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What on Earth has happened in the last couple of months. Probably 75% of the time I click on links to sites with actual real article-style content I get an immediate, page-covering "SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER" ad. It's so bad that my brain processes them as big blank areas of the screen and will allow me 0.02 seconds to find the "close" button before it hits the back button.
It is beyond obnoxious.
Is it just me or am I being targeted for transgressions in a past life?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: am I being targeted for transgressions in a past life?
1993. 35km NE of Adelaide. June. That field. That wallaby...
veni bibi saltavi
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It lied about its age! 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: It is beyond obnoxious.
Yep
Chris Maunder wrote: Is it just me
Nope
Chris Maunder wrote: am I being targeted for transgressions in a past life
Probably 
It's not only the sign-up for our newsletter that you get either, most of the times it's adds.
The add block add-ins in chrome help tho, but they make chrome run so damn heavy.
As a side note: CP is the only site where all my add block add-ins are turned off, for some reason add's here don't bother me at all 
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: CP is the only site where all my add block add-ins are turned off
Come here so I can give you a hug, big fella.
Thank you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Come here so I can give you a hug, big fella.
Borrowed Sean's Mankini again? At least have the decency to wash it for him before you give it back this time.
On a side note - in AdBlock terms, the Ad I see at the top is for Xamarin. They're trying to tell me something.
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You bought it, right? Good lad. And one for your Mum?
What were they selling, again?
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Chris Maunder
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I believe they're buying right now. I signed for it via PaySoul, the easy way to auction off your eternal salvation.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Borrowed Sean's Mankini again? At least have the decency to wash it for him before you give it back this time.
 Great, now I have to find a way to get that mental image out of my mind.
Tom
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Chris Maunder wrote: Tom Deketelaere wrote: CP is the only site where all my add block add-ins are turned off
I would do that, too. But I switched from AdBlock to a custom HOSTS file, which, obviously, doesn't allow for individual website treatment :-/ Do you accept ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) crates? 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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If you promise not to get too cozy with me, I will also admit to have no adblocker.
But seriously, If the ads are not held in my face at every click, I might actually look at them if one interests me. I think the ads are present enough to be noticed and do not get on the users' nerves.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: CP is the only site where all my add block add-ins are turned off, for some reason add's here don't bother me at all
Same here - probably because NoScript blocks scripts from the evil 💩 doubleclick.net, so I still don't see any ads. 
(Any chance of fixing that, so I can support the site without selling my soul to Google?)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm not actively blocking anything on CP; but I have to use IE10 to visit the site at work due to a Works on Everyone's Machine but Mine clusterelephant with the MITM HTTPS proxy and the CDN setup you're using to host javascript/style sheets (*herp*ummm i dunno, we could try deleting your profile and reformatting your laptop*derp*), and either your ad scripts don't load anything in the obsolete browser or some lesser variant of the same CE is preventing them from loading. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We're moving hosting providers and CDN providers in the next couple of weeks. I'm hoping that fixes your issues.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: As a side note: CP is the only site where all my add block add-ins are turned off, for some reason add's here don't bother me at all
Yeah. Currently CP is one of the very few pages where AdBlock and Ghostery are disabled. The ads aren't really bothering me neither. They usually are relevant as well.
If I find myself using a site a bit more often I try to see how the page looks with ads. If the ads aren't intrusive (blocking view on content, flashing, blinking whatever) then I usually consider whitelisting it.
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I have a 'Shoulder to cry on' for you...
(A second thought: Can you add such popup to the QA 'ask a question' page?  )
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Right, the ComputerWorld.com, InfoWorld.com, CIO.com etc sites have used a new obnoxious style.
I even created an RSS READER and shared it with CPers so you can see the list of articles and then click on the link and read the content in a clean view.
See the live RSS Reader at: http://newtonsaber.com/FreedReadR/[^]
You don't have to create an account to use it. Drop the list to ComputerWorld and you'll see the list of current articles. Quite a few CPers have tried it.
Also, I wrote a CP article on how I built that RSS Reader (FreedReadR) :
FreedReadR: RSS Reader Created With AngularJS (part 2 of 2)[^]
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Sure it's not transgressions in this life? 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Chris Maunder wrote: Is it just me or am I being targeted for transgressions in a past life?
The fabled lost planet Magrathea... whale... appearing 100 miles above ground... crashing to the surface...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Oh no. Not again.
(You mustn't forget the bowl of Petunias)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Aha! Nobody forgets the bowl of Petunias! 
Oh, wait - wrong show.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Watch it! I have a Comfy Chair...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Take careful note of the advertisers and be sure to never ever use their product or service.
Likewise, not any commercial vehicles that insist on driving in front of you at ridiculously low speeds in non-passable areas, and don't use their services, either.
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Our two-man team is trialling InteGREAT. It has complete end-to-end management, but the key features that we like are the ability to auto-generate key documents such as the requirements spec and data dictionary, and that it syncs the backlog with visual studio online.
Does anyone know of any credible competitors that have these key features?
Many thanks
Ian
modified 12-May-15 9:37am.
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