far-too-regular massive pop up

SUroot · January 17th, 2013, 03:32 PM

Anyone else getting a big pop up in the centre of the screen "brought to you by phandroid" advert?

Its happening between threads and subforums. Not with every navigation, but enough to really annoy me.

Xyro · January 17th, 2013, 03:36 PM

Yeah, I've seen two other people mention problems with those ads today, it definitely needs looking in to.

SUroot · January 17th, 2013, 06:02 PM

Not sure if its relevant, but I use chrome.

El Presidente · January 18th, 2013, 01:47 AM

I've noticed it a fair bit over the past day or so too. On phone/tab using Boat/xScope and on the PC using Chrome.

If I've been navigating the site for a while, it's fine; if it's my first visit in a couple of hours, I'll get it for the first couple of subforums I click in to.

breadnatty08 · January 18th, 2013, 03:54 AM

Give AdBlock a shot in Chrome. I never see them at home on my PC but at work, since we don't have the extension installed, I get them from time to time.
Would love to see them gone either way.

JohnB47 · January 18th, 2013, 01:41 PM

Anyone else getting a blank popup from phandroid.com appearing constantly when navigating between posts/threads? It started only recently and doesn't even show an advert.

jonrud · January 18th, 2013, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnB47

Anyone else getting a blank popup from phandroid.com appearing constantly when navigating between posts/threads? It started only recently and doesn't even show an advert.

Yep its a pain in the ass having to delete it each time.

streetkilln · January 18th, 2013, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnB47

Anyone else getting a blank popup from phandroid.com appearing constantly when navigating between posts/threads? It started only recently and doesn't even show an advert.

why are u posting this in note 10 section? are u using a note 10 or just ur pc.

EvanCaerleon · January 18th, 2013, 06:56 PM

Same John grr

Note 10.1

El Presidente · January 18th, 2013, 07:23 PM

Yeah, it's happening on both tabs, phones and PCs for me.

Admin are aware and are looking at it I believe, apologies for the annoyance/inconvenience.

Szadzik · January 18th, 2013, 09:13 PM

Nothing here. Must be a geographii filter.

El Presidente · January 19th, 2013, 02:50 AM

Merged in a thread from the Note 10.1 forums discussing this.

SUroot · January 19th, 2013, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Szadzik

Nothing here. Must be a geographii filter.

A what now?

Xyro · January 19th, 2013, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SUroot

A what now?

Geographical filter.

SUroot · January 19th, 2013, 08:11 AM

Could be, we're all in the UK who have seen them

**Phases** · January 22nd, 2013, 12:47 PM

Is this still being seen?

SUroot · January 22nd, 2013, 12:49 PM

I've not been using a desktop so often since. I'll let you kno

**Phases** · January 22nd, 2013, 12:52 PM

Ok.

El Presidente · January 22nd, 2013, 01:14 PM

I've not noticed it for a couple of days.

Frisco · January 23rd, 2013, 04:56 PM

Have not seen any of the obtrusive ads in Firefox (on Netrunner) with AdBlock+.

SUroot · January 24th, 2013, 05:43 AM

Can confirm I've not seen it the last couple of days

El Presidente · January 30th, 2013, 11:44 AM

Just had this twice, once when opening the main page, then again when I clicked in to SB&F to report it.

On the tab, using Xscope, same on my phone too.

Hadron · January 31st, 2013, 12:29 PM

Had it this morning, naked browser. Same pattern, did it on opening the site, and on moving to a subforum.

D-U-R-X · January 31st, 2013, 12:49 PM

Had the same this morning at work... logged on and had it on the first 2 or 3 new windows I opened too!

zoonie · February 3rd, 2013, 03:32 AM

I get them all the time almost every time I log on! I use my sgs2 ics and it's the same on my galaxy tab2 7.0 jb! Getting annoying now it's quite hard trying to hit the little x to close it with my fat fingers! Yesterday (2/2/13) I had to close the browser to get rid of it on my tab! I use boat browser on my tab and ics+ on my sgs2

breadnatty08 · February 3rd, 2013, 05:37 AM

Zoonie, are you in the UK?
You can always give Tapatalk a shot on your mobile devices. No ads there.

Hadron · February 3rd, 2013, 05:49 AM

I find that zooming out is essential to be able to close these things on the phone (and I only get them on the phone, probably because I'm running ad-blockers on my laptop). If I try without zooming out it's a moving target - scroll to where the box should be and it redraws elsewhere.

zoonie · February 16th, 2013, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dreadnatty08

Zoonie, are you in the UK?
You can always give Tapatalk a shot on your mobile devices. No ads there.

Yes im in the UK and thank you i will check out tapatalk!

These popup adverts are getting worse!

Sorry guys this is a great web site and there are plenty of ads already floating about! There is really NO NEED for these massive popup adverts it is spoiling the whole site for everyone!

Its very difficult to get rid of them on a small touch screen like my tab2 7.0 its even worse on my galaxy s2!

Come on site owners stop these horrible popups pleeeeeease!

Xyro · February 16th, 2013, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoonie

Yes im in the UK and thank you i will check out tapatalk!

These popup adverts are getting worse!

Sorry guys this is a great web site and there are plenty of ads already floating about! There is really NO NEED for these massive popup adverts it is spoiling the whole site for everyone!

Its very difficult to get rid of them on a small touch screen like my tab2 7.0 its even worse on my galaxy s2!

Come on site owners stop these horrible popups pleeeeeease!

On that note, we did very recently release our own branded version of tapatalk, available here. Ours is free but includes an ad at the bottom, whereas tapatalk is paid but does not display any ads.