ablender
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Post by ablender on Mar 21, 2016 0:58:04 GMT
Is it only me or is there anyone else who is annoyed by adverts that suddenly start blaring out of the speakers. To add insult to injury, I cannot find a way to stop the advert from playing except by clicking on it which will immediately open a new tap and take me to the advertised item, something that I did not intend to do.
Moderators / Administrators, can you do something about this please?
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registerme
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Post by registerme on Mar 21, 2016 2:58:58 GMT
Interesting, I've not seen (well I mean heard) an audio advert on this site, and I don't run any kind of blocker. As to "doing something about it", I suspect we are limited in what we can do - Proboards provides free forum hosting precisely because of the advertising revenue generated.
Individually though people can install something like Adblock (for Chrome, there are bound to be equivalents for Firefox etc).
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ablender
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Post by ablender on Mar 21, 2016 6:26:36 GMT
Interesting, I've not seen (well I mean heard) an audio advert on this site, and I don't run any kind of blocker. As to "doing something about it", I suspect we are limited in what we can do - Proboards provides free forum hosting precisely because of the advertising revenue generated. Individually though people can install something like Adblock (for Chrome, there are bound to be equivalents for Firefox etc). Here is an example: Anyone can suggest an Adblocker for Safari on Mac - Found it. This works fantastically. It removes all ads, audio or not.
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ablender
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Post by ablender on Mar 21, 2016 17:04:27 GMT
How come at the top of the forum pages you are displaying:
"Please consider supporting this website by disabling your ad-blocker.
This website does not use audio ads, popups, or other annoyances. Thank you!"
Are you sure that you are not using audio ads?
Look at my previous entry with an image of a video ad. Do you think that these are silent videos or has there been a change?
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bigfoot12
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Post by bigfoot12 on Mar 21, 2016 17:08:06 GMT
On firefox Ctrl-M mutes a tab, whilst still allowing sound on other tabs. I imagine there are similar controls on other browsers
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ablender
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Post by ablender on Mar 21, 2016 19:11:25 GMT
Thanks bigfoot12 , did not know that. I'll look up for a similar function for Safari. It seems I need to update my Safari to version 9. |
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brin
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Post by brin on Mar 21, 2016 20:21:40 GMT
hello ablender, i must admit i have not seen any ads that even move, i probably need to pay a bit more attention, as for noise, my volume is always off unless i WANT to hear something.  ps. i wonder if its the fact that i only get 1 meg. |
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Post by bigfoot12 on Apr 16, 2016 7:45:41 GMT
On firefox Ctrl-M mutes a tab, whilst still allowing sound on other tabs. I imagine there are similar controls on other browsers I'm quite impressed with this feature. p2pindi is still muted, from over 3 weeks ago, but other tabs still have sound, this is despite numerous reboots and a firefox upgrade.
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