Lovefilm shouldn’t be advertising

I pay a service to Lovefilm. £13 per month for 2 rental movies at a time. I can usually get about a maximum of 10 DVDs per month. This is good value. However, their website is increasing with the amount of stupid adverts.

i’m not just talking about the small Google adverts. I’m am talking about the huge Flash overlays which prevent you from viewing your content. This following screenshot prevented me from seeing what movies i had at home. The close button also didn’t work, then crashed Safari:

So I’ve created some sort of hack (specifically from Lovefilm.com) which can be used in most browsers. It’s a custom stylesheet which forces the adverts not to display.

Updated: Download it here: custom-stylesheet-lovefilm.com.css

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2 Responses to Lovefilm shouldn’t be advertising

  1. Ali says:

    Good point, they are a paid for service and their website is part of the service. They shouldn’t be advertising, especially with ads that obstruct the service that you are paying them to provide.

  2. admin says:

    I’m updating the CSS hack every once in a while. There’s still one advert down the bottom though.

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