I'm still getting a fookin Dettol ad screaming at me.
Never buy it in protest. I won't buy it either because I feel your pain.
Perhaps we ought to start an anti products thread for those that advertise on here.
It's the CIF ad that was blocking my entire screen the other day. It is now ingrained into my brain as being a "bad product" that I associated with being frustrated and I will never ever buy it. Apart from the name CIF that sounds cheap as if it is full of chemicals and will burn me or give me cancer, it spoiled my day as I was trying to post and I couldn't.
We've heard back from our ad team that a number of adverts have been removed, hopefully stopping the autoplay audio adverts.
Please let us know if you continue to get any adverts that are playing by themselves with no interactions and be sure to include what it's advertising so we can have them removed.
We've heard back from our ad team that a number of adverts have been removed, hopefully stopping the autoplay audio adverts.
Please let us know if you continue to get any adverts that are playing by themselves with no interactions and be sure to include what it's advertising so we can have them removed.
Thanks and apologies once again.
Just had Shake & Vac and Vanish ad's playing much louder than usual, AT THE SAME F**KING TIME and then one for an air-freshener called "Pearls" or summat (Haze or Glade?)
Also, I was just looking at the forum index to find this thread and the Vanish ad' finished playing and THEN the bloody Pearls ad' started after it.
Also, I see the little video control-pads no longer have the option to pause the adverts.
Also, I see there's now a thing called "skipit" involved, which tells me that I can now skip ad's and I only have to pay "a few cents a time" in order to do so.
That sounds like a real bargain, compared with moving to Chrome to log into DS and using a free ad-blocker. :rolleyes:
I've just been redirected to a website telling me to download the Java codec, the site looked incredibly dodgy. My java's installed and up to date, so it certainly wasn't official.
Well, in one way this fiasco has worked out well. I've changed to a new browser today, with lots of goodies installed, and DS is now faster and much more enjoyable than ever before.
I've just been redirected to a website telling me to download the Java codec, the site looked incredibly dodgy. My java's installed and up to date, so it certainly wasn't official.
I'm getting that also - lots of white space and red letters? I just closed the window.
The best thing to do is use task manager to kill the window, some malware is written to accept any user interaction as "please install me".
Indeed.
Most annoying thing is when you have, say, 3 or 4 DS browser tabs open and you've typed a huge response in on one and another one redirects to a dodgy site and opens an uncloseable pop-up and then you can't bloody-well go back to the other tab to enter your post. :mad:
S'funny, thinking back, when browsers with multiple tabs first appeared I resisted using them for ages because I was always concerned that being forced to shut down my browser for some reason might mean I'd lose stuff that was open in a different tab of the same browser.
The current palava on DS is starting to make me think I should go back to doing that.
My keyboard has a mute button, which turns off the sound.
nice- but I talk on Ventrillo to my gaming friends, and all of a sudden I get this cacophony of sounds and I cant work out where is it from... then oh yeah! sodding adverts
Is it common for posts to be removed from threads? I made a post yesterday that was between the current #14 and #15. I know it was submitted because I made a mistake and had to edit it. Was it removed because I extolled the virtues of AdBlock Plus?
I don't understand why they cannot have static adverts, like the good old days.
Or if they absolutely must have playable adverts set them NOT to play by default. If someone is genuinely interested in a product then they can click play to play it and see what it is about.
This has been going on for so long that I think DS really need to sack their advertising partner, many other sites have adverts of course, but they are usually far less intrusive. And sack the guy(s) that suggested the current company too.
Haven't been near my PC for over an hour, was in the kitchen making dinner and suddenly the house is flooded with the sound of an advert for Dettol laundry cleanser. :mad:
That'll teach me to leave a DS web-page open. :rolleyes:
Is it common for posts to be removed from threads? I made a post yesterday that was between the current #14 and #15. I know it was submitted because I made a mistake and had to edit it. Was it removed because I extolled the virtues of AdBlock Plus?
Yes. DS need to play politics with their advertising clients
Haven't been near my PC for over an hour, was in the kitchen making dinner and suddenly the house is flooded with the sound of an advert for Dettol laundry cleanser. :mad:
That'll teach me to leave a DS web-page open. :rolleyes:
As some other posters have pointed out, it also eats away at our broadband allowances, for some of us.
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Never buy it in protest. I won't buy it either because I feel your pain.
Perhaps we ought to start an anti products thread for those that advertise on here.
It's the CIF ad that was blocking my entire screen the other day. It is now ingrained into my brain as being a "bad product" that I associated with being frustrated and I will never ever buy it. Apart from the name CIF that sounds cheap as if it is full of chemicals and will burn me or give me cancer, it spoiled my day as I was trying to post and I couldn't.
What I object to is audible ads. It's a sure fire way to drive people away.
We've heard back from our ad team that a number of adverts have been removed, hopefully stopping the autoplay audio adverts.
Please let us know if you continue to get any adverts that are playing by themselves with no interactions and be sure to include what it's advertising so we can have them removed.
Thanks and apologies once again.
Just had Shake & Vac and Vanish ad's playing much louder than usual, AT THE SAME F**KING TIME and then one for an air-freshener called "Pearls" or summat (Haze or Glade?)
Also, I was just looking at the forum index to find this thread and the Vanish ad' finished playing and THEN the bloody Pearls ad' started after it.
Also, I see the little video control-pads no longer have the option to pause the adverts.
Yes, that was the last straw for me, when that happened.
Also, I see there's now a thing called "skipit" involved, which tells me that I can now skip ad's and I only have to pay "a few cents a time" in order to do so.
That sounds like a real bargain, compared with moving to Chrome to log into DS and using a free ad-blocker. :rolleyes:
You were lucky you could get out of it. I ended up having to hit the off button. Couldn't even get ctrl,alt,del to function.
I'm getting that also - lots of white space and red letters? I just closed the window.
Indeed.
Most annoying thing is when you have, say, 3 or 4 DS browser tabs open and you've typed a huge response in on one and another one redirects to a dodgy site and opens an uncloseable pop-up and then you can't bloody-well go back to the other tab to enter your post. :mad:
S'funny, thinking back, when browsers with multiple tabs first appeared I resisted using them for ages because I was always concerned that being forced to shut down my browser for some reason might mean I'd lose stuff that was open in a different tab of the same browser.
The current palava on DS is starting to make me think I should go back to doing that.
I would be happy to pay £9.99 for 12 months access with no adverts .
But no , that would be too sensible :rolleyes:
Can't they disable adverts for registered users without paying? I've said this so many times.
* adds to list of stuff to buy *
nice- but I talk on Ventrillo to my gaming friends, and all of a sudden I get this cacophony of sounds and I cant work out where is it from... then oh yeah! sodding adverts
Or if they absolutely must have playable adverts set them NOT to play by default. If someone is genuinely interested in a product then they can click play to play it and see what it is about.
This has been going on for so long that I think DS really need to sack their advertising partner, many other sites have adverts of course, but they are usually far less intrusive. And sack the guy(s) that suggested the current company too.
Why should it be dependent on whether you can afford not to have the annoying experience of having intrusive and loud ad pop-ups?
It's only those sort people are finding annoying.
Haven't been near my PC for over an hour, was in the kitchen making dinner and suddenly the house is flooded with the sound of an advert for Dettol laundry cleanser. :mad:
That'll teach me to leave a DS web-page open. :rolleyes:
Yes. DS need to play politics with their advertising clients
As some other posters have pointed out, it also eats away at our broadband allowances, for some of us.