ARCHIVE: All Disruptive Ads /Advertisement on FT (older posts)
May 10, 2016, 8:28 pm
#556
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: flyover country
Posts: 2,435
WGU, advertising in this thread.
May 10, 2016, 8:31 pm
#557
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: flyover country
Posts: 2,435
Sparkle Minis, advertising in my previous post.
Am I just lucky, getting so many audio ads in one day?
Am I just lucky, getting so many audio ads in one day?
May 11, 2016, 4:00 pm
#558
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: EXT, LHR & ORD
Programs: AA EXP MM, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,613
Taken loads of screenshots as is just a video that takes ages to load, kills all system resouces and plays lots of different adverts - will email you as taken about 8 screenshots.
May 12, 2016, 9:48 am
#559
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: UA Platinum
Posts: 502
Something changed recently, and whatever is happening on Flyertalk with these ads is ridiculous, it takes way too long to load pages now and I have to close the browser out several times a day as it hangs while loading whatever ads FT has added....
May 13, 2016, 3:25 pm
#560
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: EXT, LHR & ORD
Programs: AA EXP MM, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,613
Sekindo causing big problems
May 22, 2016, 9:22 am
#562
Join Date: Jul 2004
Programs: AA lt gold, HH Diamond, marriott pl
Posts: 329
Both Hyatt and SPG are appearing every time I open a thread, and then every time I open a comment within a thread, makes this site not fun to use anymore.
May 23, 2016, 3:36 pm
#563
No longer with Internet Brands
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Programs: DL DM 1.6MM, Marriott LT Plat
Posts: 5,343
Can you post a screen shot? Also be sure you are logged in.
May 25, 2016, 9:33 pm
#564
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Southern Cal
Programs: UA, AA, Delta, Marriott
Posts: 113
Ads popping up multiple times
So I had barely signed in when a pop-up ad for Choice Hotels appeared. I x'd it out, went to this forum, and there again a pop-up appeared- the same one I had just x'd out. Does anyone think this either helps the forum user or the hotel? I don't.
May 28, 2016, 11:58 am
#565
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: IAD, DCA, SAN
Programs: UA 1K, Hertz PC, AMEX PLAT
Posts: 1,236
Second this. The Choice Hotel splash adds are making the site almost unusable. Heck I perused several forums just to find a place to complain about them.
May 28, 2016, 1:45 pm
#566
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: flyover country
Posts: 2,435
You're did slightly better than I did. I got the Choice Hotels ad on the login screen.
May 30, 2016, 6:36 am
#567
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 86
Same here. I looked for a forum here to vent a bit - it seems like every other post I open up or what have you I'm having to close this or the Hyatt advertisement. I get it, advertising = support for the site, but it's over the top with the pop-up ads specifically.
May 30, 2016, 8:37 am
#568
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: flyover country
Posts: 2,435
It's an annoyance of a different sort.
I was reading a thread, and scrolled to read earlier posts. Just before the Delta advertisement went off-screen, Firefox became unresponsive for several (10-15) seconds. This was consistent whether I scrolled (using a scroll ball) or jumped (using the scroll bar), and it occurred again when I closed the tab.
If you can figure out what the Delta ad is doing, please make it stop.
I was reading a thread, and scrolled to read earlier posts. Just before the Delta advertisement went off-screen, Firefox became unresponsive for several (10-15) seconds. This was consistent whether I scrolled (using a scroll ball) or jumped (using the scroll bar), and it occurred again when I closed the tab.
If you can figure out what the Delta ad is doing, please make it stop.
May 30, 2016, 10:24 am
#569
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2010
Programs: AA
Posts: 14,728
It's an annoyance of a different sort.
I was reading a thread, and scrolled to read earlier posts. Just before the Delta advertisement went off-screen, Firefox became unresponsive for several (10-15) seconds. This was consistent whether I scrolled (using a scroll ball) or jumped (using the scroll bar), and it occurred again when I closed the tab.
If you can figure out what the Delta ad is doing, please make it stop.
I was reading a thread, and scrolled to read earlier posts. Just before the Delta advertisement went off-screen, Firefox became unresponsive for several (10-15) seconds. This was consistent whether I scrolled (using a scroll ball) or jumped (using the scroll bar), and it occurred again when I closed the tab.
If you can figure out what the Delta ad is doing, please make it stop.
May 30, 2016, 11:43 am
#570
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: RDU
Programs: Status Free
Posts: 214
However, that doesn't work if you are unable to log-in, as several folks have mentioned. (Public or work computers, for example)
IMHO, the bigger issue is visitors. If I had the constant annoying pop ups when I first visited flyertalk, my response would NOT be " oh, I need to create an account and stay logged in, so I won't get the annoying pop up ads". It would have been "this site is awful, I will never come back here again"
IB isn't doing itself any favors by continuing to allow these ads