Quote: Originally Posted by Lateralus I just deleted a thread in the PowerBook Forum created by a new member because it had one of these links in it. I just thought he was a sp…

I hate them at other sites; I hate them here. Unlike banners or AdWords, I never click on them. Make them go away.

Oh no, not MacNN too! There was a mass defection at another forum I visit over these stupid things. Unless these things can pay for a new Cyborg Hamster, they suck.

WTF? How can I turn this off?

Can we double underline random words or our entire posts in a way that would make these useless. If no one ever clicks on them because they are hidden in our posts, what use would …

"Buy a Personal Computer at Dell." Everyone stop and think about that for a second. Voch

Maybe MacNN will block the Dell ones and leave the others in place. I hope not.

OMFG. : I fscking hate this kind of advertising. Who the hell decided to put that on these boards? And when are you turing it off? It's fscking annoying. What's next? Pop-ups? T…

OK, I'm trying to block IntelliTXT according to what I've found with google. Using PithHelmet in Safari I blocked *intellitxt.com* http://text.burstnet.com/*.js Unfortunately tha…

I'm not seeing this green text, but it looks like the linked script is at http://macnn.us.intellitxt.com/intel....asp?ipid=3078, so there is no *.js.

Telling PithHelmet to block *intellitxt* doesn't do the trick either.

they're in the options for users too!!!

This is way too annoying. This is no good at all.

Worst. Advertising scheme. Ever. I'm so sad to see this ******** come to the MacNN forums. At least before I only saw it on sites that I didn't really care about. I downloaded Saf…

I've reported this SPAM.

I hope this was a mistake...

Somebody email me when it's gone. MacNN was my top bookmark since '99. No macnn bookmark anymore. Needed an excuse to break this habit anyway.

Yeah Harmony Central was doing this, till people started manually changing said links, or added their own perverse ones. If they don't switch it back, this could be fun.

Hate it, and it really makes posting/reading a pain. If the owners of Macnn are not careful they will start losing people here. This marketing scheme has that ability to drive p…

Quote: Originally Posted by iLikebeer Somebody email me when it's gone. MacNN was my top bookmark since '99. No macnn bookmark anymore. Needed an excuse to break this habit anyw…

Im reporting every single one I see as spam and I think every user should do the same.

Hate it. Have you guys at macnn completely lost it? The benefit of a forum is that you receive trusted information from your peers. Adding spam links into posts is a moronic thing…

Heh:

from now on every post I make anything that gets spam in it im changing with a dot. Example ipod to i.pod, apple to a.pple. I am also going to send nasty emails to every advertise…

macnn.us.intellitxt.com That's the source of the BS. If you block that URL (wildcards don't seem to work) then you're good to go. IE users can simply add it to the 'hosts' file…