I have not noticed the computer slowing down, no.
Perhaps it depends on your speed.

serifiot, June 17, 2006; 1:20 AM

Same problem over here since a day or two.
Even flipping backwards through pages
I have just read before is very slow now.

WimArnhem, June 17, 2006; 2:26 AM

???

I do get the green underlined words as well guys but the computer behaves as it did before with no unusual delays... nothing out of the norm... sorry.

I'm assuming these underlined green words (sort of annoying) is something of an added feature here in Sountrack Collector (even though most of the linked websites are irrelavent to film music) which in turn sort of fund the website?

serifiot, June 17, 2006; 2:45 AM

It appears that Soundtrackcollector.com is now a sort of spyware paradise. The slow down is that it's searching for key words to make you want to click. I noticed this today and made sure that it was not my computer infected with Spyware (this happened to me before) where the browser is hijacked by a program which forces links. I went to other sites and checked to make sure it was the site not my computer. YES IT DOES SLOW DOWN THE PAGES LOADING ETC!

Edit: The words "Searching" and "Spyware" come up as links within this message now!

Ton are you out there?

hammon, June 17, 2006; 3:02 AM

I, too, was alarmed by the "embedded advertising" that suddenly popped up on the site, so the other day I e-mailed Ton about this "problem" because I thought that perhaps the site had been hijacked by spyware/adware, and this was his response:

"Hello Josh,

They are authorized. We do a test with a new kind of advertising.
We have to do that, because we have a very expensive site and we need to try to make some money with this kind of advertising.

We have a lot of enthusiastic members who track their collection on our site, who visit us daily to look if something new has shown up, who have a lot of discussions on our forum, but who not even think of a (little) donation to support us.

That's why.

Regards,

Ton Werkman
SoundtrackCollector.com"


Personally, I am not at all comfortable with this type of "advertising", as I find it rather insidious and deceitful. From now on there will now be one less freeloader haunting these forums.

See you in cyberspace, amigos...

Josh

American.Nightmare, June 17, 2006; 9:49 AM

I don't like it either...I believe it reduces soundtrackcollector's high quality.

philkws, June 17, 2006; 1:49 PM

Don`t go Josh !! Its not decietful but it would of helped a little if Ton had mentioned this before he went ahead. No one is forcing you to buy from clicking the links of course, and im sure you`ll get used to it before long. Give it a chance..........

Ant..

anthonynputson, June 17, 2006; 1:51 PM

Message to all concerned members.

We did a test with this kind of advertising, because - as we say here in Holland, our chimneys have to smoke.;-)
But, just like you all, we are not happy with the results.
That's why we have decided to stop today with this test.

Erwin & Ton Werkman


ton.werkman, June 17, 2006; 2:44 PM

Thank you Ton. I can understand that it is expensive to run a site like this.

Have you considered donations - setting through a PayPal account?

In some ways I'm sure a lot of us feel that we are donating by giving information to the site. But there are expenses on keeping it going.

I believe you are entitled to try every avenue of covering the costs. Unfortunately this test was unsuccessful. I'm sure there are other ways to add advertising to the site which is less insidious!

hammon, June 17, 2006; 8:51 PM