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Obtrusive Ads

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Fujiko7

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I'm getting an intrusive ad that sits right in the middle of the last post on a page. As I mostly look at the digital photo forums this is a real pain. Can it be fixed?

Cheers.
 
I'm not seeing these ads. Can you post a screenshot?

thanks
arn
 
Posted in other thread... Here's a screen shot of me trying to make this post:

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Pop Up Best Buy Ad

This is the second time this has happened in the span of about three minutes.

I've clicked a thread in Forum Spy and have had this Best Buy ad pop up at the bottom of my screen. Not terribly annoying, but just something I thought I'd mention.
 

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NathanMuir said:
This is the second time this has happened in the span of about three minutes.

I've clicked a thread in Forum Spy and have had this Best Buy ad pop up at the bottom of my screen. Not terribly annoying, but just something I thought I'd mention.
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Happening to me too. It's happened 3 times, probably in the past 2 minutes. Like said, not terribly annoying, but it would be nice if it were fixed. :)
 
Actually what is annoying about it is that it is 1024 pixels wide. I typically have my windows narrower than that - more like reading a printed page. As a result the ad's close box isn't shown and it doesn't trigger the horizontal scroll bar.

Pretty lame.
 
New Banner Ads (bottom)

I've come back after lurking for a while to see a new banner ad - that I've never seen before.

Is this a new MR thing - or is it time for me to clear out Safari? It's very annoying because it's not "framed" like standard banner ads. It reminds me of the Youtube embedded ads - which I utterly detest.

I'm not complaining about MRs advertising (I like this site - and am guilty of freeloading) but if more ads like these continue to grow it's going to suck. Just like those stupid embedded ads on TV shows that wipe across - even IFC does it now. :(
 

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Tilpots said:
I see this was discussed yesterday, but I just wanted to confirm the issue still persists. I'm using Firefox 3.6.12.
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The ad jumping into the wrong place? Or the bestbuy ad?

arn
 
I just got a ridiculous one. Surprise, it's form Microsoft.
 

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Dear macrumors.com: This is not cool

This is not what I want to see when I come to macrumors.com

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Let me know when you've got rid of it, and I'll turn AdBlock back off.
 
Same here. Not using any adblocking software but never seen that before.
 
eng42ine said:
All the more reason to become a contributor!!


(but ya, that seems a bit overboard)
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I wouldn't mind contributing to the site since I have extensive ad blocking baked into my browsing setups (for reasons like the ones in this thread).
 
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