# Annoying audio ads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-audio-ads/624040>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 4, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-audio-ads/624040 "2012-06-04T15:34:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-audio-ads/624040/1 "2012-06-04T15:34:36Z")

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Before logging in, I opened a thread and was very annoyed to get an audio ad announcing “Congratulations, you won!”.

IIRC you were trying to prevent these. The URL for it was:

```auto

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/atoms/d5/5e/86/d6/d55e86d69f9dbe80588bf18b3bad85fb.swf?clickTag=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Ez5x%2Enet%2Fclk%3F3%2CeJydUMlu2zAQ%2ERrfIkEkJYqC0YPiBUgbp3FqNEgvBTdJtKmNpiNbX19Kctq0pyIDLsM3b94jBqA5DDOGeRSGMGSMB2gOUMwIkEmGxU0wnw9vHCdJEpCbp26bphvSf8kXT1iQdIy7cL3ZTmmap6s0raf8cawvFgU4P3YT1LUvfMqW8WW1Sj8et03x9GZ654Sd9ZKkSRTK05Lf%2EqYtH8qX3efyYZ%2ED%2D%2De1fnhe2c1urTffQPGyz8%2E3u22wef5ebHZb%2DGO5Lr%2E%2DMfh0U1jbzFA6g2u36saqUvVSeOzimxNTvK4aU%2D8ltz6vS8ewbhMcxu4CISHI3QhEMfASH0GMoyjyEQpwgMEMrU9Gz9ByBsO%2EXajwL0pqUdKK5tJclVVmaCmRa6u6llJWiZxyeY4DOoaWTLf0LRSl9TUllLWU87Zo9t2EZOiNKGQlOvrxYJk%2Dv7N0UrkgtKj69ggq0Fovzyred1nXNJdLkdmqTuLS14p3kMfo2HsHLoIDwA1tsOma1pxrQv3%2E9xeNKYtOmcOrqMIoe%2DWYRbYAp96ovs%2D03YPC6GbiDpMehr1waxw3jBB1B8zGww1d1CemJXffO%2EiVtCNcYQivdTXeR2uoygsr6kb63Ehq1avUNc1UlY8ExmpqxKDOmgFB4h1y7EcE4OCMg2CErNJyBNH4rCemAAmJoiFz31uwCRoaIP5XAuKfR6rtpIHiAIEwIVPBjOCUH69tEJIgcZooA1hAxD0qI%2DoBIIHHshh7MZHxQJMBxI4GECIEIhJCHMW%2EAEUHSUk%3D%2C" height="600" width="160" loop="false" wmode="opaque"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="movie" value="http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/atoms/d5/5e/86/d6/d55e86d69f9dbe80588bf18b3bad85fb.swf?clickTag=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Ez5x%2Enet%2Fclk%3F3%2CeJydUMlu2zAQ%2ERrfIkEkJYqC0YPiBUgbp3FqNEgvBTdJtKmNpiNbX19Kctq0pyIDLsM3b94jBqA5DDOGeRSGMGSMB2gOUMwIkEmGxU0wnw9vHCdJEpCbp26bphvSf8kXT1iQdIy7cL3ZTmmap6s0raf8cawvFgU4P3YT1LUvfMqW8WW1Sj8et03x9GZ654Sd9ZKkSRTK05Lf%2EqYtH8qX3efyYZ%2ED%2D%2De1fnhe2c1urTffQPGyz8%2E3u22wef5ebHZb%2DGO5Lr%2E%2DMfh0U1jbzFA6g2u36saqUvVSeOzimxNTvK4aU%2D8ltz6vS8ewbhMcxu4CISHI3QhEMfASH0GMoyjyEQpwgMEMrU9Gz9ByBsO%2EXajwL0pqUdKK5tJclVVmaCmRa6u6llJWiZxyeY4DOoaWTLf0LRSl9TUllLWU87Zo9t2EZOiNKGQlOvrxYJk%2Dv7N0UrkgtKj69ggq0Fovzyred1nXNJdLkdmqTuLS14p3kMfo2HsHLoIDwA1tsOma1pxrQv3%2E9xeNKYtOmcOrqMIoe%2DWYRbYAp96ovs%2D03YPC6GbiDpMehr1waxw3jBB1B8zGww1d1CemJXffO%2EiVtCNcYQivdTXeR2uoygsr6kb63Ehq1avUNc1UlY8ExmpqxKDOmgFB4h1y7EcE4OCMg2CErNJyBNH4rCemAAmJoiFz31uwCRoaIP5XAuKfR6rtpIHiAIEwIVPBjOCUH69tEJIgcZooA1hAxD0qI%2DoBIIHHshh7MZHxQJMBxI4GECIEIhJCHMW%2EAEUHSUk%3D%2C"></object>

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**Author:** ![newme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e0b2c6/32.png) [@newme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newme)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-audio-ads/624040/2 "2012-06-04T20:57:10Z")

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I also heard the “Congratulations, you won” spam sometime last week, but I had about a dozen tabs open at the time and couldn’t figure out how to tell where it was coming from.