 nulery
join:2000-07-28
Arlington Heights, IL | Best use of a cookie seen yet! I too hate the X10 pop-up ads, but I give them company credit because they make it easy to kill them. Visit this page and follow the directions to set a cookie that will kill their ads for 30 days. Bookmark the site, and once a month visit the link to kill their ads!! |
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| Another way to get rid of the popup is to assign fake IP number for it in you "host" files.
eg. ads.x10.com 127.0.0.1
This will fool our computer that ads.x10.com is at 127.0.0.1, which is your computer....
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 justinAustralian
join:1999-05-28
New York, NY
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sure. (see my previous post - no need even for once a month visits).
But, just playing devils advocate here.. x10 strongly protest that their pop-unders are 'best' and the 'most unobtrusive' method of advertising.
Then they give you detailed procedures to remove them, and long explanations why they are using this ad strategy. One senses that they are defensive. Could they be annoying internet users perhaps? Why would a company want to annoy its target market? A cynic may suggest their main customers are (or were, now the IPO is pulled) wall street, instead of us.
Why if they are trying to help internet users, are they providing a manual facility to shut them up? Why should people be required to visit their site and click an opt out link every month (notice: the opt-out pages still advertise their products, and bounce you to more adverts) in order to tell them they are not interested in their products?
If I stuff your mailbox with unwanted catalogs, it would be outrageous and probably also illegal to suggest you have to cancel the catalogs monthly .. month in, month out.
In the end.. though, one should vote with ones feet and stay off sites that make the mistake of getting into bed with a company so technically incompetent that it bombards you with unwanted advertisements (which clearly cost both x10, and you money to deliver).. yet this foot voting is not happening.
The angry ones click the optout links, or simply boost the arms race between advertisers and users by installing ever more fancy defense software -- making things harder for everyone.
Its an ugly scene. |
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 radmishHi
join:2000-04-15
Oakland, NJ
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Change the link from 30 days to 999999 then visit it
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Optimum online since April 14, 2001
Big cheese of #optimumonline efnet
[text was edited by author 2001-11-01 19:23:20] |
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 Jim GurdPremium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
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Change the link from 30 days to 999999 then visit it
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Optimum online since April 14, 2001
Big cheese of #optimumonline efnet
[text was edited by author 2001-11-01 19:23:20]
It didn't work. I figured out (through trial and error) that the highest value it will take is 13227. Click the link below to set the cookie block until January 2038.
»www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=···about:Ok |
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nulery
join:2000-07-28
Arlington Heights, IL | reply to justin
said by justin:
In the end.. though, one should vote with ones feet and stay off sites that make the mistake of getting into bed with a company so technically incompetent that it bombards you with unwanted advertisements (which clearly cost both x10, and you money to deliver).. yet this foot voting is not happening.
While true we could stay away from those sites, we are unlikely to change the behavior of content providers since the on-line advertising market has dried up.
Although, I have to admit that I have stopped visiting one site (speedvision.com) because of their advertising -- at least while I'm at the office. They use advertising hosted on a server named www.twistedhumor.com. While the advertising is harmless, the site is blocked and flagged my the proxy servers in use at my office. Too many attempted hits to that site, and my user ID gets flagged.
I e-mailed the webmaster at Speedvision who said that there was nothing inappropriate about their advertising and didn't seem to get my complaint ... it was hosted on a server with questionable content, there fore my access to their site was flagged and logged by my employer's network administrator.
I guess the real question is, can content providers really make it with just advertising revenue. Justin, you can probably better answer this question, but I doubt it. |
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