Comments on: Ad Subtract http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: AndreH http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43572 AndreH Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:49:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43572 @BA I had the same problem as Sticks. After not beeing able to post since friday, I was today the first time on your site. It happens to times that the blog closed and the windows which offers "device cleaning" and "anti spy software" opened which were only to close by closing the cross to the upper right. My Computer is protected by AntiVir (with daily updates) and this is the very first time I encounter the problem. Andre @BA

I had the same problem as Sticks. After not beeing able to post since friday, I was today the first time on your site.
It happens to times that the blog closed and the windows which offers “device cleaning” and “anti spy software” opened which were only to close by closing the cross to the upper right.

My Computer is protected by AntiVir (with daily updates) and this is the very first time I encounter the problem.

Andre

]]> By: BigBob http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43575 BigBob Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:10:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43575 Sticks old buddy > However there seems to be an issue with NoScript and embedded > wma files, I spotted it on one of my own websites. Don't mind us everyone ... just talk amongst yourselves for a while. I wonder if the embedded wma thing is to do with NoScript. I have that addon too and it works wonders, but you have to teach it to execute stuff on a per site basis, so for example, I go to a new site where a script is meant to function but of course it doesn't. So I click on the NoScript 'S' icon (bottom right) and click on '[Temporarily] allow xyz.com'. The page then refreshes and the script fires on every subsequent visit. What I didn't realise for a while was that noscript expects Firefox to have scripts enabled for all sites - (Tools/Options/Content - tick both enable javascript and java), and let NoScript take care of the rest, then if Firefox appears to be hiding something, you have to educate it as above. As you were. Bob Sticks old buddy

> However there seems to be an issue with NoScript and embedded
> wma files, I spotted it on one of my own websites.

Don’t mind us everyone … just talk amongst yourselves for a while.

I wonder if the embedded wma thing is to do with NoScript. I have that addon too and it works wonders, but you have to teach it to execute stuff on a per site basis, so for example, I go to a new site where a script is meant to function but of course it doesn’t. So I click on the NoScript ‘S’ icon (bottom right) and click on ‘[Temporarily] allow xyz.com’. The page then refreshes and the script fires on every subsequent visit. What I didn’t realise for a while was that noscript expects Firefox to have scripts enabled for all sites - (Tools/Options/Content - tick both enable javascript and java), and let NoScript take care of the rest, then if Firefox appears to be hiding something, you have to educate it as above.

As you were.
Bob

]]> By: The Bad Astronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43574 The Bad Astronomer Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:28:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43574 There was a another freelotto ad I missed, but it's blocked now. I can't seem to find the redirect one. Interclick isn't listed, nor is the ad that was inbetween. I'll keep looking. There was a another freelotto ad I missed, but it’s blocked now. I can’t seem to find the redirect one. Interclick isn’t listed, nor is the ad that was inbetween. I’ll keep looking.

]]> By: Sticks http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43573 Sticks Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:02:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43573 Adblock Plus and NoScript are now on my laptop However there seems to be an issue with NoScript and embedded wma files, I spotted it on one of my own websites. Adblock Plus and NoScript are now on my laptop

However there seems to be an issue with NoScript and embedded wma files, I spotted it on one of my own websites.

]]> By: Haliday http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43577 Haliday Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:13:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43577 Ugh! I just got one of the "redirect" advertisements. That has to be the most irritating and offensive form of avertising since the invention of telemarketing. When I enter a URL, I expect to go to that webside and not have my browser hijacked to go to some schlock "contest" that exists only to collect and sell personal information. http://a1.interclick.com/Transition.aspx?requesturl=http%3A//www.badastronomy.com/&wsid=7635&ind= Ugh! I just got one of the “redirect” advertisements. That has to be the most irritating and offensive form of avertising since the invention of telemarketing.

When I enter a URL, I expect to go to that webside and not have my browser hijacked to go to some schlock “contest” that exists only to collect and sell personal information.

http://a1.interclick.com/Transition.aspx?requesturl=http%3A//www.badastronomy.com/&wsid=7635&ind=

]]> By: Holiday http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43576 Holiday Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:12:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43576 Ugh! I just got one of the "redirect" advertisements. That has to be the most irritating and offensive form of avertising since the invention of telemarketing. When I enter a URL, I expect to go to that webside and not have my browser hijacked to go to some schlock "contest" that exists only to collect and sell personal information. The URL of the redirect destination was ... http://a1.interclick.com/Transition.aspx?requesturl=http%3A//www.badastronomy.com/&wsid=7635&ind= Ugh! I just got one of the “redirect” advertisements. That has to be the most irritating and offensive form of avertising since the invention of telemarketing.

When I enter a URL, I expect to go to that webside and not have my browser hijacked to go to some schlock “contest” that exists only to collect and sell personal information.

The URL of the redirect destination was …

http://a1.interclick.com/Transition.aspx?requesturl=http%3A//www.badastronomy.com/&wsid=7635&ind=

]]> By: Halidai http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43578 Halidai Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:10:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/26/ad-subtract/#comment-43578 Ugh! I just got one of the "redirect" advertisements. That has to be the most irritating and offensive form of avertising since the invention of telemarketing. When I enter a URL, I expect to go to that webside and not have my browser hijacked to go to some schlock "contest" that exists only to collect and sell personal information. http://a1.interclick.com/Transition.aspx?requesturl=http%3A//www.badastronomy.com/&wsid=7635&ind= Ugh! I just got one of the “redirect” advertisements. That has to be the most irritating and offensive form of avertising since the invention of telemarketing.

When I enter a URL, I expect to go to that webside and not have my browser hijacked to go to some schlock “contest” that exists only to collect and sell personal information.

http://a1.interclick.com/Transition.aspx?requesturl=http%3A//www.badastronomy.com/&wsid=7635&ind=

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