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21-03-18, 09:50 AM | #21 |
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Re: Windows 10
What I really hate is when adverts for things I have looked at appear when other people log on to their profiles (so my wife knows I have been looking at presents for her) - I know I can browse on windows browsers in 'incognito' mode but have to select every time. If the ads were discrete I would not mind, but some pop up and dance around the screen and other cover up parts of the stuff I am trying to look at until they are acknowledged - and you never know what you are triggering when you do that.
No I don't feel guilty about blocking ads, especially when a lot of them are badly behaved. And blocking unwanted stuff can also block the harmful stuff.
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So the way I see it, site owners should be glad that I use an Ad-Blocker to enable me to tolerate looking at their content. |
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21-03-18, 01:24 PM | #23 | |
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i've been on the net that long that my brain ignores adverts on websites. |
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21-03-18, 01:38 PM | #24 |
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I don't use an ad blocker, but I do now manage to completely and utterly ignore them, rendering them ineffective. So what difference does it make what method you use?
All browsers come with pop-up blockers these days - which are also a method of advertising - so it can't be particularly frowned on.
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Seriously though, it's surprising that this happens. Adverts are normally cookie based and cookies should not be common to different user profiles. You don't even need a different login - browsers like Chrome support multiple profiles under the same account - but need to be selected manually, obviously.
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22-03-18, 10:54 AM | #26 |
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Re: Windows 10
I have a pop up blocker.
But I do switch off to the adds on Web pages. Odly my now TV box has no adds better the breaks.
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22-03-18, 11:56 AM | #27 | |
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1) They are too loud (they compress the sound towards the upper level of the volume) 2) They are just inane and annoying.
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23-03-18, 10:32 AM | #28 |
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Re: Windows 10
The Humax Foxsat PVR I use has a good feature, it can skip forward and back by preset times.
I have skip forward set to 60 seconds and skip back set to 15 seconds. So when watching a recording and it comes to an advert break, hit skip forward four times then if required use skip back to resume watching at the end of the breaks. You get to be aware of how much time is given over to adverts, for example an episode of Homeland typically has not less than 16 minutes of advertising. I rarely watch live TV now and absolutely will not watch live TV with adverts. |
23-03-18, 12:07 PM | #29 |
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It struck us when living in Australia and we used to make VHS tapes of programs to send back to UK, we used to sit there and be ready to pause the recording for adverts. an hours program would shrink to 40 minutes. Our Virgin V6 box will fast forward for preset time - but only 30 sec for each button press at the moment, will have to see it it can be altered. It does another useful thing, it allows for people reaction time when fast forwarding playback and if you press play button as soon as you see the ads finish it starts playback about a second before the end of the ads, it can also record 6 programs and play one back all at the same time - awesome !
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