Adervising Settings

[R1 Yammie]

Just got a little talking to from work about hits on certain sites, is there a way to stop adverising from refreshing and PSB to stop using so much traffic?

[padfoot]

Originally Posted by R1 Yammie

is there a way to stop using so much traffic?

Do some work?

You could turn off sigs/avatars as well...

[Klink]

There isnt any reason you would be hitting "certain sites". Up until now the advertising has always been from google, therefore the only advertising hits would be to adsense.

[Pkunk]

Using Firefox (not sure for other browsers) download the "NoScript" extension, then disable scripts from google (but leave PSB enabled)

Warning : this will deactivate pretty much *everything* from google

But oh the current ad on my machine is a motopro one which isnt a google ad?

[Klink]

correct... there isnt any google ads at the moment.

[Pkunk]

NoScript is great for blocking ads and popups in general (I typically leave google ads unblocked however), but if a site hosts the ad themselves (like on PS there isnt much you can do...

[barfridge]

Guys, please keep in mind that advertising is an important way this website is funded. Somebody has to pay for the gargatuan bandwidth PSB uses, and it might as well be a company, not users. So feel free to click on an ad for something that interests you.

For these reasons we discourage discussion on how to get around the advertising.

[Deej]

The advert is tiny traffic.

I would sugest turing off sigs and avatars if you want to reduce traffic.