zeph Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I find the ad's here are very distracting. I know their a necessary part of running a business but some of these ads are aren't relative at all. I'm new here and have little opinion, but the ads with Java script, or motion, are the worst, football..? come on, we're paying customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janc Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I am agreed with Zeph, we are paying customers. Usually these ad's are displaying for non paying customers but when we pay our pages should be free of this annoying ad's. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aginbyte Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Hate to complain, but this is the worst ad. When one is trying to concentrate on an image for a critique, there is this horrible ad with annoying, meaningless, repititious movement. Please have them cancel this ad as inappropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_t Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 The worst I've seen so far is the "anti spyware deluxe which puts up a pseudo-Windows dialog box that says, "your computer may be infected with spyware, click here." I thought those types of borderline fraudulent advertisements were only found on certain types of websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reprint Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 There are ads breaking through that I do not think are intended to be shown on the site. The anti spyware one is surely one. I am sure Josh will prod the ad company back into compliance. It is the weekend so usually the fix comes the following working week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mharris Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I must be lucky, I've never seen one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Ads are here and they aren't going anywhere. However, there shouldn't be any "pop up boxes" warning you of anything. Can someone please create a screenshot of this next time you see it? It really helps in tracking down the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I just used IE 6 without any ad blockers to view photo.net and didn't get any pop-ups or see any ads at all, for that matter. I rarely use IE at all and was surprised to see no ads whatsoever. I wasn't even logged in. Normally when I've used IE to view photo.net without logging in I see ads. This time, nuttin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reprint Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Josh, Lex is right. That will kill your revenue given the majority have IE. Only seen the pop up ad once last night with Firefox. Hasn't reoccured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim_Lookingbill Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I'm a paying member and I sometimes get black boxes placed over ads in particular the CaptureOne ads. Is that suppose to happen? And what's really annoying now is this ad that loop animates a shoulder/head shot of some Dallas football coach I recognize but can't recall the name. There's no copy or headline just two team logos and the coach panning across the ad box over and over. I've gotten the spyware "scan your computer" pop-up that shows up looking like a system generated dialog box asking you to click "Cancel" or "OK". Clicking cancel still takes you to another site. This didn't happen here at PNet but at someone's MySpace blog linked from the Adobe Forums Lounge. I quit my browser-( Safari v1.3.2 with pop-up blocker turned on ) before it took me to that ad's page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Weird. Just as an experiment I logged out and browsed the site with Firefox. No ad blocking or pop-up blocking software. I'm still not seeing any ads. No banner ads. No sidebar ads. No pop-ups. Nuttin'. Dunno, mebbe the OS has an influence. I know the first version of WinXP was notoriously vulnerable to phony pop-ups disguised as official looking Microsoft warnings. FWIW, I'm using an old PIII with WinME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reprint Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Lex, with firefox i see the ads. just not with IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 How odd all around. I'm going to have to ask the ad people to check on all the ad presentations. As they seems to be being wacky. Of course it always happens on a weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I can't get rid of the "spyware" ad. It will not be cancelled and I can't get it to close so I can get it off of my computer... Help! I don't know how to get it to you, Josh. The content won't copy and paste and it just shows up in a small box.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I'm not seeing any top banner ads, but I'm seeing the usual ads in the right colum and in the footer. (Wind XP Pro, IE6) Pat - just power down your PC if you can't turn it off. Rebeooting should take care of the ad, though if you have adware on your computer it may well come back. To capture it press "Shift-Print Screen" to copy the screen, then paste the result in any image editor and save it as a JPEG file which you can upload. If you're using windows and don't have an image editor, you can just use the "paint" program which is in all Windows installations I suspect the spyware popup ad isn't coming from photo.net even though it may popup when you are viewing photo.net. Any of the sites you've visited in the past could be responsible for a spyware popup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Pat, that sounds very much like the notorious and annoyingly persistent problem that plagues the first version of WinXP. As soon as you get on the internet with that version of WinXP you'll be bombarded with dozens, hundreds, of variations of pop-ups looking like fake Microsoft warnings. The first solution is to get the bug fix from Microsoft. If I'm recalling correctly, the best way to deal with that particular annoyance is to move the box where it doesn't block the screen. Don't try to close it because another will pop up in its place. Move it off screen, then get the patch from Microsoft. Once you've done that, reboot and that particular type of pop-up will be banished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim_Lookingbill Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Correction on the PhaseOne CaptureOne ad black box issue. It's not that they get covered up by a black box it's just the animation stops and nothing plays after a while leaving a black box that is part of the design of the ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mharris Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 I'm also Firefox and in all the time I've been here I have never seen a pop-up ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 I have all of the security that I think I need and the only place that I had visited when the crazy spyware ad came up was here. I did go through the computer and work it out and I rebooted. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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