Guh

[sholio]

Is anyone else getting those incredibly annoying redirect ads on ff.net? They bounce you to an advertisement website that claims you have to sign up for junk mail in order to get back, and when you try to use the "back" button to get back to the ff.net page, it just bounces to the ad again. I "fix" it by closing and re-opening the ff.net page, which works, but still ... GUH. How incredibly vexing.

You know, if I could just sit down and write a SHORT fanfic, or work on the same one for more than a few hours at a time, I would actually be able to post a finished story before I die of old age. Instead, I have these massive WIPs that just keep getting bigger.

Here's how my current word counts are looking for the most-worked-on stories (note - my documents include a lot of "extra" stuff, like plot notes and deleted scenes, so you'd probably need to knock off 2 or 3K of words to get the word count of the actual body of the story):

"Nor Iron Bars a Cage" (John & Rodney are prisoners) - 13,073 [hm, I thought it was longer, oh well]
"The Light of a Fading Sun" (dark Trinity AU) - 19,724
"Ghost in the Machine" - 26,229
"Running on Empty" sequel - 9,706
Christmas story that I'm working on - 6,618

Put 'em all together and you have one nice, long story. Individually, though, they're just a bunch of half-finished WIPs. *sigh*

I need to stop staring at fanfic and go draw my webcomic for Monday, or there won't *be* a webcomic for Monday. Can I clone myself?

Comments

[ratcreature]

Why don't you just block the ff.net ad script? That's what I do, and so I don't see any ads when visiting the site.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Do you mean turn off Javascript on the browser, or something else?

[ratcreature]

No, not turning off Javascript, I mean, then ff.net doesn't work right. What I mean is an adblocker extension for your browser that blocks specific content from being displayed/executed. There are several for firefox, I'm sure IE must have them or something similar too, otherwise you had to look at ads all the time with that browser and I can't imagine anyone doing that voluntarily. You just conficure what parts of a website you don't want to see the first time you visit there (you can configure URL with wildcards too), e.g. I have a setting that I don't want any parts of the site starting with "http://www.fanfiction.net/ad/*" displayed or executed, but the rest of the javascript, like for leaving comments and such works fine for me.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Aha! It's Firefox that I use, so I'll look at their add-ons and see if there's one that looks useful. I hadn't even thought to do so. Thanks!

[melibabe.livejournal.com]

Download the AdBlock and NoScript extensions, they work really well. With NoScript, it basically turns off javascript, though you can turn it back on for specific sites either temporarily or permanently. AdBlock does something similar for other kinds of banner ads. It will occasionally block non-ad images and such, but you can add individual elements, pages or entire sites to your "white list."

Both together make browsing MUCH more pleasant. :D

[sgatazmy.livejournal.com]

LOl, I know how you feel.

Those ads are vexing. In fact, I'm this close to just never using fanfiction.net again!

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

What with one thing and another, it's like they're in a contest to see how annoying they can make the site before everyone leaves ...

[senri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get those. They are irritating! XD But there should be a link at the upper right on the page that will let you skip past it and go on to fanfiction.net, I think.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Oh, there is? I just got so frustrated that I started immediately saving the URL and then closing the page when those would happen -- I never even bothered *looking* at them! :D

Glad it's not just me, though...

[leenys.livejournal.com]

Does the ad-blocker at ff.net not stop these ads?

Kam :/

Dumb Ads

[nottasha.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the ads. I used to get some very annoying pop ups from ff.net but haven't seen them in a while. My pop up blocker seems to catch most of them, but some new ones seem to have cropped up. I'm hoping the blocker learns how to deal with them soon.

But Forget THAT! What's this about all these WIPs? Get Cracking!