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There are very few people who read this journal; subsequently the following will most likely have very little effect, but let's just imagine it will.
Firstly, please ensure you are using a browser from the Mozilla family - Firebird or Firefox will do just fine. Don't argue with me about Internet Explorer; we're in the 00's now.
Secondly, install the plug-in, Adblock. This is one of the greater utilities ever created for the internet and you need it. Essentially it is a means to blocking all those horrendous advertisements that plague your daily websurfing. Visit a site regularly and every time you do so lose your mind dealing with a whole acre of useless flashing shit that you will never ever click on in a million years? Install Adblock and in a single click and button press you can banish them to the pits of hell where they will be incinerated into the useless pile of nothing they really are.
You may well (rightly) wonder where all this invective is surging from on an otherwise fine evening. Well, it just so happens I'm quite happy to let you know from where this rage punches out.
Tonight I had written a perfectly serviceable journal entry, to present to the 0.4 of you who read for the nth time, about the dismal evening I had at a restaurant that up until then had been one of my very favourites. It was a heartfelt review, an exploration of commercial pressures and a dissection of the foodie mindset all neatly wrapped up in one, and I would have enjoyed presenting it to you.
However, advertisers had another idea in mind.
They thought it would be far more ingenious to crash my browser by displaying a CPU-heavy Flash advertisement selling emoticons when I browsed to dictionary.com, in the course of proofreading my post. Sure, I'm pissed at dictionary.com as well, but they have to raise revenue somehow. The Toolbox who thinks it's clever to load up a Flash advertisement when most people cruising the web have machines far less powerful than mine, he or she is the village idiot I want to cast to Hades right now.
So, dear reader, depending on how you look at it, by not ever reading my intended post you were either deprived, saved or had a few minutes of indifference stolen. To avoid such moments in the future please install Adblock today and relegate all of these degenerate advertisers into oblivion. The more we ignore, the bigger our collective one-finger salute.
And let's face it, with the bandwidth you save you can download another album, watch a couple dozen QT movies, play Counterstrike source for an hour longer, or suck down a few more FOI archives than usual. That would be appropriate bandwidth use, as opposed to hijacked and denied bandwidth use.
Business as usual tomorrow when I've calmed down. Unfortunately, you know the rules, the original post is gone forever. There's no looking back on the digital superhighway.
Firstly, please ensure you are using a browser from the Mozilla family - Firebird or Firefox will do just fine. Don't argue with me about Internet Explorer; we're in the 00's now.
Secondly, install the plug-in, Adblock. This is one of the greater utilities ever created for the internet and you need it. Essentially it is a means to blocking all those horrendous advertisements that plague your daily websurfing. Visit a site regularly and every time you do so lose your mind dealing with a whole acre of useless flashing shit that you will never ever click on in a million years? Install Adblock and in a single click and button press you can banish them to the pits of hell where they will be incinerated into the useless pile of nothing they really are.
You may well (rightly) wonder where all this invective is surging from on an otherwise fine evening. Well, it just so happens I'm quite happy to let you know from where this rage punches out.
Tonight I had written a perfectly serviceable journal entry, to present to the 0.4 of you who read for the nth time, about the dismal evening I had at a restaurant that up until then had been one of my very favourites. It was a heartfelt review, an exploration of commercial pressures and a dissection of the foodie mindset all neatly wrapped up in one, and I would have enjoyed presenting it to you.
However, advertisers had another idea in mind.
They thought it would be far more ingenious to crash my browser by displaying a CPU-heavy Flash advertisement selling emoticons when I browsed to dictionary.com, in the course of proofreading my post. Sure, I'm pissed at dictionary.com as well, but they have to raise revenue somehow. The Toolbox who thinks it's clever to load up a Flash advertisement when most people cruising the web have machines far less powerful than mine, he or she is the village idiot I want to cast to Hades right now.
So, dear reader, depending on how you look at it, by not ever reading my intended post you were either deprived, saved or had a few minutes of indifference stolen. To avoid such moments in the future please install Adblock today and relegate all of these degenerate advertisers into oblivion. The more we ignore, the bigger our collective one-finger salute.
And let's face it, with the bandwidth you save you can download another album, watch a couple dozen QT movies, play Counterstrike source for an hour longer, or suck down a few more FOI archives than usual. That would be appropriate bandwidth use, as opposed to hijacked and denied bandwidth use.
Business as usual tomorrow when I've calmed down. Unfortunately, you know the rules, the original post is gone forever. There's no looking back on the digital superhighway.
posted by W at 2:12 am
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