Advertising issues -- mobile popups
 

Something for PPRuNe management to consider:

In the past I have been happy to view unobtrusive advertising. The recent change to the board has unfortunately resulted in advertising that plays audio that I can't stop and that intrudes on my browsing (I can hear it even if I have PPRuNe open in the background.)

Report any ads that have audio autoplay. They are not allowed, and must be manually overridden by us.

Ok, will do.

Another advertising problem - today my computer froze (using Win7 / IE11) due to a slow, buffering advert. I think that https://s0.2mdn.net/ads/richmedia/st...33/index.html? was the offending item?

Can we PLEASE have the 'NoAds' style back - I'm getting fed up with advertising slowing down PPRuNe page loading / scrolling on a 70Mbps Internet connection....

Me too.
One opens a page and it's like waiting for a group of schoolchildren to find their seats before one can proceed.
Painful.

I have been experiencing very disruptive ads when browsing PPRuNe on my mobile. Once a thread loads the page redirects to an ad which appears to spoof a google website and threatens that my handset is infected with a virus.

Of course I know a spoof ad when I see one, my two issues with them are:
1) Pressing back on the ad either loads a redirect that takes you back to the ad, or closes the tab completely. I can't go back to the thread I was reading as the script which loads the ad seems to also close the tab with the forum thread in it!
2) The ads abuse javascript popups and the vibrate API in HTML5. Yes, these dreadful popups actually make my phone vibrate loudly until I close the tab!

Ad domains change all the time but most recently I have seen ads from
lp.want-to-win.com
secure.mobieblitz.com

Very annoying and I hope to see the admins take steps to remove them.

More annoying intrusive mobile ads today from the mobieblitz.com domain. Hope the admins can blacklist offenders.

Will look into this one thank you!

A screen shot would help a lot.

Cheers. I'll try for a screenshot next time, for what it's worth here is the popup url which quickly redirects to that mobieblitz domain.

tulpaserv.com/sf6/beatbanner/MDAzc1FoQnp6Z045bklDMy9KS1E5UzlMV3BhcmRWSFkxNzVrZFcrNmJKdDhP cW1Xc0cvSWZNbjQxNUNZdFRoVA==?cl=5fqnaXdkP&af=bipt&ext1=5041& ext2=5fqnaXdkP-R

^ thank you for that

The following ads are autoplaying audio:

Mitsibishi End of Year Sale.
Energiser Battery.

Both Australian ads.

And another one about a Windows 10 device. English accent. I'm disinclined to click to find the exact advertiser as that will only encourage the bastards.

Another for American Express and one for Spirit of Tasmania.

tiltedkilt.com

An ad for PS4 - American accent.

Edit - it links to www.playstation.com

Bridgestone, Mitsubishi, American Express and Ebay. Oh, and some crowd advertising flavoured popcorn.
Most annoying!

Another autoplay audio: mccain.ca

Mods,

A couple more 'autoplay' pop-up ads on the mobile version of PPRuNe here in North America, which necessitate exiting the app. The culprit is "go [dot] goonmobi [dot] com"

Imgur link 1
Imgur link 2

Cheers,
I/C

Autoplay: BFGoodrich: Tires for Cars, Trucks, Pickups, Off-Road, Competition and More

And here's another one with autoplay: staples.ca

What's really annoying about these ads is that they will start playing, regardless of whether the pprune tab is active or not.

Invasive Advertising
 

This has now got so bad when accessing the site from abroad on my phone that pprune has become completely unusable.

Each page will load for c. 5 seconds, and then I'll be taken to some woeful bit of dodgy advertising for virus software, or a free phone, or a longer penis - two of which I don't need.

The adverts are so invasive that they won't let you click back to the page you were on. So then you have to re-load pprune and the whole thing happens again.

This is a serious flaw and it's time for management to stop accepting money from advertisers who are clearly attempting to illicitly make gains from users. No legitimate advertiser could operate in this way.

It only happens on a mobile browser, not on a pc. As far as I know, there isn't a blocker you can use for safari. If anyone knows of one please let me know!