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May 1, 2015, 11:55 pm

#27

AllieKat

Join Date: Nov 2012

Posts: 3,537

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'andad

I know FT aren't permitting this but it's happening a lot to me, and driving me up the wall. Whilst on FT, which I am quite a lot!, ads keep popping up telling me I am the 100,000 th visitor, won a Mac, Tesco voucher, mobile net winner. Worse is that they won't close even if I go to say BBC site, the only thing that works is to re-boot. (I don't mean those small harmless static ads down the right hand side, I guess they help fund FT ).
Anybody else a victim, know a solution?

Of course they are permitting them, FlyerTalk uses the most spammy, infected (frequently there are malware sites), disruptive adverts ever. Presumably, the agency pays more than those that display non-malicious advertising.