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Cisco ads with dancing legs and flashing lights and disco balls and OMG my eyes. It's one thing to see them while using the Community, but another to have them flashing all day while trying to work in...
View ArticleTheses Cisco Spiceworld ads are going to give me a seizure. DO you realize?
THese constant motion ads are nauseating and causing me to lose productivity.
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Ridiculous, blatantly dishonest ad!
OK, I get that Spiceworks is ad-supported. In the past, I've defended this policy, and of course I white-list SW, so my ad-blocker allows the ads. Over the years, some of the ads were entirely relevant...
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Computer Companies Hate This Product
I'm not sure we should be posting this type of scam ad:http://thiswentviral.net/fix-your-computer-now/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi_i36MyK5QIVQoxpCh0YVwUaEAEYASAAEg... I have nothing nice to say about this,...
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Life Changing Posture Trainer
Please make this ad go away. It's not IT related and that stupid looping through 5 images over and over again is annoying.
View ArticleWhy is there no #Mozilla Foundation hashtag? (A suggestion to change policy)
Firefox has a hashtag, but the company behind it, the Mozilla Foundation does not appear to.I was writing a quick article for the security section this morning, and found that while I can hash-tag...
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Another non-IT related ad.
It appears that Flo has invaded the Spiceworks ad system. These ads are all over my screen today (including at the top of this page as I type my message.
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Another one... [non-IT related ad]
It would appear that the Spiceworks app is now stalking me. (I just stayed at the Lubbock Hyatt about 2 or 3 weeks ago.)
View ArticleCan we (you) stop the advertisements changing the page hight?
I get why advertisements are important to spiceworks and I am not proposing anything against them. I am merely suggesting that we handle the difference in heights carefully. My proposed js will stop...
View ArticleHuge ads covering content? Noice...
Since when did Spiceworks decide that giant ads should cover content on the page? Seriously need to rethink this. Some huge Adobe ad covered a big part of my page, AND it moved with me as I scrolled,...
View ArticleAds containing political content
Spiceworks.I'll probably get some hate for this but it would be nice if Spiceworks did not show ads that some would consider political in nature.I'm finding it hard to open Spiceworks at work now...
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And we're one step closer...
This one popped up at the top of a Spiceworks Community page today:I think I can say that most of us hate the click-bait ads that appear on many web pages these days. We don't care about "The one trick...
View ArticleI hate to do this Spiceworks - but I'm re-enabling Ublock
I have had ublock disabled on the community for probably 8-9 years. Maybe longer. The ads have been relevant and I get a lot from this place so I figure why not help out in some small way?But lately...
View ArticleHP broke me, sorry Spiceworks
I know this isn't the first and probably not the last post about this, but I finally broke down and enabled ublock here. Specifically it's the new HP emerald green ad, that has to be the most...
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Another odd advertisement
Advertising advertising advertising.{Read as noun verb noun/object. Technically grammatically correct. The sentence is not me having a stroke.}I'm referring to the square ad on the right. The link went...
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Advertising oddity
Links tohttps://online-shop.eppendorf.us/US-en/Manual-Liquid-Handling-44563/Manual-Pipetting--Dispensing-445...How did I get pipette equipment as an advertisement? I'm not even in the medical field....
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Irrelevant ads
The goofy ads are back again. Yesterday it was one for Tx Whiskey. It might be argued that the product is a vital component of any IT Pro's toolbox, but today it's an ad for ugly shirts. Sean...
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Strange Adverts on Spiceworks.
I'm used to seeing IT related adverts on Spiceworks, I even occasionally click on them if there's something of interest :-)Today I've noticed a few rather strange adverts appearing e.g. a Chainsaw and...
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So... Did Someone Hack The Ad?
This banner ad caught my eye. On the left it's with Mike "Strom", while on the right it's with Mike "Storm". Does anyone proofread anymore?
View ArticleSo at this point, is it safe to say that the Swag Shop is gone for ever?!
As someone who is part of a very small IT Team, I am not able to get away for a multi-day conference like Spice World and pick up some new cool spiceworks swag. I am reliant on purchasing my swag...
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