# New ad problem

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [May 13, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086 "2018-05-13T13:45:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086/1 "2018-05-13T13:45:46Z")

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I was just completing a longish post when my screen, my entire screen, was taken over by some ad for a pet mess kit. There was no way to shut it down so I let it play hoping it would revert back to the screen and post I was composing. It didn’t. Another ad started when that one stopped. I tried the back button but that took me to the main page of the boards. I looked for my post in another tab. Nope.

Grrrrrrrr

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### Author: ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086/2 "2018-05-13T14:19:53Z")

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I’d be interested in the Canine mess kit. Is it just a dinner bowl or is there a water bowl too?

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### Author: ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086/3 "2018-05-13T16:00:59Z")

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Umm, the other kind of mess…

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### Author: ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086/4 "2018-05-13T18:16:11Z")

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Thanks for letting us know. I have forwarded the info to our admins. Hopefully the ad folks can track this down and kill that ad.

If anyone else has seen this and happens to know the exact name of the ad, that would be very helpful.

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### Author: ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-problem/814086/5 "2018-05-13T19:25:09Z")

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I thought this was going to be about the ad I just got for a free psychic reading on a message board about fighting ignorance.