Pop-up adds

Yep, that little crawly Son Of A Bitch crawled across my screen on every 3rd page I would open up.......Its getting to be like a skeet shoot, but NO PRIZE!!!

Kill it!!

73 de Pat KK6PD

 

I have not seen the the one that scrolls across the screen for a long time now. Of course I'm blocking the ads at home but at work I'm forced to use IE with no ad blocking. As much as I want to buy the Sharp solar panels when I get my own home I'm really starting to hate Sharp for that annoying ad. I might just buy BP solar panels instead.

 

The Sharp ad is kind of annoying but that safecount.com ad is really starting to piss me off. I now get it almost every time I do a edit on a post or sometimes 30-60 seconds on my PC and Mac Puter.

Wildkow

 

Yeah the safecount.com ad is becoming increasingly annoying. I think the frequency of the ad is growing greater. I want to know if its a paying ad, such as the sharp and fruit drink ads.

 

I'd be willing to pay for a premium no ads service on PC if it was offered.

 

As would I. Didn't Danny say something about in the future there would be a pay subscription?

 

Me 3. I already pay for membership in a different forum. It takes money to run one of these sites.

I understand the need for advertising, but the expanding banner ads (e.g. Odwalla) in particular are making it difficult to post and search because they cover the text boxes where you need to enter info.

 

Count me in for some bucks!!!

Pat KK6PD

 

If Danny doesn't get paid for this F'ing ad is there a way for him to stop it? Grrrrrrr,



Wildkow

 

Yup, that one's pretty annoying. Adblock, here we come.

 

Adblock eh? Thanks I can't believe I was unaware of that product! :duh:

Wildkow

 

After an absence of a few days, that scrolling ad is back again (safecount.com?)
REALLY annoying - (I'm using Safari on an iMac)
Also that Sharp ad drove me crazy - I couldn't do a search because the ad would "explode" over the areas you need to click for a search, probably due to the fact that my bi-focaled eyes need bigger screen printing than most people use.

 

I think the pop-up ads are getting phased out, maybe? I have noticed a Shorebank ad, Charity car ad, Odwalla ad that didnt pop up, and a GMAC bank ad. For the last 2 weeks, all that I saw were the pop up Sharp and Odwalla ads, and that darn safecount scrolling ad.

 

Has anyone actually clicked on that safecount ad? Maybe they're doing a survey on how people feel about scrolling ads, and we're missing our opportunity to tell them.

 

Well Hyo, I clicked the safecount ad, and oddly it just reloaded the page. I don't know what was supposed to happen. Maybe I just sent them all my personal information for them to "count" in a "safe" manner.

 

Me too. There used to be a link that said "Coming soon: No ads," or something to that effect, but nothing ever came of it. I asked, and someone (maybe Danny?) said "pretty soon," but still nothing.

I think there's an issue of how to charge for ads when some members are paying to opt out of ads. I really don't know what the issue is. But I know Danny was considering it or looking into it.

I'd definitely pay a subscription to be free of ads.

I think I clicked on it once. It brought up a survey that I started to answer, but after a few pages I lost interest and closed the window. Don't remember what it was about now, but not something that I had any strong feelings about offering my opinion on. It was a marketing survey, not a political opinion survey. Oh, yeah, I remember, it was all about flat-screen HDTVs: which brands you'd heard of, which you trusted, which you'd buy, etc. Might be different products at other times.