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11-30-2004, 10:28 PM
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COMMFLASH Advertisements?
Does anyone else receive these when trying to access a thread? It's always a Circuit City flash ad, but I'm redirected to it occasionally. Running Adaware and S&D have done nothing to prevent it from coming back. I'm assuming it's a PCMech sponsored ad.
It has a message in the top right corner that 'Your Page is Loading' and a link to 'Skip This Ad,' but I can't go on to the thread until the ad fully loads. It takes a while for my pathetic dial-up to download the ad, so it would sure be nice if there was some way to avoid it...
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11-30-2004, 10:50 PM
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I've never seen anything like that on PCmech.
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11-30-2004, 10:57 PM
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Although I haven't posted much, I've been lurking for a long time. I've never had a pop up like that. It may be that adware is targeting your history with tech sites.
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11-30-2004, 11:04 PM
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I just got that circuit city flash ad for the first time tonight. I had never seen this before on pcmech.
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11-30-2004, 11:11 PM
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I've gotten it a few times...the first couple of times I pressed the back button thinking I accidently hit a link. Hope they're gone soon.
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11-30-2004, 11:58 PM
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Location: Christmas, Florida
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I have had that 5 times so far this week, its very anoying
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12-01-2004, 12:04 AM
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I closed and reopened a few times to see if it would happen to me too, but haven't had to deal with that ::knock on wood::
I would just assume that firefox was blocking them, but I opened IE and didn't see it there either. |
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12-01-2004, 12:19 AM
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Well I did some more experimenting and still haven't seen it. I'm using Maxthon. Either the ad blocker is doing it's job very well or they just don't come up for me.
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12-01-2004, 12:26 AM
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Using IE and I've been getting it multiple times yesterday and today. Sometimes when going Back, sometimes when opening a new thread. No real pattern but I agree with bailey - annoying.
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12-01-2004, 12:54 AM
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It's not often - maybe a couple times of an evening while browsing the 'Mech. It's more than annoying, tho, as my dial-up is jammed up enough as it is. Any chance that ad will be presented in a different way?
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