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Aaaaarrrgghhh :mad:
Quite often when I am browsing the web, I like to listen to streamed radio, or maybe some of my own music, stored locally on my machine.
These adverts on VDR, (top right corner) are ruining my surfing of this great site. Every link to every post just starts the adverts over and over.
How can I make it stop
That is what is paying for the upkeep and maintenance of the site.
Been here so long, I do not even pay much attention to the ads, except to laugh now and then.
edited by admin: please keep ad blocking discussion off the forum, thanks
Hi,
Just want to apologise for the rant, and for the sake of clarity I am not against adverts per se (I do understand that they are necessary for funding purposes).
I had not noticed before that the adverts contained sound, now that I have noticed, I find them to be annoying (the sound element that is).
SpywareDr, I will try what you have suggested and appreciate your input. Is it possible to be selective as to what sites I'd want to disable Java, or indeed what sites I may want to apply adblock to? Please excuse my ignorance.
Many thanks
Tech
To techallenged - It appears we need to refrain from any further discussion on this particular topic. Sorry.
To admin - I humbly apologize. Didn't mean to step on anyone's toes.
No worries, Doc, I don't think it's ever come up here before.
Well I guess I'd better apologise as well
sorry spywaredr for getting you into trouble.
and sorry admin for bringing up an inappropriate subject, all I wanted to do was try and point out that the sound in the adverts was annoying. Guess the fix will have to be not to listen to anything (via pc) and turn the volume down on the pc when surfing vdr and other sites where the sound is distracting.
No problem, but I think those ads also have a mute button to mute the sound.
They do, but once you go to another page (withing vdr), or click on reply, and then maybe preview, and then post reply, each time it resets the ad and you have to mute it every time.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
It must be me and some settings I have if I'm the only one to notice it (or find it irritating), but nevertheless, lets call this one resolved.
Turn off the speakers.
Easy fix.
But then how does Techallenged listen to his music? There really ought to be a global setting to turn off the sound, it would annoy me too.
hmmm. Me no hear any sounds on this site...
I never have either. :confused:
But is that because we are using those things that we are forbidden to discuss? ;)
I am not.
IE 6 and it has not been doctored either.
Me either...I did hear sounds on a sister site last month from an ad. It was a Text to Speech ad...
Not wanting to drag this out, but it's only the one advert here on vdr (it links to http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/designedforbig/) and I only heard it for the first time for about a half hour before I originally posted.
The sound (or music) is I beleive about 5 to 10 secs and I think is from a space odyssey, the bit with the hefty drums!!!
Now I just logged on here and no music.. start to feel paranoid!! but notice a new ad has replaced the MSone above, the new ad is http://www.mobilecontentstrategies.com/ and does not contain any sound, happy days... but no, the MS ad has returned along with the music after I'd moved to reply.
I agree with what Supersparks said about having a global setting for the sound, it would be ideal.
Anyway, like I've said if it can't be fixed (other than the unmentionables) then off with the speakers and on with the fm radio, not the preferred fix, but one that can work for me.
And on the subject of unmentionables, someone better edit my post (April 13th, 2008 01:47 PM) to remove a certain product mentioned ... thank you all
:cool:
Unfortunately I have no idea how that could be done, logistically. The adverts belong to different advertisers, are not hosted on our servers, and so I don't see any way to put a global anything that would affect any aspect of their display.
No Probs JP, I wouldn't have a clue if it could be done or not, suffice to say that if it could, it would be good.
An ad should not be playing sound without some sort of action on the viewer's part (your part). This might be a mouse over event, but if your mouse doesn't go over the ad, then then it should be as quiet as a mouse.
Joe - If ads are playing automatically, as in with no action, please report these to banners and cc' me on the report. My understanding (which could be wrong) is that we try to avoid ads that play sound automatically.
Brad!
Brad - please see this thread:
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=230061
The problem is, Brad, I never see these ads because they appear to be targeted to the UK. Those of you who are experiencing this issue, if you can grab a screenshot or save the source code when these ads come up, it will help me to know which adds to report. Thanks
Dont know if this is of any use but, right clicking and selecting settings shows ds.serving-sys.com (host server? )
screenshots of the ad are attached
No interaction is required for the sound to start
Glad to see I'm not the only one suffering this, I was starting to get paranoid :D
hope this is of use
Try adding the following three lines to your HOSTS file:Code:
127.0.0.1 ds.serving-sys.com
127.0.0.1 bs.serving-sys.com
127.0.0.1 datacapture.serving-sys.com