Comments on: “Lower My Bills” drives me nuts

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:13:37 +0000

I love the dancing woman! Does anyone know how I can find her?

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:12:45 +0000

I love the dancing woman! Does anyone know how I can find her??

By: "Weight Loss"

"Weight Loss" — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:33:25 +0000

Yep, I really have a disdain for spammy ads.

By: LowerMyBillsMustDie

LowerMyBillsMustDie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:19:39 +0000

There is nothing I hate more in my daily routine than logging onto weather.com to check my local hourly forecast and being assaulted by an obnoxious woman in a pink dress dancing around like an idiot. I absolutely hate these ads! Marketers need to understand that a lot of people, such as myself, will go out of there way not to use their product if the advertisement is annoying and terrible. I often go to the extent of closing my right eye or blocking out the portion of the screen with the dancing woman in order to check the weather without her interference. Why, weather.com must you force this upon me?!?!

By: Capt_Plutonium

Capt_Plutonium — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:05:26 +0000

Thanks Bill, editing the hosts file worked like a charm. I absolutely despise those ads.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:33:34 +0000

They catch my attention, but not in a good way. I will Never use thier service. EVER.

The newest one, a human in a dress????? dancing (can’t tell any more than that, gender appears male though) it’s irritation beyond tolerance.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:39:53 +0000

Whine if you must, but these people are helping thousands of folks each day. sure the ads may be querky, but they are not trying to rip people off like some of those other guys.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:11:34 +0000

Had enough of those moronic ads with the line-dancing cowboy & the rooftop couple? I sure have, but I don’t want to disable Flash since I’m a daily YouTuber.

Here’s the easiet way to rid yourself of them on a mac:
Change to root user–or use sudo–and vi into your etc/hosts file. Add this entry to the file:

127.0.0.1 [tab key] ad.doubleclick.net

(this also works on a PC in the System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file):

Save the file and enjoy the visual quietude.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:34:17 +0000

I HATE THOSE ADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

By: John

John — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:06:06 +0000

I love those ads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!