Can't use nexus 7 chrome on DS due to adverts

VoynichVoynich Posts: 14,481
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Help! The ads are covering a strip down both sides and the top of the screen. It's just today this has happened.

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  • grantus_maxgrantus_max Posts: 2,744
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    I got that on Chrome and Firefox on my desktop first thing this morning - big Beko ads that were overlapping the sides of the viewing area. The ads have since gone away but the same thing happened first thing yesterday as well. I've reported it to DS
  • VoynichVoynich Posts: 14,481
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    I'm using Firefox beta at the moment, the ads appear down both sides and the top, but it doesn't cover the forum the way it does for me in chrome, so I'll keep using it for now.
  • JustinThePubJustinThePub Posts: 3,521
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    Voynich wrote: »
    Help! The ads are covering a strip down both sides and the top of the screen. It's just today this has happened.

    Same on my iPad. just started about an hour ago.
  • BeethovensPianoBeethovensPiano Posts: 11,689
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    The ads have since gone away but the same thing happened first thing yesterday as well. I've reported it to DS

    They keep doing this again and again, and respond to people who complain with "oh it was a mistake" (yeh right :rolleyes:)

    DS has by far, the worst, most intrusive advertising of any website online.
  • flagpoleflagpole Posts: 44,641
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    they don't care.

    accidental clicks pay the same as genuine ones.
  • grantus_maxgrantus_max Posts: 2,744
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    flagpole wrote: »
    they don't care.

    accidental clicks pay the same as genuine ones.

    Nah - intrusive adverts are detrimental to a site and drive visitors away. DS support have responded at http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=69231030&postcount=31 so if anyone can get a screenshot, send it to them on the address they've provided.

    Obviously a fault, not an lizard conspiracy.
  • BeethovensPianoBeethovensPiano Posts: 11,689
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    Nah - intrusive adverts are detrimental to a site and drive visitors away. DS support have responded at http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=69231030&postcount=31 so if anyone can get a screenshot, send it to them on the address they've provided.

    Obviously a fault, not an lizard conspiracy.

    ahhhh the standard response.
  • cuzacuza Posts: 1,739
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    This has just started happening today on my Nexus tablet and its bloody annoying! The ads are actually encroaching on info that I want to see like the poster's name.

    I can't get rid of them because they move up and down the page as I scroll and there is no x to remove them.

    Am not happy! :mad::mad:
  • grantus_maxgrantus_max Posts: 2,744
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    ahhhh the standard response.

    For crying out loud - it's obviously an error, which they're trying to sort out. Unless you honestly think that deliberately covering up the *actual* content that people log on to read with huge adverts that cannot be moved is a deliberate plan...
  • grantus_maxgrantus_max Posts: 2,744
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    ...and they've just posted a notice saying that the vertical side ads have been disabled whilst they find out what was causing the display issues - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=69232715&postcount=50

    Who could have predicted a conspiracy theory about DS and their advertising policy... :(
  • VoynichVoynich Posts: 14,481
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    Yes, back to normal!
  • cuzacuza Posts: 1,739
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    I went into settings, then advanced, then content, then website settings.

    I found Digital Spy then clicked on to clear stored data.

    The ads have gone. Though they might come back. :o

    But maybe the problem had already been sorted and it was a coincidence that using my superior technical knowledge appeared to fix it. :D
  • cuzacuza Posts: 1,739
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    Oh so it was fixed!

    Except now I've got the words highlighted in green again!

    Is someone taking the mick. :confused:
  • BeethovensPianoBeethovensPiano Posts: 11,689
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    For crying out loud - it's obviously an error, which they're trying to sort out. Unless you honestly think that deliberately covering up the *actual* content that people log on to read with huge adverts that cannot be moved is a deliberate plan...

    You haven't been here long have you...
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  • grantus_maxgrantus_max Posts: 2,744
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    You haven't been here long have you...

    What, long enough to recognise different posters' crazy in-jokes or long enough to be able to tell the difference between someone with an actual conspiracy theory and someone just taking the pee?

    Maybe you've just been here too long...
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