Pop Up Blocker & FT Warning Box
Dec 11, 2016, 11:30 am
#1
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Pop Up Blocker & FT Warning Box
I would just like to put this out here as general info to those who run flyer talk, and I know it could be a bit of a contentious post/debate...
I run A top of the line laptop from 7 years ago, so I mean by today's standard she is old, but generaly has no issues running any app, or website, except 2;
Facebook & Flyertalk.
Facebook has become so overrun with adds and media that from a PC's prospective you could not have any other program or site open unless you expect some lag, and considering the multimedia behind it, it is somewhat understandable.
Flyertalk on the other hand is a forum. Now the adds on this forum have become so intrusive, loud booming advertisements, advertisements that do not properly fit in the space available skewing the actual content left, right, up down, etc. For some time to enjoy my experience on this creative and constructive forum I have employed an add blocker. Flyer talk seems to be fighting back with an annoying reminder to disable it. So this morning for fun I did, as going post to post trying to help some noobies, I got rather annoyed by the click here to get rid of this new intrusive add. What did I find?
Again, same garbage advertisements, booming lound BS from Ford or GM about the latest vehicles that I have 0 interest in, having to wait an addition 15 to 20 seconds for all their content to load that constantly resets the positions on the page where real content is... After 30 seconds the add blocker went back on, 5 seconds to ignore a FT add is much more tolerable then the adds them selves.
Bottom line; I understand that adds are needed to pay the bills, but when adds are that intrusive, time consuming to load versus forum content, people will defend them selves from them. If there is no monitoring of adds, and testing on various platforms then people will be annoyed and block them.
This is just my 2 cents.
Suggestion? Test adds and accept/reject them accordingly.
I run A top of the line laptop from 7 years ago, so I mean by today's standard she is old, but generaly has no issues running any app, or website, except 2;
Facebook & Flyertalk.
Facebook has become so overrun with adds and media that from a PC's prospective you could not have any other program or site open unless you expect some lag, and considering the multimedia behind it, it is somewhat understandable.
Flyertalk on the other hand is a forum. Now the adds on this forum have become so intrusive, loud booming advertisements, advertisements that do not properly fit in the space available skewing the actual content left, right, up down, etc. For some time to enjoy my experience on this creative and constructive forum I have employed an add blocker. Flyer talk seems to be fighting back with an annoying reminder to disable it. So this morning for fun I did, as going post to post trying to help some noobies, I got rather annoyed by the click here to get rid of this new intrusive add. What did I find?
Again, same garbage advertisements, booming lound BS from Ford or GM about the latest vehicles that I have 0 interest in, having to wait an addition 15 to 20 seconds for all their content to load that constantly resets the positions on the page where real content is... After 30 seconds the add blocker went back on, 5 seconds to ignore a FT add is much more tolerable then the adds them selves.
Bottom line; I understand that adds are needed to pay the bills, but when adds are that intrusive, time consuming to load versus forum content, people will defend them selves from them. If there is no monitoring of adds, and testing on various platforms then people will be annoyed and block them.
This is just my 2 cents.
Suggestion? Test adds and accept/reject them accordingly.
Dec 11, 2016, 1:38 pm
#2
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The placement, etc., of advertisements is the responsibility of FlyerTalk's owner, Internet Brands.
Therefore I will send this to the Technical Support forum for IB staff to read and comment upon.
cblaisd
Co-Moderator, The Suggestion Box forum
Therefore I will send this to the Technical Support forum for IB staff to read and comment upon.
cblaisd
Co-Moderator, The Suggestion Box forum
Dec 12, 2016, 1:02 pm
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Hello,
If there are particular ads that are problematic, please report them in the thread that was started for this purpose:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...een-shots.html
Thank you
If there are particular ads that are problematic, please report them in the thread that was started for this purpose:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...een-shots.html
Thank you