annoying video ads

[Retired Member southey]

Then there isn't any issue then, the ads are only there for non members, I think non full members still may get some. But Full members only get the eBay and amazon search boxes in som forums.

 

[woodspirits]

southey thats it! bit disciminately weird huh?

 

[Retired Member southey]

Haha, its a source of small revenue For the site to help with server costs.

 

[ged]

...as soon as i log in i get some respite, dont know how that works? ...

It's just what the site has been programmed to do.

ged ... as i read your post several words were green with a double underline linking to something ...

Apparently the vBulletin software has chosen to link adverts to words that I typed in my post. It's obviously nothing that I've done. I find it offensive.

...there was a video playing...

I hate it when that happens. If it did that to me, I'd promptly walk away.

i downloaded the free MBAM, it didnt show any issues and it hasnt solved the problem so i will try 'ad block'. funny thing is, it only happens here on BCUK?

It looks as if everything is doing what it's been programmed to do. Whether one likes it or not is another matter.

 

[woodspirits]

thanks for your help guys, looks like i'll have to log in immediately then. pity about the non members though

 

[rik_uk3]

Google Chrome with Ad Blocker keeps them away

Tut Tut Shewie you are not to talk about adblock and other ad blockers as they completely remove adverts. Removing the adverts is frowned upon and I would never advocate or recommend people downloading something like adblock plus to remove adverts.

Re: Malwarebytes, CC Cleaner et al. They are worth having on your machine and I give them a run sometimes but since installing Microsoft Security Essentials they find nothing; MSE is doing a grand job so in all honesty they rarely get used if I tell the truth.

 

[Mesquite]

thanks for your help guys, looks like i'll have to log in immediately then. pity about the non members though

All the more reason for them to join then

 

[woodspirits]

ahh, perhaps admin has a crafty plan!

 

[johnboy]

I get nothing on my iPad....

Nothing on my home machine running Firefox with Adblock installed ( logged in or out)

If I run my laptop with Firefox without Adblock the forum becomes a bit of a different beast all of the animated adverts and hyperlinked keywords in posts and the ad sometimes encroaches on the initial post in a thread....

 

[Tony]

Non signed in people get ads, so if you look at the site and are not signed in then that's what you'll see, if you're logged in you see very little, we have a huge amount of traffic to the site that isn't members and they see the ads.

I'll have a look at the video ads as having delays like that for anyone isn't good.

Sometimes the adverts are US based, which considering nearly 60% of the traffic to bcuk is US based isn't a bad thing.
Over the coming weeks we'll fine tune things.

 

[woodspirits]

thanks for the explanation tony, all well now i sign in straight away