Ads Intruding Into Forums and Threads
Nov 2, 2008 | 7:24 pm
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Ads Intruding Into Forums and Threads
For the past several days now, I'm getting the ads that come up on the right side of the page covering almost one quarter of the side of the page. When I go to each individual forum, the ad completely covers the two right columns of the forum list and extends to the seventh thread. It makes it almost impossible to click on the last person's reply to those threads, as the small icon to click is just about covered by the ad.
Then when I click on an individual thread in a forum, the ad covers part of the first three responses, with about half of each comment covered completely.
While I understand that FT and IB needs the advertising revenue, does it really have to include the same ad at the top, side, and INSIDE the forum and each thread that is visited, making part of the thread unreadable?
It's happening on both Netscape and IE6, and clearing the cache and cookies doesn't have any effect. And I haven't changed any settings on my pc, so I assume it's a FT change.
Anyone else having this problem?
bj-21.
Then when I click on an individual thread in a forum, the ad covers part of the first three responses, with about half of each comment covered completely.
While I understand that FT and IB needs the advertising revenue, does it really have to include the same ad at the top, side, and INSIDE the forum and each thread that is visited, making part of the thread unreadable?
It's happening on both Netscape and IE6, and clearing the cache and cookies doesn't have any effect. And I haven't changed any settings on my pc, so I assume it's a FT change.
Anyone else having this problem?
bj-21.
Nov 5, 2008 | 7:48 pm
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Nov 17, 2008 | 1:54 pm
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It's not fine for me.
For several days the ads on the right side of the page block some of the message when opened from MyFlyertalk.
It is annoying, to say the least. If I want to read the whole post, I have to reply to it and then cancel out
For several days the ads on the right side of the page block some of the message when opened from MyFlyertalk.
It is annoying, to say the least. If I want to read the whole post, I have to reply to it and then cancel out
Nov 17, 2008 | 2:09 pm
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not for me using both firefox and safari but i do see them when i go to edit some of my posts......i cannot use the "simple edit" as the ad blocks the edit window and i must use "go advanced" to be able to see my post completely to edit it
Nov 17, 2008 | 9:50 pm
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Mary,
Last night, for the first time since I posted above that the problem was gone, it happened again, when I signed in to FT. Don't know what brought it back, as I hadn't changed any of the settings on my pc. But I tried refreshing the page (took two attempts) and that brought it back to normal. If you haven't tried that yet, give it a try. May not help, but it worked for me.
bj-21.
Last night, for the first time since I posted above that the problem was gone, it happened again, when I signed in to FT. Don't know what brought it back, as I hadn't changed any of the settings on my pc. But I tried refreshing the page (took two attempts) and that brought it back to normal. If you haven't tried that yet, give it a try. May not help, but it worked for me.
bj-21.
