Remove popups on the redirect ads

[Jaguar]

That's clearly overkill. Whenever I click on a link, not only do I have to click through the redirect, but I get a popup too.

[MarkG]

the redirect isnt there just to exist and delay your transfer to an external site. it's purpose is to serve ads....

[Nikolai]

You sure? Very often, I get no ad, only a message on the top, a link to go to the site I want to go to, and the rest is blank...

[MarkG]

perhaps, if you the evil commie popup-blocking type of user

[Nikolai]

Well, I do use Firefox at home, but
1) I don't get pop-ups every time I'm being redirected IIRC
2) I'm talking about the advertisement I should get in the middle of the redirection screen.
3) this happens other places than home too.

[Nikolai]

A screenshot I just took when being redirected to the firefox page in your sig, Mark.

[DrSpike]

Re: Remove popups on the redirect ads

Originally posted by Jaguar
That's clearly overkill. Whenever I click on a link, not only do I have to click through the redirect, but I get a popup too.

That's a joke right?

[PLATO]

PLUS is redirect free!

[Dinner]

I use firefox and all I get is a white screen with the header on it.

[Harovan]

I'm constantly getting ads that want me to install Macromedia Flash 7 in order to see them. Like I would install anything to see a ****ing ad. But it is still annoying. Becoming a Plus member is not an option, however.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Becoming a Plus member is not an option, however.

What holds you back?

[Nikolai]

For me it's lack of money(going in school and no job) and parents with fear for the Evils of Internet payment.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by PLATO
What holds you back?

Why would I put Apolyton above the other gaming sites where I am registered and which advertize way less aggressive? Apolyton is somewhat larger, true, but this does not necessarily make it better. I understand, that ads are needed to cover the costs, but actually as it stands, the ratio "quality of content" vs "annoyance of advertisement" speaks rather against Apolyton.

[Provost Harrison]

I just cut-and-paste the links nowadays...it's a pain in the arse...

[snoopy369]

Sheesh, you all are lazy. Back before I decided to put out my $10 or whatever, it took me like 3 seconds to go from one page to another. Ooh, a page load. Oops. If it makes 'Poly a little cash, and allows it to run for all of you freeloaders ... I mean, do you think your time is worth $5 per (amount of redirects*time of redirect/month) or whatever? Then pay up! Otherwise, be happy you're getting free stuff.

Ten years ago, to play Civ with a couple of other people, you'd have to pass a disk around (presuming the existence of multiplayer civ, of course, in 1994), and to get news about the new civ stuff and/or discuss what's going on in your civ world, you'd have to pay $2/month to get a magazine or whatnot delivered to your home, and write letters that take months to get published.

Yet for a fully functional site that takes 5 *seconds* to go to the occasional outside link (that you probably don't click on more than a few times a day at most), you're complaining?

Sheesh.