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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 08:15 AM
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Vibrant is out of hand on some threads you can not even read the thread so many of their ads coming up ,they starting play audio it is making the site almost worthless
 
Old Oct 16, 2011 | 09:37 AM
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Add the following line to your Windows 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1 itxt.vibrantmedia.com
This won't stop everything, but it'll kill those green Intellitxt text links, which is where much of the crap you're describing comes from (if you happen to move your mouse over them). It takes effect immediately. You don't even need to reboot. GL!
 
Old Oct 16, 2011 | 09:43 AM
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I have been using Firefox with ad blocker for the last year. I haven't seen an ad since
 
Old Oct 16, 2011 | 09:53 AM
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I have been using Firefox with ad blocker for the last year. I haven't seen an ad since
Fire fox can not block vibrant without shut down Java and you need java to view a lot of sites and content. Vibrant becomes part of the web page
 
Old Oct 16, 2011 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Lucky
Add the following line to your Windows 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1 itxt.vibrantmedia.com
This won't stop everything, but it'll kill those green Intellitxt text links, which is where much of the crap you're describing comes from (if you happen to move your mouse over them). It takes effect immediately. You don't even need to reboot. GL!
Thanks that a different approach to dealing with them I will try it.
 
Old Oct 16, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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I've never seen one, ( IE with free AVG Anti Virus.)
 
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Originally Posted by smitty901
Fire fox can not block vibrant without shut down Java and you need java to view a lot of sites and content. Vibrant becomes part of the web page
Interesting. I view a lot of different websites and never had any trouble seeing them. Not sure what I am missing, but I am happy I am not seeing ads and slowing me down.
 

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