Prethemer is now dead to me

caferacer · 04/01/2010, 03:11 PM

I haven't used prethemer.com to find my themes for some time now, but remembered they have one of my favorite tidbits, which is the iphone chat balloons. I popped on over there and noticed a sound playing underneath my music. I paused the music, and narrowed the sound down to an obtrusive ad being played at prethemer.

I closed it, and put back on my music, and continued surfing. Some sites have weird ads that only pop up every now and then. A little annoyance but not a big deal. Then the sound was back. EVERY page you click on opens a new freakin' ad in the page that you HAVE to listen to, or click mute on every time. Every page, every click. God forbid you do what I do, which is open many new windows with themes you might be interested in, and get a jarbled mess of ads playing all at once.

I loaded up adblocker, got what I needed, and am never using that site again. Screw prethemer. I know people need to make money to support the site, but I perfer ads I don't want to trade for a temple drilling.

tobias funke · 04/01/2010, 05:27 PM

cool thanks for the update

ChilinMichael · 04/01/2010, 09:06 PM

It's been that way a while, AdBlock doesn't work on it...but you know what does? NoScipt for Firefox.

nights0223 · 04/02/2010, 10:30 AM

Before you boycott the site, you may want to take up the issue with Prethemer himself. It might have been a mistake he didn't know about. If he does, well that's a different story.

mjkjr · 04/02/2010, 10:47 AM

+1 I don't really care for Themes, but I was there for some boot logos and it drove me insane. Won't go back, lol.

kuoirad · 04/02/2010, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChilinMichael

It's been that way a while, AdBlock doesn't work on it...but you know what does? NoScipt for Firefox.

Funny, ABP seems to cure it just fine for me...

gitit20 · 06/15/2010, 05:58 AM

Ya adblock plus for Firefox works for me

add free

Plus you can ad filters as well

malpha · 06/15/2010, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChilinMichael

It's been that way a while, AdBlock doesn't work on it...but you know what does? NoScipt for Firefox.

Adblock for Chrome does! I hadn't even noticed the noise until I browsed it on another computer once. How irritating.

Trax22 · 06/15/2010, 06:14 PM

I agree completely. And it's very loud!

**HelloNNNewman** · 06/15/2010, 06:17 PM

I'm using Adblock Plus (Firefox) and it works perfectly well. I've never had an issue with that site while using it. AND if an ad slips through, you can manually select that element to hide (add it to the filter).

04/01/2010, 03:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
caferacer Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 105 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 21 Thanked 9 Times in 6 Posts	Prethemer is now dead to me I haven't used prethemer.com to find my themes for some time now, but remembered they have one of my favorite tidbits, which is the iphone chat balloons. I popped on over there and noticed a sound playing underneath my music. I paused the music, and narrowed the sound down to an obtrusive ad being played at prethemer. I closed it, and put back on my music, and continued surfing. Some sites have weird ads that only pop up every now and then. A little annoyance but not a big deal. Then the sound was back. EVERY page you click on opens a new freakin' ad in the page that you HAVE to listen to, or click mute on every time. Every page, every click. God forbid you do what I do, which is open many new windows with themes you might be interested in, and get a jarbled mess of ads playing all at once. I loaded up adblocker, got what I needed, and am never using that site again. Screw prethemer. I know people need to make money to support the site, but I perfer ads I don't want to trade for a temple drilling. __________________ My pre is like caffeine. If I don't have it in the morning I think something is wrong with me, and I need it all throughout the day to make it
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04/01/2010, 05:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
tobias funke Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 638 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 97 Thanked 172 Times in 123 Posts	cool thanks for the update
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04/01/2010, 09:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
ChilinMichael Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: North Babylon, NY Posts: 195 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 14 Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts	It's been that way a while, AdBlock doesn't work on it...but you know what does? NoScipt for Firefox.
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04/02/2010, 10:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
nights0223 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 172 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 14 Thanked 191 Times in 49 Posts	Before you boycott the site, you may want to take up the issue with Prethemer himself. It might have been a mistake he didn't know about. If he does, well that's a different story. __________________ Check out my themes! Original Blue Theme - http://forums.precentral.net/webos-t...lue-theme.html Original Red Theme - http://forums.precentral.net/webos-t...red-theme.html Green Neon Theme - http://forums.precentral.net/webos-t...eon-theme.html
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04/02/2010, 10:47 AM	#5 (permalink)
mjkjr Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Kansas City Missouri Posts: 1,045 Likes Received: 3 Thanks: 1,197 Thanked 259 Times in 200 Posts	+1 I don't really care for Themes, but I was there for some boot logos and it drove me insane. Won't go back, lol.
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06/15/2010, 05:58 AM	#7 (permalink)
gitit20 Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Manhattan Kansas Posts: 785 Likes Received: 2 Thanks: 64 Thanked 147 Times in 69 Posts	Ya adblock plus for Firefox works for me add free Plus you can ad filters as well
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06/15/2010, 06:14 PM	#9 (permalink)
Trax22 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 20 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I agree completely. And it's very loud!
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06/15/2010, 06:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
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