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6 Sep 2024 03:16:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sometimes ad banner blindness can be harmful  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 5 Mar 2009 16:11:24
Message: <49b03ffc$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   So I was at work browsing an unofficial developer forum related to the
> job I was working with. I went to the bathroom and left the browser window
> open there. When I came back and saw the browser window from afar, I was
> like "WTF?". There were half-naked women on the upper and left sides of
> the web page. Certainly not something you usually want in your screen at
> work.
> 
>   What had happened? Well, this unofficial developer forum used more
> risque ad banners, and I had been completely blind to them while browsing
> the forum and didn't notice them until I got a look from a different
> perspective.
> 
>   Fortunately embarrassing situations were avoided this time, but it
> certainly tells something about the possible embarrassing effects of
> banner blindness.
> 

That's why I use Ad Block Plus :)

-- 
~Mike


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