Digital Spy

DS now has UK and US editions, which only appear accessible via a menu bar which changes a cookie (I'm guessing). The US front page has this at the bottom:
http://images.digitalspy.co.uk/08/50/footer_hfmus_women.png

So I guess they've created a whole new site just by filtering stories with a US tag, and presumably doing some copypasting from tv.com and whatever gossip sites they have over there.

Are they on a bizarre competition to put as many flash adverts on a webpage as possible at present?

Back to the flash ads problem, has DS caused anyone else's browsers to shutdown over the last 48 hours?

I was unable to browse the site at all without adblock turned on, it was very frustrating

I seem to remeber them atepting a US version a few years ago, the URL was www.digitalspy.net IRRC.

I see others are reporting flash issues now ...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=992952

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/digital_spy_malware/

UK celebrity gossip website Digital Spy reportedly served up banner ads laced with malware earlier this week.

Good luck to them pinning that one down, with 7 billion adverts per page it could be any one of them

DS seem to have finally found a use for all that blank space on the right hand side of their web pages.

I'd not noticed this until today, but at least it explains why they'd never bothered placing the pages in the centre of the screen if this was their long term plan.

Perhaps it's been there all the time, but I'd just never left any of their pages up long enough for the adverts to load.

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/DS-Home.jpeg

Looks terrible on my 1024x768 resolution.

Horizontal scrollbars.

It's getting ridiculous! The whole website is littered with annoying flash adverts that often stall my browser as it is.

Was that before or after the page fades out to reveal a Sony Ericsson phone that you have to click before getting the page back? Absolutely ridiculous.

Maybe I should do something similar on this site...force people to work through an entire Flash version of the Blockbusters Gold Run in order to get the page back.

I'd like to meet the genius who thought that putting an advert there would look, then I'd like to kick him up the arse. He (or she) should have just stuck a great big flashing banner in the centre of the page.