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04-10-2006, 04:17 PM
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Am I just lucky, or are there other folks here who click on thread posts & are then automatically sent to the stupid TLC Channel full-page advertisement for their stupid new series. Or some other stupid full-page ad that I manage to click off of too fast enough to identify.
Is this site turning into GardenWeb?
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04-10-2006, 04:21 PM
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I haven't had that problem at all. Maybe your accidentally clicking too close to the advertising ribbon for it?
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04-10-2006, 04:26 PM
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Wow, I've never had that happen, Breezy. If it did, I would have been long gone by now.
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04-10-2006, 04:32 PM
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| | Nope, haven't had that trouble either. Maybe you need to run a spyware removal program? I had to run Vundo fix on our machine not too long ago as I had the winfixer thingy again. Geez I hate that one! Popups from he**!
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04-10-2006, 04:50 PM
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#5 | | | | | | | Certified Master Chef
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As soon as I started having the problem, my husband ran our spyware program & didn't find anything.
It's just so odd. I'll click on a thread, & suddenly I'm switched to a full-page ad for that idiotic Learning Channel "We're Killing The Kids" ad, or something else equally stupid.
It's a shame that these advertisers don't realize that a LOT of people - myself included - specifically WON'T view their shows because of their intrusive advertising.
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04-10-2006, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by texasgirl I haven't had that problem at all. Maybe your accidentally clicking too close to the advertising ribbon for it? | More than likely this is the problem because I've done it myself.
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04-10-2006, 05:20 PM
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#7 | | | | | | | Certified Executive Chef
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Originally Posted by BreezyCooking As soon as I started having the problem, my husband ran our spyware program & didn't find anything.
It's just so odd. I'll click on a thread, & suddenly I'm switched to a full-page ad for that idiotic Learning Channel "We're Killing The Kids" ad, or something else equally stupid.
It's a shame that these advertisers don't realize that a LOT of people - myself included - specifically WON'T view their shows because of their intrusive advertising. | Advertising pays for this site when people click on it, so it's not necessarily a bad thing  | | |
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04-10-2006, 05:49 PM
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#8 | | | | | | | Certified Master Chef
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Amber - whether or not advertising pays for the site, it IS a bad thing if it's not mentioned in the FAQ's that we might be inundated with full-page pop-up ads at any moment.
So sorry - that's a BAD thing. The reason I left GardenWeb for. I didn't "click" on anything other than the thread I wanted to read.
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04-10-2006, 08:50 PM
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#9 | | | | | | | Administrator Site Administrator
Profile: Join Date: May 2002 Location: Edmonton, Alberta
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| | Do you have a pop up blocker? Maybe that would help? I honestly have no idea why this would be happening to you. It sounds like an isolated sort of problem, no one else has mentioned it.
Anyone else out there having this trouble?
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04-11-2006, 08:57 AM
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#10 | | | | | | | Certified Master Chef
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I think it IS my pop-up blocker. I'm a TOTAL Techno-Idiiot, so get frustrated easily when things go awry on the computer because I can never fix them.
Then husband comes home, sits down for 10 minutes, & problem is solved.
It hasn't happened yet today, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I had those full-page ads popping up every time I logged on yesterday, & you know how they love to hide the little "x" so you can't readily close them. Yuck.
Oh, & don't get me wrong - I do realize that advertisements allow wonderful free sites such as this, but those full-page pop-ups are just over the top.
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