Opera & talking ads

[bosco]

The ad banner in Opera started talking to me the other day. Talking ads? I might have to make the switch to Mozilla.

:rolleyes: It was the ad talking right?:confused: Im not hearing voices or anything anywhere else.:eek: :D :eek:

[Floppyman]

Hi,

What version of Opera are you running? I'm also running Opera and haven't yet encountered an ad that talks.

[audiyoda]

A friend e-mailed me with that same question last ngiht -- I thought he was nuts -- maybe not.

[bosco]

Originally posted by Floppyman
Hi,

What version of Opera are you running? I'm also running Opera and haven't yet encountered an ad that talks.
6.05 free version
and I am nuts. :D

It's always the same ad that talks.
It's happened twice.

[Floppyman]

I'm running 6.04 and haven't seen this yet. Do you think the ads might be different between 6.04 and 6.05? Thanks.

[bosco]

I went from 6.03 to 6.05 . It was a while after I upgraded to 6.05 that the ad spoke up. It's only happened twice and I'm still using it.(6.05)
No one else has seen this first hand?

[glc]

Nope - and I've been using 6.05 daily since it came out.

[Force Flow]

I remember kazaa (I think it was 1.5) having talking ads.

I use opera 6.01. What's the difference between 6.01 and 6.05?

[glc]

Minor improvements and bugfixes, plus some security patches. It's easy enough to update - you don't need to download the Java version, just get the small one and install over the top.

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/

[TheOldMan]

Well, bosco, you're not crazy. And it's not just Opera. It happened to me today. I use IE6 - not Opera. It was a marketing company's banner ad that showed up on FHM's web site. I thought I was crazy when it whistled at me! Then a few minutes later, it barked!

Some sites have had music and sounds for a long time. I guess this is just the next evolution.

The Old Man