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What's with the adverts?

Ellis

11:47 / 15.11.01

Since no one else has mentioned this, I assume it's just me. I thought at first that it was just otherposters putting links in their posts, but now it has happened to me on the K-Pax thread i started...

On my K Pax post, the word "bookstore" is highlighted, click on it and you will be sent to Half.com.

On "How to be a web gonzo", the post by Margin Walker has the word "web designer" in which links to HERE

Has anyone else noticed this or do i have some virus thing on my browser?

Kit-Cat Club

12:01 / 15.11.01

You are using Windows XP or .NET and I claim my five pounds...

Ellis

12:03 / 15.11.01

You're right, i downloaded the new MSN today...

How do i get rid of it? Adverts keep on popping up too...

Jack Fear

12:07 / 15.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Ellis:
...do i have some virus thing on my browser?
Sure as hell sounds like it.

Kit-Cat Club

12:09 / 15.11.01

I think you may be able to turn it off in your preferences somewhere, but I'm not sure.

Basically, the .NET platform (which is designed to leverage the net for users, i.e. to allow Microsoft to influence practically all the interwebnet traffic in the world) recognises keywords and turns them into links. It's your browser that's doing it, so try in your browser prefs. Someone more techy than me will probably be more help...

The .NET thing does have its problems - in trials it was found that any instance of the word 'Nice' would be linked to a site offering cheap flights to Nice, France...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

12:29 / 15.11.01

My God. That's evil and must be destroyed.

Frustratingly, however, I can't get Barbelith to work well with Opera, so I'm back with IE.

Grrrr.

Tom Coates

15:31 / 15.11.01

Oh that's too fucking offensive for words...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

15:36 / 15.11.01

Sorry. It's true, though. Hang on, I'll try now - but last time, it just wouldn't load. I wondered whether it was something to do with Pair's servers...

No clue. But it takes for ever...

Right. Testing...

Tom Coates

15:39 / 15.11.01

More information: here. Plus I'm going to be installing some code shortly which should keep it off Barbelith as a whole..

[ 15-11-2001: Message edited by: Tom Coates ]

We're The Great Old Ones Now

15:39 / 15.11.01

Huh. Now it works again. Maybe it doesn't do well when the board's overloaded or something.

I was getting positively barbestarved until I switched back...

I know it doesn't work at all well with hotmail - you can't use any of the buttons: you have to do everything by hand...so I thought maybe the UBB setup didn't mesh well.

Still, apparently it does...

Tom Coates

15:55 / 15.11.01

Sorry Nick - i was protesting about how offensive the smart tags was - not the non-functioning in opera, which is unfortunately the strictest of all browsers and hence not that easy to design for...

Mark Howells

13:49 / 16.11.01

Has anyone tested this "prevent parsing" meta tag, to ensure that it works? Not that I don't trust Lance, but I just wanted to be sure...

Mark Howells

13:51 / 16.11.01

quote:Tom said:
...opera...is unfortunately the strictest of all browsers and hence not that easy to design for...

I'm running Opera 5 on Mac 9.1, and there's no problem from here with Barbelith.

Disco is My Class War

08:39 / 18.11.01

That's really fucked up. The .NET thing, I mean. Something must be done.

And I sometimes run Barbelith on Opera, on my very obsolete little PowerMac. Seems to work fine. Yes, a little slow, but on an old PowerMac almost everything is slow.

Rose

08:39 / 18.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Ellis:
...do i have some virus thing on my browser?

Yes, it's called Windows.

I'm sorry.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:27 / 18.11.01

coolest problem with smart tags is when a sony web page has the word "dvd" and it links to another companies page

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