For reasons which I’m not entirely sure, I pay for Ign Insider at ign.com, a subscription for which I get the privilege of higher resolution videos, less ads and other miscellany. The stupidity of ign is that I still see the ads. Even in specific places where I’m not supposed to, like interstitials. I also get a very annoying “feature” where the ad on the front page of ign just sits there floating over the content where it’s clearly not<\/i> supposed to be, blocking everything I’d want to see.<\/p>\n
I emailed<\/s> posted to the forum<\/s> filled out their stupid web form for customer service, complete with multiple screenshots of this in action. Their response? Clear your cookies and upgrade to IE7. I did both, and sent another additional screenshot of the exact same thing in IE7, and they basically brushed me off saying it was a problem on my end, despite the fact that I’ve seen it on three different computers, three different platforms, with about 8 different browsers. Then they closed the ticket and that was that. So I did what any good nerd would do.<\/p>\n
I wrote a greasemonkey script that completely eliminates the ad from the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For reasons which I’m not entirely sure, I pay for Ign Insider at ign.com, a subscription for which I get the privilege of higher resolution videos, less ads and other miscellany. The stupidity of ign is that I still see the ads. Even in specific places where I’m not supposed to, like interstitials. I also … <\/p>\n