interactive messages?

[kooky]

Posted: 1/9/10 at 3:54pm

are any of you guys getting these interactive messages on this site? One just started talking and scared the hell out of me..boy they are annoying..... how do we shut these off for good ? Please help .....

interactive advertisement ... these are terribly annoying !!!!!!! Updated On: 1/9/10 at 03:54 PM

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/9/10 at 3:58pm

Yeah, I'm getting them too. For the moment, I've turned the sound off my computer. I understand they need revenue, but if they keep this up, it'll be enough to make me quit the site. Incredibly annoying and loud.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/9/10 at 4:05pm

They are driving me CRAZY. And we shouldn't have to keep the sound off on our computers just to be able to use this site without annoyance.

[kooky]

Posted: 1/9/10 at 4:22pm

wow, I feel the same way ..... annoying beyond belief... is this the way they want it?

[James885]

Posted: 1/9/10 at 4:31pm

Yeah, they're pretty annoying. Especially if you're using headphones while viewing BWW. I just mute my computer every time I'm on this site.

[latitudex1]

Posted: 1/9/10 at 4:51pm

I'm not condooning ad blocking on this or any other site, but it's pretty darn easy to do if you know what you're working with.

Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox both have ad blocking extensions available. Opera has a built-in content blocker. IE8 can block ads through it's InPrivate filter (search Google for the ad blocking list). There's a user.css file out there that can block ads in Safari and Firefox; plus, there are user.js files out there that can block ads in Opera, Chrome, and Firefox (with Greasemonkey extension).

And any application on any operating system can take advantage of the HOSTS file. Just Google search it. We're not hopeless against the annoying Internet ads out there, even if we don't know much about computers. But I don't condone any of this, of course.