I HATE Vibrant In-Text Advertising!

[DainBramaged]

http://www.vibrantmedia.com/


These are the blood-suckers that launch a 'butterfly' when you mouse over underlined words in articles while browsing. Has to be a tool someone can make to squash these bugs.


:mad:

[Duer 157099]

1. Do you use a script blocker? (assuming that's a script)

I recovered my sanity after installing No Script and Flash Block for Firefox. Now *I* get to decide when and if scripts and/or flash run.

Course, if it's not done via a script or flash, then I'll probably soon hate it too.

[DainBramaged]

2. I use IE7 because of work, always testing apps and websites

So I can log in and block them at the web server if there is a problem so the work monkeys don't destroy the network.

[Statistical]

11. IE7 can block it...

http://www.ie7pro.com/ad-blocker-intellitxt.html

Also you can use firefox w/ IEtab add-on.

[charlie]

3. NoScript

if you're using Firefox, something comparable in other browsers. Or disable Javascript entirely in Opera, IE, and Firefox, and set exceptions for the sites you want to allow. A Flash blocker would work too -- you'd still get popups, but they'd be contentless.

[Why Syzygy]

4. Yeah, and they are all over.

Sometimes I can barely read a blog or news story for all the "butterflys" (didn't know they were called that). I will sometimes even avoid reading a page covered with those links. It drives people away. Some 'advertising'. :eyes:

[ChromeFoundry]

5. You can put the script hosting sites in your restricted sites list...

Click on "TOOLS" -> "INTERNET OPTIONS," then "SECURITY" tab.
Select the "RESTRICTED SITES" icon. Click on "SITES".

Add the following to your "Restricted Sites" list...
*.vibrantmedia.com
*.intellitxt.com
*.kontera.com

Refresh the page and they should be gone forever, without having to install any additional software.

[DainBramaged]

6. They are wise to it, so the addresses change all the time

and some site they link to that I need at work (GM for example) I can't block (sigh). I blocked them long ago but couple of butterflies popped up last night and hidden in the source was vibrantmedia. Bastards.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

12. Time to update my Hosts file again

Thanks

[Warpy]

7. Yeah, I've gotten very careful about where I put my cursor

because I can't stand those things.

Hyperlinks were fine. You had to click on them to make them work. Those damned popup things block the text and screw up your reading and I wish they'd go the hell away.

If anybody figures out how to get rid of them, let me know.

[hunter]

8. I've never seen those. What am I doing right?

:shrug:

[RoyGBiv]

9. Firefox with NoScript?

I've seen them, at work, using IE. This is the reason I bring a USB with Firefox loaded as a portable app ... well, one of the reasons.

[hunter]

10. I looked and yes, I had blocked the sites in ChromeFoundry's post.

I must have done it proactively some time ago and forgotten. I don't visit many sites that use them either.

And no, it seems not good enough anymore... as DainBramaged points out.

:(

Nevertheless it was with some satisfaction I tried to go to the vibrant media website and came up with nothing...

http://www.vibrantmedia.com is dead to me.

While digging further I found this gem:

The blight known as Vibrant Media

Sorry publishers, but a sure sign that you suck is when you start running those deceptive double-underlined Vibrant Media/IntelliText ads on your articles. Forbes.com had the wisdom to crush these long ago (after an tribute to slain Moscow bureau chief Paul Klebnikov carried a double underlined link to a life insurance advertiser). I just went to PC Magazine to read a perfectly decently article about PC vendors and crapware/bloatware, and lo, hover over the wrong thing and this black hole sort of appears (like the second coming of the popup from hell) and obscures the text. Do I really need to see the word “laptop” emphasized and see this black chasm until the unit renders?

http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2008/10/the-blight-known-as-vibrant-media