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How to turn off the green squiggles
YOU'LL HAVE NOTICED that green squiggles have been appearing under some words on the INQ's hallowed pages.
Some readers have moaned about this and at least one writer has thrown some toys out of his pram over their appearance.
Some of you may find the links provided by the boxes that pop up useful. Some may not.
The squiggles are there for a trial period, so we'll see how it goes. If you really can't stand them you can turn them off.
Here's how:
Wiggle your mouse over one example and then click on the question mark that appears in the top right-hand corner of the box.
You'll get some blurb about what they're all about. If you want to get rid of them, choose the "Disable Ads" tab. Then you can choose to disable them.
As the site informs you, it'll need your cookie to remember to blot the blighters out. µ
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yeah, you're, ummm *quite* a few months late with this one.....

Get yourself the latest Opera, where you can add any URL to the blocking list (urlfilter.ini) , and thats only if the 'content blocker' cannot do it easily... 

a simple way to quickly stop it, is to switch off JavaScript, the only problem being the stupid reliance on this on most sites!
You're the first site on the Internet that I have seen to openly announce how to disable adveritising.

I use FireFox with Adblocker, but still it is very commendable what you guys just did.

Kudos to the team and I hope you won't make those green advertisers angry with you.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2004/11/10/plague-of-green-intelligent-text--spreads-on-web-sites

Has now disappeared!

[No it hasn't. Ed.]
I miss the days when I could just pay $50 and have a year of ad-free Inq.
You guys give me this whole site for free, as long as I don't have to see ads that obscure content i.e. Floatovers, this is all perfectly reasonable.

If people want the internet to continue to be largely free then they will have to allow sites they enjoy to support themselves...
I don't see any squiggles... Oh wait! I'm running Firebadger with Add Blocker Plus. ;)

cheers,
John
just use adblock on firefox like i've been doing for years
And there was me blocking intellitxt in my HOSTS file.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2004/11/10/plague-of-green-intelligent-text--spreads-on-web-sites
Just use adblock in firefox and block:
http://*.intellitxt.com/

Thank you soooo much for pointing out that the ads can be disabled. I find it highly annoying when I move my mouse from one spot to another and accidentally mouse-over a highlighted word/phrase. Trying to avoid the ads on some sites is like playing in a maze. If I wanted to play a game, I'd play a game, not visit a news site or forum.

I understand the need for advertising and I really do not care if you choose this method or not, or if I can disable the ads or not. I would deal with them for this site (it is worth the annoyance) as long as it doesn't get to the point where every other word is an ad, like some other sites. The fact that I can disable them is a bonus.
I never see ads anymore thanks to firefox add-ons. Noscript blocks useless scripts, flashblock kills the flash ads (but leaves a play button in their place if its a flash item you may want to allow ie youtube videos), and siteblock allows me to block key addresses like "http://*.ads.* or "http://ads.*" which blocks any and all ads that are not hosted off of the main page. 
Very useful for killing off the hundreds of ads that litter the internet and you can still allow non intrusive ads if you wish to remain supporting your favorite ad supported websites.
I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus.
I do NOT block adverts served up by the website.
I do block ALL ads served up by 3rd parties (e.g. Doubleclick and Intellitext).
Show your own ads and I will see them.
Use those despicable services from Doubleclick and I won't.
...have been in my adblock block list from the day I first stumbled across them...
no one cares what browser / plugin combo you use. i know it gives you a boost of self-esteem, but no one cares, particularly the readers of the inq who know mostly already about such technologies. go back to digg.
Cookies don't get turned on unless necessary, which isn't so often; it's easier to simply keep the cursor out of the main body of the page. If they help you pay the bills, foin. WAITING (and waiting..) for ad sites to load before being able to see an article, however... grrr!
Ads like these make the whole web page unusable. I used to be able to browse quite well with a 300 MHz PII, now with all the flash junk, stupid in-window pop-ups, and shoddily written (unoptimized and requiring huge amounts of unnecessary resources) web pages, my Athlon XP 2400+ or 2.8 GHz P4 now runs like crap.

I'll support ads that don't kill my computer, but if you ruin my web viewing experience, I'll stay away. Anyone else feel like their broadband surfing is reverting to dial-up?
It is the way they obscure the part I'm trying to read (I think they even scroll with the page?), especially because the delay is so short that it picks up mouse movements over the page.
i'm with Dave Barnes on this one.

I can't be bothered to unblock googleclick or whatever, but if you house your own adverts, they'll pass through my ad block no problem.

but the green squiggles = HAET