sound on adverts
zeroseven
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not clever, not funny. Please stop it, get the army thing off please
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What army ad? Not seen or heard it. Not found the mute button on your keyboard?I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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Is that most inane comment you can make on something you cant even find?
Jesus you must be bored0 -
Yeah that advert is really annoying me so much I turned the ad blocker on for this website. I had turned it off for bikeradar out of respect for the site but until that damn army advert has gone then the ads will remain blocked.0
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I don't want to mute. I want to listen to stuff I've chosen, not the army swoosh.0 -
N4PALM wrote:Yeah that advert is really annoying me so much I turned the ad blocker on for this website. I had turned it off for bikeradar out of respect for the site but until that damn army advert has gone then the ads will remain blocked.
Ad blocker? How? where?
I always had the site load upon one of my home tabs. No longer, not until the ad goes
I tend to play music through the PC, now I get this poxy swoosh noise every 30 seconds0 -
zeroseven wrote:N4PALM wrote:Yeah that advert is really annoying me so much I turned the ad blocker on for this website. I had turned it off for bikeradar out of respect for the site but until that damn army advert has gone then the ads will remain blocked.
Ad blocker? How? where?
I always had the site load upon one of my home tabs. No longer, not until the ad goes
I tend to play music through the PC, now I get this poxy swoosh noise every 30 seconds
Adblock plus firefox extension0 -
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i have this site load up along with BBC News and its very irritating to have the whooosh noise interrupting my viewing0 -
b****y annoying and very stupid. Whats the point ? its amusing the first couple of times but wears a bit thin when you are trying to read articles on the front page. I've stopped going there at all now . :roll:0
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I have spoken with our Ad Operations team and they have confirmed that there is a problem with this ad.
The sound should only play if you click on the ad, not by default.
They are working to get this issue resolved as soon as possible. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience that this ad has caused.
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you should make a complaint to the MOD, agency who created the add and the agency who supplied the ad,
its very cheap marketing tactics generating interest in an ad by annoying your users, users who would not even notice the ad otherwise,0 -
"The sound should only play if you click on the ad, not by default." Glad that is the case, was doubting my sanity! Made me jump out of my skin and nearly alerted everyone at work I was reading a forum at work :roll:0
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Common guys - the sound is STILL there - talk about off putting. WIll be avoiding the site until fixed!0
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Stuart Anderson wrote:I have spoken with our Ad Operations team and they have confirmed that there is a problem with this ad.
The sound should only play if you click on the ad, not by default.
They are working to get this issue resolved as soon as possible. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience that this ad has caused.
Stuart
Thanks for the response Stuart .Lets hope they can sort it quickly. It will be good o be able to read the news and other articles again.0 -
Stuart Anderson wrote:
They are working to get this issue resolved as soon as possible.
Stuart
Let me help
Take.....It.....Off
Very simple.....0 -
My 'puter freezes every time I get to the front page because of this advert. And no, it's not a steam-powered dinosaur. It's a Dell precision 390 with Core Duo processor. Still gets held up by the ad loading, and it wooshes every 30-odd secs regardless (the ad, not the PC).
Please do something about it. It's driving me nuts!The only bad view from the saddle is of the point of impact rising rapidly to meet you.0 -
<b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.</b></i>
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firefox is a coad of lrap :twisted:
Its bloated to 20Mb now :shock: whats all that for I hear you ask ... well judging by my hard drive activity when I logon its writing home to mum telling her where I've been and what I've been up to on the net.0 -
peanut wrote:firefox is a coad of lrap :twisted:
Its bloated to 20Mb now :shock: whats all that for I hear you ask ... well judging by my hard drive activity when I logon its writing home to mum telling her where I've been and what I've been up to on the net.
try chrome - brilliant0 -
again - add off please !!!! surely there's a more suitable advertiser..."I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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What, because that only writes home to Google?zeroseven wrote:peanut wrote:firefox is a coad of lrap :twisted:
Its bloated to 20Mb now :shock: whats all that for I hear you ask ... well judging by my hard drive activity when I logon its writing home to mum telling her where I've been and what I've been up to on the net.
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whyamihere wrote:What, because that only writes home to Google?
No it doesn't. Do your homework
Its the fastest browser I've used..... even in beta0 -
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* When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters that you type are sent to Google so that the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms or URLs that you may be looking for. If you choose to share usage statistics with Google and you accept a suggested query or URL, Google Chrome will send that information to Google as well. You can disable this feature as explained here.
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From http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/privacy.html0 -
I suspect C+ are committed to an advertising contract and will not be able to change the current settings . Annoying though it is I'm sure the revenue from these ads are what supports our forum . Guess I wouldn't want the forum restricted or lost.
I know this is probably a bit off topic but it seems that everything you download is now dending our personal information and internet search patterns back to momma. I don't know about you but this really P's me off. Its kinda like you're being violated mentally.,know what I mean ! its without my permission.
I've dumped AVG , Zonealarm , Avast , Spysweeper and other anti-virus and firewall software for this reason.
Just do a simple check on how many cookies are placed on your drive without your knowledge and permission.You will be staggered
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try this .. Go to TOOLS OPTIONS PRIVACY in the box `cookies ' scroll and select ASK ME EVERY TIME then APPLY OK
Next time you open any webpage you will see how many cookies are left on visiting each website . BBC has about 6x Telegraph has about 12x :shock:
You can change the cookie setting back to `keep until they expire'0 -
It's a problem with running proprietary software - you don't know what it's doing, and the developer knows this.peanut wrote:I know this is probably a bit off topic but it seems that everything you download is now dending our personal information and internet search patterns back to momma. I don't know about you but this really P's me off. Its kinda like you're being violated mentally.,know what I mean ! its without my permission.
I've dumped AVG , Zonealarm , Avast , Spysweeper and other anti-virus and firewall software for this reason.
What's wrong with dumping cookies to your local disk? That information is still on your PC...Just do a simple check on how many cookies are placed on your drive without your knowledge and permission.You will be staggered0 -
Big Red S wrote:[
What's wrong with dumping cookies to your local disk? That information is still on your PC...
sorry I'm not sure what your point is big red ? I was just giving an example of what is uploaded and downloaded to our hard drives without our knowledge and permission.
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I was wondering what was wrong with cookies?
It is with your implicit permission, and it's getting more and more difficult to argue that it's without the user's knowledge.
I don't know of any (mainstream) browser that doesn't let you disallow cookies altogether, and most offer some compromises.0 -
Thats the beta version whyamihere.... and I believe even in that you can disable the feedback0
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peanut wrote:I suspect C+ are committed to an advertising contract and will not be able to change the current settings . Annoying though it is I'm sure the revenue from these ads are what supports our forum . Guess I wouldn't want the forum restricted or lost.
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But if the ad if faulty as claimed then they have no obligation to run it0 -
Big Red S wrote:I was wondering what was wrong with cookies?
It is with your implicit permission, and it's getting more and more difficult to argue that it's without the user's knowledge.
I don't know of any (mainstream) browser that doesn't let you disallow cookies altogether, and most offer some compromises.
yes but 95% of browsers are completely unaware of this going on so how can it be with their implicit permission?
They don't see it happening and are not even aware of being able to control cookies .That is the point I was making.
Were you aware for example that giving you're credit card details to Paypal gives them the right to take money from you're bank account whenever they want? without reference to you and any amount they see fit. Check with your bank and Paypal's small print.0
