A Very Irritating Advertisement Panel Down the Right Side of Screen
 

Anyone else getting this or have my browser settings taken on a mind of their own? Really don't want a panel of Google ads. taking up 25% of the screen, shove them at the bottom perhaps?:confused:

Get FireFox with adblocker plus....That'll cure it....:ok:

Yes, that extra side panel has started appearing on my computer as well.

So, if you leave 'Favorites' open in IE6 - and now have this panel cluttering up the right hand side, the available screen area becomes unacceptably small.

Yes, I know the geeks can use Godzilla or whatever it's called, but the website should be compatible with the most widely used browser, Internet Explorer 6.

Currently, without the 'Favorites' panel open, contributors' text occupies only 50% of screen width; with 'Favorites' open, that shrinks to only 31%..... When PPRuNe loads a forum, only 9.5% of the available screen area is now devoted to thread content, the rest is either advertising, the 'welcome' bar or white space - and that's without the 'Favorites' panel open.....:\

I hate it + ignore the ads even more now.

Annoying and not necessary. It takes up 20% of the screen. Please remove it !!!

A HOSTS file - Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File - dispenses with many ads as a side benefit of its primary purpose of keeping nasty stuff off your computer.

I wonder how long it will take before the ads cover most of the screen and the latest crash theory is listed in a narrow box?
Seriously this is a retrograde step for pprune and it will annoy all the regular readers.Can anyone suggest a way of blocking it?

I have just had a look using IE6 :yuk::yuk: I run firefox and I don't see any ads. :ok:

The sidebar ads are indeed a new IB initiative.

As I use FF with Adblocker they don't appear - for now. I guess that when the side position is sold like the banner ads, then it'll be a different story.

Yes, but it makes your posts very ugly!

SD

Good idea with the ad shifter hahaha

May need to add it to all or into the signatures?

How about that as a little protest? that in all our signatures? :ok::p

hehehehe Nice work with Paint there "BEagle" :ok::D:D:}

Thank you - I've just downloaded the latest version of Adblock Plus and it's solved the problem. :ok:

Perhaps not surprisingly, page loading is also faster.

But I also heed SD's comment - measures and counter-measures will probably follow! :hmm:

I'm using Firefox, and have just had the problem. It is very annoying and is very intrusive. It might be alright for the corporation that owns PPRUNE and their geeks who showed this to management sitting back in an airconditioned office with big computer screens. Sure it looks OK then.

But in the real world of PPRUNE, we log on from all sorts of places and (my guess is) many of these are not good, with no big screen, and where this new 25% loss of the screen is affecting the quality badly. I'm on a laptop today, with a torch in my mouth because the lights have failed. I actually want to read PPRUNE without that interference. I can't load all the various PCs I use with cute adblocker software (I'm lucky to get an internet connection let alone anything cute). Time to protest.

What about a poll of our views? - or is that forbidden by corporate headquarters.

Let me at least write to the current advertisers on my screen - fatloss4idiots, pilotswatches and findapilot saying that I will try very hard not to let anyone use their services in the meantime.

Download Adblock plus and put it in your add ons. The Ads will be gone....

Using 'no script', PPPuNe. org is permitted, all other urls ie the advertising ones such as Google syndication, internetbrands.com etc are blocked.

I've got it, using Opera, going to have to do something about it soon.

Thank you for the adblocker tip,pprune is now back to normal!

I'm on OE. They were there - now they've gone!

adblocker works a treat - don't forget to type in the website in the options part of adblocker

You have to configure it, add a filter to tell it what to block. And ensure it is on. Neither is difficult. Use the Help.

SD

Where should I place Google ads on my pages?



The best location for Google ads varies from page to page, depending on content. Here are a few questions to ask yourself when considering where to position your ads:

• What is the user trying to accomplish by visiting my site?
• What do they do when viewing a particular page?
• Where is their attention likely to be focused?
• How can I integrate ads into this area without getting in the users' way?
• How can I keep the page looking clean, uncluttered and inviting?

Doh:ugh:

Reminds of a Frank Zappa line in one of his songs: "remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over"

But I digress: in terms of number of ads pprune is getting a bit like A.NET, which I stopped looking at because of their plethora of ads - discreet and well placed works better for me and, I suspect most surfers.

Thanks to Adblocker Plus its now normal service resumed
Cheers to everyone suggesting its use

I see Google is doing an impressive job getting users to switch from IE to FF :ok:

Just downloaded adblocker to firefox......... Nice to have the full size page back again... Not impressed with the ads especially as i generally browse from my phone!

Mutt

A tip by Ozzy on a similar thread in Jet Blast:

http://www.pprune.org/4399928-post36.html

- seems to work fine, no extra software, should work with all browsers.

The only thing I've noticed is a slight delay on going to the new posts (while the server tries without success to find the ads).

Slightly intrusive but the ads do pay towards keeping Pprune going so it's no real cause for complaint in my opinion. :)

Thank you Tocsin:ok:

Well, it looks as though my technique for shifting this advertising crap has been deleted by the Stasi......

'Slightly' intrusive it isn't - it's amateur and infuriating. As the parallel thread on Jet Blast makes only too clear.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...rnet/zxzxz.jpg

IE7Pro and Adblock Pro both do for IE7 what Adblock does for Firefox.

FBW

Thanks FBW - IE7Pro installed and working well!

So it does, However, The advertisers and Forum owners (not just this one) don't seem to get the idea that people hate obtrusive advertising. Hence the invention of and universal use of Adblockers.
It seems pointless designing a well laid out forum and then sticking something like that awful google side Ad into the equation.

As I said yesterday, but maybe on a different thread, on this machine with the most up to date version of IE, ie IE 6 (a clue :)) there are no side ads. I guess it's possible the system has an ad blocker in place.

Ty Atlas. :)

IE6 the most up-to-date version?

IE7 has been around for quite a while now, and IE8 is in public Beta!

SD

Another :ok: for IEPro (on IE6). NB it wll try to 'seduce' you into changing search and home page preferences.

It's annoying but I've seen worse - good (bad) example is the Honestjohn (sic) website which is lousy with adverts, including popups every time you change thread and, occasionally, they've had the type which creep over what you're trying to read.

Add in the no-pictures, nagging about quoting too much, and claims of poverty, and you really start to appreciate sites like PPRune.

SD, I gave a clue. Some of us are at the trailing edge of technology with IE6 being the most up to date available and no pictures on Pprune or other frivolities.

IE6 has no adblocker built-in.

SD

I like the adverts on the right of the screen, I read them all, and when all read. I go and search for secret pages on BBC ceefax I've not found any to date but if I do I'll post the info.

Daz

I just saw these ads on the right-hand side - Activated my hosts file and they're gone! Yes..:ok: