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PLEASE Stop the Flash Adds- PGC Admins...
Grey Ninja:
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Originally posted by: Shredder
Besides, I've been told that these Flash adds leave something on your computer in order to tell it when to popup again next. If this is true, who knows what other add monitoring software they load that AdAware might have to remove. Just sticking with normal HTML adds incorporated into the page itself won't drive people away like BAse.com adds and Flash Page adds..
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This is known as a cookie. AdAware won't kill it, as you get about 1000 of them a day from various different sites, and many of them serve useful purposes. If you want, you can turn cookies off in your browser preferences and see if you like how your experience becomes.
As for the flash ads, quit freaking whining. They ALL have a close button, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to find it. You only usually see one of them a day, and that's not that much. Popups are easily killed by using some common sense and ditching Internet Exploder.
Shredder:
Who's Whining? I'm just pointing out that if enough people get tired of these flash adds, no matter how easy they are to close, they'll leave to find a better site. I like this site enough, that it's not something I'm ready to do yet. But when you go to a main page, you want to be able to read the news stories on said page ASAP. That's the reason you go there. You don't want to be bothered by a flash add that covers up the page, no matter how easy it is to close.
As stated, I'm not against adds on the page. Popup adds are easy to ignore or close. HTML adds can actually be usefull as I've visited a few myself when it's something I'm interested in. But Flash adds do nothing but annoy...Especially, as someone stated earlier, when they fly around on the screen, or require sound loading for those of us on dialup.
PIAC:
but PGC cant controll what adds they are given, its not actually upto them
that and there isn't a better nintendo site anywhere ^_^
Jonnyboy117:
"I had to ditch IGN because of their subscription service taking up all the good stories. "
If you don't want PGC to become the same way, we have to use ads. I'm sorry. Nobody likes them, but it's a fact of life. We understand that some ads are more annoying than others, and I do appreciate the feedback on the Flash ones. We may look into getting rid of them at some point, but as you might guess, they are the ones that pay the most money, so it's not an easy decision. This is just not something that can be fixed overnight.
Matt:
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Originally posted by: PIAC
but PGC cant controll what adds they are given, its not actually upto them
that and there isn't a better nintendo site anywhere ^_^
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That's not exactly 100% true... it's quite debatable these days.
As for the ads, having annoying ads vs. having to pay for the site is an easy question... the annoying ads are better. And anyway, in the case of IGN, they started a pay service and they still had annoying ads, so the user didn't win there at all.