whats up with the popup ads?

[GoSharks]

just browsing on the forums, and windows are popping up now and then showing a "click here to claim your prize" ad and a big OK button.

whats up with them?

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I have notified Anand about the problem. It may take a few days to get this through to the advertising people.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[AntaresVI]

Its from the "Claim your FREE PRIZE" banner ad that shows in the middle at the top, i think. Can somethign be done?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yes it's from this:
http://servedby.advertising.com/cli...0000036809/genr=1/tkdt=B0P0R1T0/bnum=12345678

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Every time a popup ad appears, an angel gets their wings.

 

[bizmark]

hmm, I was getting that earlier this afternoon too. I thought that it might be another browser window or something, but it was the exact one that you describe.

 

[Banana]

This is getting intolerable!!! I've looked at 6 different pages here (on AT), and I have 6 popups! Five of them are for Strayer Online University, and one is for Debticated.

:|:disgust:

This is the latest attempt to get us to suscribe?

edit: 15 minutes later . . . the popups have stopped . . . Thank you All are lovey-dovey, warm and fuzzy again . . .

 

[Acts837]

I thought one or two was annoying...Every click I had one and two popping up! Give me a break :{

 

[anazoal]

I HATE POP UP ADS.

They have an adverse effect on people's perception of the site they are browsing.

Slow speed... Pop up ads... ...Gonna call it a night on anandtech.com. Hopefully, tomorrow things will have improved.

 

[Drakkon]

getting them here still...asking me "Do you want Free Credit report?" each time i close them another one zooms in from the side....I'd say just about the second most annoying add i have ever scene....apart from the seizure causing ones we used to ahve in the past

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I am getting pop-ups for a free $5.00 love reading from an online psycho... er, psychic, as well as ads for some online University program.

 

[vfrjim]

POP UP ads $uck, I don't mind advertising banners(I do click on them sometimes) but now I have to run a pop up stopper while browsing here too

Jim

 

[Amused]

That's funny. I get no popups at all.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne
That's funny. I get no popups at all.

Maybe you use this excellent browser with builtin popup-stoppers?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Immediate solution is to assign the parent URL to the address 127.0.0.1 in your host file.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: AmusedOne
That's funny. I get no popups at all.

Maybe you use this excellent browser with builtin popup-stoppers?

Took the words right out of my mouth

 

[olds]

What pop ups?

 

[Insidious]

No pop-ups anymore

thank you

PS: sorry 'bout starting the second thread, I didn't pay attention