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zogo wrote:But what I absolutely hate - unsolicited sound in webpages. Not only do I think they should be banned, I think their owners/makers should be stoned to death.

I agree sound is the most annoying thing in a webpage, its anoying, reppetitive and distracting. STONE THE DEVELOPERS!

Stop crying and disable sound. Go to the about:config page and type 'sound' as search term. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. =)

Boso wrote:Or you can get the addblock Extension. It works well. I have the same problem. I have a cable modem and the whole 64kbits/sec .

With the adblock extension for firefox, under preferences, you can add *.swf* for flash *.gif* for gif animation and so on and so forth. Then click remove ads instead of hide down at the bottom and that will take care of the majority of animation annoyances.

All the flash and animations drink up my bandwidth I only have 2gb/month and they use that up

mm_freak wrote:Use Lynx. =)

No. Use Links.

eosp wrote:

mm_freak wrote:Use Lynx. =)

No. Use Links.

I can't quit Links with q q, and that's bad. There is no real improvement either. Normal tabular data is displayed correctly by Lynx. Entire page designs based on tables (where Lynx just ignores the tables) should be banned anyway.

if the internet was graphic and animation free there is no way that it would be anywhere near as useful as it is today. the marketing machine would be gone, as would most of the fun stuff. itd be a place frequented mainly by geeks and hackers (the kinda people that post on this board). boring! that said - i also hate it when people put background music on their pages! why dammit why!?!!?

tokyo wrote:if the internet was graphic and animation free there is no way that it would be anywhere near as useful as it is today. the marketing machine would be gone, as would most of the fun stuff. itd be a place frequented mainly by geeks and hackers (the kinda people that post on this board). boring! that said - i also hate it when people put background music on their pages! why dammit why!?!!?

If nobody had invented the microwave, then we'd still use the good old oven. If nobody had invented the mobile phone, we'd still use telephone cells. If nobody had invented chairs, then we'd still sit on stones. If nobody had invented elevators, then we'd still be climbing stairs, etc pp.

If something didn't ever exist, then nobody's gonna miss it.

it shouldn't be banned
if you don't like site like that don't browse it !
or disable sound allmost every flash etc. site has it !

I actually don't mind nice flashy looking pages, esspecially if done by the right people. Though I do have to agree with the lot of you on the sound issue. It wouldn't be so bad if they chose good music, though they always seem to have to pick the worst elevator music for their sites.

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Personally, I think it's selfish when people say things like the thread creater suggested (No offense, mind you). Why do people think that something should be banned/change just because they don't like it. What if other people don't like it? It's like censoring television shows: if you don't like it, turn the damned thing off! Nobody is forcing you to watch tv, or use a browser that displays graphics, in this case. Are you more important than everyone else, such that your wants should be paramount to everyone else's, thusly banning things just because you don't like them? I think not.

There are solutions to problems like these; in this case, use a text-based web browser, such as Lynx, Links, Gopher, w3m, Charlotte, etc.

Again, no offense is meant toward the thread's creator, I'm just making a general statement of my views on these kinds of subjects.

Yep, if you don't like it, don't look at/use/eat it.

After being stuck on a linux machine with no sound card for months and recently switching to windows and getting one I have to agree. The machine Im on is slow and cant handle large pictures and gifs etc. Also at 2am just surfing around forgetting the speakers are turned on and having ads and whatnot blasting out by accident scares the crap out of me.

lynx > links imho but raw http requests through telnet reign supreme!

~c

May I gess that there is no artists around here ?
I have dial up and it is slow ! but I don't think it should be baned simply because there are people who thinks that it is nice thing