Is there any way to block those extremely irritating animated ads

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that pop up in the middle of websites far too often?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

Have you asked stevem to call ahead?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

Turn off ActiveX if you use IE. That's what I do. What browser/platform are you on?

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

Can't help ya with stopping them, but I can point the finger at the some of the fuckers responsible:

eyeblaster.com

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

uninstall flash

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

If you're using "Opera", press f12, and a menu (ahem) pops up, with various controls for accepting and refusin animated gifs, embedded video/audio, java, plug-ins etc.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

If you ask them politely, sometime they'll just go away.

― frankstuart, Friday, 6 February 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

close your eyes

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 6 February 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

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