I have no idea what is going on with these horrific blog advertisements, but I will have them straightened out when I return Monday.
This inludes those pushdown ads which are so annoying, the auto-run audio/video ads, and the parade of 4th grade level silliness.
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." —Alfred A. Knopf
Excessive fiat money printing + negligible bond yields = asset price inflation. Just weeks after the most expensive painting ever, The Scream, sold at auction for $120mm and 6 months after the most expensive comic, Superman #1, sold for $2.16mm, the most richly priced piece of sports memorabilia sold for $4.4mm over the weekend. It was a circa 1920 Babe Ruth original game used jersey. The price exceeded the previous sports high in 2010 of the original rules of basketball written by James Naismith and the $2.8mm paid for the T206 Honus Wagner 5 years back. Whether its gold, comic...
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July 24th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Firefox adblock, I have never seen an ad on this blog. Works great.
July 24th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
thank god. That verizon crap was horrible. (much like the company’s customer service). Eradicate the bastards.
July 24th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Firefox….Ditto.
July 24th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
“Our Hero!” = BR
July 24th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Bravo!
July 24th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
GE – just ban them from your site. Tell em to take a hike.
July 24th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Yeah, those pushdown ads were killing me. I have my firefox ad block only on partial because I have to have it down for some sites to work properly. Had to turn it back up, or quit reading the top 5 lines of anything you posted. SERIOUSLY annoying.
July 24th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Gratitude for what we have and you-go-guy to do the right thing when the time is ready to fire away.
July 24th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Not a problem for me. Must be only in the US?
July 24th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Not a problem for me and I typically view on my work desktop, school lab, and Mac Laptop.
I’ve only noticed ING Direct, Verizon, and Kohler today. No pushdowns or auto-run sound. Maybe browser related.
July 24th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Hmm… looking closer the Verizon ad auto-video but doesn’t automatically play sound I guess.
July 25th, 2010 at 3:40 am
Similar to other happy posters. Using firefox no script. I freeload this site. But I would anyway. I’m too poor to buy anything
July 25th, 2010 at 4:40 am
Those ads forced me to download firefox with adblocker. I’m thankful as I was procrastinating this move for many months.
July 25th, 2010 at 5:28 am
Since moving to Madrid for the summer the ad selection has been less than stellar. I don’t know what control you have but I would imagine that the majority of your readers are not interested in a cell phone that “can see through clothes.”
July 25th, 2010 at 6:55 am
Please do check –
Working in IE7 and that GE ad pops open after an accidental cursor pass through and gets stuck. Surprisingly, when open, GE offers no X-ed out “close” box to make ig go away — so it sits there.
It’s a pain. Great if you can fix it.
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July 25th, 2010 at 8:08 am
now we know why GE can increase their dividend! Those pass thru type ads are infuriating, I’d never buy something I had to suffer thru like that
July 25th, 2010 at 10:11 am
LOL
Ads are useful — they fund the research assts and the like.
But they need to be less intrusive
July 25th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Better than a vacuum? I really do think it is merely a vacuum. For the usual reasons.
It’s also ugly. (Are retro 40s appliances in style all of a sudden?)
And I’ll second Madcow above. Overseas your ads get very low end and funny. Online kids games. Indian mating services. . . I would assume your overseas visitors wouldn’t be that different from your domestic ones, and often are your domestic ones.
July 25th, 2010 at 11:38 am
These video ads and big drop down ads make you the most money! This is the big time for bloggers! – I hate to say this but if you want more control over you ads WHILE making money at the same time… go look into how cuteoverload.com manages their advertising. It’s exactly what you want.
July 25th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Little reveals the reality of life more than the duality witnessed on “alternative” econ blogs that rail against the same principles espoused by the adjacent corporate ads.
July 25th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I used both Mozilla and Safari on OS X with ad blocker plug-ins. As a result, I have no clue what ads you’re talking about.
July 25th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I’m going to pretend I see ads so the advertisers won’t spend their time figuring out how to get around whatever it is that makes these ads invisible to me.
July 26th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
As others have pointed out, Firefox Adblock + the 3rd-party NoScript download is the combo you want here.
I take the further step of disabling image rendering (alas, there is no 1-click toggle for that in FF) and only enabling Adobe Flash when I’m sure I need it.
It makes for a lovely, quiet, low-bandwidth browsing experience. Fro me, it’s all about the quality of the thought and the written expression thereof. Internet spamvertisers must hate low-bandwidth Luddites like us.