What are your feelings about the new advertising links that pop up when your cursor runs over a green, underlined word in a post/thread?

example: pop up, computer

Heath posted that you can "opt out" by clicking on an underlined word, then clicking on the question mark in the upper corner, then clicking on the instruction to stop the pop-ups. You do have to re-do this each time you clean the cookies on your computer.

I hate them! Esp. when using a phone to read posts on CC. Thanks for telling me how to disable it.

Thanks for asking. I hate this new way for CC to advertise.

But CC is not a public service and not funded by another agency. They don't charge us a membership fee so I figure they need a way to make money.

Oh great!! I had no idea you could turn that off either. Thanks a bunch!

Oh and obviously I hate I hate it too. LOL

It's a pain but after I log out of CC I actually go to the where cookies are stored on my computer and delete all those sites that I haven't visited but placed cookies to track my internet behavior. I have a Mac.

You can also get on CC through FireFox and enable an ad blocker. I didn't even know there was an issue with it.

Mine is set up not to allow cookies from 3rd parties and advertisers. Even with that I noticed I still get a lot of cookies planted on my computer. If I put my setting to never allow cookies, you can't log on to CC.

Call me a hater.

mommachris

i must be crazy because it doesn't really bother me much. I actually didn't even notice it until I saw an earlier thread about it

Thank you for posting how to disable the ads. I also was very annoyed by them. Not anymore though. Thanks again.

I mentioned this in another thread relating to these ads, but I don't like them because they give others the impression that you are endorsing a specific product without your knowledge, and there is no way to disable the ads in your own posts as seen by others. That's just not right.

I tend to click on the Forums link and choose the link that lets me see the posts since my last visit. There is always a banner at the top. A few weeks ago I found that unlike previously where I could hit the back button once and get back to the list, I was having to hit it 3 or 4 times, because of the ad banner at the top of the page. I use Firefox at home, but at the office, I use IE. So I found an ad blocker that works just like the ad blocker in Firefox.

Go and google AdBlockIE and you can have the banner ads blocked. I've never seen the links that you're referring to in posts, so I think they may also be blocked. I'm again able to use the Back button to go back one page to the list of posts.

This is not about banner ads. This is about a method of advertizing where random words in forum posts (and, strangely enough, the occasional location under an avatar) appear with a double green underline and if you mouse over that word, an ad pops up.

However, I just tried to find an example and couldn't find one, so CC may have discontinued that kind of advertising.

As soon as I found out how to make them go away I did. Hate them.

It's bizarre and annoying, but whatever. I don't have to buy anything from them and I don't move my cursor around the post when I'm reading them, so they don't bother me too much. I don't like them, though.