ARCHIVE: All Disruptive Ads /Advertisement on FT (older posts)
Aug 18, 2016, 7:06 pm
#601
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I do notice that FT recently has stopped remembering me (I.e., I see the login screen regularly even if I checked the "remember me" checkbox)
That said... even if I wasn't a member yet, I would find those constant popups annoying, and it wouldn't exactly motivate me to come back or sign up.
Aug 24, 2016, 10:11 pm
#602
Join Date: Nov 2005
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SLOW video ads - on the ad reporting page!
Hi
These video ads are back. I had a screenshot, but figured that this would be more relevant. I'm still not always sure what they are even trying to sell me!
Dr. PITUK
These video ads are back. I had a screenshot, but figured that this would be more relevant. I'm still not always sure what they are even trying to sell me!
Dr. PITUK
Sep 10, 2016, 12:08 am
#603
Join Date: Feb 2000
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I'm logged in from the US and while in the SPG forum have been subjected to a series of ads asking if I'm interested in dating Russian or Chinese women. Perhaps Malaysian, too - I can't remember what the third nationality was. I came to this thread to see if anyone else had reported these and see I'm not the first -- in fact, people have been complaining for weeks. I've been a member of this site for more than 15 years and don't ever recall seeing ads of this sort before. I find them extremely offensive and I imagine other female members of FT who see these ads would as well. Please get rid of them.
Sep 12, 2016, 2:46 pm
#604
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I'm logged in from the US and while in the SPG forum have been subjected to a series of ads asking if I'm interested in dating Russian or Chinese women. Perhaps Malaysian, too - I can't remember what the third nationality was. I came to this thread to see if anyone else had reported these and see I'm not the first -- in fact, people have been complaining for weeks. I've been a member of this site for more than 15 years and don't ever recall seeing ads of this sort before. I find them extremely offensive and I imagine other female members of FT who see these ads would as well. Please get rid of them.
We tell all the ad networks to block this stuff and most of them do, but some slip through the cracks, likely because the ads themselves are intentionally mis-categorized at some point to slip through exactly the kinds of blocks we have in place.
Sep 12, 2016, 6:47 pm
#605
Join Date: Feb 2000
Posts: 952
Thank you for responding. I realize that it's practically impossible to police ads and scammers are very good at getting things through in any case. I am, however, surprised to not see more complaints about those ads --at least from women. Even if they won't do any good.
Sep 12, 2016, 6:50 pm
#606
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They don't actually break any forum rules, is probably why. They're dating ads.
Sep 13, 2016, 3:21 am
#607
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Sep 20, 2016, 10:11 pm
#608
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Is there any chance we could suppress the popover ads on the "You have entered an invalid username or password" page? Per IBobi's instructions I've been trying more lately to read while logged in, but it's really annoying when I mistype my password and then get a popover ad on the error page.
Sep 27, 2016, 3:14 pm
#609
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Is there any chance we could suppress the popover ads on the "You have entered an invalid username or password" page? Per IBobi's instructions I've been trying more lately to read while logged in, but it's really annoying when I mistype my password and then get a popover ad on the error page.
Sep 28, 2016, 3:40 pm
#611
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Oct 10, 2016, 12:09 am
#614
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Since recently, I get fullscreen ads on my iPhone (safari) popping up very frequently (at least once a minute).
This is very annoying. Is this a known thing? Because up to now this didn't happen and I didn't change any settings or so.
I have a screenshot here. One can actually not see that I'm on FT, but it is the case!
This is very annoying. Is this a known thing? Because up to now this didn't happen and I didn't change any settings or so.
I have a screenshot here. One can actually not see that I'm on FT, but it is the case!
Oct 10, 2016, 4:27 pm
#615
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Since recently, I get fullscreen ads on my iPhone (safari) popping up very frequently (at least once a minute).
This is very annoying. Is this a known thing? Because up to now this didn't happen and I didn't change any settings or so.
I have a screenshot here. One can actually not see that I'm on FT, but it is the case!
This is very annoying. Is this a known thing? Because up to now this didn't happen and I didn't change any settings or so.
I have a screenshot here. One can actually not see that I'm on FT, but it is the case!