I noticed today there are animated, motion picture ads showing at the top when I am in the MR forums. I’ve noticed while they are playing, which seems to be a lot today, trying to type a message is really jerky and laggy. It’s really really bad! It’s killing my experience here at MR forums. And I have a pretty decent bandwidth as well.
I really h8 this! [st][U]
Make it stop!
I don’t have this experience here. Maybe it’s your browser and search history at work against you?
What are the ads for? If MR does not produce the ads they can"t be blamed for the content.
Selling ad space carries with it the responsibility to monitor and sometimes police it.
Using Google Chrome. I have never searched Serina Williams tennis stuff so how can it be my history? No, definitely some random stuff served up.
No, it’s not MR ads. I’m guessing it’s MR’s host.
Here is a screen shot showing the current add in the banner:
There have been motion picture ads with Tennis star Serina Williams playing in the banner and when motion pictures adds are playing, funs over. Right now it’s a Bowser add, not animated and things are fine.
It was so bad a while ago when the motion picture ads were playing, I kept hitting back space and trying to type stuff and try again cause the lag was so bad, couldn’t even get words typed properly.
Blame it on Google and Facebook and not MR! Both are hijacking websites and implement ads on what they reckon is “free space”.
I am using Firefox with Adblock Plus and Privacy Badger as add-ons and I don´t see any of the advertisements annoying you! I see only those from Kalmbach which I have chosen to see!
Hmm… all I can say is I’ve never had this problem before today. Gotta love “progess”.
I opted out of ad choices http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
I do not see your problem today, but I have had strange ads pop up on this site before. I delete my cookies when that happens. I think it’s especially creepy when I look up something like sump pumps and then go to youtube or facebook and see an ad for sump pumps.
I agree with the above, the adds are not coming from the Forum. I too use Firefox with Add Blocker and I don’t get the adds. The Google Spiders line you up with Google add machines, Add Blocker should stop them.
The Add Blocker icon on my Firefox toolbar shows 6 adds blocked this morning, I’ve seen it as high as 14. It’s just Google trying to make $$$, I think they are paid by the hit.
Mel
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I recently had a similar experience, with irratating ads (aren’t they all?!) popping up on every website. I put an end to them with Ghostery: https://www.ghostery.com/blog/product-releases/browse-smarter-with-ghostery-8/
Well, I do use an ad blocker at home, and on my smart phone.
Hello all,
These sure seem to be sucking-up the bandwidth.
I have never had so many “Problem Loading Page” errors than I have in the past few weeks.
In the top right corner of the ad there are options to close the ad or not show irrelevant content.
That actually does help, at least you can close the motion ads that cause the forums to stutter badly.
There are a couple of other forums where there are ad issues. I won’t name it but there is a Train Forum that obvously relies on ads for it’s existance. It always opens with several boxes you have to close out before you even bowse the topics. And it has ad banners all the time and sometimes you can barely type message there because it lags so bad and stutters. It is always like that when I go there and frankly it discourages me from even going there much.
I do have an ad blocker installed at home and more recently on another fourm I get a pop-up that says at the bottom that says:
“Can we talk?” Sorry, no. There is a point that you have to hold your ground and say enough is enough.
The whole advertising system, yes, I get it. But has been going to seed in the US over the past 50 years and is becoming a science in the internet age. But even before that it was getting bad on TV, Billboards and other print media.
On TV if you look at the original 1960’s Star Trek episodes and they were around 51 minutes long with 9 minutes of advertising. What are “hour long shows” now? Approaching 40 minutes long with advertising close to 20 minutes per hour?
Of course this is a primary reason why I haven’t watch regular, over the air, TV in probably 10 or 12 years. I can’t tolerate the ads every 5 minutes. Netflix is solid programing for shows or Movies and for a minimal monthly fee - ahhhhhh
I really noticed the contrast in how bad advertising was in the US back when I went to Germany in the late 1980’s. Advertising was only a tiny fraction there vs the
I do not see them. I usually look at the forums when not logged in. Even logged in, I do not see them.
I also do not allow third party cookies and clear History when I close Firefox. I also have a couple blockers.
Rich
I brought this up a month or so again - had never happened to me before - and received what came across as a somewhat short-tempered reply that this is not an appropriate forum topic so the thread was locked and would soon be deleted. I was surprised at the tone of the post from the MR staffer. Kalmbach’s web site usability is being negatively impacted and they don’t want to know?
I wound up adding an ad blocker and have not seen the issue appear again. Neither do the ads that Kalmbach routinely places on the forums.
Yeah, check and/or implement ad blcoking.
There’s another possibility and that is a malware infection.
Neither has anything to do with MR. I’m sure Ms. Williams doesn’t. I’ve never seen anything like that, but my computers are pretty well locked down behind the wife’s very effective VPN due to work requirements.
Yeah, again, I have an ad block on my home computers. I don’t think this is malware. No, it’s standard ad banners but the motion picture ones just KILL the bandwidth and bring thing to a herky jerky crawl. LIke I said, I have seen it on another forumt hat relies heavily on ads for it’s existance.
OK. I’m expecting this to poof away Thanks for the remind that I can hit the X on the bad ones. That does help.
I don’t get any moving ads while on this forum.
Advertising is part of financing websites, even commercial websites. There are so-called news sites that have click bait ads. There will be a picture of some attractive famous actress or athelete, with the line “See what they look like now” 40 clicks and 15 minutes of slow loading pages, you find out they look every bit of 20 years older than they were in the original picture.
Bear in mind, we don’t pay anything for this website. You don’t pay anything for the Home Depot site or your bank, but they are making money off you or looking at it as a cost of doing business. Subscribing to this site, doesn’t really make you buy a magazine subscription.
That said, the responsibility for the ads you see is not entirely your fault. That statement will get this thread deleted, first thing Monday morning.
I use AdBlock on Google Chrome and the only interuptions I get are from websites asking me to turn the AdBlock off, which I can do momentarily if I so choose.
After a few hours on the computor, the blocked ads number in the dozens some days so AdBlock is obviously working, and it’s free (although they do ask for donations to support their work).
Dave