July 31, 2015 - 1:35am
Pop-Up Adds
Haven't been around in a bit, but what is up with the pop up adds. Every time I change to another page I get another annoying add covering that entire page. Not good.
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Haven't been around in a bit, but what is up with the pop up adds. Every time I change to another page I get another annoying add covering that entire page. Not good.
these past 2 weeks. But petering off now. Not as bad at the moment.
Very annoying.
Floyd,
Anything we can do to help pinpoint these things?
Send me some information about them, perhaps a screen shot, by email. What page you were on? What was the ad was for? What platform/browser you are on? And where you are (at least the country)?
I've never seen a pop up here. Every chance I get I've told advertisers I don't want pop ups, pop unders, overlays, auto-playing videos, or any other enhanced advertisements. That isn't to say that none could ever show up, just that when given the choice I always opted out.
Also, I'm in Canada on a Mac usually using Chrome, sometimes on Android, which I realize is not typical. I do not run banner blocking software in my Chrome installs because I try to see the site as visitors do. I get ads, often in Chinese or French, most of which are pretty innocuous.
Don't you mean "debased"?
g
I went round & round with Floyd about a year ago because I was getting awful pop-ups here. It turned out that my PC was infected - despite that I'm quite computer literate and very careful, I might add. As soon as I used several checking / cleaning tools that found gremlins, no more problem. Hope that's not what's causing your problem, but do give your system a thorough check up. :-)
Amazon, Tim Hortons and sometimes things related to a recent Google search seem to the most common advertisings I see. No self starting video, audio or pop ups on this or any other site I frequent. MacBook Air using Safari.
Gerhard
There is an invasive Citroen DS3 ad which pops up, and a worse version of it that comes on the home page obscuring the left and right of the page (middle visible). Is this a legitimate advertiser? If so, could they be prevailed upon to provide legitimate(i.e. non-obscuring) images?