i never get one, its usually an average of about 4

as far as offsetting some of the costs, what about setting up a paypal system with benefits?

for example, you pay 5 bucks, and then you can change your username (instead of it being free now), get to enter a special area, maybe the ability to download extra tracks, etc. 5 bucks isnt a lot, and if the incentive is good enough, it could work out nicely... at least to help with some of the cost

NO!!!!!! I thought I'd seen enough yes car credit ads to last me a life time, but one just popped up in my face

rofl....more bitter ppl.....my plan is working.....hehehe

on a serious note...ya need revenue to run a site...so i don't mind the odd popup.

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Originally posted by sothis for example, you pay 5 bucks, and then you can change your username (instead of it being free now), get to enter a special area, maybe the ability to download extra tracks, etc. 5 bucks isnt a lot, and if the incentive is good enough, it could work out nicely... at least to help with some of the cost

Hmm paying for download, umm.. lol, no.

Besides, sites with those paypal buttons have their visitors assume they're making a ton on donations when in actuality they may get $5 a month.

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Originally posted by DevanteS THERE IS A WAY TO CLOSE IT PRESS CTRL+ALT+DEL click on Task Manager click on Applications... choose the url that refused to die and then click "end task" near the bottom!! oy! Pork

Alt+f4 also works... but when I have to do this every time I load a new page, it gets downright annoying.

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Find me 1 credible source that can verify what you say about cookies

here are a few from a quick google search:

http://www.junkbusters.com/cookies.html

http://www.cookiecentral.com/content.phtml?area=2&id=2 - a whole lot of information there

http://www.cookiecentral.com/ccstory/

What I really hate is that doubleclick bs. Every time I turn my cookies on and browse for more than 5 minutes I end up with them on my computer. Im not accusing TA of hosting this kind of crap, but I dont want to have to turn my cookies on and off every time I try load up the forums.

And this anti ad-buster thing seems way over the top. Tell me, swamper, is it really necessary to cram advertisements down peoples throats? Does your sponsor/advertiser/whatever complain that people may be getting by them? Im just wondering why all this is necessary on a music site.

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hmmmmm...funny how people complain

swamper is not driving it down people's throats...true i had the same problem with many popups....but i changed the options in my IE browser and it works fine now..i get one per session.

Funny that expect to get everything for free, something has to pay for the site's upkeep, something has to keep it going, after all, it does cost money to run this site. You people are just ungreatful for the site.

What pop-ups? No pop-ups here

i only get one, just one

i used to have that problem, with popups and stuff...
i reformatted and it's fine
must be all that porn you download

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yeah guys...there is only ONE popup on the forums. ONE. that means one per every login. that's it. so if you get another pop up when you come back to the main forums page, then your settings in IE are messed.

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Originally posted by nrjizer And this anti ad-buster thing seems way over the top. Tell me, swamper, is it really necessary to cram advertisements down peoples throats? Does your sponsor/advertiser/whatever complain that people may be getting by them? Im just wondering why all this is necessary on a music site.

Those sites seem to be more a rant on DoubleClick and it's rise to being the #1 Ad company on the net more than anything else, anyways if you're that paranoid and you use IE you can go to Tools->Internet Options->Security->Privacy->Edit and you can specify which sites you allow cookies from.

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Originally posted by nrjizer they hide themselves in a windows file (index.dat) where it becomes IMPOSSABLE to remove them without special software

Impossible? Not on my OS anyway.

1. Make a new text document.
2. Open it.
3. Without typing anything in it, go to save as.
4. Go to the directory of index.dat (I forget what it is).
5. Make sure you're saving as type All Files *.*
6. Type index.dat and hit save.

For me, anyway, this reduces the size of the file index.dat to 0 bytes.

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