ARCHIVE: All Disruptive Ads /Advertisement on FT (older posts)
Feb 16, 2016 | 1:26 pm
#526
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Hello, Holzklasse--
This can happen on pages where someone has posted a very large photo.
Paul
This can happen on pages where someone has posted a very large photo.
Paul
Feb 16, 2016 | 4:29 pm
#527
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2002
Location: NC
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I no longer use FT on my computer just on mobile devices. That type of use (with autocorrect and less formatting) lessens the content value for us all. I get FT has to make money and we can pay to go ad free but the basic site should at least work. It crashes my entire browser regularly on my laptop and even hotel business center computers. Sadly the ads will slowly push away frequent users from posting valuable content and it will just be newbies asking the same things over and over. We welcome newbies but just sad to see what's happening here.
Feb 16, 2016 | 6:23 pm
#528
No longer with Internet Brands
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Posts: 5,343
I no longer use FT on my computer just on mobile devices. That type of use (with autocorrect and less formatting) lessens the content value for us all. I get FT has to make money and we can pay to go ad free but the basic site should at least work. It crashes my entire browser regularly on my laptop and even hotel business center computers. Sadly the ads will slowly push away frequent users from posting valuable content and it will just be newbies asking the same things over and over. We welcome newbies but just sad to see what's happening here.
Thank you
Feb 17, 2016 | 12:46 am
#529
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: Hilton, United, Gold DL
Posts: 993
Win 7, FF 44.0.02, currently the only tab I have open is FT and it is consuming 500k of memory.
And then sometimes Flash goes absolutely nuts and goes through the roof and causes the browser to be unstable until it does become unusable.
Feb 17, 2016 | 4:32 am
#530
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2002
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Flash consumes the entire Firefox browser...all windows freeze and I have to restart. Same happens with Internet Explorer on my laptop and public computers.
Feb 24, 2016 | 10:07 am
#531
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The greatest wee nation on earth.
Programs: Iron Maiden FC, GE, Rapidly falling down the Tiers to oblivion.
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Ibobi, the redirect game of war style guff is back, same kind of address pops up, just started now, usual iphone in the uk region on the carriers network. Let me know what let you find it last time as it seemed you managed to stop them last time once i had identified the ad that was causing it on my phone.
Last edited by jcm9000; Feb 24, 2016 at 10:35 am
Feb 24, 2016 | 10:44 am
#532
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Canadia
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Posts: 2,037
The site is working okay for me in Firefox, though not in Safari.
Flyertalk is the only site that gives these errors for me in Safari.
The American Express Canada ads continue to appear (on both browsers), and seem to be the cause of the problem.
Thanks for your help trying to rectify this.
Flyertalk is the only site that gives these errors for me in Safari.
The American Express Canada ads continue to appear (on both browsers), and seem to be the cause of the problem.
Thanks for your help trying to rectify this.
I haven't seen any issues for the past few weeks.
Other, non-credit-card ads, have appeared for me.
Feb 24, 2016 | 1:04 pm
#533
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: TPA
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Posts: 3,147
Feb 24, 2016 | 1:33 pm
#534
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Ibobi, the redirect game of war style guff is back, same kind of address pops up, just started now, usual iphone in the uk region on the carriers network. Let me know what let you find it last time as it seemed you managed to stop them last time once i had identified the ad that was causing it on my phone.
Feb 26, 2016 | 3:48 am
#535
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Feb 27, 2016 | 11:28 am
#536
Join Date: Nov 2007
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"break the internet" being tongue-in-cheek, I assume. The idea of using a hosts file like that is not unreasonable, but needs to be properly curated. A lot of the listed hosts are indeed ad sites or data-collecting sites, but some are rather more critical. To take the most glaring example: the list includes both www.google.com and www.google-analytics.com. Including the latter will cut down on Google's collecting data, with generally no ill effects; including the former, not so much.
As mentioned above IE (actually Defender) fixed the Google one as local redirection of that is apparently a common malware attack that it protects against.
Feb 29, 2016 | 12:07 pm
#537
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: DCA
Posts: 7,777
I'm in wayyyyyy over my head from a technical perspective here, so this post isn't likely to be of any value, but it seems like the Hilton Hhonors forum has gotten really bogged down with something over the last couple days. Other fora seem fine!
Feb 29, 2016 | 2:44 pm
#538
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: YWG
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I'm not sure what I would have done to trigger it, but today I have been getting a tidal wave of different video ads... they are basically dressed up to look like a YouTube clip but I'm assuming they're just some proprietary flash thing. Mostly for household cleaning products and health related things. When they open up on every tab it renders the forum unusable.
Not seeing them on any other website I visit.
I use IE11 and Win7.
Not seeing them on any other website I visit.
I use IE11 and Win7.
Mar 1, 2016 | 3:34 am
#539
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: London
Programs: Many. Too many. I came here to cut them down. I failed.
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I've mentioned it before but the health videos have become so disruptive we've had to block FT at work ( a few people use it!).
Sadly it does actually break our internet. It's FT and only FT and sad that since a few months ago when reporting it with screenshots etc it's only got worse and incredibly disruptive. Noticed the same issue on my home pc for the first time last week.
Sadly it does actually break our internet. It's FT and only FT and sad that since a few months ago when reporting it with screenshots etc it's only got worse and incredibly disruptive. Noticed the same issue on my home pc for the first time last week.
Mar 1, 2016 | 8:31 am
#540
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: flyover country
Posts: 2,856
Although I would quibble with "Other fora seem fine!" HHonors and at least one other forum that I don't recall had unresponsive scripts that froze Firefox until it offered to stop them.
I didn't notice videos on the HHonors forum page, but downloading the full content of videos (without my requesting them) would be consistent with the boatload of bytes that maxed out my (limited) bandwidth for close to a minute.