A Funky Ad in the Darkroom Forum

[pbalko]

<p>Speaking about ads for members and how I successfully cleaned up my machine a few years back, I was confronted by the attached weird looking ad in the Digital Darkroom forum. What got my attention was when the page opened up my cursor jumped to the field at the top of the ad space. Just doesn't feel kosher to me.</p>

<p><a href="../digital-darkroom-forum/00amqe?unified_p=1">http://www.photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00amqe?unified_p=1</a></p>

<p>Links in the ad pointed to: <a href="http://photo.pgpartner.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=958574977">http://photo.pgpartner.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=958574977</a></p>

<p>6:40PM EDT Monday</p><div></div>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Yup, the problem is due to running Firefox with NoScript. This will cause formatting errors and various inconveniences on photo.net and other sites. I was able to duplicate the problem you've illustrated by re-enabling NoScript (which I've disabled on my main PC). Try disabling NoScript. Alternatively you can run it but give individual permissions for each Java Script until the problem is resolved.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that the financial health of websites like photo.net depend on accurate web traffic statistics and other metric. These depend heavily on JavaScript. When visiting a trusted site I'll disable NoScript. In fact I'm not running it at all on my main PC - it's too inconvenient for visiting most news and tech sites since they too rely on scripts and/or Flash for formatting, embedded videos and slide shows, social media connections, reply/comment boxes like the TinyMCE box used here on photo.net.</p>

[pbalko]

<p>Thanks Lex. Sorry for the delay in responding but I'm old, tired and lazy. Mostly lazy. It occurred to me it could be the NS just as I was attaching the image. I've got most of the permissions turned on for Pnet and usually see the sidebar ads normally, except from work where the corporate firewall gives me "cannot display content errors" or some such. It was just this one abberration that threw me for a loop.</p>