Naah, that's just an ad - think I've seen it often recently.

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Post #36,384

4/24/02 1:58:09 PM

Naah, that's just an ad - think I've seen it often recently.

It seems the _Reg_ is selling "branded locations", or whatchamacallit, for their ads: Whenever an article is on a certain subject, it gets an ad from a certain advertiser to accompany it. Has anybody else noticed how every article on telecom for the last month or two has had those big red Vodafone banners[*] both across and down the left side? IBM "branding" every _Reg_ "Web Services" seems rather natural... And, yes -- in this context -- funny, too.

[*]: Do they do anything funny on your machines? On mine, they're just big sheets of solid red -- but they eat processor power like crazy! Yes, I *am* sure of this. I have repeatedly done the "right-click, open-in-new-window" dance on a bunch of _Reg_ articles, seen my machine slow down via "Molasses" to "Glacial", and gotten it back speed by (reading and) closing only those _Reg_ browser windows that had the Vodafone ad. Just leaving them open -- even minimized! -- has heated up my work laptop so its little fan had to sound like a freeaking overloaded jet at take-off; close 'em, and the virulent green of the Task Manager tray icon goes back down to about zero where it ususally is, and the fan too shuts down after a while. WTF is it they're trying to do, play some stupid Craptive-X animation or something?

Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]

Post #36,427

4/24/02 4:48:35 PM

Went there with filters off..

LH side ad gave a broken icon, so I opened it in new window - which was addressed to "ad.doubleclick.net" + Reg yada. Alas [for It] *That* POS is in my hosts file, so automatically ---> purgatory, thus I couldn't see phenom. I did.. notice that, during this trial - the 'loading stripe' in task-bar was moving a bit slower than usual. (But that wouldn't reflect its doing 16M polygons/sec and stuff.)

Nothing appeared on RH side of column.

Hmmm..

Disgruntled Finnish laptop user sues ad.doubleclick for trashing its CPU. Angry mob with torches ties up traffic, carries risque signs.. something about a Back Orifice..

Is M$ trying to chill the internet marketplace? - (bbronson) - (11) - April 23, 2002, 09:01:43 AM EDT

Right. - (Steve Lowe) - (3) - April 23, 2002, 11:13:31 AM EDT

Hey, this may be a good thing! - (jb4) - (2) - April 23, 2002, 07:23:51 PM EDT

Y.M, "...is NOT the only one who...", right? -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - April 23, 2002, 05:52:58 PM EDT

Right... - (jb4) - April 23, 2002, 07:21:53 PM EDT

Maybe a little of both - (jb4) - (2) - April 23, 2002, 01:15:40 PM EDT

Re: Gartner said last year, MS had plan but no substance - (dmarker2) - (1) - April 24, 2002, 03:07:07 AM EDT

Oooh - that is so sneaky of IBM! But I like it. -NT - (static) - April 23, 2002, 09:40:36 PM EDT

DID you guys take a close look at the Register's header ??? - (dmarker2) - (3) - April 24, 2002, 03:42:54 AM EDT

Noticed but ignored; assumed advertisement - (bbronson) - April 24, 2002, 08:58:16 AM EDT

Naah, that's just an ad - think I've seen it often recently. - (CRConrad) - (1) - April 24, 2002, 01:58:09 PM EDT

Went there with filters off.. - (Ashton) - April 24, 2002, 04:48:35 PM EDT

Then again, I think our walls are made from the salvaged hulls of exotic alien spacecraft so YMMV.
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