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O.P. Ads from Yahoo! Messenger
I was surfing through MPsounds.net when I saw this ad:

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It points to messenger.yahoo.com.

Dunno if you've already seen it, but anyways it's curious.
06-02-2005 06:07 PM
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RE: Ads from Yahoo! Messenger
:O Yahoo trying to steal Patchous traffic
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that's not a bug, thats an unexpected feature
06-02-2005 06:08 PM
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RE: Ads from Yahoo! Messenger
Also the plus is not plus! and that is just not right :P
06-02-2005 06:08 PM
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Also the plus is not plus! and that is just not right :P
it's probably to avoid copyright problems :-/
06-02-2005 06:17 PM
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O.P. RE: Ads from Yahoo! Messenger
BTW the text reads: "New: You'll be able to call for free all over the world, from PC to PC, high quality". It's in Spanish.
06-02-2005 06:22 PM
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Bah, it's just one of Google's dodgy adverts, it works with just keywords as most of you know, but there's no way to disable specific adverts for your site.

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"New: You'll be able to call for free all over the world, from PC to PC, high quality".
That's new :/
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RE: Ads from Yahoo! Messenger
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but there's no way to disable specific adverts for your site.
yea there is, you can block any adverts you don't want/like
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06-02-2005 06:49 PM
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yea there is, you can block any adverts you don't want/like
Really? Cool, I've never used Google ads personally, but I heard from someone that you can't do that...must have been wrong :p

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