# Well, the Internet was nice while it lasted. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506 "2010-12-01T02:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/21 "2010-12-01T22:59:19Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I am not going to touch internet exploder with a 10 foot pole, or a 5’7" finn either. Maybe a 5’7" swede? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/22 "2010-12-01T23:04:51Z")
I see not these ads of which you speak. Running FF with ABP. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/23 "2010-12-01T23:06:27Z")
Can’t say as i have them either. Running a mac with firefox and adblocker. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/24 "2010-12-01T23:59:16Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I highly doubt Spectre hangs out at the sort of sites where a person could get malware… > > 😉 Except the Dope! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/25 "2010-12-02T01:26:16Z")
I’m not clear on where the OP saw the ad, was it in Photobucket? That site got really annoying with the adds as of late, which is completely counter productive; I didn’t mind the ads before, but last month I opened my Photobucket page and there where three animated, “interactive” Flash ads on the page, one more of an eyesore than the other, and say “Ohhhh fuck it!” and blocked all ad feeds from Photobucket. Result, I’m no longer seen ads and Photobucket doesn’t get any money from that. Talk about killing the Golden Goose. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/26 "2010-12-02T03:39:26Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > Except the Dope! Yeah…that was kind of the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/27 "2010-12-02T03:47:56Z")
[Boomhauer]Yeah man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol’ internet, man, you just go in on there and point and click, talk about w-w-dot-w-com, mean you got nekkid chicks on there, man, just go click, click, click, click, click, it’s real easy, man.[/Boomhauer] That was in 1997 or so though. How long have you been tuned into this newfangled web channel? I have been around for a while and it used to be much worse in the 90’s. You could would around work and 25% of the screens would be filled with porn popups that you could only stop by hitting the emergency power cutoff to the entire building and sometimes not even then. The web was really aggressive and untamed back then and we didn’t have tools to deal with it but we liked it that way. Today’s intrusions are so mild it makes me want to smirk at anyone that thinks otherwise. You have it so easy you don’t even know the half of it. Take a look at the software you are running too. I don’t see any of that stuff and it is easy to guard against. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/28 "2010-12-02T03:49:54Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > I’m not clear on where the OP saw the ad, was it in Photobucket? > That site got really annoying with the adds as of late, which is completely counter productive; I didn’t mind the ads before, but last month I opened my Photobucket page and there where three animated, “interactive” Flash ads on the page, one more of an eyesore than the other, and say “Ohhhh fuck it!” and blocked all ad feeds from Photobucket. Result, I’m no longer seen ads and Photobucket doesn’t get any money from that. Talk about killing the Golden Goose. The photobucket link just points to a screenshot I made of the ads on another page. I didn’t see any of the ads today, they seem to have vanished as mysteriously as they appeared. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506/29 "2010-12-02T04:04:34Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Yeah…that was kind of the joke. Oh. Sorry, my joke filter doesn’t usually boot up before 10AM. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506.md?page=1)