ARCHIVE: All Disruptive Ads /Advertisement on FT (older posts)
Oct 12, 2015 | 2:32 pm
#256
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Thankyou IBobi for this most useful tip, it's brilliant. Can anyone please help with my next problem? I have successfully taken a screenshot but each time I try to use the icon above to add the picture to this message it asks me for a url no. I am on an iPad and can't see one anywhere. Is it not possible to simply upload the image somehow?
.... Reads WIKI and returns 10 minutes later ... Actually, I can save you all the trouble - I have now read the WIKI on this (what and where is the 'clipboard?!) and am going to retire to a dark room with a wet towel around my head and see what I can figure out. This is all soooo last century - why on earth can we not just upload?
.... Reads WIKI and returns 10 minutes later ... Actually, I can save you all the trouble - I have now read the WIKI on this (what and where is the 'clipboard?!) and am going to retire to a dark room with a wet towel around my head and see what I can figure out. This is all soooo last century - why on earth can we not just upload?
You can load it to your ft album (look in MyFlyerTalk) or externally, to photobucket, flickr, etc.
Paul
Oct 12, 2015 | 2:36 pm
#257
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If it is showing up every time you go to a new page, be sure your browser is not set to delete cookies. I am also using windows/chrome and I am not seeing that at all.
If you have a specific page you're seeing it on, please post the link.
Oct 12, 2015 | 3:33 pm
#258
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Merging this with existing thread on this issue.
Oct 13, 2015 | 12:02 pm
#259
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: London, England.
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Posts: 8,779
I'm getting this too. Over here it's usually small airline ads that appear only at the top of the screen and seem designed to appear as part of an overall web page.
On IE10 it is necessary to hit the Back button. Then you get the FT page. The FT page has flashed past for a split second before the ad is displayed. Some ad overlay is being sent down as a separate page.
On IE10 it is necessary to hit the Back button. Then you get the FT page. The FT page has flashed past for a split second before the ad is displayed. Some ad overlay is being sent down as a separate page.
Oct 13, 2015 | 4:44 pm
#260
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Seen on iPad using safari/Google .
Oct 14, 2015 | 10:05 am
#261
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Oct 15, 2015 | 2:02 pm
#262
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Oct 25, 2015 | 4:32 pm
#263
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Posts: 432
Obnoxious Hyatt popup ad
Not being a loyal Flyetalker who ever complains ... BUT what is up with that very annoying popup/floating Hyatt advertisement?
Is Flyertalk THAT desperate for funds?
I can promise that I will never click through a link on Flyertalk because of this.
Sorry for the hissy fit but it is obnoxious!
Is Flyertalk THAT desperate for funds?
I can promise that I will never click through a link on Flyertalk because of this.
Sorry for the hissy fit but it is obnoxious!
Oct 25, 2015 | 5:25 pm
#264
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: PSM
Posts: 69,232
Not being a loyal Flyetalker who ever complains ... BUT what is up with that very annoying popup/floating Hyatt advertisement?
Is Flyertalk THAT desperate for funds?
I can promise that I will never click through a link on Flyertalk because of this.
Sorry for the hissy fit but it is obnoxious!
Is Flyertalk THAT desperate for funds?
I can promise that I will never click through a link on Flyertalk because of this.
Sorry for the hissy fit but it is obnoxious!
Oct 25, 2015 | 10:08 pm
#265
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: California
Posts: 2,731
OK, I'm bothered enough to post screenshots now.
BTW, this same ad loads nigh immediately on my computer (even if it's rendering multiple times per page). It also only appears in the UA forum on my computer.
I see this ad in Every. Single. Forum. on mobile devices. In fact, I'm not sure I'm seeing any other ads in mobile at the moment. It's making the site unusable on mobile, essentially.
Without further ado…
Beginning frame
Third frame (never quick enough to get the second--however, you can see the plane that takes off from the right-hand side and flies diagonally to the top of the frame, slowing everything to 1995 browsing speeds)
Fourth frame
Final frame
Banner version (this is a top banner--didn't get a side banner, but it's out there)
BTW, this same ad loads nigh immediately on my computer (even if it's rendering multiple times per page). It also only appears in the UA forum on my computer.
I see this ad in Every. Single. Forum. on mobile devices. In fact, I'm not sure I'm seeing any other ads in mobile at the moment. It's making the site unusable on mobile, essentially.
Without further ado…
Beginning frame
Third frame (never quick enough to get the second--however, you can see the plane that takes off from the right-hand side and flies diagonally to the top of the frame, slowing everything to 1995 browsing speeds)
Fourth frame
Final frame
Banner version (this is a top banner--didn't get a side banner, but it's out there)
Oct 26, 2015 | 4:41 am
#266
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I've most definitely clicked through some FT banner ads that are interesting to me, but like the OP, I will intentionally pass the really aggressive ones even if it's a product or service I would have otherwise been interested in. I'm very much one to avoid something out of pure principal even if inconveniences a bit.
Oct 26, 2015 | 6:00 am
#267
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Only slightly. This is a free platform to us but not free to operated; whether we like it or not we are the product. The members (or our eyeballs) are being sold to the advertisers.
A behavior pattern which any decent analytics package will uncover very quickly, assuming that's actually what happens.
A behavior pattern which any decent analytics package will uncover very quickly, assuming that's actually what happens.
Oct 26, 2015 | 6:48 am
#268
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Slightly to the left of center
Posts: 3,482
Those Hyatt pop ups are annoying.
Keeping FT open in a browser throughout the day has been a good workaround for me
Keeping FT open in a browser throughout the day has been a good workaround for me
Oct 26, 2015 | 6:51 am
#269
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I only see the IHG popup ads.
Oct 26, 2015 | 7:01 am
#270
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Add me to the list never clicked through on an ad off flyer talk