Okay maybe I was engaging in some hyperbole there, but the fact remains the the site I paid for was not supported by advertising… it was to be supported by subscription. If I renew my subscription, maybe your arguement has a leg to stand on.
The admins were discussing putting up ads before you renewed your subscription. Caveat Emptor.
Daniel
They’ve already responded in a way: You gotta take that out of your sig.
Daniel
Lefty, dude, you’re spending a lot of your Saturday taking up a pretty lame cause. There’s gotta be better things to do than arguing on behalf of Google Ads and the Chicago Reader, who presumably have paid PR people. Don’t they have college football in Asheville? Water parks? How about taking the kids to Chimney Rock or the Biltmore estate?
Heh–my wife’s at Biltmore now, working; and I’m putting off homework. You’re right, though.
Daniel
Wow.
Did you know this?:
“Indien u een e-mailadres heeft, dan
kan u helemaal gratis leren hoe een
25-jarige werkloze 4572 euro per maand verdient met zijn ‘onprofessioneel’ in mekaar geknutselde website”
Very useful. Those ads. And in my native language too! 
[seriously: I don’t mind them. On a popular Dutch message board we see this dancing all around our screen. I prefer the Google ads. :)]
That makes two of us. I guess with the Gopher game over, I got no excuse.
: settles down to watch Notre Dame :
I just don’t get the fuss over these ads. Jeez, they barely take up the space of a single message header. I didn’t even notice them at first. They don’t bother me in the slightest.
Well, what constitutes a fuss? People have gone so far as to make posts on a bulletin board in a forum given to hystrionics and profanity. It’s nothing more than the pile on of the day. It’s actually considerably less of a fuss than they expected, I bet.
I’m just disappointed the google ads aren’t smarter. I’d like 'em to sell me NCAA football merchandise in my Gophers thread, or alternative rock CD’s in my Andrew Bird thread.
Erm, does AdBlock block every image? I’ve got some setting in Firefox set so I can’t get any images, period. Doesn’t matter what site it is, thre are no images, at all, anywhere. I’d ask in GQ but the post rely and submit new thread buttons are hidden as well. Do I need to come back in IE to ask? What am I missing?
How would it be more conspicuous? I hardly ever notice the SDMB logo anymore, because it’s not in the same field as the content I wish to read.
These ads, however, are right at the end of the posts, which make it LOOK like another post. Very annoying.
You’re right. I never realized how all the user information in the ads made them look like a post. Gosh, maybe if they put “Sponsored Links” above the ads, it would be harder to mistake them for a post.
In Firefox go to Tools/Options/Web Features and make sure that the Load Images box is checked.
Nah, I tried that. Oh well. No biggie I guess, but it would be nice to use this browser for the convenience. Thanks though.
duffer, I’d uninstall AdBlock to confirm that’s the problem.
Do you have Javascript blocking enabled? If so, that will block a good deal of stuff from loading, although I don’t know if it extends to all images. I’ve got it set for blocking in Firefox since Javascript is a prime way for malware to infect your computer, which means if I want to watch a video clip on cnn.com, for example, I have to use Internet Explorer to do so.
Kick ass. It was added “*” at the end of the filter. Thanks everyone. Firefox is now my browser. Snoopy-dance
I was about to suggest that. Glad you fixed it. You have to be careful setting filters not to set them too broadly - I’ve accidentally killed all the images on certain websites before, because the ads weren’t coming from a clearly marked subdirectory.
If you don’t mind Google ads on other sites, here’s the filter I use for SDMB ads:
http://pagead*.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-8505671427584150*
Yeah, they did a good job of letting the people here know about that…