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 #906974  by boatsmate
 
This has been very agravating to me as It was going directly to the add every time I came to the web site (rr.net) and needed to go back about 10 times before I could even look at the site.. I understand the need for advertising but this is getting bad.... please tell me how to make it stop bofore I just delete the site completly


Capt Bill
 #908067  by GOLDEN-ARM
 
ads? what ads? you are running firefox, with adblock plus, arent you? i see no ads at all here, or anywhere else, if i dont want to. ads only slow you down....... :P
 #908078  by 3rdrail
 
It's a royal pain. If you leave a page, you often get those dopey idiots in your face again. I hope the company is reading my post: Trust me that when I tell you that because of your obnoxiousness, I would no sooner engage your product than I would turn into Britney Spears. I want to punch that geeky kid with no cheeks !
 #955963  by Jeff Smith
 
This bugs me, too. I think sometimes, if you have a laptop, it's the sensitivity of the touch pad near were you (w)rest your wrist.

I don't know if it's an issue with Google Analytics or not. I know the ads are a pain, but the developer has to pay the bills. I won't advocate getting ad-blocker for obvious reasons out in the main threads, and they don't really bother me that much.

Thanks for your patience.
 #956982  by umtrr-author
 
Somewhat OT since it doesn't pertain to this site in particular, but I have noticed an uptick in the aggressiveness of ads, especially pop-unders and screen-fillers.

One in particular cannot be exited; a hard shutdown of IE8 is needed. Yes, I should probably switch back to Firefox...
 #957228  by MEC407
 
I hear ya'. When I visit railpictures.net, often there are pop-ups / pop-unders that come up (even though I have Firefox's pop-up blocker enabled), and if I attempt to close them it either spawns another pop-up or brings up a dialog box asking me if I'm really sure that I want to close it, and if I click OK, sometimes yet another dialog box will come up. Unbelievably annoying. Who in their right mind would actually purchase a product or service from a company that uses that type of advertising tactic?

At least the banner ads here on railroad.net aren't ambushing us!
 #1046565  by 25Hz
 
I have a huge issue with pop-up ads as on ios there are no ad blockers. The ad opens an additional browser window, and if you have all 8 allotted windows it will take over and close one of those windows. This would affect iPad & iPod touch as well as all iPhone models. This is a real problem, please fix?
 #1046594  by charlie6017
 
25Hz wrote:I have a huge issue with pop-up ads as on ios there are no ad blockers. The ad opens an additional browser window, and if you have all 8 allotted windows it will take over and close one of those windows. This would affect iPad & iPod touch as well as all iPhone models. This is a real problem, please fix?
Good luck, my friend..........

Charlie
 #1046700  by MEC407
 
25Hz wrote:I have a huge issue with pop-up ads as on ios there are no ad blockers. The ad opens an additional browser window, and if you have all 8 allotted windows it will take over and close one of those windows. This would affect iPad & iPod touch as well as all iPhone models. This is a real problem, please fix?
Are you using Safari on your iOS device? You might try using a different web browser, such as Opera, which is available for iOS and Android. I use it on my phone and it works quite well. It's also very fast and does a great job of reducing my data consumption without affecting the quality or usability of the sites I visit.

http://www.opera.com/mobile/