reply #33
35. I wouldn't worry about it
Edited on Thu May-25-06 11:12 PM by union_maid
First of all, there are ads on everything on the web. Second, it'll probably take a little time before the admins decide exactly where and how it's best to place the ads and how they should look, etc. It'll probably take a least a couple of weeks before it is what it'll be.

*Edited to clarify first sentence.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #35
39. It seems ironic to me that
Edited on Thu May-25-06 11:19 PM by amerikat
in these days when everything is for sale that those of us who complain the loudest would accept the concept. I am not anti capitalist but I have enjoyed this refuge from it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:05 AM
Response to Reply #33
45. I don't get a banner ad at all, just four b&w ads above the beginning
the thread. weird.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 11:18 PM
Response to Original message
38. Can We Have Stickies Instead?
Stickies are cool.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr 30th 2024, 08:59 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC