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Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 3:18 pm
by finnegan
I am a little stunned that RealGM allows their advertisers to have such amazingly annoying ads that expand to take over your screen, and won't let you click on anything.

If you click to "close" the ad, it opens it half the time. There are ad-blocker plug-ins for IE and Firefox, but sometimes they disable certain features in other tools like email.

I don't know if the powers that be ever peruse forums, but if they do then PLEASE stop these super annoying ads from expanding.

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 3:41 pm
by Fido
Nice Jazz topic. :roll:

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:13 pm
by jazzfan1971
Actually, the powers that be are very sensitive to issues like this. It seems that advertisers sneak them in. There is a constantly updated thread in the mod forum that deals exactly with these issues as teh powers that be continuously try to purge annoying adds from the site.

I understand the level of annoyance, I hate talking ads myself.

Just wanted you to know that it's not something that is being ignored.

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:42 pm
by carrottop12
Cough, firefox, Cough, Cough.

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:00 pm
by finnegan
Fido wrote:Nice Jazz topic. :roll:


Wow. I must have really stepped on your toes.

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:03 pm
by finnegan
Bat wrote:Cough, firefox, Cough, Cough.


FireFox pluggins do work nicely, but then I have to enable flash for every other site I visit.

The ad on NBADraft.net with Kevin Durrant is even more annoying than the M&M ad here.

What are the Marketer's thinking??? That they will annoy you to death into buying their products?

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:27 pm
by DelaneyRudd
M&Ms sound good right about now.

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:29 pm
by Neon Black
Intrusive advertising is on it's way out. Companies that keep embracing it will regret it.

Re: Frickin Flash Banner Ads on RealGM

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 1:16 am
by idajazz
finnegan wrote:
Bat wrote:Cough, firefox, Cough, Cough.


FireFox pluggins do work nicely, but then I have to enable flash for every other site I visit.

The ad on NBADraft.net with Kevin Durrant is even more annoying than the M&M ad here.

What are the Marketer's thinking??? That they will annoy you to death into buying their products?


I use Firefox almost exclusively, I have no problems with with flash.
once in a great while i run across a site or article that doesn't like FF, but that aggravation is a lot less than all the b.s. associated with IE.