http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/ Engadget Comments for The elephant-sized ad in the room http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/engadget_adfree.jpg
And I can "control and customize" it on a per site basis using ANY (thats right ANY) browser! So ask me what I am using and where it can be had ;^)...
Hint here:
http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/AzPro.jpg
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Ads like these are what made me block ALL ads on Engadget.

I like supporting you guys, but I am not going to have my computer invaded by process hogging flash adverts. Period.]]>Nov 20th 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
I do applaud you for informing people how to take it off though.

Apple should be grateful to you guys for allowing them to advertise not the other way around.

After all this is Engadget.com not Apple.com

Also It's to bad Apple turned so Corporate. I remember when they used to be the "Peoples" comapany based out of California.

They're still in California but now they're more LA than SF.]]>Nov 20th 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
I came here to say exactly this. so... "exactly this". ]]>Nov 20th 2007 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
It's not like we're talking ads that float around over the text, and we're not talking about popups.It's an ad in the corner without sound. If you're not interested, then just leave it.

It really isn't that much of an issue.

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As far as the particular offending content, I'm starting to think that Engadget is actually a front for Apple computers, as 1 out of 10 stories is about a Mac product, Steve Jobs, a clone of a Mac product, etc. If there is one thing to hate about Apple (that is, beyond the smugly moronic Apple Geniuses or their grotesquely overpriced hardware), it's their advertising machine.]]>Nov 20th 2007 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
Some days I just open a shell and run Links to browse the web in a command line.]]>Nov 23rd 2007 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
P.S. That ad is ridiculously obnoxiously annoying, and snarky. Let's set some higher standards than the usual Mac OS pissing matches I have to endure while I find the skip button on my Tivo remote.]]>Nov 21st 2007 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/ Randavance @ Nov 20th 2007 11:40PM
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> Some days I just open a shell and run Links to browse the web in a command line.

That is hands down the stupidest comment I've read on here in a long time. I had to read it again in *Lynx* just to make sure it was as stupid as I thought it was. ]]>Nov 21st 2007 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
Also, negative advertising is the lowest common denominator, it suggests to me that Apple are getting rather desparate for new customers (in the computing field)]]>Nov 21st 2007 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 21st 2007 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
I have IE7 Pro, and it comes with adBlocker included. It works very well.

IE7 Pro also does inline spell check, extra scripts, Tab History, and many other must-need features.

EVERY IE7 user needs this. It's free and it hasn't effected my computer badly at all.

http://ie7pro.com/]]>Nov 20th 2007 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
"Adblock is for Firefox (Which is vatly superior) and AdBlocker is for IE (Haha... Lame.)"

Anything to prove that statement?

adBlocker works for me. I don't even notice an ad. So exactly how is AdBlock 'superior'? Can you give me any proof of this?
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BTW. it is FREE!
if Engadget doesn't know this......these dudes are a JOKE.]]>Nov 20th 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
FYI, I used to click on several of the banner ads to support you guys, most notoriously the AX ads.]]>Nov 20th 2007 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/IE7 Pro add more features to IE 7 than just Flash blocking.
Anyway. Later and happy thanksgiving.]]>Nov 20th 2007 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/And you pretend to be an authority on technology, yet you still use IE? Ryan's got you here...

If you don't agree with what he says, start your own tech blog. Maybe you won't ignore a large portion of the tech world then.]]>Nov 20th 2007 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
Now I don't want to be an obnoxious fanboy-sounding person, but when you said:

"yet you still use IE"

That's kind of like an insult you know. People have their preferences.

I don't want Firefox - it's a slow-down for me, and I'm not pleased that Google code is embedded in my browser. Not happy at all. That's just me.

IE7 works for me and many people. IE7 is NOT the same as the past browsers. OK? Get that straight. IE7 happens to be very secure (said by many news sources, and I never had anything bad come through), has just as many free add-ons, and it does what I need it to do.

In fact, IE7 does the best RSS feeds, and does more with tabs than the current Firefox. Just had to add that too.

So the point is, is that people have preferences.

Stop referring IE7 as the insecure IE6 with a new name. It's not the same.]]>Nov 21st 2007 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
Now, if I could just get this for my TV...]]>Nov 21st 2007 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/

aaaaarrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

vented out

ok ....i feeel much better

hope I don't see the add again ]]>Nov 20th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
I shouldn't have to turn off flash either, but for my "convenience," instead of putting up methods of disabling flash, how about you remove the flash ads completely?

...and yes, the huge ad does imply that you are on Steve Jobs & Apple's payroll.]]>Nov 20th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 21st 2007 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
Well, unfortunately we weren't talking about previous coverage or comments, we're talking about the stupid, uninformed thing you said during this coverage, in these comments. Oh, but I'm sure it was a single slip-up in your otherwise pristine track-record of informative, well-reasoned and accurate comments.]]>Nov 21st 2007 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 21st 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
pretty neat ad...but now i've turned adblock back on. ]]>Nov 20th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 21st 2007 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/Nov 20th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/the-elephant-sized-ad-in-the-room/
But yeah, I only have issued when I open an article in a new tab. The ad starts looping and echoing.
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