On Sun, Dec 09, 2007, Thomas Cheatham wrote:
>
>
> I too see funny pages loading referencing ads.clicksor.com, erostyzz.com,
> and many other sites, including the starting up of various applets; these
> look like banner ads and on my home connection really slows loading.
>
> These are coming directly from the amber.scripps.edu site.
>
> What is the purpose of these ads? Why are we "supporting" ads to other
> (perhaps competing) products? Does amber implicitly support or give it's
> implicit branding to companies like "Sony", "ACD labs", etc... Are the
> funds generated, if any, used for research purposes?
>
> Is this ad-bar required by the Google link?
>
> (from) http://amber.scripps.edu/tutorials/
> to the left of the google bar.
People should re-check: I uploaded Ross' changes to the web site at 6:19pm
PST on 12/09/07. You can look at the CVS logs for the tutorial index file:
web2% cvs diff -r1.21 index.htm
Index: index.htm
===================================================================
RCS file: /thr/gamow/cvsroot/amber_web/tutorials/index.htm,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -r1.21 -r1.23
45,47c45,83
< <iframe name="I1" src="
http://coffee.sdsc.edu/rcw/adsense_searches/adsense_search_amber_tutorials.htm" width="680" height="120" marginwidth="1" marginheight="1" scrolling="no" align="middle" border="0" frameborder="0">
< <a href="
http://coffee.sdsc.edu/rcw/adsense_searches/adsense_search_amber_tutorials2.htm">Click here to go to the Search page</a></iframe>
< <!-- SiteSearch Google -->
...etc
Sorry that I never saw these myself ... I guess that I so routinely use
Firefox will all such stuff blocked that I never saw it. Please post if you
still see links to adsense or to coffee.sdsc.edu (or similar).
...dac
Received on Wed Dec 12 2007 - 06:07:14 PST
