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  • 27-01-2015 1:15pm
    #1
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I just opened the "Photo Challenge" forum and the advert at the bottom of the page started playing at full volume.

    Luckily I'm at home but had I been somewhere quiet or at work this would have been very embarrasing.

    I've never had this happen on boards before. Is it a new policy? Sites that play adverts with sound automatically are a huge bug bear of mine and if boards is adopting it as policy I suspect I will be using it a lot less.

    So just to sum up my feedback: Please do not have sound automatically engaged on the advertisements. It is very annoying.
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    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    We've been looking at this all morning, it is absolutely a hard no for us from our ads, but tracking it down isn't easy. Can you supply any links if you see one again so we can weed them out?


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    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    No it is not a new policy at all. We noticed a couple of them here in the office over the past hour or so and are trying to track them down to kill them - we don't like them either!

    How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site



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    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I just got an audio ad for Durex skin-on-skin condoms in the computer Building & Upgrading forum of all places, and initially I couldn't even figure out where the damn sound was coming from!

    Definitely would make boards a no-go area for work! (I need sound in work...thankfully at home this morning).


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    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    I had a lot of tabs open so it took me a while to find it. But it was definitely on the "Photo Challenge" main page.

    I can't remember what the first ad was for - might have been washing powder of some type.

    An ad for Nurofen for Kids was playing (with sound) by the time I found the tab.

    That's really all the info I have!!! SOrry.


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    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    A dettol ad and then an airline ad started on me with sound there about 5 mins ago....sorry missed the link it did pop-up in the address bar when I clicked on the ad but I missed it...


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    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Got these three times in the last 5 mins, lucky I had my headphones plugged in, the volume is up full on them!!


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    #8
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Getting them on the AH homepage.

    s1.postimg.org/hby8dfycv/aa1.png


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    #9
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Got an 11 minute ad when I edited a post: link on ad.

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    copied a link on top of the ad: link


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    #10
    _Jumper_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭_Jumper_


    Why are the wrong type of ads a constant problem?

    Can ye not crack some skulls with the ad crowd? Play liam Neeson down the phone to them or something!


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    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,726 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Just put Gordon on to them, they'd stop quick-smart.


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    sammyjo90
    Registered Users Posts: 13,161 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    just got one there too


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    _Jumper_ wrote: »
    Why are the wrong type of ads a constant problem?

    Can ye not crack some skulls with the ad crowd? Play liam Neeson down the phone to them or something!


    The ad-crowd (or at least part of it), is Google. They're kinda bigger than boards and hard to ring up. Individual advertisers have to be banned.


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    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    "Nurofen" is a another.


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    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    To be honest - if ads like this can sneak onto Boards, there's little stopping ads with malware sneaking on either; this is why I use AdBlock, as it actually protects you from malware.

    If a site doesn't have strict control over the ads that are shown, then it's not really fair on the site users to put them at risk of potential malware; there is precedent of this with AdSense.


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