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Title: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: WarpRattler on October 05, 2004, 10:33:54 PM

I swear, it's like every other page I view, it comes up as a full-page ad that I have to refresh to get by. Also, aren't those things only supposed to come up a certain amount of times during a session? Or did that change? Whatever happened, I really wish they'd stop with the extreme amount of ads. Oh well, at least it's not like they're showing those Army ads or those stupid Flash pop-ups that you can't even close by pressing the X. Now THOSE are annoying. Well, I should be going back to chatting now...*slaps Deezer with a large trout for no reason in particular*

("o0o") My metroid thinks you are stupid. People who
....v...v disagree with metroids often get sucked dry.<•>_<•>

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: TEM on October 06, 2004, 01:46:24 PM

They don't bother me much at all

Egg Power

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Vidgmchtr on October 11, 2004, 07:21:02 PM

donotcare95: Tell me something I don't know.

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Luigison on October 11, 2004, 07:56:07 PM

I have Windows XP with pop-up blocker turned on for classicgaming.com.  I also have, but rarely need to use the Yahoo! Companion Toolbar with a pop-up blocker and a pop-up blocker in my Norton Internet Security.

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Luigison on October 11, 2004, 08:08:11 PM

Although the pop-up blocker is not always turned on in my Norton, it blocks most ads.

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: MEGAߥTE on October 11, 2004, 09:31:24 PM

Pop-up blockers don't block Gamespy interstitials since they aren't pop-ups...

This is a quick way to block any ad server:
Open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(This file might be somewhere else depending which version of Windows you have or different OSes like Mac and Linux, but it should be there somewhere)
Add these lines at the bottom and save the file:

127.0.0.1 ads.gamespyid.com
127.0.0.1 ads.gamespy.com

You might also have to restart your browser or computer.

Edited by - MEGAߥTE on 10/11/2004 8:42:58 PM

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Deezer on October 11, 2004, 10:36:34 PM

Mine is C:\Windows\hosts

Works great, and I didn't have to reboot. ^_^

Edited by - Deezer on 10/11/2004 9:37:07 PM

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Super-Dino-Yoshi on October 19, 2004, 07:10:59 PM

The adds don't bother me, its the Ad-Ware that bothers me...

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Super-Dino-Yoshi on October 19, 2004, 07:13:33 PM

I tried that so far so good... I thought that doing this required editing the registry...

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Vidgmchtr on October 19, 2004, 08:02:52 PM

Seeing as I use Mac OS X and Safari instead of IE, I don't know any sort of techniques for removing those horrid ads.

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: MEGAߥTE on October 19, 2004, 09:42:56 PM

MacOS X has the hosts file too.  hosts has nothing to do with IE.

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: WarpRattler on October 20, 2004, 08:04:42 PM

I can't find that file. If it helps any, I'm on WinME.

("o0o") My metroid thinks you are stupid. People who
....v...v disagree with metroids often get sucked dry.
STOP MISSPELLING MY NAME IN THE CHATROOM! IT''S NOT o_O! IT''S o_0! OH-UNDERSCORE-ZERO!

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Vidgmchtr on October 20, 2004, 08:08:34 PM

Ah, I see.

After getting help from a friend who knew more about the Mac's Terminal than I did, I was able to add those IPs in. They work great.

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Deezer on October 20, 2004, 08:50:45 PM

donotcare95, maybe run a search for hosts under C:\Windows\ ?

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: WarpRattler on October 20, 2004, 09:11:15 PM

I did that, Deezer. I couldn't find it. Stupid WinME.

("o0o") My metroid thinks you are stupid. People who
....v...v disagree with metroids often get sucked dry.
STOP MISSPELLING MY NAME IN THE CHATROOM! IT''S NOT o_O! IT''S o_0! OH-UNDERSCORE-ZERO!

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Lizard Dude on May 10, 2005, 01:20:14 PM

Bump. ;)

“Using the Semicolon can sometimes be a tricky proposition from a syntactical perspective!”

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: BP on May 10, 2005, 05:32:47 PM

Huh. I never get full page ads or annoying popups, but the small ads are still there. They don't bother me usually...

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Edited by - Bird Person on 5/10/2005 4:34:26 PM

Title: Re: Those darn Gamespy ads are getting WAY out of hand.
Post by: Deezer on May 11, 2005, 02:02:07 AM

If you have Firefox, I highly recommend
Adblock.