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    Serious complaint with this website

    There's a guy who keep popping up in the upper right-hand corner of my browser window. He's bald and wears googly-eyed looking coke bottle glasses. It says "peel me" under his chin but I just want to punch his lights out. Can the admins of WebHostingTalk do something about this?

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    . I actually don't see this, as I'm behind a filter that blocks ads, but I actually don't think the admins can do anything about that. That's adspace that iNet sells
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    The carinet ad right farking annoying hehe///
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    I don't see it nether, Could you take a screen shot and upload it it seems kinda funny lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToNeZ View Post
    I don't see it nether, Could you take a screen shot and upload it it seems kinda funny lol.
    Screen shot should be attached.

    He keeps staring at me while I'm trying to read... creeps me right out.
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    He dose look kinda weird lol. I haven;t seen that one yet.

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    That is creepy all right.

    Funnily enough, even though I don't block ads, I've never been able to see the peel ads on WHT. I guess I'm just lucky to have this error with my browser.

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    That was funny
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    LOL ahahaha that's funny (and probably annoying). I think its an ad that WHT needs to pay for the hosting etc.

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    Hahaha didnt see that one yet, classic

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    I see peel ads but haven't seen that one yet. I guess it's doing a good job of getting peoples' attention.
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    He looks a lot like Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys (Canadian cable comedy for those not familiar) but without hair and cats. Maybe the guy is Bubbles' father:

    http://www.themovieblog.com/wp-conte...09/bubbles.jpg

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    Apparently it's doing its job very well, since it got most of our attentions. It kind of reminds me of the CNN ad for their iPhone app... perhaps we should have web hosts walking all over WHT scraping off posts.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    Apparently it's doing its job very well, since it got most of our attentions. It kind of reminds me of the CNN ad for their iPhone app... perhaps we should have web hosts walking all over WHT scraping off posts.


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    It gets attention, but not in a way that makes me want to click on it... quite the opposite.

    I just cover up the corner with task manager and google guy can't stare at me.

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    Thank god for adblock plus, bad enough when I look in a mirror.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ldcdc View Post
    That is creepy all right.

    Funnily enough, even though I don't block ads, I've never been able to see the peel ads on WHT. I guess I'm just lucky to have this error with my browser.
    Are you using a Linux OS? I never see peel ads when I'm using Ubuntu.
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    That might the the keyword here. That's what I'm using.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ldcdc View Post
    That might the the keyword here. That's what I'm using.
    Firefox, I think be it. I notice googly-eyed guy doesn't pop-out and stare at me when I browse WHT with Firefox... just IE.

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    LOL that just made my day, Those cannot be blocked since they are advertisements that the company has put up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DevGuy View Post
    LOL that just made my day, Those cannot be blocked since they are advertisements that the company has put up.
    I haven't found a single ad I can't block.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jeff_tanks View Post
    Firefox, I think be it. I notice googly-eyed guy doesn't pop-out and stare at me when I browse WHT with Firefox... just IE.
    Let's say it was a picture of a nice gals as* flashing her cat would you still cover it with task manager?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Outlaw Web Master View Post
    Let's say it was a picture of a nice gals as* flashing her cat would you still cover it with task manager?

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    Being an old-fashioned, red-blooded heterosexual... nope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Outlaw Web Master View Post
    Let's say it was a picture of a nice gals as* flashing her cat would you still cover it with task manager?

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    Worked those words around quite well. Only 3 months to go!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeyr View Post
    Worked those words around quite well. Only 3 months to go!

    yupps...

    I have a sneeky suspicion someone is hovering to pounce though rofl.

    Could it be the simple mistake of me using an extra colour in my sig, or linking to somewhere that's against the rules.

    Knowing me I'll behave like a bishop but fall at the final hurdle due to something silly.

    But the wager's £100, so I'm going for the win.

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    Hehe I see that one a lot. I see it in both IE and FireFox. So annoying yet hilarious.

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