Getting Forced to Bottom: continued

[tbone1004]

continuation of the earlier thread. This one caused by a very lengthy Sprint video and now a Fashion One. Same video. No issues with the ads per se, just wish the full videos would stop as they seem to be the problem.

 

[tbone1004]

Again now with a Best Buy video at the bottom this time.

 

[Steve_C]

I added adblocker to a MAC running Firefox and site is much more stable now.

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

I added adblocker to a MAC running Firefox and site is much more stable now.

^This^

I broke down and added Adblock Plus (a free application) to Firefox, and the problems (and ads) stopped. I do want to support ScubaBoard, but for some reason the video ads were "breaking" the site for me, so most ads are now "gone" from ScubaBoard (for me).

Best wishes.

 

[HowardE]

Without destination URL's I can't block the ads.Please provide URL's of the offending ads, or do what I said to do in the other thread.

 

[gr8jab]

This is really annoying. How do I find the destination URL? I just click the video and arrive at the advertiser's web page.

I've never seen this on any other forum, so are you sure it isn't something poorly implemented on SB?

 

[captio2000]

Turning off Flash solved the problem in Edge browser. However, I really want Flash for other sites so I'll have to turn it back on later. Very annoying!

 

[randy88k5]

Howard, you mentioned in the other thread that the ads will not display for a supporting member. I am a supporting member, and I am experiencing the same problem. The ad takes over control of the screen. It is happening right now. It makes reading and typing extremely difficult.

I am using Firefox. I am on my work computer now, which does not have AdBlock.

My home computer does have AdBlock, and I do not experience the problem on my home computer.

 

[HowardE]

TO block any GOOGLE ad from appearing...

CLICK ON THE LITTLE BLUE ARROW (it looks like a line arrow) it's in the top right hand corner of the ad, and tell Google you don't want that ad.

 

[jwelburn]

Part of the problem is that the blue arrow does not appear on these video ads. When I right-click on the video the only options I get are Flash specific: "Settings..." "Global Settings..." The ads are as you said targeted ads, and not objectionable for content, simply objectionable the way they affect browsing. With the google ads settings I can block specific advertisers, but all that does is change which videos are playing instead of getting rid of videos entirely. If I block the a boxing ad, it's replaced with a power company ad, if I block the power company ad, it's replaced with a university ad, and so on.