ARCHIVE: 2017 Disruptive Ads / Advertisement on FT Reports
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PLEASE POST SCREENSHOTS of the FULL SCREEN and report your DEVICE TYPE, BROWSER TYPE AND VERSION, and COUNTRY where you are browsing from in your post.This thread is strictly for the reporting of disruptive ads, including unwanted popups, page hijscks, malware attempts, etc. related to ad content. Please refrain from discussion or speculation about technical issues if they are not reports as specified here.
Originally Posted by IBobi
We apologize for the bad ads. We hope in the new year to have a solution that handles them more proactively and quickly. Thank you for your patience!
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Mar 14, 16, 1:25 am
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ARCHIVE: 2017 Disruptive Ads / Advertisement on FT Reports
Issue with side banner ads obscuring posts on iPad Air 2.
Currently using updated Safari browser.
Location. Indonesia but same in UK & China
Currently using updated Safari browser.
Location. Indonesia but same in UK & China
Mar 14, 16, 3:56 pm
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Originally Posted by Saltire74
Issue with side banner ads obscuring posts on iPad Air 2.
Currently using updated Safari browser.
Location. Indonesia but same in UK & China
Currently using updated Safari browser.
Location. Indonesia but same in UK & China
Mar 16, 16, 9:18 am
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Originally Posted by fransknorge
The blocking can also be due to the noxious ads that pops up on FT regularly. Several users reported that their work now blocked FT due specifically to that. More info are in the technical support and feedback forum.
Last edited by EsherFlyer; Mar 25, 16 at 4:13 am Reason: Added the link that had been ommitted
Mar 24, 16, 3:34 pm
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Choice Hotels page hogging ad has appeared about ten times today. MacBook Safari 9.0.3 USA.
Apr 1, 16, 6:38 am
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Advertisements between posts
I have noticed that Flyertalk now places advertisements between posts, rather than beside posts, which I find very intrusive (presumably this is the intention?). (Previously lack of another immediate post meant that you had got to the last post on the page.)
Apr 1, 16, 10:16 am
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While I agree that the ads between posts is disconcerting, I expect to become accustomed to it, and it does solve the problem of the ads obscuring useful text and inappropriately widening the window.
One workaround, if the interspersed ads really annoy you, is to click the Go Advanced button for posting new content. The new presentation does not have the interspersed ads. It does have the posts in newest-first order, which makes me think that the remedy is worse than the malady.
One workaround, if the interspersed ads really annoy you, is to click the Go Advanced button for posting new content. The new presentation does not have the interspersed ads. It does have the posts in newest-first order, which makes me think that the remedy is worse than the malady.
Apr 10, 16, 12:16 pm
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Originally Posted by Tanic
Choice Hotels page hogging ad has appeared about ten times today. MacBook Safari 9.0.3 USA.
Apr 11, 16, 11:30 am
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Originally Posted by djmp
Me too. Really annoying - and it takes its sweet time loading, blocking the page for 10+ seconds before it's possible to dismiss it.
Safari user also. I have disabled pop-up ads and never see them anywhere. This Choice ad continues though. It blocks the page for a long time while it loads (so slowly) and then it can't be closed for a couple more seconds. It's too frustrating so I plan to stay away from FT except when I absolutely need info.
Apr 11, 16, 5:14 pm
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Originally Posted by Tanic
Choice Hotels page hogging ad has appeared about ten times today. MacBook Safari 9.0.3 USA.
Originally Posted by djmp
Me too. Really annoying - and it takes its sweet time loading, blocking the page for 10+ seconds before it's possible to dismiss it.
Originally Posted by NJNY
+1
Safari user also. I have disabled pop-up ads and never see them anywhere. This Choice ad continues though. It blocks the page for a long time while it loads (so slowly) and then it can't be closed for a couple more seconds. It's too frustrating so I plan to stay away from FT except when I absolutely need info.
Safari user also. I have disabled pop-up ads and never see them anywhere. This Choice ad continues though. It blocks the page for a long time while it loads (so slowly) and then it can't be closed for a couple more seconds. It's too frustrating so I plan to stay away from FT except when I absolutely need info.
Apr 11, 16, 9:41 pm
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You can't get logged in before this ad appears.
Apr 11, 16, 10:00 pm
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Originally Posted by djmp
You can't get logged in before this ad appears.
Apr 12, 16, 5:17 am
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Can we please ditch or relocate the Choice Hotels pop up? It is REALLY annoying and has the opposite of the intended effect. It has made FT almost unusable on my iPad.
Thx.
Thx.
Apr 12, 16, 11:06 am
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Originally Posted by Tanic
Choice Hotels page hogging ad has appeared about ten times today. MacBook Safari 9.0.3 USA.
Originally Posted by Sopwith
Can we please ditch or relocate the Choice Hotels pop up? It is REALLY annoying and has the opposite of the intended effect. It has made FT almost unusable on my iPad.
Apr 12, 16, 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by Sopwith
Can we please ditch or relocate the Choice Hotels pop up? It is REALLY annoying and has the opposite of the intended effect. It has made FT almost unusable on my iPad.
Thx.
Thx.
Originally Posted by _kurt
This ad is a big problem for me too. When I browse FT from my work computer I am always logged out, so I see it over and over, delaying me 15 seconds each time. It makes the site unusable.
Apr 12, 16, 5:04 pm
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Originally Posted by IBobi
Log into FT and you will not see it.
