I didn’t mind the ads as long as they kept their place and didn’t interfere with anything else, but as soon as they did it pushed me over the edge to the point I killed 'em all.
I suppose the people responsible for the same never heard the story of “The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs,” or the tale of “The Fisherman’s Wife” who didn’t have the sense to quit while she was ahead, and asked for so much she lost it all.
A lot of wisdom in those old stories. There must be, or they wouldn’t have lived for so long.
I’m getting these pop-ups too- when I try to click on the X on the upper right, the ad will move up and down like it’s fighting me. If I don’t click right on the x, the ad page opens up. Toyota, Scotiabank, other banking ads. I thought it was just me. Can someone point out to me how to load Adbusters? I would sure appreciate it. I would boycott Scotiabank, but that’s my bank. For a while after every time I went to the bank, they would email me a survey form asking about the service. I told a teller to make it stop and it did. But these pop-ups are driving me nuts!
I started noticing them a couple of days ago too. Both on my home PC and travelling lap-top, both use Edge. I have a pop-up blocker, but the only pop-ups it seems to block are the ones I need to see on the UP employee’s website. And for that I can’t disable it like I could before for those pop-ups.
I’ve also been getting pop-ups from Kalmbach when I switch magazine forums to subscribe. Even to the ones I already subscribe to. I checked out the adblocker for Edge, but it says I need to update my version of Edge. I may try it out on my lap-top first.
This exact behavior with bottom popups just started happening to me (Firefox on Linux). Surprisingly the window has just text and a link so it is hard to determine the sponsor to boycott. At any rate I had to turn Ublock back on for this site and others, will see if it works …
That’s exactly what happened to me! Chasing the “x’s” all over the damn screen!
Loading AdBlocker is easy, just Google AdBlocker, I selected AdBlocker Ultimate Chrome (if you’re using Chrome) the free one, and follow the directions. Just takes a few seconds.
I’m sure there’s other applications depending on your situation.
After loading a ad blocker, you will also get pop ups from some of the sites you visit that obscure their content and instruct you to turn off the ad blocker, and provide you the means to do it.
You bet Balt, I tried the websites of the local papers in the Fort Myers FL area where my parents live, just to get an idea of “what’s goin’ on” and sure enough the “turn off the ad blocker” message came up. No damn way!
And you’re welcome 54’, but the guy you really need to thank is ShortCircuit, he’s the one who brought AdBlocker to my attention. Bless him!
Running Chrome on Windows 10, the ads only cover about the bottom 10% of the screen, so not a big bother.
I still get the women’s fashions, swimsuits, and lingerie ads in a little box on the right side. Someday my wife’s going to see them, and then I’ll have some ‘splainin’ to do . . . [:-^]
Simple: tell her you’re supporting the ‘free’ forum resource by not blocking ads outright; Kalmbach will not let you individually block or censor ads by category; she knows she can trust you; [be passive-aggressive if she then persists, sauce for the goose is now sauce for the gander as well in this lovely new PC age.]
If you need plausible denial: tell her you’ve joined the boycott of undesirable ad content, and show her this thread for backup … well, perhaps just tell her you’re boycotting the swimwear.
By the way: who out there following this thread has a good graphics-design program they know how to use well?
I’m developing the parody Trains Magazine ad for “13 greatest Kalmbach IT failures that shaped the history of enthusiast publications – the flubs, foul-ups and faux pas that determined the course of American Snowmobiler.”
Probably best if it’s a link that can click through to a ‘presentation’ page, and perhaps something that can be ordered as a free sample?
If Kalmbach IT is reading this thread: get the lead out on ridding us of the bouncing ads, and I might reconsider…
We were told three months ago that a new forum experience was imminent - well that was 1/4 of a year ago. The things that weren’t working then, still aren’t working today.
I was told when I hired on that we would be getting a new employee computer system within a year. A decade later I am still getting paid by the same old 1980s program.
I think it was developed before the mouse was invented, you can navigate it using only the keyboard.
Press F7 and F8 to scroll, F6 to save a pay ticket, F5 to submit, and F3 to back out… …all the other F keys have at least one function, which may vary depending on what part of the program you are in.
It may be 80’s ‘legacy’ software operating on a 21st Century box. Payroll software, especially when it comes to properly ‘paying’ T&E personnel in concert with the labor agreements is a daunting task for computer application programers and designers since most of the time the only rule is the exception, and the exception is far from being a rule.
The other application area programmer/designers are hesitant to get involved with is crew calling with all the twists and turns about who should be called under what circumstance in the various T&E contracts - with, at least on CSX, multiple different contracts to be allowed for.