PLEASE Stop the Flash Adds- PGC Admins...

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Illustrious Chen:
No, seriously Rick. It's time to simmer down with the ads, okay? The occasional popup and flash ad is tolerable but when the start popping up, one after the other, bringing up download windows for songs and causing errors that force me to restart the computer you have gone too far. I've gotten ads that actually make it impossible to shutdown my computer, I have to pull the plug! Not to mention my 56k dialup, "Mr. No Pictures in the Sigs." If you want to make money put an online store in it or buy someone else's. You can't get something for nothing.

Sorry to be so gruff but its 100% true.

RickPowers:
And as I have said hundreds of times before, we have very LITTLE control over the types of ads you get served. If we lose you as a reader, then that's the price we had to pay. Sorry. Turning them off on a selective basis is simply not an option right now.

And you can be gruff all you want, but you seriously exaggerated the issue. We've NEVER had ads "popping up, one after the other, bringing up download windows for songs and causing errors that force you to restart the computer". And if we ever have, it's been fixed VERY quickly, because it was a MISTAKE and nothing more.

All I will say is that if you can't deal with it, get off the internet, because it's only going to get worse, and not just on our site. They want to make sure people are seeing these ads, and they're going to keep coming up with more intrusive ways to do it. And smallish sites like ours simply can't argue with them and risk losing the revenue entirely. You're going to pay for your web content in one way or another, you just won't get a choice most times.

Shredder:
Hey guys,

Sorry for starting up what's obviously a heated topic. I didn't intend for it to get this bad. But if the folks at Planet Gamecube have fixed something, I havn't noticed a single flash add in the last 4 days. A new record, so thanks, something is obviously changed . The only problem I still have is the base.com adds. Along with flash adds, these two are the most annoying because of sound loads, movie loads, and what not. Sometimes you can't even skip them using the link provided because they have to finish loading whatever long movie they need to load.

But for what you have done so far, Thanks for trying to help .

Illustrious Chen:
Well for the past few days I have been getting download windows to download movie players and songs as if I had clicked on a download link. And every time I get an ad titled "Download Windows XP..." it stays on the taskbar, won't be closed out, no matter what and prevents me from shutting my computer down. I have also recieved ads from this site that have automatically restarted Windows Explorer on at least 2 occasions. If you can't choose which ads you put on then why haven't I seen them on other sites?

PIAC:
run adaware and quickly, thats not PGCs doing at all, run a spyware killer that someone mentioned also.

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