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Old Nov 18, 2005 | 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Daniel
I'm confused on why anyone would want to block this. You're not interested in supporting HAN?
Supporting HAN, yes.

Supporting this type of ad, no.

I'll give 3 reasons why I, personally, don't care for this type of ad.

1) It slows down the page loading. Untill intellitext has parsed the whole page and inserted their ads, I cannot do anything with the webpage. It's a significant slowdown to loading each page, even more so on this not-so-powerful work pc.

2) They are easily confused with real links. I'm sure that's probably the main reason they went with that type of ad, it's confusing. It's not so much that I can't tell the diffrence, it's more of the principal of the thing. I don't block the google ads or the banner at the top. Those aren't trying to hide and be confusing and trick me into clicking on what I think will be more information and it's not, it's just an ad. I block stuff like this that tries to look like something we normally use but it's just an ad in disguise.

3) Nothing is actually related. Honestly, I was curious the first few times to see... MAYBE, just maybe, they might offer something I want to see. WRONG! It's just advertising. It's not more info. It's not actually anything useful to me.

So to recap... it slows down my browsing, it doesn't actually provide me with any benefit, and it's deceptive marketing.

I dig HAN and I don't mind a bit of advertising here and there. I know you got bills and what not. But I have a very extensive "hosts" file that blocks these type of ads. I support HAN, I don't support this type of marketing.
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