Can we get a summary of the status of these ad issue?
Months ago (when I was paying attention and still thought that something might be done about PITA ads) it seemed that the story was it took a mouse over or some user action.
Jump forward until more recently and it seems that somebody else now runs the site and they don’t even pretend to care so much.
I’ve been getting the random ads with sound popping up (today it’s been for band-aids - I think. I click it off before it gets that far)- usually when I’ve hit “Go to first unread post” it starts playing about 5 seconds after that. I then have to scroll up to the top of the page too find the ad and turn it off.
Are you sure that’s ads coming through your speakers, instead of your prisoners in the basement?
I kid, I kid…
I do my SDMB’ing at work (downtime buring compiles, etc.) and have discovered that the company’s web proxies have become batshit agressive about video stuff, including full-sound full-motion advertising. Finally, their jackbooted repression is working in my favor.
Just a data point. I’m running Firefox and have disabled AdBlock on the SDMB to try to replicate Trinopus’s experience and, well, nothing. I do get ads that apparently want me to restore my hair and plan my adventure to Florida, but no audio.
Trinopus, have you tried running something like SpyBot?
I don’t know Spybot, but I’ll find it and give it a whirl. I do have AVG, professional (paid) version and it catches the most malicious stuff, but I don’t know how it is for mere intrusive stuff.