Page 1 of 1
Annoying Sounds
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:02 pm
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!
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:13 am
by Kipi
I have to agree with Claudius, the sound is really annoying. And it's quite loud, making it even worse.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:06 pm
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:11 am
by Crenshinibon
Yes, I still get that.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:50 am
by Kipi
Same here (seeing one right now while writing this message)
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:54 pm
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...
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:53 pm
by Kipi
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?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:41 am
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:53 am
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.