Oh no... it's come to this... Ads
I have absolutely loved being a member of this site. The information sharing and passion of the other bakers is fantastic here. The variety of conversations is unparalleled, and the community is very welcoming and supportive. And all of this is free! Well... sort of.
I understand that an undertaking of this nature is not without cost and I greatly appreciate not having to pay anything for my membership in this site. So I understand the need to throw in a little banner here or there from an advertiser to help defray expenses. But I figure I'm like most people who use the internet who tolerate that kind of advertising because if I'm not particularly interested in the ad it's easy to ignore. However, when I logged in tonight the video ads that were running on the home page were a little irritating.
When I'm surfing for comments from some of my favorite posters like MiniOven, or dabrownman, or Txfarmer, the last thing I want is distraction from a video commercial for condoms. Plus, on some of the other sites I frequent the ads have gotten so out of hand they slow down the page-loading speed to an unacceptable rate and I regrettably have stopped visiting them. I hope that doesn't happen here.
If it is at all possible to keep maintaining this site with the old "ignoreable" banner-style ads, my vote is to go back to them. The videos cheapen something that is otherwise very special.
Just my two cents' worth
--Mike
Perhaps, it is your computer that has been corrupted. I have not found those ads. Or, maybe, I've been lucky?
Ford
I do not have these problems either. Nor do I use any add ons on any of my bowsers or browsing devices. I also watch where I'm going and keep the cache, history and temp files to a minimum. It works.
I have no problems on this site. I have, however, had similar problems in the past - on sites that don't promote those ads. Most often it has been browsers that I have downloaded incidental to a legitimate download. Adobe is terrible about this. Make sure you unclick some of those things that accompany your legit download. Browsers that hijack your computer are the worst. And they are hidden and not shown in the programs so you can uninstall. I've spent better than 1/2 a day googling that browser and ways to uninstall it. I can't embed the URL but google wiki browser hijacking.
Browser hijacking is a form of unwanted software that modifies a web browser's settings without a user's permission, to inject unwanted advertising into the user's browser. A browser hijacker may replace the existing home page, error page, or search page with its own.[1] These are generally used to force hits to a particularwebsite, increasing its advertising revenue.
See that part on "inject unwanted advertising into the users browser." The last one (browser hijacker) I had was "Trovi" and was difficult to delete from my computer.
I'm no expert - not even close. This is a starting place though and if it's not this then you have progressed by eliminating one possibility.
best of luck. It drove me crazy.
Tom
I don't see any ads.
this can be sorted with your Adobe Flash setting. You find them in your browser settings under Add-Ons or Plugins. Select 'Ask to activate'.
When you want to, choose 'activate' play every time you want to watch.
I have done this and am not annoyed anymore on any website page. I run Firefox and get asked to Activate Adobe Flash, either below the top bar, or in the video window itself. This does not affect YouTube playing.
Hope this helps you.
tom scott is correct, a lot of programmes are linked with Adobe or McAfee, and have a box ticked automatically when you download the programme. Sometimes downloads are trying to install more than one programme, which you never intended to download in the first place. Be sure to pay attention to every window that comes up and un-tick the boxes or 'Ignore' so you only get what you want.
I work in a healthcare facility on the night shift and there is frequently downtime when I can check this site for the latest thrilling update. Our IT department has our internet access pretty locked down, as you can imagine, for the sake of patient records security so I always figured the ads were restricted by their efforts as well.
However, after all your kind comments I checked with a co-worker who is a former IT guy himself and he showed me how to fix the problem. He pointed me towards adblock.com where you can get a free download that integrates seamlessly with your browser (many versions available) and it immediately fixed the problem.
Thanks again to all who commented on my original post and steered me in the right direction.
--Mike