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Annoying Sounds

Post by Claudius »

Is the you are the 999,999 visitor garbage add really that important that it has to make an annoying sound every 3 seconds?

I am not in favor of any add that does not have intelligent sound content. Someone speaking is fine if I can close it to shut it up. But an annoying sound every second just means I will remember to mute GB site.

Edit: Hmm maybe I was the 1 millionth visitor? I could get rich! I've also won approximately 50 Walmart 1000 dollar gift cards. Yay!
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I have to agree with Claudius, the sound is really annoying. And it's quite loud, making it even worse.
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Post by BuckGB »

Is anyone still getting these? I sent a note to UGO a few days ago and haven't seen the ad since. There aren't supposed to be any advertisements in our rotation that have some sort of uninitiated sound embedded in them.
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Post by Crenshinibon »

Yes, I still get that.
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Post by Kipi »

Same here (seeing one right now while writing this message)
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Post by DesR85 »

I didn't get that ad. Not today and not even the day when Claudius reported about it. Consider me lucky, I guess... :p
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Decided to note that the ad is still in rotation, and gets displayed fairly usually. Also, I noticed that there is two version of it, first one with just text "Congratulation! You have won!" or similiar, which produce noice hard to describe, but it's rather annoying high noice. Second ad is something like "You are the 1000000 visitor!" or "You are the over 1000000 visitor" or something similiar. The sound coming from it is very similiar to the blinking noise coming from windows when it's popping up message window (warning etc.), which makes the sound very frustrating.


At the same breath, sorry for going a bit offtopic, but what's GB's policy in regarding ads advertising medicines relative to Viagra?
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Post by Veke »

Yes I HATE THOSE. This was the main reason I registered here. Those ads are ****ing annoying. Also, there are ads that cause my browser to freeze up for some seconds, then my browser says that a script is causing it to go slow. Do everything you can to remove those pointless ads.
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Post by Thrifalas »

Came here to say the exact same thing. Havn't been able to peacefully browse GB for a while now, it's amazingly annoying. :(
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