Easy to follow post on how to remove Blizzard's forum pesky advertisements

[Evilseed]

http://wowbreak.com/content/RemoveWoWForumAds

The link above has a clear method for removing Blizzard ads thanks to the firefox community.

My problem with Blizzard doing this is the fact that they are trying to earn money by people who are seeking support to play a game that they have purchased. A great many people visit Blizzard forums due to game breaking bugs, or system errors when playing the game, etc. These people should not be subject to further attempts at financial extraction from Blizzard. It is appalling and disrespectful.

[wowphreak]

you can also just use adblock and block adbureau.net and atdmt.com this will block all adds from the wow site. Well I havent seen any adds since I start blocking those anyways

Having adblock and "Remove It Permanently" is kinda overkill

[Basilikos]

I don't know that I would limit it just to people that are in distress. I was pretty upset this morning when saw the ads since I pay to support the game and I don't care to look at advertising simply because someone felt like getting a few more pennies.

[Malekyth]

The official forums are so full of tripe and abrasive disrespectful dick-waggling stupidity, it's a tiny drop of Wonderful that its denizens should react to WoW-related ad content with outrage. Pages upon pages of single-line replies along the lines of "lol ur stupid /quitlife plz" is completely unobjectionable ... but t-shirt ads?! Oh, the OBSCENITY! By WoW forum standards, every post should be able to include footage of polyp removal surgery gone bad, instructions on how to make your own KKK hood out of construction paper and glitter, and a link to Uwe Boll's blog, all without the raising of a single eyebrow.

[Multibocks]

YA!



I'm with Malekyth!

[Basilikos]

... instructions on how to make your own KKK hood out of construction paper and glitter ...
I thought everyone already knew how to do that...

<.<

>.>

What?

[Dgc2002]

F.Y.I. i'm pretty sure doing this is against blizzard's TOS, and if detected could lead to a suspension or ban

[Coltimar]

... instructions on how to make your own KKK hood out of construction paper and glitter ...
I thought everyone already knew how to do that...

<.<

>.>

What?Skugg is teaching a class starting Monday for those who don't.

[Skuggomann]

What XXX?
... or did some one say KKK?


Eather way, im in!

[Evilseed]

F.Y.I. i'm pretty sure doing this is against blizzard's TOS, and if detected could lead to a suspension or banBlizzard has no authority for how your web browser displays web pages.

[Bovidae]

F.Y.I. i'm pretty sure doing this is against blizzard's TOS, and if detected could lead to a suspension or banBlizzard has no authority for how your web browser displays web pages.They may not have the authority, but when has that stopped big business from doing wtf it wants.

But srsly, I didn't even know there were ads, until I read the QQs. L2: adblock, noscript, etc

[sqeaky4100]

Yeah. Firefox + Adblock... I seriously havn't had a single popup and/or advertisement in like 6 months. At least.

[Evilseed]

Yeah. Firefox + Adblock... I seriously havn't had a single popup and/or advertisement in like 6 months. At least.Even tho I'm the OP, I'm not a fan of Adblock. The reason is a lot of sites I visit deserve the support that advertising provides them. Sites like Blizzard's forum absolutely should not be displaying advertisements to their paying customers when those customers visit their forums for support. Those customers are required to visit the Blizzard forums for support and thus should not be subject to Blizzard's attempts at extracting more $$ from them.

Fan sites on the other hand, which offer information free which is not required to play the game, deserves advertising support. Any website which provides information free of charge and deserves money gained from advertising revenue.

[wowphreak]

Yeah. Firefox + Adblock... I seriously havn't had a single popup and/or advertisement in like 6 months. At least.Even tho I'm the OP, I'm not a fan of Adblock. The reason is a lot of sites I visit deserve the support that advertising provides them. Sites like Blizzard's forum absolutely should not be displaying advertisements to their paying customers when those customers visit their forums for support. Those customers are required to visit the Blizzard forums for support and thus should not be subject to Blizzard's attempts at extracting more $$ from them.

Fan sites on the other hand, which offer information free which is not required to play the game, deserves advertising support. Any website which provides information free of charge and deserves money gained from advertising revenue.


I agree with yeh about the supporting site that deserve it only problem i have is that not all adds are benign some come with ad/spy ware,virus and what not therefore I block all adds.

[Smahs]

It is pretty sad, you think blizzard would have enough money from RAF and WOTLK coming, but nooo! They had to advertise on forums. It really sucks =[