I CANNOT stand audio adds!

Specially in tabbed browsing... OR why do I have to opt out?

[Tapolyai]

I sit here, and flip through about two dozen tabs in my Firefox, trying to find which tab is the one with the audio advertisement coming from.

I couldn't. You know why? Because an other smooth slide-in advertisement obscured the video which had the audio.

I! do! not! want! to! hear! it!

This is a bigger beef then just turning off the audio in advertisements. It's the opt-out thing in whole.

I don't want to opt-out. I am willing to opt-in.

I don't want you to send me e-mails giving me the option to opt-out. I will let you know when I am interested.

I don't want to receive junk postal mail. I will call you if I want your credit card application.

I don't want to listen and watch a video, I will click on it, if I need to.

I don't want you to call me at 19:00(7pm) at night to sell insurance. I will call you at 9:00, when I want it.

Why do I have to block you, pushing your wares in my personal space? Why do I have to defend myself from your impoliteness and less then caring attitude? To you I am just one in a thousand or more. To me, I am 100% to myself!

Why has it become ok to opt-out?

Where is the next stop so I can get off?

[httpwebwitch]

turn off everything.
Sell your computer, go to the stockyard and buy some chickens, pigs, and a few tons of seed and roll your way up north to live in peace working the land. Trade in your smooth-sliding audio annoyance for the growl of a tractor.

I bet a farmer's sabbatical program would be popular among webmasters

[Demaestro]

Tapolyai.... There is a way in FF to turn off all audio.

Open a tab and go to

about:config

then type in the filter

accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound

Set this to flase and you will learn to love the Internet again.

OPEN LETTER TO ALL WEBMASTERS:

Please DO NOT put sound onto your pages! Some people actually want you dead after landing on your page. I like to have tunes blasting from my computer while I surf, and if I come to a page and it starts blasting out some crap noise I am not expecting then you have made a new enemy in me and many others I can guess.

[Automan Empire]

Say something!

Whuuuuuuuut?

I fear it will only get worse.

[Demaestro]

I fear it will only get worse.

As will my reaction. I am not above trashing someones bandwidth to get them back for blasting unwanted sound into my enviroment. And if you embed sound it wouldn't be a hard thing to do.

People need to learn what "Goog Programming Practice" means and the benefits of not pissing possible customers off. I have never heard anyone EVER say to me... "Hey, go check out example.com they got great embedded sound!"

But I hear all the time. "How do I turn off this crappy noise coming from my speaker?"

[rocknbil]

I bet a farmer's sabbatical program would be popular among webmasters

I'm in! :-)

I've become accustomed to browsing with sound down, then if I actually want to hear something, turn it up. If you think about it, you spend a lot more sound-less time than sounded.

While we're at it, "floating" ads that slide in and cover up content are probably the most un-cool thing to become popular since pop-ups. One of the benchmarks of good design is the ability to resist doing something "just because you can."

[Tapolyai]

Turning off the sound completely is out of the questions. THAT is one of my points. Why do I have to disable sound in my browser? Why doesn't the website wait for me to click "play annoying commercial" button?

And yes. . . Becoming a recluse, self supporting anchorite is not far away from my personal goals!

Except I am thinking going South and fishing - rather then a tractor up North and farming.

[kevinpate]

you disable sound for the same reason you check twice while driving ... not everyone on the highway, info or vehicular, is a nice person. :)

[Demaestro]

Tapolyai I hear what you are saying and you shouldn't have to but... Sigh... Alas... we still do have to though if we wish to retain sanity.

I have it disabled in FF and if I find myself wanting to hear a website or some flash file then I open it in SeaMonkey (insert your 2nd choice browser here). So I have my quiet browser and my non-quiet one it has saved me a lot of angst. And has saved some poor webmasters my wrath.

I also have javascript turned off for those stupid ads that cover up content. Hate those. Just email the dumbass in charge everytime you come to a site and let them know you will never return because of BAD code that ruined your day.

If I want to be annoyed while surfing the web I will use IE.

[vincevincevince]

I have a broken sound driver installation (linux is good at that I find) which only allows one thing to play at a time. I have XMMS running 24/7 and have configured system beeps to flash the screen - I don't get any other sounds at all. It's great, so far as I can see. If I want to hear another sound I just stop XMMS.

[Demaestro]

vincevincevince... that is awesome! Got specs for your busted driver?

Could be the XMMS library that it looks at.