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WTF with the XDA Flash advert!!

Just opened up my FF to read XDA and was confronted with a big box Flash ad that covered the forum (the forum underneath was greyed out and ad said it was an XDA advert) . No way to get rid of it, no little box and Adblock didn't give an option so I was forced to either follow the advert or close the browser. Guess what I did. And I will continue to close the browser on XDA permanently if this is the kind of money making garbage that I am confronted with.

Didn't know there were ads running on here... paused AdBlock quickly and what do you know, 30 second page render delay due to some crappy ad!
*turns Adblock extension back on*

buy the premium XDA IF you don't want add's! $1
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starbuck777 said:
buy the premium XDA IF you don't want add's! $1
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I run forums myself so I know the importance of adds. The problem with this one was it locked you in. You either had to click and follow or shut the browser altogether there was no other choice, no way just to close the add. It was like the iffy web sites of a few years ago where everytime you tried to close it would mean you opened another window. Not good practice at all.

I've heard of these before. I've never actually seen one though. Either way, this is in the wrong forum, so I'm moving it.

ive never seen this either

Well I know they exist... I've seen screenies

I started using adblock because greedy forum owners starting using the most annoying adverts ever.
Now you all suffer. Adblock plus ftw

The admins are aware of these and are looking to remove them.

Thank you. I really should have taken a screen shot but at the time I was so annoyed I just closed the browser. If it helps in tracking the ad was for a laptop but unfortunately I cannot remember the make.

Whenever this happens, take a screenshot and send me a PM with the image. We hate pop up ads and want to kill them when they appear.

XFreeRollerX said:
I started using adblock because greedy forum owners starting using the most annoying adverts ever.
Now you all suffer. Adblock plus ftw
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good idea, I'll try

Here it is again but this time with an X so you can close it.

I hate the expanding ads currently :/ Ones that "drop down" when you mouseover and run over the top of the forum menus - i have to wait for ad to bugger off before you can go to subs page etc.
I've got adblock running now, but more than happy to add an exception for xda if the ads stay contained to their box
(premium app user - just so you know i'm genuine about supporting, but not when it actually makes the forums harder to use)

I am PISSED at the XDA

Who else has family dollar adds come up that block the whole effin screen to where you can't see $hit?? And I have yet to find a way to exit them! You have to hit 'refresh' and then 5 hyper link clicks later, you get it again! This is real BS.
If you're pissed to, HELP ME COMPLAIN!!

BravoMotorola said:
Who else has family dollar adds come up that block the whole effin screen to where you can't see $hit?? And I have yet to find a way to exit them! You have to hit 'refresh' and then 5 hyper link clicks later, you get it again! This is real BS.
If you're pissed to, HELP ME COMPLAIN!!
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adblock plus for firefox

If there is one spicific ad causing users a major problem in viewing the site then the admins MIGHT consider removing that particular ad, however the ads are what pay the server costs so.......
Sent from my fingers to your face...

If you are seeing full-screen ads, or any kind of pop-up or overlay, please post a screenshot, as they WILL be removed.

that was really annoying to me too, and I was really surprise that this site would have a pop up ad like that. Then I realize that if the cursor passes over the ad then it will open. You don't have to click on it for it to open, so I don't know if that would be consider a pop up ad.
Like he said the ads are there to pay for the server, but this particular family dollar ad takes it to a different level.
don't navigate the mouse over the ad or else it will open and take up most of the screen. To me that is close to being malicious

simonti said:
that was really annoying to me too, and I was really surprise that this site would have a pop up ad like that. Then I realize that if the cursor passes over the ad then it will open. You don't have to click on it for it to open, so I don't know if that would be consider a pop up ad.
Like he said the ads are there to pay for the server, but this particular family dollar ad takes it to a different level.
don't navigate the mouse over the ad or else it will open and take up most of the screen. To me that is close to being malicious
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Can you get a screenshot and pm it to "svetius" please.

Are you guys logged in when this happens? My settings are such that I log in automatically and I don't get any ads except banner ads that take up only a small part of the screen.

As Pulser said, please send me a screenshot of any pop-up ad you see here. We hate them, and sometimes they slip through the cracks. Thanks for your help.

huntman21014 said:
adblock plus for firefox
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Or chrome (sorry but I hate ads) hope xda still gets the revenue (at least there aren't popups)
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Annoying family dollar add here

here goes a screencap
here goes 1...
and not even the MOST ANNOYING one #familydollar

That's odd.. I've never seen such ads on XDA before.
Why don't you install the AdBlock Extension for Chrome?

babyfacedkayos said:
here goes 1...
and not even the MOST ANNOYING one #familydollar
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Thats Autozone... and there is a large close button in the corner.

slsSpeC said:
That's odd.. I've never seen such ads on XDA before.
Why don't you install the AdBlock Extension for Chrome?
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because i dont want to. i keep my main browser an ad on free zone. i want it as light as possible.

babyfacedkayos said:
because i dont want to. i keep my main browser an ad on free zone. i want it as light as possible.
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You want your browser "light", yet are willing to put up with ads that eat up your bandwidth and can even redirect you to potential security threats?
Yeah, sounds like you've got everything under control. But do please whine some more for us, because everyone automatically respects complaints by someone who gives lame (and probably pure BS) excuses to dismiss the most logical solution to your problems.
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dluther said:
You want your browser "light", yet are willing to put up with ads that eat up your bandwidth and can even redirect you to potential security threats?
Yeah, sounds like you've got everything under control. But do please whine some more for us, because everyone automatically respects complaints by someone who gives lame (and probably pure BS) excuses to dismiss the most logical solution to your problems.
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actually the most logical answer would be to take the offending ads down. ads dont bother me in general and i understand that sites make their $ by serving up ads, so the question is why would u block the very ads that allow this forum 2 exist??
and its not whining, its a pop up ad. its annoying.
it isnt a BS excuse btw. i dont have adblock because i dont want to have it. i dont need to explain or justify myself to you. if the mods agree with me that it is an annoyance we shouldnt have to deal with they will take it down. if they deem it ok, i will still rock out w/ xda as it is a valuable source of info, i will just try harder to not mouse over anything accidentally.
i imagine the ad will eat up my fios bandwith and cripple my internet connection. this isnt 200 w/ 56k anymore man. i run a quadcore w 4gb of ram and have a fiber line to my house. i have this PLENTY under control. its just a lil minor thing. how about you mind your business and move along, keep your criticism to yourself...

the offending ads only maximize when "rolled-over" and as said have a X button in top right of all those type of ads.
however today i installed "ad blocker plus" on firefox and its counterpart "easylist" for IE9 (known as tracking protection lists, in ie add-ons ).
no ads anywhere, in either web browser!

babyfacedkayos said:
here goes 1...
and not even the MOST ANNOYING one #familydollar
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Thank you. We will remove this ad asap.

Am I the only one who doesn't get ANY ad? ....Does it relates from which country I connect to Xda?

For people if they dont see the close button try the combo alt-f4
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Remove Video Adverts Please

I do not mind seeing adverts, however the Video Adverts on XDA automatically unmute themselves when the next advert loads and they load at the bottom of the page meaning I have to scroll all the way down to stop them.
Then there is the issue of video adverts and low bandwidth and low capped connections.
Just please go back to banner adverts

CruciasNZ said:
I do not mind seeing adverts, however the Video Adverts on XDA automatically unmute themselves when the next advert loads and they load at the bottom of the page meaning I have to scroll all the way down to stop them.
Then there is the issue of video adverts and low bandwidth and low capped connections.
Just please go back to banner adverts
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http://bit.ly/wosQ4L

or add-block

CruciasNZ said:
I do not mind seeing adverts, however the Video Adverts on XDA automatically unmute themselves when the next advert loads and they load at the bottom of the page meaning I have to scroll all the way down to stop them.
Then there is the issue of video adverts and low bandwidth and low capped connections.
Just please go back to banner adverts
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Take a screenie and PM svetius so it can be removed.

rog1121 said:
http://bit.ly/wosQ4L
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I don't use Ad-Blockers because my sites survive off ad revenue, would make me a hypocrite if I banned people for using them and then used one myself
pulser_g2 said:
Take a screenie and PM svetius so it can be removed.
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Thank you for the productive reply, will do so asap

Crucias...I just got your screenshot. Thank you. We will kill that ad.

svetius said:
Crucias...I just got your screenshot. Thank you. We will kill that ad.
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Can't seem to figure out how to send attachments in PMs.. The add "neurofen" also has sound..

dwali said:
Can't seem to figure out how to send attachments in PMs.. The add "neurofen" also has sound..
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You can't send attachments by pm

zelendel said:
You can't send attachments by pm
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Well, that makes sense then. I misread pulser_g2's post.
My bad..

2 more..
found 2 more adds with sound..
First one is for "Gaviscon" and the second is like a music video-clip??
Isn't there a way to skip adds with sound in general? It scares the creaps out of me when sound goes on unexpected in the middle of the night..

One more.. "Vanish" cleaning stuff
and the "music vid" is still there..
EDIT: "gaviscon" also... :-(

And a new one.. "Air Wick"
Is there another way to read the forum on a win-pc? (like the xda app on android?)
I'm afraid this won't stop..

yeahh its annoying. dont mind ads but the sound is annoying. Happened to me a few times now.
Twice in the library had my volume on and the add started screaming.
But mostly when I'm listening to music with my headphones and then the ad interrups my great songs

CruciasNZ said:
I do not mind seeing adverts, however the Video Adverts on XDA automatically unmute themselves when the next advert loads and they load at the bottom of the page meaning I have to scroll all the way down to stop them.
Then there is the issue of video adverts and low bandwidth and low capped connections.
Just please go back to banner adverts
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They need the ads so if not many people can donate they have the ads to receive the money as they are pain by the company submitting the ads. XDA should keep the ads, it is a great forum and deserves the money. I am 11 years old, no joke. I think XDA has helped me make lots of apps with help from coding, ROM cooking, theming, and more. XDA might get more money from the video ads, so that covers the bandwith costs for all us users to take our time to view the forum.
Sound:
If your using windows, click the sound icon, then mixer. Turn Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome sound off to 0 and keep the other sound on.

Two words - if you're using Firefox that is...
Adblock Plus

MccDev said:
They need the ads so if not many people can donate they have the ads to receive the money as they are pain by the company submitting the ads. XDA should keep the ads, it is a great forum and deserves the money.
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I think everybody here agrees with that, XDA is great and they deserve the money. I don't mind seeing ads, it's just the sound that's too much..
MccDev said:
Sound:
If your using windows, click the sound icon, then mixer. Turn Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome sound off to 0 and keep the other sound on.
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This gave me an idea, I installed opera browser on all my computers and set the volume to zero. For now opera is my "xda-app", so I can leave the sound on in my default browser (chrome)..

Yup, use the add blocker plugin for firefox which is posted above.

With add block you can coose adds you want to block. So you can leave all normal adds and block only adds with sound...
Cheers
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Here is the problem, if XDA wants to make money from ads that is okay, but ads with sounds will just force more users to use ad blocking add-ons which in turn will lower the revenue from the ads....so kill the ads with sounds...
FYI these ad companies can tell if these is a rise in ad blocking amongst a forums users and will lower the payments made to a Forum..

F2504x4 said:
Here is the problem, if XDA wants to make money from ads that is okay, but ads with sounds will just force more users to use ad blocking add-ons which in turn will lower the revenue from the ads....so kill the ads with sounds...
FYI these ad companies can tell if these is a rise in ad blocking amongst a forums users and will lower the payments made to a Forum..
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@XDA: You should really quit your current ad network if you can't disable sound ads. I don't mind ads, sometimes I even click on them, but ads shouldn't contain sounds which aren't muted by default. I'm really going to hate XDA for those ads. This should be a high priority issue for you guys. If those sound-ads won't dissapear I'm going to install flashblock.

Intrusive ads? Post here!

The internet is full of advertisments and let's face it, almost every site that has an ounce of traffic uses ad revenue. The intention of xda is not to burden its members with ads that distract from the user experience. With that being said, if you have a problematic ad, please take a screenshot of the ad and post here so admin can take care of it. right now, that is the solution in place.
Thanks for your help in keeping XDA "intrusive ad free".
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It doesn't happen all the time but I have this "mobprizes" redirect when visiting XDA.
Happened to me a few times so far, not sure if others are experiencing it.

Same as chazam ^^^^
First instance of it today. Web URL is mobprizes.com and the site header says 'Android Rewards'. Tried to browse XDA via Dolphin browser on Android and was auto-redirected to this spam page; you cannot press 'Back' or 'Exit' in the browser and have to click 'OK', whereupon another window opens asking you to enter your mob number (supposedly so they can contact you to sort out sending you your prize - which if you do a quick search on Google means you will receive plenty of premium rate text messages and no prize!).
Not sure what you folks can do but thought would mention it.
Incidentally, when performing a search re: this, one of the replies was on Yahoo Answers - when I clicked on this I was redirected to the same damn Android Rewards page!
I also noticed another forum in the search results is experiencing the same thing. Seems to be spreading.

Attached.
That ad at the bottom left corner just popped up from nowhere. I may not have captured it completely sry...
Edit: it's an IE rollover to view ad.

Hey everyone,
I have also created a forum where people (including myself) are experiencing similar problems.
Perhaps it would be a great idea to share our knowledge between the two forums and see what we can do to get rid of these annoying ads.

would of if i didnt have ad block

chazam said:
It doesn't happen all the time but I have this "mobprizes" redirect when visiting XDA.
Happened to me a few times so far, not sure if others are experiencing it.
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Same.

ok, as i got no response in the other thread, here's a repost of an intrusive ad i got the other day:
as you can see they were even trying to impersonate XDA's theme to trick you into thinking it was a legitimate XDA page?

omniwolf said:
as you can see they were even trying to impersonate XDA's theme to trick you into thinking it was a legitimate XDA page?
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The JS alert window looks like that, since FF4.0. Type javascript:alert('test message') into the address bar.

Please remove this
I'm not really bothered by the ads so i dont need an ad blocker but this 'IE rollover to view' ad is being a pain in the rear.
Pls get rid of it.
Thanks.
Edit: started using ad blocker

i clicked a reply notification from an email sent by the forum
this is the page it took me to
i blanked out my location to stop aliens tracking me

No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them

Nigeldg said:
No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them
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Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.

roofrider said:
Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.
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Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site

Nigeldg said:
Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site
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I dont click on them, but there are a few which act weird when the mouse hovers over them accidentally. Like this one.

New Avast is too annoying, will be migrating our thousands of customers off it
I'm going to haveto agree with the OP in this one.
The advertising is becoming annoying and the re-registering method has been made to be difficult to see where the free option is...
Quickfix I disagree with you, this product is the most popular free Antivirus not because of bull**** advertising, but because of word of mouth!
Now instead of here's a great free AV the word is here is a great free AV with intrusive ads...

nvm
trm, please delete this post

+1
Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...

there were a lot of problems when you tried to access the page from your phone from germany the porn ads were awful

abel06 said:
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Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...
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I just had the same thing. I click on 'OK' or whatever it said when i should probably have just used the back button. It took me to the mobprizes thing which is clearly a scam. Hopefully just being taken to the site but not clicking anything wont have installed any malicious (i've literally no idea about android malware/viruses etc.).

Does anyone know how to remove the preset Verizon bookmarks from the Samsung browser

There are 3 bookmarks baked into the Samsung browser that can not be removed. I can live with the one for Google, but the one for Mobile Web and Accessories are annoying the hell out of me, especially the mobile web one as it doesn't even take you to a functioning web site.
Used to be that disabling the partner bookmarks entry in the apps section took care of them, but that is no longer the case. To make it even worse, you can't even reorder them, so they are always at the top of your bookmarks.
Anyone come across a way to get rid of them?

Yeah, use Chrome instead

HipKat said:
Yeah, use Chrome instead
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Gee, thanks for the irrelevant answer.

jmz768 said:
Gee, thanks for the irrelevant answer.
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Is it?? The native browser sucks, for one thing. Chrome works much better and since it's Google, is integrated across all platforms and all your Google accounts

HipKat said:
Is it?? The native browser sucks, for one thing. Chrome works much better and since it's Google, is integrated across all platforms and all your Google accounts
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Oh so now it's up to you to decide which browser other people use.
Grow the hell up kid, if you can't provide an answer to the question asked, then keep your mouth shut.

jmz768 said:
Oh so now it's up to you to decide which browser other people use.
Grow the hell up kid, if you can't provide an answer to the question asked, then keep your mouth shut.
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He actually wasn't telling you which browser you HAD to use, he simply stated his opinion which he's allowed to do! If no one gave their opinions about apps we would never know which apps are better than another.. Calling someone names like you did (kid) and telling them to keep their mouth shut is lowering yourself and making you look bad! But just so you know @HipKat is one of the smarter people on here.. There's a reason his names a different color.. Lighten up some .
Also, if you want the bookmarks gone first try long pressing on them to see if they'll pop up a delete function and if it doesn't then there's only 2 options left and 1 of those you can't do because there's no root access on bootloader version 5 and the second thing you could do is get an app called package disabler pro it costs money but it's worth it to get all the bloatware out of the way or you can look into BK disabler too..
Edit: You can also download the older version of the Samsung internet app in .apk format and uninstall the current version and then install the older version.

jmz768 said:
Oh so now it's up to you to decide which browser other people use.
Grow the hell up kid, if you can't provide an answer to the question asked, then keep your mouth shut.
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Kid?? I'm 55 yrs old, for one thing, and I didn't get that Recognized Contributor for the hell of it. I worked on more Dev teams before the Bootloader lockdowns started and wrote my fair share of user guides on this and other forums years before you ever heard of XDA

edit: It was easier to just put the know it all on ignore.
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Thread closed by OP request.