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Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:31 am
by Texas Longhorns
Man, it really ruins the color of RealGM. Goddamn Dish Network probably paid RealGM quite a bit to do this.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:33 am
by eyeatoma
Agreed, Its not even the color that pisses me off, it makes the site run so much slower. My browser is lagging so much...

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:56 am
by Texas Longhorns
lol.. I guess it's helping Dish Network. I called them up to ask about it. It's not really that great because you have to cancel your normal programming to get it. The Turbo package will be available in February of 2009.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:00 am
by SportsWorld
Yeah this is making RealGM much slower. That's the only problem I have with it.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:03 am
by Texas Longhorns
It's actually faster for me. Thank god they put it up there! I hated waiting 10 seconds for a page to load.. now it's take 3 seconds, literally 3 seconds.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:42 am
by Buck You
eyeatoma wrote:Agreed, Its not even the color that pisses me off, it makes the site run so much slower. My browser is lagging so much...

GET ADBLOCK!

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:52 am
by eyeatoma
Yup, haha, I realized that I had it, and just blocked the left and right margin...

All back to normal now :D

However there are still two small black bars on either side, I guess you can't get rid of them. Its not slowing down realgm, so I don't really care.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:48 pm
by C.lupus
ReddBogutCharlieV wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:Agreed, Its not even the color that pisses me off, it makes the site run so much slower. My browser is lagging so much...

GET ADBLOCK!


Can't on a work computer!

This is quite irritating.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:18 pm
by halfHAVOC
adblock but then the bakcground turns black which sucks.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:23 pm
by MalReyn
Yeah really, my RealGM is running MUCH slower than before.

Normally I don't adblock sites as a matter of policy (sites like RealGM couldn't survive without advertising), but here it's beyond advertising, there are huge performance issues.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:34 pm
by Alfred
This is AWFUL. Please, please get rid of this. Resizing the page, slower loading, and just UGLY. Honestly, I don't mind most ads, but this is just terrible. I mean, do you really want everyone downloading adblock, cutting off your ad revenue?

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:59 pm
by mwaschkowski
I'm noticing a HUGE slowdown. Put ads up if you need to, but i'll find somewhere else to go if I have issues with scrolling speed

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:21 pm
by Captain_Obvious
Had to get adblock because of this

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:33 pm
by Texas Longhorns
I've noticed that at times it has been slow but other times it has been fast. It's sorta up and down for me.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:15 pm
by GuyverX
I just adblocked it but yeah, realgm is now black on the sides.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:42 pm
by sh00n
Adblock is your friend. Sides go total black, though.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:28 pm
by GenericUsername
I know RealGM needs advertising money but damn, that's ridiculous.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:04 pm
by Stanford
As long as it's not a link, I'm ok with it.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:28 pm
by PR07
It seems a little excessive personally, but it is what it is.

Re: Dishnetwork Background Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:36 pm
by kno
This is the first time ever where ad-blocking the add is actually worse than having it on there.

The black on the sides clashes waaay too much with the material on the actual page.

PLease, get rid of this add, RealGM.