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Post by lunaalta on Dec 6, 2013 13:32:02 GMT -5
Here I sat, happily listening to some tracks I'm mixing on another computer, with ear goggles on, whilst checking a couple of forums on the Interwebby thing, when, just as the mix ended, a loud and clear musical advertisement came blasting through!!!!  It took me a short time, shuffling through the tags I had opened in my browser, to discover it was coming from here!  I had just landed on the guitarnuts2 Home page. The offending (well, the ad was offensive to my ears) ad was situated at the top of the page, but, the stupid thing is, it was too large for it's space. So, all I could see was the top of ......well.......something, I couldn't quite see. So, the ad was a total waste of proboards time.  Has anyone else come across this? It's the first time for me, and I hope the last. I often listen to music while I'm looking around the web. Sometimes quite loud through headphones. You can imagine the shock, as my Christmas carol collaboration mix ended and I was blasted with an unknown Spanish musical ad, at reasonably high level.  I understand proboards placing ads in various places, and I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with audio ads. I find them to be overly intrusive, by a long, long way. So, has anyone else had audio ads fed to them here, and how do you feel about it? Just interested.......  |
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Post by newey on Dec 6, 2013 14:26:33 GMT -5
I, too, hate those audio ads, but I haven't had any here- at least not so far.
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Post by sumgai on Dec 7, 2013 1:02:53 GMT -5
I imagine AdBlock Plus would eliminate that sorta thing... I use The Proxomitron, and it clears out the riff-raff in a hot hurry - no ads allowed in these hallowed halls!  It would be interesting to see the code behind this kinda thing. Next time it hits (and presuming you haven't blocked in some way), please do a View Source and then copy that to a text file. Attach that to a PM to me, so I can peruse it at my leisure. Thanks.  sumgai |
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Post by lunaalta on Dec 7, 2013 13:50:51 GMT -5
I'll do that, sg. Musta been a flash ad, I'm guessing. Never happened to me here, before. I nearly pooped, LOL. Good job I have a stable heart.....LOL. Seems the lengths advertisers go to, these days, has no bounds. I can't understand how they expect to convert users to clients by peeing them off.......  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 2:29:32 GMT -5
I'll do that, sg. Musta been a flash ad, I'm guessing. Never happened to me here, before. I nearly pooped, LOL. Good job I have a stable heart.....LOL. Seems the lengths advertisers go to, these days, has no bounds. I can't understand how they expect to convert users to clients by peeing them off....... Then block flash. You can still run flash on selected sites by explicit manual confirmation. That's till Ad providers migrate to the new features of HTML 5 (and abandon dying adobe flash), the flash-blocking approach will work. |
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Post by lunaalta on Dec 8, 2013 13:46:45 GMT -5
Yeah, I could do that, GD, but, to me, that's like saying, 'Get off the pavement, I'm driving my car through there....'. It is bad form, for a site to put playing music on a website, even if there is a way to stop it. It is acceptable to put stopped music, with the ability to turn it on. Here, the site is used by a 3rd party, so they are taking advantage of the good guys that keep this forum going, by adding intrusive advertising, to sell their junk, whatever it was....... I guess I'd rate it with pop ups, or pop unders. If it were another site, I would leave and not return. I don't see that I have to shield myself from something like this, when it is generally accepted, by the webmaster community, to be a bad idea. Just like flash, as it happens. A Flash website will have me leaving, straight away. In fact, I've heard flash designers called 'Flashturbators'. LOL. Not by me, of course............ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 15:00:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I could do that, GD, but, to me, that's like saying, 'Get off the pavement, I'm driving my car through there....'. It is bad form, for a site to put playing music on a website, even if there is a way to stop it. It is acceptable to put stopped music, with the ability to turn it on. Here, the site is used by a 3rd party, so they are taking advantage of the good guys that keep this forum going, by adding intrusive advertising, to sell their junk, whatever it was....... I guess I'd rate it with pop ups, or pop unders. If it were another site, I would leave and not return. I don't see that I have to shield myself from something like this, when it is generally accepted, by the webmaster community, to be a bad idea. Just like flash, as it happens. A Flash website will have me leaving, straight away. In fact, I've heard flash designers called 'Flashturbators'. LOL. Not by me, of course............ Proboards are free. And there is some price in free, especially when it is meant as in "free beer" in contrast to as in "freedom". Some ad-blocker, or flash-blocker would do the job. I am sure there might be proxies out there providing this as a service as well. Anyways, the problems with proboards is peanuts compared to e.g. free subtitles sites with pointers to torrents.... |
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Post by sumgai on Dec 8, 2013 17:17:42 GMT -5
Here's a thought, lonely though it is..... Under the Flash regime, your computer must store super-cookies in order to play any Flash animation. Depending on your OS version, those cookies might be stored in a variety of possible locations, you'll have to figure that part out for yourself. However, no matter what OS you have, there is one cast-in-stone feature - no OS permits a file and a directory to share the exact same name within any other directory (or folder). Thus, if you know where your Flash super-cookie is being stored, you can just trot over the that folder, delete the cookie, and make a new directory on the spot with that same name. In this manner, the OS will prevent any website from ever creating any kind of file with that name ever again. (Within that directory, of course.) I use this trick all the time for sites I really want/need to visit, but don't care for the Flash-crapola that seems to be getting more and more obnoxious. But the reverse is also true - if the OS prevents the creation of a file when a same-named directory already exists, then it stands to reason that the OS will prevent the creation of a directory when a file of the same name already exists. Thus, and particularly under WinXP, I can prevent the constant creation/re-creation of such directories as "games", "xerox" and a host of other unwanted, empty directories every time the machine boots up. And the beauty is, the OS never barks just because it can't find and/or create the directory, it's happy with just a file of the "required" name being present. (Most of these are under Program Files, though not all of them.) The end result is that I get a clean and lean display of names, and no empty folders to slow me down when I'm manually rifling through my messkiit.... ) HTH sumgai |
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Post by newey on Dec 8, 2013 22:29:27 GMT -5
As one of the staff here, I must point out that use of ad-blocking software is a violation of ProBoards' T.O.S. We do not authorize or condone any such use. Now, carry on as you were . . . |
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Post by lunaalta on Dec 9, 2013 8:08:07 GMT -5
Yes, GD, I'm sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
Advertising on sites is not the issue that disturbs me. Just the use of active sound ads.
This, in my opinion, is totally uncalled for, and, it has been found to be detrimental to a good experience, not to mention a product's image.
Roll over ads are another annoyance. You know, those that pop up while you inadvertently move your mouse over something while moving around the page.
Those things are like being slapped round the face with a wet codfish, hardly likely to garner sales, let alone good feelings.
Anyway guys, thanks for the suggestions and sympathy.........LOL.
I still don't see that I should have to protect myself from the 'idiots' of the www. And, I know, in general, I'm safe with you guys.....ROFL.....
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