Pop-up ads

Thomas77 · Post by **Thomas77** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:10 pm

Is it just me or does anybody else in here have problems with certain popup ads freezing up your GB browser? It happens more with the Atari popups and now the Verizon popups. I have to close and reload GB almost everytime one of those ads popup.

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:04 am

I have it too.
Sometimes I don't even get the add, just an empty GB screen.

Thomas77 · Post by **Thomas77** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:24 pm

I get that too actually. Just a blank screen. Sometimes reloading the page will fix it, other times I have to completely close out and then start a new browser.

Cuchulain82 · Post by **Cuchulain82** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:29 pm

Me too- it just started recently for me, usually with the Atari ads

(I hate popups)

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:30 pm

Try using Firefox or Opera...
and you should find that the problems vanish completely.

Thomas77 · Post by **Thomas77** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:41 pm

[QUOTE=Dragon Wench]Try using Firefox or Opera...
and you should find that the problems vanish completely.[/QUOTE]

My problem is, I'm on a work PC and am unable to load any unauthorized software.

Darth Zenemij · Post by **Darth Zenemij** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:26 am

I'm having the same prob as Rob hin, and soem times a fire emblem ad would just come out of no where.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:33 am

I use firefox, and really never have popups of any kind. Occasionally I'll end up with just a string of code on a grey screen, but livejournal.com does that too so I think that's just random error's of some sort.

I have noticed that occasionally, the font will randomly change when I'm posting. Not for what I'm typing, but the whole site overall. That confuses me. I'm not sure if that's me hitting some combination of keys and having my hand slip onto the control key and making that happen, or just random occurance.

Grimar · Post by **Grimar** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:24 am

I get this annoying pepsi pop-upp almost every time i start up. cant buck somehow remove it

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:38 am

Buck doesn't have direct control over the advertisments on the site, that is the adverstiment company which provides the adds.

Also as a little post script, we also have to remember that the adds are what helps pay to keeping the board running.

Thomas77 · Post by **Thomas77** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:54 am

Right, advertisements are necessary to help pay for the site, but can't something be done so that the ads aren't affecting the functionality of the site? For example: the problems I'm having aren't that they're just annoying but rather that Atari ad tends to completely freeze up my browser causing me to have to open a new one and sign back in. very annoying.

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:02 pm

The pop-up ads don't bother me much... What bothers me however is the ads you can't mute.

Thomas77 · Post by **Thomas77** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:14 pm

Maybe I am the only one then....

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:32 pm

I make it so I stay logged in on my computer, saved the password and username and it does so automatically for me. Perhaps that would solve that problem for you?

When I use another computer, I end up with a starting ad that says it opens once every 24 hours, I don't get that anymore on mine since I left it with the automatic sign in.

Thomas77 · Post by **Thomas77** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:41 pm

Yeah, I guess if I'm going to have to keep coming back in every time that ad pops up, I should probably just save that security info. At least I won't have to sign in every time it happens then.

Darth Zenemij · Post by **Darth Zenemij** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:11 pm

Click on automaticly sign me in or something like that. Tis a cookie that keeps you logged on until you delete it.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:30 am

Just to add.

I am getting this Batman Returns ad in every single page I see in forums today, even the "reply to thread" page.

I am happy to accept the needs of ad if it keeps this great site going, but every page I turn is bit too much!

Post by **BuckGB** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:14 pm

I noticed a few quirks with some of the more interactive ads too, but like Xandax mentioned, all of the ad serving is handled by a third party (UGO). I will let them know about the issues, though.

Oskatat · Post by **Oskatat** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:32 am

cant they use on-screen adds insted of popups? I'm getting rather annoyed of clicking the batman thingy away all the time, especially since I click faster than the add appears, so I always click on the add

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:59 am

Well - they could... but one needs to understand and accept how the Internet works and especially seen in the light of the history of Internet.

With the amount of pop-up blocking and add-blocking which exists, naturally advsertisment companies will be more agressive in their advertising. It is the same with television, magazines and all sort others.
There are even pop-over advertisment which prevents you from navigating a site until you've pressed "close" or something - truely annoying, but "unfortunally" it is a natural development of Internet.
The only current alternative to supporting a website of larger magnitute is pay-to-use which goes against the "free-to-use" history and expectation of the web.
So where an add.company could use less "intrusive" and annoying advertisments, most people/browsers automatically block these, then it is logical that they'll use more intrusive one. But now we see automatically pop-up killers in almost all applications (browsers, firewalls and what not), I'm affraid we'll see a movement towards others even more intrusive advertisment.

It is how the Internet works. Pay to use or live with adds. Sites are expensive and advertisment revenue is not very high anymore - like it was in the golden dotCom days.