I was recently viewing this Forum and noticed a blank rectangle near the bottom on the right side of my monitor. In the bottom left-hand corner of it was the word “Continue”. After a short time, the blank became the ad shown on the screenshots below - I wasn’t paying close attention to it, but this seemed to occur when the same ad appeared on the right side of the screen as I scrolled down through the posts.
I am able to drag it around the screen, and to scroll pages as normal:
…however, it won’t go away, even when I leave the MR site. Any suggestions on how to get rid of it would be appreciated.
I don’t have that problem, but some time ago there were a great many complaints about pop-up ads appearing right here on our friendly site advertising MR stuff.
I am trying to remember how we got rid of them before MR stepped in and made them go poof.
Do you have your pop-up blocker set? I did and still got those pesky things about 3 months ago.
Report it to MR and see what happens. THey may have another glitch on their hands!
Well, I did manage to get rid of the ad, but I had to re-start my computer to do so.
This seems to me to be advertising gone out of control. I don’t do a lot of on-line shopping, but this is one site that will definitely not be getting my business.
EDIT: Thanks for your input, Galaxy. The pop-up blocker is on and otherwise seems to be working. The creepy part is that I went off-line and the ad remained on the screen.
This sounds more like a computer glitch on their end to me Wayne. The advertiser in question has a long standing history of integrity. It is highly likely they had no control over the weird floating image and pop up situation. I can see how it would be frustrating on your end though.
I’m sure we will now hear from all the people who believe the answer to all problems is to change to their particular favorite browser, but I have Internet Explorer 9 and I do not have any pop up ad issues. I have never had that ad appear in the middle of my screen.
I suggest you clean out all your cookies and run a full virus scan. Ad server cookies are installed on your computer by a great many website and must be cleaned out regularly. Most virus detectors do that routinely during a scheduled full scan.
I use Firefox at home and IE8 at work. I don’t see this ad.
I agree that the company being advertised is a reputable one, so I wouldn’t suspect them of inserting adware, but you never know about those things.
I’d like to add my voice to the crowd which sincerely hopes that our hosts do not start putting this popups and traveling ads on their site. Increasing the revenue stream at the cost of user satisfaction and loyalty is a poor bargain in the long run.
I’m running Windows 7 and IE9 and have never had anything like that happen because I have adblock turned on as an IE9 Internet option.
This looks to me more like an Adobe Flash Player advertisement picked up from another site and installed on your computer rather than coming from the MR site.
Changing web browsers is probably not going to help stop the problem as much as going through your browser’s Internet settings and checking them.
I have not had this problem here but I have similar issues on other sites with my work computer. I think it is a combination of the software used to make the ads since they change every time I come here (Flash or something similar) and possibly a computer issue at your end. My computer at work is a bit outdated and it will lag behind on stuff like that.
I don’t get ads like that, using IE. In IE, they go completely away if you add ads.kalmbach.com to the restricted sites list. I get zero ads on this site.
Thanks to all for your input. I’m using Mozilla and have pop-up blockers which, until this one, don’t allow anything through. The only ads I see are those along the right-hand side of the screen, which are non-intrusive. I never thought to try different browsers, as I also have IE and Chrome. The thing that worried me the most was not that the ad appeared, but that it seemed impossible to get rid of it. As I mentioned, a simple re-start solved that part of the problem.
I’ve never had this problem with Chrome. The particular merchant in question is very reliable and I use them a great deal of time and they come highly recommended. I really doubt the merchant was responsible for this.
I’ve never seen one of those on the MR site, but I get them sometimes elsewhere. Usually, there’s a transparent border around the ad, and the “x” to close the window is almost invisible, about an inch above and to the right of the ad. If it happens again, look for that.
Someone mentioned having to reboot their PC. I see nothing wrong with that as I do that every day when powering up my PC. I shut the PC down at least once each day when out for a couple hours. Not a big deal.
With some windows PC’s the ads can stay up. Microsoft designed Windows expressly for that reason.
And advertising companies know how to exploit that feature.
I’ve never seen that ad. I use Firefox with Adblock Plus. It does an efficient job of blasting ads. I checked my IE8 and Opera and didn’t see it on either one.
