On 6/27/2011 20:09, Tim Bray wrote:
I just clicked on a PESO hosted on photo.net. It popped up an
interstitial ad that I had to view or dismiss before I could see the
picture. This is unacceptable behavior and, sorry folks, I just ain't
clicking on any more photo.net links.
FYI, for those folks depending on photo.net hosting, this sort of
abuse-the-users behavior smacks of desperation; you might want to
think about finding an alternate home for your photographic art,
because at this point I'd be unsurprised if they didn't have too long
to live. -T
For a moment you had me scared, Tim. I interpreted your messages as in
the photo.net was actually closing down.
On a purely technical side of this coin, I am using FireFox on Windoze
and the NoScript plugin. NoScript is good but it takes long time to
configure as it works in white/black list manner. Specifically, I have
photo.net white listed but all other sites it refers to (also for ads)
blocked. So I see the pictures but see no shit that comes along.
I can relate to Paul Stenquist here, who has great many pictures on
photo.net and re-uploading them may be a big effort for him. Likewise, I
am bloggin' on Google Blogger since October 2006. So to have to migrate
would be a big bummer.
Yet, I see the point in others' opinions - "Carthage must be destroyed".
I did not realize that photo.net was sold by its creator so many years
ago. May be I should simply close that free account that I am having
there in hyb.
Finally, consider this, ladies and gentlemen. Here, anything public has
huge amount of ads. Even 3 min long news update every hour will have at
least one "this program is sponsored by ..." and a following jingle
moment. So, for example, if I want to know the weather update whilst
driving my car, I have to suffer through this, as I cannot possibly know
when to turn radio back to that station. Somehow I simply ignore these -
they don't register on any of my senses, so to say.
YMMV, of course. But NoScript is a great piece of freeware...
Boris
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