Official Announcement #1: Intellitxt

[MD]

We have been listening to your feedback regards the use of Intellitxt adverts on the main HEXUS site this week and through discussions we have come up with a proposal which we are going to trial.

Therefore we have decided that we will shortly start a three month trial to remove the intellitxt adverts from anyone browsing the site whilst logged into their MyHEXUS account.

All you need to do is sign into your MyHEXUS account or register if you don't have one - over the coming days browsing the main site whilst logged in will result in no intellitxt ads being shown.

Now for many of you this will be very good news, and we do hope that it is positively received and works well for our readers.

Obviously by completely removing these adverts we lose out on a substantial amount of income to allow us to bring you fresh, innovative and informative news from around the globe on a daily basis so we have to see how this goes and see if the request below has any effect

At the same time we do have a request - as a result of this we would, where possible ask that you add HEXUS onto your whitelist for the normal advertisements - you know the 728 x 90 and the 120 x600 ads that run on the front page of the site. If I see that these ad views go up with this trial then there is more justification of this trial being extended beyond the 3 months we are currently proposing.

Sound fair?

We hope so, and we hope you keep enjoying the awesome content HEXUS.net keeps delivering, again and again and again.

Matt
On behalf of Team HEXUS.net

[Salazaar]

Sounds like a fair deal...

I'll certainly do that for my home PC, not sure about work though, it's a crappy old P4 with a tendency to 'splode when it has to do the slightest amount of actual processing. So I pretty much have to turn off all ads and most scripts before I can browse anything at all

[MadduckUK]

Originally Posted by MD

Sound fair?

yes very

feeling ok?

[MSIC]

Ok, it's a deal. Spit and shake on it?

[pauldarkside]

Thanks Matt (and the rest of the team) - it's always encouraging to see Hexus listening to its readers. It'll be a pleasure to read through articles without the intrusion of intellitxt.

[stevie lee]

Originally Posted by MD

logged into their MyHEXUS account.

At the same time we do have a request - as a result of this we would, where possible ask that you add HEXUS onto your whitelist for the normal advertisements

first question - is this different from the account i'm using to type this in?


second - what is a whitelist??


third - i don't want to block anything, because its fun navigating around clicking on stuff and learning new things.. so i won't be blocking nothing.. do i get a cookie?

[MSIC]

A Whitelist is for when people use Firefox as their browser, then have the (very popular) plug-in called Ad-block (or Ad-block plus) which does what it says on the tin.
A Whitelist is then a list of allowed stuff that get's through the filters.

[MD]

The account you use here on the forums is separate from the MyHEXUS login.

All I can say at this stage is this is the first of many VERY cool features to come into the MyHEXUS system.

You can sign up on the right hand side of the HEXUS.net - Definitive Technology News and Reviews homepage for MyHEXUS.

Matt

[pauldarkside]

Originally Posted by MD

All I can say at this stage is this is the first of many VERY cool features to come into the MyHEXUS system.

Ooh, not just very but VERY? Now I'm intrigued

If you'd have said VERY then I'd have probably made a mess in my shorts

[kalniel]

May I ask what data you track (if any) when we are logged into our accounts?

[MD]

That I can't answer, i would need to find that out for you - I don't beleive we currently track anything but you will need to wait for DR to answer that question.

matt

[Aez]

May I ask what data you track (if any) when we are logged into our accounts?

all the porn sites you visit.
On a more serious note, i only ever had intellitext blocked, all the other adverts don't get in the way, it would be nice to have 1 account instead of 3 (assuming trust isn't liked to myhexus)

[TheAnimus]

I have to say for hexus to actually listen to us whining lot is bloody good.

I'd of expected a simple smitting of the prime antagonists, rather than this!

well done guys, hope it works out.

[alsenior]

tis very nice that.

[TAKTAK]

now that is a good idea

[DR]

.. we do try and listen.

We want you guys to help us out how Matt said above... and if we can see this happening we will look to potentially make this change long term.