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Mon Nov 26, 2007, 9:25 PM
Dear DeviantArt staff,
Because you're engaged in lifting as much revenue out of advertisements by using a script to reload them every FIVE SECONDS, you're slowing my browser down immeasurably. And since you're so fond of bannings, I thought I'd borrow your policy.

209.62.176.153
38.96.182.20
64.74.197.88
66.77.65.68

Yes, that's right. Those IPs belong to the servers of the advertising companies that serve some of the ads to your pages. They now reside within the blocked content list of my browser's settings. The bannings shall continue until morale improves.

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~Ayame-Seeker-CjBArt Nov 26, 2007, 9:31:47 PM
....interesting..I never noticed.. My computer has an program that doesn't allow adds on pages..Might be why it perks up every little often.-Seeker

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"Even if you silence me, My silence will still defy you"-Me

"It's not Lying...It's Neglecting the important parts"-Me

"I'm Not stealing.. I'm borrowing with the intention of not returning."-Me
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~Linoth Nov 27, 2007, 9:23:23 PM
See, I thought about that method, but I don't have a problem with normal advertisements. And they got rid of the noise making ones, so it was all good. But then I noticed that the blasted things were reloading themselves on a regular basis. That's just gaming the system at the cost of slowing down the user's computer.
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~Ayame-Seeker-CjBArt Nov 27, 2007, 9:55:18 PM
I admire your intiellegence!! I feel like I am oblivious to things like that!-Seeker

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"Even if you silence me, My silence will still defy you"-Me

"It's not Lying...It's Neglecting the important parts"-Me

"I'm Not stealing.. I'm borrowing with the intention of not returning."-Me
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~BitHaven Jul 8, 2008, 5:17:24 PM
here is another IP(s) for you to block:
(Quantcast)
4.71.209.1
4.71.209.8
4.71.209.10
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~Linoth Jul 9, 2008, 8:53:07 AM
Meh, decided brute force IP address blocks were taking up too much time. Opera has a nice and neat feature where you just right click on the page, select Blocked Content, and click the advertisement or image in question. It tries to auto-path the block to deal with only advertisements so that the rest of the server is still accessible. Alternatively, you can Shift-Click the advertisement to specifically block it.

Either way, their advertisements and CSS have made it so difficult to browse that I've started using "User Mode" to view DeviantArt, which pretty much turns off CSS and a lot of more advanced scripting until you're left with HTML and JavaScript. It's not pretty, but when I can have more than 20 tabs open at once, it's fine.
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