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Mxytdvc
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dang it. Now I can't play when I'm at work.

My graveyard shifts are going to stink now. I can't install a banner blocker for my work computer, and so...yeah...might get in trouble for cruising around a website that has a possibility of spyware or banners leading to sites with spyware infestation (the reason why many geocity sites are blocked). Stinky....I play NQ2 while at work (for the record, I'm allowed to do this-my work is rather....dumb)
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And just the Neomail/Portal qualifies for it :)

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It's...a little worse than I thought. :\ But it's workable.

Also, I seem to be getting all Neopets ads. I suspect it's because I live in Canada, and not the US? If so... *small cheer*

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meowth1982 wrote:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Minako/Neopets/Screenies/newtoolbar.png

This is mine. Hehe I love it :)

And just the Neomail/Portal qualifies for it :)


Looks nice on there, but least I have the Halloween sidebar to comfort me. *shifty eyes* Or not. Banners seem more messy now. :roll:

BTW, nice screenie with HatIC. ;)

I am seriously gonna go insane seeing my items floating about.

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They are the exact same banners ;). Magic of flash: you can change the size and it wont affect image quality since flash is a vector program. :)
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BTW, nice screenie with HatIC. ;)


OMG I'm totally obsessed. But I can't get pass Snow Beast attack. >_< It's really really really annoying


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They are the exact same banners . Magic of flash: you can change the size and it wont affect image quality since flash is a vector program.


Yeah, but you notice...NO BANNER. AT ALL. None. Whatsoever. Not even a magic trick. It's just gone. Not there. Buh bye. :D So lovely.

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I think they made it so that if you want to see your account/active neopet/neopoints in hand, you'll have to look up more, therefore seeing the ads at the same time... -_-


I totally agree with you. This is going to cause serious problems for neurologically impaired players. At least when our user names, pets, and NPs were listed at the bottom of the sidebar, we could just scroll past the large banner ad. But now people will be forced to look at these god-awful flash ads in order to see how many NPs they have and which pet is active. And it's not like TNT hasn't been informed of disabled players' problems with the ads. It kind of seems like flagrant disregard that they now add all our user info at the top of the page now....

But I'm not surprised. After all, Neopets Inc. is owned by professional marketers.... :roll:

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davthocao2 wrote:
I think they made it so that if you want to see your account/active neopet/neopoints in hand, you'll have to look up more, therefore seeing the ads at the same time... -_-


I totally agree with you. This is going to cause serious problems for neurologically impaired players. At least when our user names, pets, and NPs were listed at the bottom of the sidebar, we could just scroll past the large banner ad. But now people will be forced to look at these god-awful flash ads in order to see how many NPs they have and which pet is active. And it's not like TNT hasn't been informed of disabled players' problems with the ads. It kind of seems like flagrant disregard that they now add all our user info at the top of the page now....

But I'm not surprised. After all, Neopets Inc. is owned by professional marketers.... :roll:


I must admit, the owners of Neopets are smart marketers...
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Anyone who wants to block the ads should try the Mozilla Firefox browser. It's free, it's more secure than IE, it lets you import all your IE settings and bookmarks, and best of all, if you add the extension "AdBlock" it completely blocks the banner ads and ad buttons without affecting any other flash things (like games) on the site. I got it last week and love it. My yellow sidebar is ad-button-less. I do have a large chunk of white space at the top of the screen, but it's better than a flashing, computer-slowing ad.
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Bleh, I'll get the Adblock anyways for the remaining games flash buttons... Where do I download it?
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I hate it, it's horrible. I hope this isn't "lets make neopets look really gross so everyone buys premium". *cries*

I understand why they have to do it...it's just...bleh.

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I was thinking about moving to Firefox now. Anything to get rid of those ads (plus Firefox is pretty cool anyways (mad name :))).

Anyway, I wonder idf Adblock will release another version of their software that will move the page up after an ad is blocked? *hopes*

The only thing that really bugs me about hte ads is how flashy they are and how much they move. They annoy the living bajeebies outta me. The size is also bad, but not horrible. Even so, I'd still rather Neo went back to the good ol days of no banner ads, and the old sidebar.

Ahhh, good times.

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the white space is caused by an IFrame. Adblock can't really do much for it.
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davthocao2 wrote:
Bleh, I'll get the Adblock anyways for the remaining games flash buttons... Where do I download it?


Firefox here, adblock here. And if you want the alt text to pop up when you mouse over an item in your inventory or a shop, you'll need this. :)

ETA: To easily block all the ads on Neopets, add these three filters to AdBlock:

http://images.neopets.com/buttons/*
http://images.neopets.com/728ads/*
http://images.neopets.com/ads/*


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My 2 cents worth: It stinks....

Out of 50 different page views, 46 of the ads were for Verizon (albeit different versions of Verizon ads). Only 4 of the banners were Neopets-related. The thing that bugs me most is the time it takes for 2 different outside sites to be contacted for 1 ad, i.e., atdmt.com and realmedia.com.

So does anyone know if by "Premium", Adam is referring to the branded ISP product, or does the Portal/Toolbar also qualify for no ads??? :(


Is it that bad? I've done about 50 different page views on the new template and have yet to see an external ad...

Change your country to something other than the US. Maybe that will help?
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