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Adverts with sound

Drift · 2015-01-27 12:15:34

Hi, I just opened the "Photo Challenge" forum and the advert at the bottom of the page started playing at full volume. Luckily I'm at home but had I been somewhere quiet or at work this would have been very embarrasing. I've never had this happen on boards before. Is it a new policy? Sites that play adverts with sound…

27-01-2015 12:15pm

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Drift

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Hi,

I just opened the "Photo Challenge" forum and the advert at the bottom of the page started playing at full volume.

Luckily I'm at home but had I been somewhere quiet or at work this would have been very embarrasing.

I've never had this happen on boards before. Is it a new policy? Sites that play adverts with sound automatically are a huge bug bear of mine and if boards is adopting it as policy I suspect I will be using it a lot less.

So just to sum up my feedback: Please do not have sound automatically engaged on the advertisements. It is very annoying.

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#2 27-01-2015 12:17pm

Dav

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We've been looking at this all morning, it is absolutely a hard no for us from our ads, but tracking it down isn't easy. Can you supply any links if you see one again so we can weed them out?

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#3 27-01-2015 12:18pm

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No it is not a new policy at all. We noticed a couple of them here in the office over the past hour or so and are trying to track them down to kill them - we don't like them either!

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#4 27-01-2015 12:22pm

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I just got an audio ad for Durex skin-on-skin condoms in the computer Building & Upgrading forum of all places, and initially I couldn't even figure out where the damn sound was coming from!

Definitely would make boards a no-go area for work! (I need sound in work...thankfully at home this morning).

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#5 27-01-2015 12:23pm

Drift

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I had a lot of tabs open so it took me a while to find it. But it was definitely on the "Photo Challenge" main page.

I can't remember what the first ad was for - might have been washing powder of some type.

An ad for Nurofen for Kids was playing (with sound) by the time I found the tab.

That's really all the info I have!!! SOrry.

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#6 28-01-2015 1:40am

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A dettol ad and then an airline ad started on me with sound there about 5 mins ago....sorry missed the link it did pop-up in the address bar when I clicked on the ad but I missed it...

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#7 30-01-2015 6:05pm

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Got these three times in the last 5 mins, lucky I had my headphones plugged in, the volume is up full on them!!

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#8 30-01-2015 6:05pm

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Getting them on the AH homepage.

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#9 31-01-2015 7:55am

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Got an 11 minute ad when I edited a post: link on ad.

copied a link on top of the ad: link

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#10 31-01-2015 3:00pm

_Jumper_

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Why are the wrong type of ads a constant problem?

Can ye not crack some skulls with the ad crowd? Play liam Neeson down the phone to them or something!

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#11 31-01-2015 4:27pm

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Just put Gordon on to them, they'd stop quick-smart.

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#12 01-02-2015 11:09pm

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just got one there too

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#13 04-02-2015 1:36pm

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_Jumper_ wrote: »

Why are the wrong type of ads a constant problem?

Can ye not crack some skulls with the ad crowd? Play liam Neeson down the phone to them or something!

The ad-crowd (or at least part of it), is Google. They're kinda bigger than boards and hard to ring up. Individual advertisers have to be banned.

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#14 05-02-2015 4:10am

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"Nurofen" is a another.

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#15 05-02-2015 7:05pm

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To be honest - if ads like this can sneak onto Boards, there's little stopping ads with malware sneaking on either; this is why I use AdBlock, as it actually protects you from malware.

If a site doesn't have strict control over the ads that are shown, then it's not really fair on the site users to put them at risk of potential malware; there is precedent of this with AdSense.

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