I've stopped reading IGN because of it. I'm one of those guys that moves his mouse cursor all around the screen while reading, and select and deselect text, and so on, and on the websites with Intellitext, it pops up ads that I seriously don't care about.
Pisses me off, and it's a type of ad that I'm not sure how to block. I'm using Opera, btw. Usually I just activate "Block unwanted popups", but this is not technically a pop up.
I hope this crap doesn't catch on.
You might be able to stop it by disabling javascript in your browser, but that will break a lot of other websites too. (I'm pretty sure it is done with AJAX.) I hate it too, but thankfully I have stopped reading most of the sites that use it too.
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I use an extension for Firefox which lets you select which websites get to use javascript, and it handles most crap like that. Might help.
AdBlock/SafariBlock kept that garbage(a.k.a. intellitext) away.
[edit] This 2 things really need to be blocked...
-ttp://itxt.vibrantmedia.com/intellitxt/*
-ttp://*.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/*
You can also edit the hosts file in your windows\system32\drivers\etc folder to redirect the intellitxt servers to 127.0.0.1.
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Ditto the Quintin, that's how I handle them. Although I guess Adblock Plus with the Filterset.G Updater takes care of them too. I just realized I hadn't edited the hosts file on a machine I formatted and don't get those ads.
I don't feel disadvantaged with the stick I've got.
Yeah adblock plus and noscript extensions are very handy for this purpose.
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Yeah... Adblock is kinda Firefox-only, and I'm using Opera. =)
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The hosts file works for anything.
Also see Proxomitron (free but abandonware) and AdMuncher.
I don't feel disadvantaged with the stick I've got.
Opera Beta 2 is available and has some nice ad-blocking features. Not sure if it'll work for this, but it's worth a shot.
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Opera 9 (just released for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) has content blocking built in.
Try adding:
http://*.intellisrv.net/*
http://*.intellitxt.com/*
...to Preferences> Advanced> Content> Blocked content...