# New ad series starts Monday, 4/4/16
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 4, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152 "2016-04-04T03:58:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/21 "2016-04-04T21:27:04Z")
I just got one, despite being logged in to the SDMB. It appeared to have been served from the front page, not from the board, though (which means that it probably couldn’t tell that I was logged in).
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/22 "2016-04-04T21:58:19Z")
Cool, yet another way to tell visitors that they really don’t want to hang around our site and join up.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/23 "2016-04-04T22:40:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> I just got one, despite being logged in to the SDMB. It appeared to have been served from the front page, not from the board, though (which means that it probably couldn’t tell that I was logged in).
No it just tried to give me one and I was logged in and going straight to a forum page.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/24 "2016-04-04T23:50:54Z")
I was just thinking “Hmm, the SDMB sure does have too many new users coming in and contributing, I hope they do more to scare them off”
Although to be fair, almost anyone who has the sense to be worth having on a message board is going to be blocking them anyway, so the actual effect will be fairly minor I should think.
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### Author:  [@Morelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morelin)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/25 "2016-04-04T23:52:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> I just got one, despite being logged in to the SDMB. It appeared to have been served from the front page, not from the board, though (which means that it probably couldn’t tell that I was logged in).
I got one when I entered the site, it opened in my current tab, pushing the board to another tab.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/26 "2016-04-05T00:08:26Z")
> [@Morelin](#):
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> I got one when I entered the site, it opened in my current tab, pushing the board to another tab.
Same thing. It was Zedo that did it. Easy enough to solve knowing that. 🙂
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/27 "2016-04-05T01:11:52Z")
> [@Morelin](#):
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> I got one when I entered the site, it opened in my current tab, pushing the board to another tab.
yup - thats not obtrusive at all - no sirree…
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/28 "2016-04-05T03:58:32Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Will these ads reduce the amount of malware funneled through SD?
It sounds like they are a form of malware. I don’t mind a few ads around the edges, but pop-ups, pop-unders, and other stuff that I have to explicitly deal with is malware in my books.
> [@Irishman](#):
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> Cool, yet another way to tell visitors that they really don’t want to hang around our site and join up.
Yup. If this site hadn’t been recommended, and if I didn’t have an ad-blocker on the browser I use most often, I would have looked briefly at the site and decided it couldn’t be worthwhile.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/29 "2016-04-05T04:26:14Z")
We still haven’t been 'splained if a “leave-behind” is s’posed to be somehow dif’rent than a “pop-under”.
In particular, now we all wonder if this “leave-behind” uses some different web technique, such that it will not be stopped by all our browsers’ pop-under-blockers. (If that’s the case, no doubt there will be many posts in this thread to tell us so, Real Soon Now.)
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/30 "2016-04-05T08:34:16Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Yup. If this site hadn’t been recommended, and if I didn’t have an ad-blocker on the browser I use most often, I would have looked briefly at the site and decided it couldn’t be worthwhile.
This is true. When I find sites that use pop-ups or under or whatever, I ALT-F4 and leave, never to return. I simply don’t trust ads and despise ads that try to control my computer by adding new tabs or whatever. I’d never come back if I that was my first experience here.
Here’s a little more history on Zedo, the culprit behind all this.
> **[Zedo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zedo)**
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> Zedo (trademark styled as ZEDO) is a US and India-based advertising technology company that provides several online advertising products and services to Internet publishers, advertisers, and agencies. The company was founded in 1999 by Roy de Souza.
> The company works with publishers that sell space on their web pages to online advertisers. Zedo's servers send advertisements to users' browsers. Zedo uses an HTTP cookie to track users' browsing history resulting in targeted pop-up ads and pop-unde...
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/31 "2016-04-05T10:29:36Z")
I’m still not quite sure. What is the difference between a “leave behind” and a popunder? Google seems to only know about the latter–at least, with a precursory search.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/32 "2016-04-05T11:53:25Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> I’m still not quite sure. What is the difference between a “leave behind” and a popunder? Google seems to only know about the latter–at least, with a precursory search.
I’m no expert but it seems like the popunder means ads that open in a new window under your current page. They are particularly annoying because you don’t know they are there until you get rid of the current window. The leave behind or whatever you want to call what is being used here opens a new tab so to get rid of it you just have to click off the tab without looking at the ad. I see this often with my local newspaper’s online version.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/33 "2016-04-05T12:39:38Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> This is true. When I find sites that use pop-ups or under or whatever, I ALT-F4 and leave, never to return. I simply don’t trust ads and despise ads that try to control my computer by adding new tabs or whatever. I’d never come back if I that was my first experience here.
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> Here’s a little more history on Zedo, the culprit behind all this.
> [Zedo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zedo)
Sites have to pay the bills. I don’t object to some reasonable advertising. I object to pages that automatically run video with sound (several news sites that i no longer visit) and ads that interact too aggressively with my computer. Just an image is okay. Video can be annoying enough to drive me away. Ads that automatically open new windows make me worry what else they are doing, like installing permanent malware. I avoid pages with those.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/34 "2016-04-05T12:48:11Z")
The idea that anyone would think popup ads with a different name are a good idea is mind boggling.
They’re popups. Using another name or varying the behavior slightly doesn’t change things.
They are associated with sleazy sites and a great way to drive away people.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/35 "2016-04-05T13:04:02Z")
And, I just got another one. This one was definitely upon entering the board.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/36 "2016-04-05T13:25:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> And, I just got another one. This one was definitely upon entering the board.
Just so we can pass the information up, did you enter the board directly or through the main Straight Dope webpage?
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### Author:  [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/37 "2016-04-05T13:46:23Z")
FYTE: I remain logged in to SDMB (via a cookie, I assume), and got the pop-under ad. Windows7, IE11 with it’s built in pop up blocker turned on, using a link to the main forum menu ([Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/)) I placed in my favorites bar.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/38 "2016-04-05T13:52:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> And, I just got another one. This one was definitely upon entering the board.
How come you get them so easily? In the interest of research, I have been trying to get spammed by a leavebehind, but no luck so far. I tried logging out, closing all SDMB windows, and entering SDMB as an anonymous lurker, and nothing popped up, under, or was left behind. Maybe Ghostery is blocking it? What am I doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/39 "2016-04-05T14:17:02Z")
I always enter the board via the link on the main Straight Dope page.
And I don’t currently use any sort of ad-block, because most of the pages I routinely view aren’t too bad about ads (this is, of course, at least partly a selection effect).
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ad-series-starts-monday-4-4-16/751152/40 "2016-04-05T14:26:42Z")
Thanks for the heads up, Ed. Hopefully this helps keep things running smoothly!
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