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taydude
Oct 4, 2009, 11:37 PM
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kill this thing! NO ONE likes the damn ads that put stuff on your screen and stop you from using the website. I'm sick of having to close it every time i check the home page.
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nkane
Oct 4, 2009, 11:52 PM
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Adblock plus.
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kovacs69
Oct 5, 2009, 12:00 AM
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There are ads on the home page? I have never seen them...must be my ad block.
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wonderwoman
Oct 5, 2009, 12:26 AM
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Moved to Suggestions and Feedback by WW.
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ShibbyShane
Oct 5, 2009, 12:33 AM
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Agree, this thing is really annoying. And for those of you saying to use AdBlock, not everyone uses Safari or similar browsers that accept 3rd party ad-ons.
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psmarais
Oct 5, 2009, 7:48 AM
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Hi there,
If this happens again, please take a screen shot and sent it to us. We have absolutely zero tolerance for pop-up ads, and would like to keep them off the site.
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kachoong
Oct 5, 2009, 2:22 PM
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This is what it looks like.... and is even occurring as I write this post! In duplicate!
Surely this is a major reason for the site's slow performance?
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psmarais
Oct 5, 2009, 2:27 PM
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Thanks, we are on it.
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j_ung
Oct 5, 2009, 2:30 PM
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Here's the ad once it's done wiping up its mess.
(This post was edited by j_ung on Oct 5, 2009, 2:31 PM)
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petsfed
Oct 5, 2009, 2:31 PM
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kachoong wrote: This is what it looks like.... and is even occurring as I write this post! In duplicate! Surely this is a major reason for the site's slow performance?
The worse variant is when the sidebar ad and the top bar ad both do it. I don't know how to take a screenshot with my girlfriend's mac, but when it happens on my home computer, I'll post up a screenshot.
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wjca
Oct 5, 2009, 2:37 PM
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Does this site really have this little control over the adds that is runs? Really? WTF?
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j_ung
Oct 5, 2009, 2:38 PM
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Thank you, psmarais. This is one of the most annoying and invasive ads I've seen anyplace. I keep my adblock off for this site, because I want to help support it, but that ad makes it nearly impossible to read and use the forums. It opens on, at a minimum, every third page view for me. It opens twice at the same time. And, it's finicky about where you click to close it; you have to get right on the word "Close."
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j_ung
Oct 5, 2009, 2:43 PM
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Many of the ads are served by a third-party ad supplier. Not everything is seen and approved by Daniel et al before it goes live. But once it does, if it's something invasive, I every confidence they'll squash it.
Subaru, by the way, has a history of what I would call unethical web advertising. Back when I was blue, they inquired about seeding the forums with pro-Subaru posts. Of course, I said no, absolutely not, and that I would permanently ban any user suspected of it.
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kachoong
Oct 5, 2009, 2:45 PM
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j_ung wrote: Thank you, psmarais. This is one of the most annoying and invasive ads I've seen anyplace. I keep my adblock off for this site, because I want to help support it, but that ad makes it nearly impossible to read and use the forums. It opens on, at a minimum, every third page view for me. It opens twice at the same time. And, it's finicky about where you click to close it; you have to get right on the word "Close."
Ahhh thanks Jay! That's what I was trying to find... I have been having to wait until it goes away to hit the post reply button.
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ddt
Oct 5, 2009, 2:48 PM
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wjca wrote: Does this site really have this little control over the adds that is runs? Really? WTF?
Just bear with us. Ads are being served by NameMedia, the owner of the site, while we are running and managing the site from South Africa. I think we mentioned this when we took over the management responsibilities from NameMedia in April.
Anyway, since we're in different time zones it sometimes means a few hours lag before we can make changes to the ads being served.
DDT
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clausti
Oct 5, 2009, 2:48 PM
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petsfed wrote: kachoong wrote: This is what it looks like.... and is even occurring as I write this post! In duplicate! Surely this is a major reason for the site's slow performance? The worse variant is when the sidebar ad and the top bar ad both do it. I don't know how to take a screenshot with my girlfriend's mac, but when it happens on my home computer, I'll post up a screenshot.
ugh, yes, fucking a. and it opens when you hit BACK as well. both at the same time. when it did that for the third time, i came straight here to post about it.... definitely figures that i'm not the first one to be like wtf.
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clausti
Oct 5, 2009, 2:54 PM
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i actually just emailed Subaru and told them that I wanted to cockpunch their ad department. Seriously. This is waaaay more than every third page load. It's EVERY page load, but sometimes twice.
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jakedatc
Oct 5, 2009, 3:09 PM
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petsfed wrote: kachoong wrote: This is what it looks like.... and is even occurring as I write this post! In duplicate! Surely this is a major reason for the site's slow performance? The worse variant is when the sidebar ad and the top bar ad both do it. I don't know how to take a screenshot with my girlfriend's mac, but when it happens on my home computer, I'll post up a screenshot.
Apple-shift-4 and you can use the mouse to highlight a box around what you want to capture
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sycamore
Oct 5, 2009, 3:09 PM
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It's still heeeeerrrreeee......... Wow, talk about shooting yourself in the foot, ad-wise.
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Myxomatosis
Oct 6, 2009, 11:00 AM
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This shit sucks... its like someone bolting a crack!
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