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I just choose "Forbid www.meebocdn.net" through the No Script add-on for Firefox. Now it doesn't pop-up anymore. I swear it was leeching a ton of bandwidth, or the escapist is just slow today.
Oh my God! I clicked post on something on another thread about 5 minutes ago, and it still says connecting. Get rid of this shit.
You won't see it with Firefox. I had no idea what this thread was about when I entered it.Tubez said:
Well, maybe it is because I am a Pub Club member. Members don't see ads and don't get those captcha things.Tubez said:
Hm, I hope this dosnt become a trend for the escapist where they allow add providers to become obnoxious and or intrusive guns ablazing. The pop ups that come up in the cornor are reasonable enough, but back when they took up half the screen was just...urg. And now I cant even load webppages without waiting a minuite for them first because of this godforsaken addon.
Oh thank god. I thought it was just me. I'd figured it for a bit of malware at first, but it wasn't showing up on any of my anti-virus dealies. The ads are one thing, I understand their necessity with regards to the Escapist. But I don't see the relevance of this toolbar. Does the Escapist get some kind of commission by allow whoever owns Meebo to put it there?
I'd -like- to be able to turn it off, but if it's going to be a similar situation as with the site ads, I guess I can just ignore it, as long as it's not a risk for infection or spyware.
Captcha: Enfermedad Reforia
I'd -like- to be able to turn it off, but if it's going to be a similar situation as with the site ads, I guess I can just ignore it, as long as it's not a risk for infection or spyware.
Captcha: Enfermedad Reforia
In case you have missed it, Escapist, the topic for today is...
[HEADING=1]Meebo is slowing your site down dramatically! Nix please![/HEADING]
That is all.
[HEADING=1]Meebo is slowing your site down dramatically! Nix please![/HEADING]
That is all.
Meebo offers "customized advertising", meaning they place a tracking cookie on your computer to see your browsing history. That might be what's causing peoples script alarms to go off (I don't really know computers). You can Opt Out [http://www.meebo.com/privacy/advertising/], but you'll probably have to keep doing so.GothmogII said:
Seriously? If that's true, I may have to consider not coming to the Escapist anymore... I know, I'm a user, I get free content and give little back, I don't deserve to get uppity about this, but I'll wait for an official comment on the matter. Might make a PM about it. Though, actually, that's what I, and everyone else in this thread should have done in the first place. A thread might be good for raising awareness, but site policy as far as I've seen is usually not up for discussion.Dags90 said:Meebo offers "customized advertising", meaning they place a tracking cookie on your computer to see your browsing history.GothmogII said:
The ads around the videos I could cope with. The ads interupting the videos I could (barely) tolerate. This Meebo thing? This shit is annoying. I want an option to turn this off entirely, not just lower it.Master Kuja said:
So, I would like to repeat the above quote: Classy, Escapist, reeeaaaaal classy.
I don't see this Meebo thing and I think I've figured out why. I'm using Safari, on a Mac running Snow Leopard, which doesn't seem to matter. What matter is I'm a Pub Club member, so apparently whatever this thing is, it's for non-paying members. I wonder if this pops up for non-member (by which I mean people who don't have an account on this site). If this is a matter of advertising, this is very annoying because for advertising you should not put an annoying service on your site, especially if it's only affecting certain people. (I joined the pub club for the high def AND to get rid of in video ads. I see far too many of those as is). Any other Pub Club members confirm/deny my suspicions?