Now that's interesting

[den]

While viewing the SomethingAwful "Comedy Goldmine" (a title which is false advertising on two counts, but it is sometimes amusing) I was getting thier "I Like To Steal Bandwidth" image instead of the expected image. How odd! I though there might be some anti-Opera thing going, so I fired up IE and, sure enough, there were the real, mildy amusing images.

Ponder Ponder Ponder Ponder, I went.

I turned off my ad and popup blocking software (Proximitron) and hit reload in Opera. The "I Like To Steal Bandwidth" image was replaced by the expected images!

Ok. I set up IE to run through the proxy ad blocking server, viewed the next page, and BINGO! The "I Like To Steal Bandwidth" image was back!

So SomethingAwful don't like you to block out their ads. They think that equates to stealing bandwidth. I'll be stealing even less of their bandwidth now since I won't be going back.

Comments

[moonrose.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's an intentional thing, or if it's just because of the way the adblocker proxy displays things. Certainly not defending SA, by and large I think it's a waste of perfectly good bandwidth, but I wonder if the addition of that specific kind of go-between rerendering the page for you is just doing the same thing they really ARE trying to stop, such as people putting their images on their own sites and such.

Eeenntereestink.....

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

What is also interesting is that this has happened since last Friday, when I looked at Photoshop Phriday without a problem, but now I can't view it for the same reason as the CG.

The proxy server shouldn't affect the page, but they think it does. Oh well. It's been a long while since I've really laughed at their photoshopped images. It's just another site I don't want to check, now.

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

I think proxomitron might be fooling their referrer check or something. I block popups with Safari on OS X and it still loads fine.