how can this be?

[0neWingedAngel]

let me get this straight....we can't say on these forums, but they can support advertisements for girls gone wild?!?

i'm not opposed to the advertisements i just don't understand this situation....explain

[Loony BoB]

*can't see adverts*

Please, for the love of God, tell me that we don't have porn advertisements again.

[m4tt]

I've only seen the "Girls Gone Wild" one once, and it was just a picture of a lego man and a target to shoot him with. That's not too bad, but the video itself is.

[HOOTERS]

Lego man? Now that's just gone way too far.

[Burtsplurt]

I only seem to get Pinecone Research. The ads are independent of EoFF though, aren't they?

[LH]

I would take some drunk girls dropping their last scraps of dignity over that ing idiot with the hat who says, "Hey, over here!"

[Skogs]

Pop-up stopper... what a wonderful invention!

And for some reason my browser won't load the banner adverts on EoFF. Not that I'm complaining or anything...

[Dr Unne]

There are Girls Gone Wild ads, yes. Flash ones, at that. EoFF doesn't control the ad banners, that's all up to the host.

[m4tt]

Originally posted by LH
I would take some drunk girls dropping their last scraps of dignity over that ing idiot with the hat who says, "Hey, over here!"

I'd take ANYTHING but that guy.

[The Man]

Amen. When are those advertisers going to realise that they're LOSING customers by sucking so much?

[Loony BoB]

*moves*

Oh, yeah. Here's an way to get rid of banner ads in EoFF for yourselves (ie, it will work only for your PC):

Originally posted by Doomgaze
If you use windows, put "0.0.0.0 adserver.gamesquad.net" or "127.0.0.1 adserver.gamesquad.net" in your Hosts file... you'll never see another ad here again.

In XP, it's C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts , no extention. I THINK it's just C:\windows\hosts in Win 98.

Your windows directory might be named differently, though.

EDIT: This seems to work fine in IE. I tried it in Netscape, though, and it gives a pop-up that says "connection to adserver.gamesquad.net was refused", which is just as annoying. Not sure about the other browsers, but most of them can take of the ads on their own.

But if it does link to an inappropriate site, then it should be looked into. So this can stay open.

[The Man]

I tried that, and every time I loaded a page I got two "connection closed by remote server" browser windows in Opera. It was more annoying than the talking ads, so I undid it. It'd probably be worthwhile in other browsers, but I happen to like my pop-up-killing Opera. =P

[Dr Unne]

Audio ads actually work very well, according to what I've read. They wouldn't be using them if they didn't work. They're trying to make ads that are much more intrusive though. Ads that go full-screen and are hard to close, ads that start talking and are next to impossible to stop, etc. Blame the people who're actually clicking on the things and buying junk. Spam and spam-sorts of things that are nearly free to display to users and that get thousands / millions of people to look at them only needs to be .01% effective or something like that in order to turn a profit.

The Man: If you ran apache on your computer, it'd probably not give you those connection refused things. Redirecting ad servers to localhost without having anything running on localhost doesn't really upset IE though, if I remember correctly. Just Opera.

[The Man]

Yeah, it didn't upset IE, but I still got pop-ups in IE, which was also more annoying than having occasional talking ads. One of these days I'll have to install a pop-up killer that works with IE, but I prefer Opera to IE in any case.

I suppose talking ads might work well on people who didn't really give a crap about the content of the pages they were looking at, but it's just an intrusion to me. :S Ah well. D:

[Mr. Graves]

Originally posted by LH
I would take some drunk girls dropping their last scraps of dignity over that ing idiot with the hat who says, "Hey, over here!"

Ditto x 50.