yep, i pretty much hate it. if anything, it should be disabled in the basement, but still there in the other forums.

 

Before trying *

Click Me

and post back of the intellitxt disappeared.

 

bump

 

that worked for me! :thumbup:

 

Yes, that will also work. However, since that is an actual IP, it will try to contact that host. Of course, unless you are running a webserver on your local machine, it will get denied. Especially if you have a local firewall that "stealths" the ports, your browser has to time-out before it decides there is nothing to load. But using 0.0.0.0 is not an IP it can even try to contact, so I just skips trying to talk to it all together. Not much of a diffrence, but it's a little faster with 0.0.0.0.

 

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.

 

I support HAN, and actually do click on the banners once in a while if something interesting pops up.

However, green text smeared all over the boards with no relevence at all drives me nuts. When I click on a banner, I know I'm going to the site of a retailer that can sell me an engine. Clicking on those green links sends me to god knows what corner of the interweb.

When RX7club started using intellitxt, I blocked it. Now, I did again for H-A.

 

This type of advertising is terrible, and frankly I'm kind of insulted that it wasn't discussed with the HAN community beforehand.

 

I want to support HAN but these ads are annoying. If we did leave them, most of us wouldn't click.
This is why I think everyone should get ADblock Plus and have it block the ads and open them in the background or whatever, so HAN still gets the dough.