I even love the advertising - which I know is necessary - and have clicked through to advertised sites probably hundreds of times by now. I have been a subscriber but I missed the adverts!
But an advert that overlays the centre of the screen and then autoplays video with a sound track is a step too far for me.
It gave me heart failure and woke up the family.
It was that "Money is bad" bank advert - ANZ I think.
Or is my PC infected with something?
TV: Sony Bravia KDL324000. Freeview|HD PC: ASUS P8P67 Pro B3, intel i5, 8Gb RAM, 120Gb SSD, Win 7 HTPC: Antec NSK2480B case, AMD A4-5300 CPU, Asus F2A85-M LE mobo, WD Caviar Green 64Mb 2TB HDD, Hauppuage WinTV-HVR-2210, Win7 Home Premium, RAM 1600Mhz 4Gb. Laptop: Sony VAIO VGN-CS16G Vodafone Red Network ADSL2+, VF/Huawei Echolife HG520s Router iPad 2 PS3 120Gb
I'm sorry you didn't notice those before. These video ads are the only ones I have allowed on Geekzone because they don't start automatically when loading the page (unlike the ones on Stuff and other large sites).
Actually to start these ads you have to leave the mouse hovering over the square ad, and a progress bar will show up - when the bar is full (I think it's about ten seconds) then the ad will load. Just move the mouse at any time during that counting and the video never loads.
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