Re: On-line & single-player games --- Big Brother will be individually measuring you up.....
- From: Xocyll <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:57:33 -0400
Walter Mitty <mitticus@xxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Michael Cecil <macecil@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:59:28 +0200, Walter Mitty <mitticus@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Michael Cecil <macecil@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:00:25 GMT, JAB <nochance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Everyone is a "sheeple" to a certain extent, it's just that not everyone
wants to admit it.
I suggest getting rid of your TV and radio and not reading magazines. Use
ad blockers for your browser. Even a sheep can avoid being led by adverts
if he/she cannot see the adverts.
How?
Do you not read web pages? Most of which contain adverts of some sort now.
Not if you use proper ad-blocking software. I suggest Firefox with
Adblock Plus (and perhaps something like Proxomitron if you can't figure
out how to add rules to Adblock).
I dont want to block out ads : they advertise things I might be
interested in. Sheesh. I also use Firefox.
Here we have the reason you don't understand the unaffected by ads
people.
You WANT ads to inform you.
I'll inform myself when i'm looking for something - if i'm not looking
for it, I don't care about it.
That includes whizbang new stuff; if it's successful i'll find out about
it eventually and if it fails in a year or so then I never wasted my
time on it. I don't get a rush by being an early adopter.
I don't care about brand names - except when the brand name is
synonymous with garbage.
Adblock, edited hosts files, flashblock and the web becomes a different
place.
I don't even _notice_ the remaining ads unless they're intrusive and
intrusive ads don't induce me to read them, they induce me to get rid of
them with a custom adblock rule so they'll never intrude again.
One exception to that - I don't block the ads on web comics I read - but
I don't pay any attention to them either.
Having received tens of thousands of spam emails - I can say not ONE of
them has ever made me want a product they were selling.
They're still sending them, only now I have mailwasher and a bunch of
custom filters so they never even get downloaded much less seen.
At least the spammers aren't wasting paper on it like the local and
franchise businesses and their weekly straight-to-garbage ads.
Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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