Arthur_itus, since you've brought this up repeatedly. This rant is inspired by you.

While I don't share the thoughts and feelings of Bill D on this matter, for I really believe that the custom ads are better for everyone involved, specifically:

With Miro$soft and others trying every trick in the book to control what you see and feed you ads, and monitor your browsing, I feel NO compunction about using every trick *I* know to shut them out.

I do respect his ability to find a way to not complain to management about his displeasure with the free service that he takes advantage of. The marketplace is full of options, and there are plenty of other traditional music communities out there and you have the right to choose whether you'd prefer to be there than here where there is an annoying but temporary security warning that I, the human being site owner, assured you was safe, gave you multiple workarounds and options, and more importantly that we're hard at work on a solution. There are thousands and thousands of sites that this just happened to, and while you think this is just mudcat up to no good or using junk software or junk ads, that is just plane wrong. Google and Chartbeat and Amazon are the people we do business with every moment to make this site click and hum and to help pay our bills. All large and safe and accountable companies. The one throwing the error at you is the one big name missing from our sites' infrastructure. Left out of the party, so the browser throws an error.

I don't care for how you are expressing yourself, sounds like you are making noise in the hopes that I will give attention to the squeaky wheel. I take exception that you refuse every option of help and solution, and just continue to complain in another thread of the same thing here you are discussing here even though I am clearly engaged with you already and have acknowledged your concern. Well, here I suppose, the squeaky wheel gets called out for being rude to his host that charges nothing for a place in which to squeak. All I've ever asked is for you to behave yourselves in a manor in which I am accustomed to having guests in my home such as Bill D, and JohnInKansas who help create a better place with their observations and suggestions, not just squeak and demand a different kind of oil that we are providing for free. And I am sorry in advance for any credits I need to give you for your contributions to mudcat, intellectually as well as financially. I am happy to have you, I am really, you just picked a wrong battle on the wrong day with me. I am under the weather, tired of this whole... and quite cranky.

This problem is more about politics than technology or choice, this is a tactic to get me, the site owner, to yield to the 75% of our Web site visitors who use IEv8 and 2% that use IEv9. That is a formidable challenge to have an error that questions the safety and very integrity of a site, That's an error that only their browser is complaining about, because I use Google to monetize our sites, they flip a switch and write up a treaties on cross site scripting and how it can be abused and wallah, they got me to change what I do, the very core of our site stability and monetization of this entire enterprise. This isn't fighting fair and I will not yield to these tactics or alter my current course because of a single squeaky wheel. The problem will be solved, when I can get to it or the industry sorts it out.