Wow..logged in, and much to my surprise, each and every page trys to run some JavaScript BS ad crap.

As much as the board needs its $, I'm not ABOUT to let JavaScript run on my machine.

If your like me, you use a filter for incoming "crap", in this case its

pagead2.googlesyndication.com

...this has been added to my kill-file. Sorry to all the advertisters using JavaScript, but an animated gif/link is more than enough IMHO before I get some "ad" which adds a virus or porn link, or whatever... Not saying it DOES do that, but I sure am not about to let it run.

Thanks, but no thanks on the JavaScript ads.

-- Aaron

 

Javascript has nothing to do with the ad content. It's how the ads are retrieved. Each page consists of a single HTML file which an assortment of image docuements, style sheets and client side javascript files linked together. There is no way to load multiple HTML files as a single page. To get around this it is common to include javascript (.js) files instead which extend the HTML of the page on the fly.

For example, Google (for google context sensitive ads), would either need to give me server side code for the ads so I could include it in the page before it is sent to your browser or make available a javascript file which is included in the page after it is sent to your browser. To do the first they would need to create separate code for every server environment and platform. They would also need to transfer otherwise trade secret code for generating the ads to us under a fairly strict license. With the second way they only give us a single <script> tag to add to our pages. It works with every server environment and doesn't require us to have any of their code nor a license to use it.

There are some things to be paranoid about, this isn't one of them. Google ads are text ads and therefore need to be included in the HTML of the page, not loaded as an image. All you've done by blocking google.com is disable google ads on every site on the internet. Ok if you don't want them I guess.