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druidcent wrote:...the ad about e-cigs being as bad as cigarettes ...
paulWTAMU wrote:sorry but the video ads made turn on adblock for this site. The autoplay with full audio in particular. If thye could at least not make so much damn noise!
paulWTAMU wrote:sorry but the video ads made turn on adblock for this site. The autoplay with full audio in particular. If thye could at least not make so much damn noise!
homerdog wrote:This will be a neverending battle until the video ads are removed. Some damn "Sekindo" (I think) video+audio ad just started playing, scared the hell out of me. Before it crashed Shockwave again across all tabs... Can't believe TR has fallen to such lows. I literally can't leave TR open and leave my PC any more. It will crash Shockwave 100% of the time. No other website I visit does this.
localhostrulez wrote:homerdog wrote:This will be a neverending battle until the video ads are removed. Some damn "Sekindo" (I think) video+audio ad just started playing, scared the hell out of me. Before it crashed Shockwave again across all tabs... Can't believe TR has fallen to such lows. I literally can't leave TR open and leave my PC any more. It will crash Shockwave 100% of the time. No other website I visit does this.
You don't literally mean Shockwave, do you? I haven't had that installed in years, nor do I put it in the images I build (even Java gets included, for the sake of making things easier on users). Only ever used it for some online games as it was.
I will say that I don't block TR's ads and things are totally fine here, BUT I block 3rd party cookies and Flash is click-to-play. Too many sites that use Flash to annoy me, too few that use it for anything else. (Unfortunately, those automatic video non-ad players are slowly migrating to html5 video, and I haven't found a way to block that yet.) If it weren't for the occasional site that needs it, I would disable Flash entirely (I already uninstalled it for Firefox). The ads that don't use Flash (which are welcome on my machine - a lot of them on TR are this way actually) generally aren't a problem. Sooner or later I may subscribe though.
tanker27 wrote:just had the scroll issue: Page loaded then zoomed to the bottom for a Kaiser Permanente ad. Could scroll up had to reload.
Google Chrome 43.0.2357.81
Win 8.1 64bit
morphine wrote:steelcity_balin, let's just say that technical acumen in the advertising world is... not a priority.
homerdog wrote:I now run a plugin in Chrome called Flashcontrol which has solved all my TR problems and made my browsing much faster to boot. I think TR still gets more money from me than they every did from ads via subscription.
I.S.T. wrote:Update the plugin, they ain't blocking it when you do. PS: It gives TR ad moneyz.
Glorious wrote:Marketing is bad when it runs engineering, so when marketing runs marketing...