Another quarter is Irish. “Came during the Famine” Irish. Grandma Jennings didn’t talk about it, having missed it by a generation or two, but she cooked like it. “Cheap” doesn’t begin to describe it.
“Internet? Are you going fancy, you bastid?”
Saw a job ad on Craigslist asking for an Irish tutor. Wondered why a tutor would be required so you could end every second sentence with “you bastid.” Had she married an Irishman, it would be “you fookin’ bastid.”
ETA: She was a dear and substituted swatting you with a broom for swearing. The Baby Jesus can’t seem to see that.
Responses like these come up every time there’s a thread about internet ads. Some of us don’t have the option of using AdBlock or whatever, because we’re forced to use whatever browser our workplaces have installed on our computers.
Another cry in the chorus about the tendency to break up an article into 10 pages of a “slideshow” or 12 pages of a chopped-up story. I’ve lost patience, as well, and close without reading.
You used to be able to click the Print version to get a cleanly formatted page, but that choice seems to be disappearing lately.
Apparently website design is mora arcane than decphering hieroglyphs without the Rosetta stone. This restaurnat I wanted to check has a flash app that make the menu appear as a “book” with turning pages and everything. I’d support SOPA, PIPA and all of them if thet would ban crappy site design.
This reminds me of something I’ve been wanting to ask, why is AdBlock Plus performing so poorly on Chrome for me recently? It’s not blocking any of the BS that appears right here on the Straight Dope when it used to do so just fine. Now I have to switch back to Firefox, which has been having zero problems blocking the crap that appears on this site. What’s the deal?
I did not use Adblock for the longest time. What drove me to it was some ads on a specific set of websites that talked to me. Nothing freaks me out more than my speakers suddenly talking when I didn’t expect it. No one should use my speakers unless I say it’s OK. Boom! I installed Adblock that day.
My server, slowish by broadband standard at the best of times, often runs very slow and renders some website unusable. With Firefox AdBlock Plus, things improved but I still have problems. I read news via Google, and have to condition myself not to click certain sites: Washington Post, for example, loads slowly.
Funny thing is: If I click Disconnect Modem, sometimes most of the page I’m waiting for will suddenly appear! I think most of the data had already loaded, but browser was waiting so it could arrange ad placement, etc.
I’m not sure ads, per se, are the problem. Some pages force the loading of largely useless .css or .js files.
Another problem is that clicking a link often doesn’t take you to that page, but rather a server script at the linking page to monitor your activity (mostly for future ads). I don’t mind being monitored, but don’t like the delay. Even on SDMB, I used to need to copy-paste URLs, rather than click to go through SDMB’s slow and error-prone monitor, but SDMB seems to have improved lately.
