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1 by Black Wolf
Ascended SG Graduate
Why the official site for one of the most financially successful franchises of movies, books and video games needs to be filled to the gills with pop ups and banner ads?

I refer, of course, to starwars.com. Not only does George Lucas seem to be obsessed with making money by vomitting out bad prequels, and charging people (on the site, thereby almost certainly making a profit) to view almost anything of interest on his site through Hyperspace, but he also feels the need to squeeze every last cent he possibly can out of the consumer by making them click through damned banner ads. They're not even relatively subtle like HLPs banner ads. There're generally at least 3 on screen, one of which is generally one of those flash "little window" things, plus a popup.

f### you Mr Lucas. f### you.
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2 by Flipside
Admin
Yep, the Doom 3 Forums to the same thing, you pop on to see what you can see and theres 3 bloody pop-ups going on in the background. You would have thought a game like that would be making enough money to not need that kind of s### :(

3 by Hippo
Ascended SG Legend
Indeed... As soon as i go to the star wars sites, AOL beeps at me uncontrolably, and i look in the corner, and there's about 30 of them being blocked... Its the only good thing about aol (other than working in a power outage)... Its about the same as the google toolbar...

4 by Moonsword
Elite SG Elder
You say that as if there aren't freeware pop-up blockers that work, Hippo.

And AOL can kiss my ass, as far as I'm concerned. Working in power outages is not that big a concern to desktop users.

(Note: I am waiting on the pizza guy to show up. 'Nice' is currently an abstract concept divorced from my working vocabulary.)
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