CHANGES IN ADS - read on!

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Ming
I'm using the default setting... and I'm getting pounded with pop up ads. Should I be using a different setting?

And yes, I know it sometimes changes, and I need to update my profile to correct it. But even after JUST doing that... more pop ups.

could you post a screenshot of those pop ups?

it seems some of the new 468x60 ads also serve pop-ups

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by MarkG
on our forums?

i'm using mozilla without problems

Yes but this problem was right there as I started the browser. It was on the bottom edge of the browser window itself and looked like a html fragment. Maybe I downloaded a wrong build, although it said it was version 1.0, but it was the version without the unzipper program, so I am waiting for version 1.1 final.

-Martin

[Schee]

I'm not in the US and I don't want to see the new ads

I wonder how the visitors nationality is checked...

[MarkG]

you're using aol, which is taken as US....

[Martin Gühmann]

Interesting that I see those ads of Real Media (the banner I posted was actualy meant for America exclusively, too), and I thought my provider should be considered as a German one.

Schee: There are a lot of possibilities, to find out where you live, you don't brwose the internet anonymiously. First everyone browses with a unique IP address though the www. Of course usually your provider gives you everytime you log in a different IP address but the provider logs the address, and you can find out to which provider this IP address belongs. As the forum logs the IP addresses Markos just needs to ask your provider who uses this address at this time. But there are also other possibilities to find out something about your computer. If you browse your browser reveals itsself as IE 5.5 German version for example, it also reveals information about your operating system like Win 98, CPU ... This is usefull so that page designer can offer optimized versions of the pages for your browser and computer. Of course this can also be abused. Like: "Oh you can't view this page, because you don't uses the newest version of IE." and this guy gave me on his home page an error message. So I found that was worth some measures and revisited his page with Opera and use the Pretend as stupid IE 5.5 option.

-Martin

[Martin Gühmann]

Double Post

-Martin

[Rasbelin]

Hmmm... Mozilla 1.1 Beta on Win XP and no problems with viewing Poly, except that the browser tends to cause the system to freeze completely. Anyway, I do recommend abstaining from the 1.1 Beta version, and instead get Mozilla 1.0 or Netscape 6.2. The preview release of 7.0 should be ok.

Martin,

Netscape Communicator 4.8 is the latest version of the 4 series.

Markos,

you can still download Netscape Navigator 2.0 if you want to, so geting 4.8 shouldn't be a problem at all.

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[MarkG]

our "country indentification" code is not highly sophisticated. it just looks at your dns. com and net domains are treated as US "locations"

martin, let me know if you get the ads now. it should take your isp as a non-US one

[MarkG]

it's ok ras, i found netscape 4.7 in an old cd

[tniem]

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
Maybe I downloaded a wrong build, although it said it was version 1.0, but it was the version without the unzipper program, so I am waiting for version 1.1 final.

1.1 Final is out. Works great. Downloaded today, biggest change is that the icons are different and many of the bugs are killed. It also loads faster on my computer. But it should be good.

[Rasbelin]

Thanks, tniem!

I must have been completely blind for the past 3 days 1.1 has been available for download, as there's a news bulletin about it on the front page at mozilla.org and I haven't noticed it. The point is that I use the site as my home page.

[Schee]

Martin Gühmann : I know that, but I thought they were using the language specified by the browser.

[Martin Gühmann]

I still get the real media banners. The problem in Netscape 4.78 still exists. The odd thing is as I started today I saw no banners irrespective of the browser I used no banners in IE 5.5 in Nestcape 4.78, in Netscape 6.2 and in Opera, after reloading the pages several times the adds returned except the top banner in Netscape 4.78 that returned afterwrads the forum was up again. And in Opera the banners are still missing.

Originally posted by Schee
Martin Gühmann : I know that, but I thought they were using the language specified by the browser.

Sorry that I told you to much.

The language specification wouldn't work, because I could go to http://mozilla.org and download from there Mozilla 1.1 (the English version) and wouldn't download a language pack that would allow me to specify the preffered language as German of course I could also select US English, so over the brower I could fake it. By the way this post is written with Mozzilla 1.1 (English), actual I wanted to have an German version but I didn't check the link to long. So I end with the English version. Unfortunately the latest German version of Netscape Communicator is 4.78, not 4.8 I knew that there it is available in only in English. (Fortunatly I am not the only persion here who tells to much. ) But still the feeling between Nestcape 4.78 and Mozzilla 1.1 is different.

[Straybow]

"…in Opera the banners are still missing…"

Whoa! Sign me up!

[Schee]

I can fake my IP as well, I'm currently using an Hungarian proxy and I see a "Kittens are in danger" ad...
(Hum... or maybe I haven't understand at all and you were not saying that the language specification would be bad because you can fake it )