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So I'm browsing this site in firefox, and suddenly, out of nowhere, this guy starts talking to me in my headphones trying to convince me to buy a gateway laptop. I close the current tab I have open. Still talking. I close all the other tabs I have open, still talking. WTF. Shut up already. Where are you coming from??? At this point I'm starting to get a little scared, not sure whether the voice is coming from the computer or inside my head. Maybe I have a twisted subconscience that has a secret penchant for blasphemous computer companies? Searching desperately for a way to escape I start banging on my keyboard repeatedly and through sheer luck manage to hit Command+Q and exit out of Firefox. Silence. He's gone, finally.
This is the first time I've encountered such deadly advertising; ever happen to you?
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Only in conjuction with an ad, never audio by itself. That's truly twisted.
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"In darkness there is strength, therefore strength is darkness."
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Originally Posted by RGB
Come from a popunder?
Yeah, I think so.
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Tell the voices in your head to dump their stock in GTW and buy up AAPL.
No more problems.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Yeah, that would make me want to buy a Gateway...
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Originally Posted by itistoday
So I'm browsing this site in firefox, and suddenly, out of nowhere, this guy starts talking to me in my headphones trying to convince me to buy a gateway laptop. I close the current tab I have open. Still talking. I close all the other tabs I have open, still talking. WTF. Shut up already. Where are you coming from??? At this point I'm starting to get a little scared, not sure whether the voice is coming from the computer or inside my head. Maybe I have a twisted subconscience that has a secret penchant for blasphemous computer companies? Searching desperately for a way to escape I start banging on my keyboard repeatedly and through sheer luck manage to hit Command+Q and exit out of Firefox. Silence. He's gone, finally.
This is the first time I've encountered such deadly advertising; ever happen to you?
Sure it wasn't just the voices in your head? I'd be scared, if I were you. My voices always talk about fire and the apocalypse and being chosen and all that, but they never mention anything as wacked as buying a Gateway. Shudder.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Call Gateway's corporate offices and let them know that you strongly object to their advertising using such tactics. Not "customer service," or anything else. Here's their corporate contact page, and surprisingly all of the numbers are toll free.
The won't get the message-and they'll keep doing this kind of crap-if you don't tell them it's wrong.
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Glenn -----
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besides calling Gateway and fisting them....
this is one of the 4,205 reasons to use Exposé
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this happened to me once...a day after I had a CAT scan.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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There are Flash Ads with audio in them. Basically if using firefox, get the AdBlock extension and block out the advsertisers. Since I did that no more talking flash ads. the MacNN ads normally aren't annoying compared to the talking ones
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Man, who would actually buy a Gateway laptop? I mean they're junk. Pure and simple. Like low end of the low end.
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Originally Posted by t6hawk
There are Flash Ads with audio in them. Basically if using firefox, get the AdBlock extension and block out the advsertisers. Since I did that no more talking flash ads. the MacNN ads normally aren't annoying compared to the talking ones
I do have that installed, that's the thing. This wasn't a flash ad.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Alberta, Canada
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Originally Posted by itistoday
I do have that installed, that's the thing. This wasn't a flash ad.
Really? Odd
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