I keep hearing ads play, in Spanish

Just got another one for a drink called “Zico.” Music audible, no dialogue.

I came to report one for Madden13 in English in GQ and while I was here, I got one for Subaru in English. Screenshot sent.

RAGE FACE******
I just got this right now

Here is the screen shot

it was an autoplayed Subaru ad in English. This has also been happening to me on a regualr basis, but I usually have my mute on. This time I was not so lucky. I heard an ad and had to scroll up the page to find out what the heck it was.

Serious reply: See if you can right-click and copy the link location and provide that to the SDMB so that they can reference that in the complaint.
Does anyone know if the advertisers are tricky enough to capture the right-click and thereby make that debugging task problematic?

Other reply:

Stop eating refried beans.

Gosh, everyone else is getting things talking to them. No one talks to me. :frowning:
:wink:

Mine have been Flash objects and right clicking doesn’t show any useful properties.

Does anyone think viewing the source (Firefox: Tools>Web Developer>Page Source, IE: View>Source) would provide useful information?

hahahahahahahahah, IT JUST HAPPENED IN THIS THREAD!!! Curses…

Screen shot:

I’ve recently been getting sound commercials too.

Just a few moments ago (~4:22pm EST) I got my first one with both sound and video.

It was a Skittles commercial about 20sec long. Somebody please tell 'em I hate Skittles!

Another one at 8:02pm EST.

Mucinex this time.

Never use the stuff. Don’t need to: when I get mucous I close up one nostril with a finger and blow hard out the other one.

Just tried it and near complete success! Near only because our dinner guests seemed upset.

Just a reminder for TPTB @ SDMB: On the Straight Dope front page (where Cecil’s latest column or re-print is shown, not the message board), TubaDiva’s e-mail address is still shown as being at aol dot com. That was pointed out here in ATMB several months ago.

Just now, as I posted my “When do you have a dog put to sleep?” thread in IMHO, I got an Allstate “La Mala Suerte” commercial. That’s just kicking me when I’m down.

once again. Though I am not getting them in Spanish, just auto played when I’d rather not hear the ads without me purposely pressing the sound button.

this thread just now
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15529822&posted=1#post15529822

This is the screen shot, Amex ad autoplayed

Just saw this bestiality gem.

Ally Banking audiovideo 6:12pm EST.

Just about two minutes ago I had an ad with audio that autoplayed as soon as I opened this thread.

ETA: The ad is for Townhouse crackers.

Ha, that same ad (Tollhouse crackers) just autoplayed again in a different thread.

Yea, any update on this issue? It is getting rather obnoxious. An update would be nice :slight_smile: Thanks

Why don’t the site admins and moderators see for themselves what we’re reporting for themselves?

These self-starting full-motion full-sound advertisements are pervasive and prevalent. This last week, every page I’ve opened has had one of these ads in the jump between first post of the page and second. And they run consecutively; one ends, and the next begins in the same spot. Frankly, without extraordinary measures (AdBlock for example), you can’t avoid them.

But we have to point out individual instances? The site management surely read the site, if only to moderate and administer the community. And they don’t have actionable information from that?

:confused: This is my confused face.

To put it baldly, why does it fall to the user community to police a business relationship between the site and its advertising contractors?

Paid members (and admins and moderators) don’t see the ads. They can see them if they’re viewing the Dope while not logged in, but I imagine most of them just stay logged in most of the time.