Recent Annoying Ads
 

I've noticed recently that the banner ads you have on this site are also popping up annoying ads that travel with the page when you scroll up and down.

The past few days I have seen one for QuestionMarket.com and one for Circuit City. Both appear in front of the page and travel up and down while scrolling. The Circuit City ad is especially big and annoying, taking up almost the entire screen until you search for the tiny close button.

I know these are from the AG site itself because they always correspond with the banner ad at the top of the page. Just wanted to vent my frustration with these annoyances. Don't let this site turn into Gamespot. ;)

Did you... Read this thread already: http://forums.adventuregamers.com/sh...ad.php?t=10740 ?

(Edit): I see you did... Right, just forget about it...

The QuestionMarket one is driving me crazy. :frusty:

I know Marek was trying to do away with annoying ads and keep only the innocuous ones but that's proving more difficult than expected. Don't worry about us turning into Gamespot - that's not the intention. AG's just experimenting at the moment to find the best fit.

Are you ever getting these pop-ups on the main site, or just on the forum?

Well I didn't know if these were classified as pop-ups. They don't open up a separate page, but instead display in the same page.

EDIT: Sorry posted in the wrong board. How long have I been here?

Just the forum and just this past week or so.

I've been getting the exact same pop-ups myself in the past two weeks.

Here is a suggestion that might help IE users disable some of these ads.

Hey, I think it's working!!!!

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Hmm, I looked at the browser I'm using (Avant) and it has the options shown below. Haven't tried to change anything yet so I don't know if this will work or not.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8...options0pj.jpg

EDIT: Ah, I remember I use to have AD Blocker checked, but then I unchecked it because it blocks some of the images on Gamespot that aren't necessarily ads.

Yeah, adblock is way too agressive in blocking stuff. It blocks anything matching 'banner', so among other things it blocks the idle thumb banner images (which are the art at the top of articles and whatnot).

If you tick "Disable Flash Animations" then it should disable the really, really annoying "pop-over" ads (or whatever their official name is!). You'll have to untick it when you actually want to see Flash, though. :)

^ Thanks. Got it checked now.

EDIT: Unchecking it. Once again checking something on that list greatly affects how things display normally on Gamespot. Guess I'll just deal with the few ads shown on this site.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6...er037284id.gif

Isn't that a cheery ad for an AG site :pan:

I just had a Circuit city ad here that took the whole page, not a pop-up - are they supposed to do that?

Lynsie

^ Yes. That is one of the ads I was talking about in my original post.

I'm sorry but banner's like this just arn't acceptable for a family site.
http://bysmitty.netfirms.com/misc/banner.jpg
I understand that AG needs funds to stay afloat but this is just not in good taste.

...bysmitty

Mohh, you should see LucasForums!

But yeah those are annoying, for the sideways glances they attract if nothing else.

No, they're not.

Thanks for posting it, so Marek can turn that one off.

Waitwaitwait... I can meet hot singles ONLINE? Awesome!

It doesn't say that. Only that you can meet them tonight. But you probably have to hand over lots of money first :D.

:shifty: Dating can be so expensive.

Just to note - I'm suddenly getting flashing ads which are screwing with my ability to type responses. Its like typing through mud.

I've never actually tried that, but if I was to type through mud, I'm sure that's what it'd be like. :D

I feel the same way about the Circuit City ad. It's fairly unobtrusive when it sits there in banner form, but when it drops down to fill the screen as you're scrolling, it's downright annoying.

^ I've been seeing a new pop-over ad on this site that's even worse. It's for some Verizon cell-phone.

Any pop-up window telling you who have won something like I care.

Is Marek listening?

Marek sees all. Unfortunately, that means he may not see this particular thread. I'll bug him.

I don't have any ads (except for some werry minimal google ones).
Firefox rules :)

Now we have sound ones too?! "...just what I wanted for Christmas!" They're getting more and more intrusive! Do you get to preview the ads being placed before they are put on the site?

Lynsie

Lynsie, didn't you disable the Shockwave Flash Object add-on in IE?

I did, but that was a pain, since I play flash games daily, and I had to enable it again for them.

Lynsie

I don't think so.

Now the commflash ads hide the site, forcing you to either put up with it or find the place to click on it to get rid of it. These keep getting worse. Banners are one thing, but when you have trouble finding the page, this is too much.

Lynsie

Wow. I just experienced an ad that consumed the whole screen and then said that the page was loading. You have to click the close this ad button to get past it. Has anyone else had this problem?

One of these days I will get beyond level 14 of BeTrapped.

Just to note, now I'm getting ads freezing the page before I can reply and flashing ads that interrupt the browser text input.

Firefox + Adblock
 

Firefox + AdBlock must be extremely good at hiding ads because I have no idea what you are talking about. Is it really that bad?

:frown: Even though I disabled Shockwave Flash Object in my IE browser, there is still a lot of pause when the page loads, as if it's trying to load the ad and run on my screen first. Really annoying. I guess nothing can be done about this, huh?

I'm using that. :crazy:

I'm thinking something can be done. I.e., disallow any banners that run Flash programming. I would think the powers that be should be able to stipulate that to their advertisers. ??

Hey all - been away a bit. I've had a chance to look at the ads just now. A couple of them ain't pretty.

We don't get previews of new ads, I can only block them after they've been added to the ads pool.