29-11-2000 10:51									#1
	That damn monkey is shocking my browser! Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Mark, or anyone, every time I load a page with the 'shock the monkey' ad in it, my browser (Netscape 4.76) slows to a standstill... It's quite annoying...

Anyone else have this problem?



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Gnu Ex Machina - the Gnu in the Machine

	29-11-2000 10:56									#2
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

No, but they owe me about $2000


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	29-11-2000 11:01									#3
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Yeah, yeah, we know how much time you have on your hands

	29-11-2000 11:20									#4
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Hehe!

Well, if I shock it and then immediately hit stop, I can make it quit running...



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Gnu Ex Machina - the Gnu in the Machine

	29-11-2000 12:18									#5
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All I see is a little blue URL.

	29-11-2000 12:26									#6
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CyberGnu, et al.:

I, too, despise that "shock the stupid simian" ad. I made the mistake (twice) of quitting out of my slow-as-molasses browser while it was running. Lo and behold, my computer ended up in an infinite applet loop!

Geez! Nothing like a good, solid reboot to snap the computer out of its simian-induced misery.

CYBERAmazon

	29-11-2000 13:37									#7
	Put an end to popups!

Kill the monkey!

	29-11-2000 16:12									#8
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Every time I see an annoying ad that's flashing and interfering with my reading the text - or slowing down the browser, I just hit Esc. Zapp! Instant ad kill.

	29-11-2000 18:00									#9
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This belongs in the Apolyton Forum.

Thread Moved!

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	29-11-2000 20:24									#10
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. The page load that never ends becasue of continuing animation on the adds can even choke internet explorer on occasion.

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	29-11-2000 21:36									#11
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

I just checked my CPU meter and sure enough, when that stupid monkey ad is showing, netscape takes all available CPU time.

Mark and Dan: Can you alert the ad folks and get them to pull this one? It is very annoying.

	30-11-2000 00:05									#12
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Seeker on 11-29-2000 02:18 AM</font>
All I see is a little blue URL.
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

My Proxomitron doesn't get rid of it - have you got a filter that kills that sort of thing?

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	30-11-2000 00:32									#13
	Put an end to popups!

Markie, it is still there!!!! Make it go away!!!!

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Gnu Ex Machina - the Gnu in the Machine

	30-11-2000 02:05									#14
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Thanks to a little Mac utility called WebFree, I have never seen the ad in question.

	30-11-2000 04:51									#15
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Hmmmmm, no one's emailed us about this... sounds like a browser/browser version-specific problem(?)

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Dan; Apolyton

	01-12-2000 03:14									#16
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I have seen this a thread about this in another forum also. Whenever "Shock the monkey" pops up, some system grind to a halt. Seems to happen in Explorer/Netscape, so can't narrow down where the problem is.

edit - There is a new reply in the other tread: The company responsible for STM has been contacted and says that it will kill the monkey by the end of November
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=597097643
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by WhiteKnight (edited November 30, 2000).]</font>

	03-12-2000 09:02									#17
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

Dan,

I swear. Don't be so slow.

Sometimes you remind me of the people in the DMV who make you go all the way through one line to find out you were in the wrong one.

	03-12-2000 11:07									#18
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I swear. Don't be so slow.

Sometimes you remind me of the people in the DMV who make you go all the way through one line to find out you were in the wrong one.

No reason for attitude or insults, GP... if you believe that I have made an oversight, simply point it out to me in a civil tone and I will respond to it.

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	05-12-2000 10:39									#19
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I guess I'm lucky here -- the da<font></font>mn monkey only takes 85% of my CPU time.

Here's a Proxomitron filter to get rid of the monkey (and any other UGO applet ad).

edit by markg: i realise the problem, but please keep some kind of respect to the people who work for this site...
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by MarkG (edited December 05, 2000).]</font>

	06-12-2000 05:43									#20
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I never had a problem with this as before so I don't know if it is the correction they mde or the fact that I just started using Netscape 6 but this ad has crashed my browswer 4 out of the 5 times I got it and the fifth time it really screwed with it. Please tell ugo to quit running this ad.

thank you.
datri

	06-12-2000 05:56									#21
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datri, read the F* news

	06-12-2000 07:42									#22
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

I read that it was fixed but my problems have occured today Dec. 5, 2000. Like I said I just started using Netscape 6. I was using Netscape 5 before and had no problem but today every time the monkey ad appears by browser get all screwed up or totally shuts down. The only time this happens in when the monkey shows up all other ads come up fine.

	06-12-2000 12:13									#23
	Tired of ads?

What monkey?

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	06-12-2000 12:44									#24
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Dan, Markos:

Inform the UGO overlords/GameStats that their stupid monkey ad isn't winning them a single convert. If anything, its presence is driving people AWAY. Logic would dictate — to an advertiser, anyway — that any ad which enrages people likely will rub off on the company.

IOW, no business and no hope for future business from the ticked-off folks. Right now, I am in that category because having to hard re-boot my computer over a stupid ad pisses me off to no end. If it comes to to a head, I will have no choice but to activate anti-ad software. Better to block out ads and/or avoid sites altogether than lose a $1600 investment because of avoidable crashes.

CYBERAmazon

	06-12-2000 13:22									#25
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Dan, Markos:

I've had it. Anti-image software has been activated (gotta love the "no images" option in the preferences setting). Why so soon after my last post?

Because of that SCREWBALL MONKEY AD FROZE MY DAMN BROWSER!!! I had to hard reboot my machine!!! Tell those UGO bastards to pay lip service elsewhere!

"Oh, we'll take it off at the end of November!"

We all cheer! The ad vanishes! Guess what, though?! They shove it up our a**es again in the first week of December! If that's their version of telling the truth, they can SHOVE IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.

An enraged ...

CYBERAmazon

	06-12-2000 13:36									#26
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

get a real computer . sorry that was bad, it is nice having broadband inernet though. But that damn monkey is just annoying for me. I could see maybe 1 or 2 pages. But earlier today it was on every single page. the posting screen, forum summary screen, individual threads. very distracting. I have serious posting to do.

	06-12-2000 18:02									#27
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Actually it doesn't seem to cause mine much problem for some reason, maybe it is due to the fact that I have an Athlon 700. But the advert with all the boxes that move has caused it considerable slowdown. Adverts should be simple and snappy, not capable of causing even high-end systems slowdown...

	06-12-2000 21:14									#28
	Put an end to popups!

. Rather than rleying on relatively useless complaints here (where a remedy is not techologically available) I have sent a POLITE e mail to UGO. You all might do the same, describing the specific conflict of error, but be POLITE, flamming advertisers is a self destructive activity.

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	07-12-2000 01:00									#29
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Lefty:

That has already been done — and in a polite manner. I see no harm in letting off a bit of e-steam. Much better that, I imagine, than grabbing an axe IRL and taking it out on the advertising company's president's Mercedes Benz.

CYBERAmazon

	07-12-2000 07:12									#30
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There is absolutely no reason to shout or swear -- certainly not here as this is not where any UGO employee is apt to read it.

Did anyone not see the post in the "About Apolyton" section I put up yesterday? UGO has taken action on this. You need to start paying more attention to the news pull-down menu.

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