Annoying adverts in MyLot
@owlwings (43910)
Cambridge, England
September 23, 2009 3:57am CST
Have you noticed the new advertising ploy in MyLot? For the last couple of days certain words in discussions come up highlighted in blue and double underlined. If you hover your mouse over them, you get a little popup that (in my case) shows an advert for eBay.
This kind of advertising can be found on a number of sites and whenever I encounter it it makes me leave the site double-quick because I think it's intrusive and annoying in the extreme.
If MyLot continues with this, I shall be forced to leave.
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10 responses
@littleowl (7157)
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26 Sep 09
Hi owlwings, please don't leave. These things are sent to try us..I have noticed that some of the words are blue but never known why, thanks for letting us know...mind there is no way I will be going to ebay am not here for adverts am here to respond to my friends, so please don't let it make you leave...LoLo
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
28 Sep 09
Actually, I'm not likely to leave. I thought it was worth posting veiled threats for the benefit of anyone official who might have read it.
I have now the complete and painless solution and don't see these distracting things any more!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
28 Sep 09
Ha ha!
I use my mouse to help me read (shhhhh!).
I have solved the problem once and for all now, though (until MyLot change the provider that does this annoying thing). I have added a line to my hosts file and now they are gone, vanished, done with! 
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@BarBaraPrz (47761)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Sep 09
That's the first thing I noticed this morning, and not just because someone else started a discussion on the same subject. Because of that other discussion, I found out about an add-on for Firefox that gets rid of them: Noscript. Unfortunately, it gets rid of other things, too. However, in their options, you can allow what you want, such as the mylot code.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
23 Sep 09
Thanks, Barbara! I thought I had NoScript installed but I find I had disabled it. It's now running again and ... no annoying blue random words!
You're a star!
It seems that the phenomenon doesn't affect people using IE (or some, at least). I so rarely use IE that I have forgotten what settings there are. It's likely that some script blocking is built into it.
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@BarBaraPrz (47761)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Sep 09
You're welcome. Always glad to be of service.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Sep 09
If you use Firefox and the noscript or adblock add ons, it should resolve the problem.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Sep 09
I see you're aware of the add on. So if you are, what's the problem?
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Sep 09
Gotcha!
I hope so too, as well as the ones a few other people posted (including yours truly)...
@savypat (20216)
• United States
23 Sep 09
I haven't run into this yet, but it would be very annoying. Often I think they get talked into new things that are not helpful.
@mobhomeir (7558)
• Philippines
5 Oct 09
Yes owlwings I noticed that too. But, I let then stayed there as long it wants to stay there without even hovering my mouse on that. Well maybe mylot earns that pop-ups, maybe that pop-ups pay mylot a lot. Just leave them there, if that would be getting worst I would also leave mylot...take it easy friend...just cool down..
@chandrakant2 (31)
• India
11 Oct 09
Dear friend,
Every website do like to have income of their own.. mylots is also one of them.. there is nothing like free lunch in this world. you have to adjust yourself if wanna stay here.
I am sorry if it has hurt you. but its the fact thing..
