Ok, sorry. I don’t have this issue, and I assumed the comment about removing the plugin was accurate. mea fucupa.
Staying away is one solution—although I would personally take some pleasure in seeing my cat’s reactions to a feminine hygiene ad!
I guess I’m stumped as to why enabling AdBlock is not a preferable solution.
Nonetheless, the fact that thread continues demonstrates that my ignorance is not an indication that some issue does not exist. That ignorance does make it difficult for me to envision any solution though.
I guess there’s nothing left but to wait for TPTB to dismantle a system whereby they make money off of your visiting.
I use Firefox and adblock and it’s not because of the annoyance of the ads but because I was tired of the malware that locked up my computer every 2-3 months. Last one was the FBI moneypak. Blocking the autoplaying ads is just a happy consequence of that.
Just started for me yesterday. And I tend to have multiple threads open, so often three or four ads are playing at once. If I Arrrrgggh! One page’s ad restarted while I’m typing this! Now I have to hunt through all the tabs, scroll up to the top of each page to find the ad, and keep clicking on Pause until it does.
I’m still getting them though. It’s been happening all over the place, for what it’s worth, with the Dope being a relative latecomer. It must be a change at one of the ad syndication services rather than a change of syndicates here.
Just got a bunch in a row. It wouldn’t be so bad if all of the tabs played at once so I could tune out for 30 seconds and be done, but they go one after another! I’ve heard the same ad for Delsym start maybe 10 times?
I don’t mean to pile on the admins, I’m sure they’re trying to resolve the situation. I just felt like kvetching.
To add something productive: it helps when I open a bunch of tabs to then go to the task manager and kill the Flash plugin when the pages are loaded. That stops most of them.
I should also point out that subscribing members do not get ads. You also receive our thanks and whatever little extras we can throw your way. Perhaps not as much as we might like but as much as we can manage right now. So for $14.95 a year you get no ads and gratitude for being a foot soldier in the war against Ignorance.
For some of you that’s not doable. Whatever your reason, that’s okay too.
I have an exception for the Dope set on my AdBlock. The Dope has given me a lot of value over the years, and I’m happy to throw back whatever value the boards get from the ads.
Because I occasionally peruse the board from my work computer, where I can’t install new software without an extensive business case yadda yadda yadda. Mostly I just turn the sound off.
Not using AdBlock is how I noticed the problem, but “people using the site should change their behavior” is not really an appropriate response to “the site is doing something unacceptable,” especially when there’s plenty of people just passing through who may or may not be using AdBlock, but sure as hell aren’t posting in the thread. Here’s an extreme hypothetical: SDMB is hacked and installs a virus on people using IE on Windows 8. The response isn’t “Why are you using Windows when MacOS is clearly superior,” it’s “oh shit we’ll get that fixed.” For what it’s worth, the admins are all saying the latter.
And yeah, I’m definitely planning to get more aggressive adblockers now that ads are getting more aggressive, but until now the basic stuff has worked well enough for me.
