WGU, advertising in this thread.

Sparkle Minis, advertising in my previous post.

Am I just lucky, getting so many audio ads in one day?

Taken loads of screenshots as is just a video that takes ages to load, kills all system resouces and plays lots of different adverts - will email you as taken about 8 screenshots.

Something changed recently, and whatever is happening on Flyertalk with these ads is ridiculous, it takes way too long to load pages now and I have to close the browser out several times a day as it hangs while loading whatever ads FT has added....

Sekindo causing big problems

Now Hyatt has joined my do not stay list for the same intrusive adds.

Both Hyatt and SPG are appearing every time I open a thread, and then every time I open a comment within a thread, makes this site not fun to use anymore.

It's literally not possible for more than one of them to appear at a time.

Can you post a screen shot? Also be sure you are logged in.

Ads popping up multiple times
 

So I had barely signed in when a pop-up ad for Choice Hotels appeared. I x'd it out, went to this forum, and there again a pop-up appeared- the same one I had just x'd out. Does anyone think this either helps the forum user or the hotel? I don't.

Second this. The Choice Hotel splash adds are making the site almost unusable. Heck I perused several forums just to find a place to complain about them.

You're did slightly better than I did. I got the Choice Hotels ad on the login screen.

Same here. I looked for a forum here to vent a bit - it seems like every other post I open up or what have you I'm having to close this or the Hyatt advertisement. I get it, advertising = support for the site, but it's over the top with the pop-up ads specifically.

It's an annoyance of a different sort.

I was reading a thread, and scrolled to read earlier posts. Just before the Delta advertisement went off-screen, Firefox became unresponsive for several (10-15) seconds. This was consistent whether I scrolled (using a scroll ball) or jumped (using the scroll bar), and it occurred again when I closed the tab.

If you can figure out what the Delta ad is doing, please make it stop.

I've been having something similar happen in both Chrome and Safari for at least a week, but couldn't figure out what ad was causing it so hadn't reported it yet.

The fix seems to be log-in.

However, that doesn't work if you are unable to log-in, as several folks have mentioned. (Public or work computers, for example)

IMHO, the bigger issue is visitors. If I had the constant annoying pop ups when I first visited flyertalk, my response would NOT be " oh, I need to create an account and stay logged in, so I won't get the annoying pop up ads". It would have been "this site is awful, I will never come back here again"

IB isn't doing itself any favors by continuing to allow these ads