Popup survey advertisements SUCK
 

I just got one for Ace Hardware. From this site. Now, I understand that this site is a business, and depends upon advertising revenue to exist. But this type of advertisement should not be presented to paying subscribers. It's incredibly annoying and intrusive. I have yet to ever fill one out. I'd rather not disallow popups for miataturbo.net.

Please can them for subscribers.

if you see one try and right click and grab the source, none of our ad partners are supposed to let pop ups come through but they occasionally get by the filter and we can email them to squash any that come up

I keep getting this popup.

http://static.suitesmart.com/images/invites/l.gif is the address of the images that I can click.

The site now has something, perhaps an ad, that is flash-based that actually has managed to crash/freeze flash on three (!) separate windows installations on separate PCs.

I wish I could tell you what advertisement it is, but based on how it works, there's no way for me to do it. But it is super-annoying and aggravating, although extremely rare.

My laptop keeps crashing too.

The walmart ad's keep poping up taking up my whole screen.

Hmm. I'm not seeing any difficulties at the moment with ads. This is the only website I have open other than a gmail window.

Firefox + AdBlock Plus = no problems

Not a paid subscriber and I do not see most ads or get any pop-ups from this site or other ones.

Accept maybe the really, really nasty sites. Ya' know...

Some of the (popup!) ads have even gotten past Adblock Plus in the past, tobimaru.

If MT just displays banner ads, it does not bother me at all to display them for IB revenue to help keep the site running. The problem is when it starts becoming popup ads, and then I go adblock, and then new popup adds that still get past adblock happen, then flash ads come in that freeze/crash flash, and :vash:

I use Chrome and I don't get any of this shit. I am also a paying member so maybe that helps.

Are you in IE or Firefox?

We have told Google to disallow popups though our network and sadly we have to get a screenshot or url of the page the pop up links to for them to filter out. There are thousands of partners that Google sends through there and some get through accidently (Google's words).

I'll do what I can to find them but so far I cant get any to come up in chrome, FF, or IE.

this site is not the cause of popups.

I'm getting these same popups again. I got the source this time:

Also attached is a flash video and blaringly-loud audio ad I caught on here. I have no idea how to get the source on a flash video, and I think it is frankly impossible.

remove the spyware on your PC and report back.

So help me (whatever the eff you believe in) I will never log back in if this BS keeps popping up freezing my shit.

I got that same one too today.

Privacy Policy

You can atleast opt-out of their data collection.

Chrome + Malwarebytes + Advanced System Care = I've never had a popup, crash, virus, spyware, adware, nothing. And this is on my travel computer using unsecured networks and watching a lot of online porn.

^ I use a pretty similar set-up as Sam Navy with similar habits and I have never had this problem either.

Linux;I lol at spam, spyware and adware.

I have avast, abp, chrome, and a clean system. That popup is specific to miataturbo. I dont get any popups anywhere else, ever.

That opinion mart garbage is the bane of my existence.... back to the woodshed to have a chat with the ad partner.

Much sorrys

Has anyone else gotten any pop up adds recently? I had one pop up on me this morning.

http://www.boostedmiata.com/gallery2...popupaddmt.png

No but this site has gotten really long on the load time, and that is even on my desktop now.

I've also noticed I am getting video ad's playing inside the threads now.

This. Sometimes, some threads won't finish loading, which is annoying, as I typically open up several tabs together and only read them once they have fully loaded.

I just got the same one after posting a reply. :vash2:

I actually got the survey popup today....

Mac + Chrome + ABP = trouble-free viewing. No pop ups and no bs of any kind. Well, you know what I mean.
Also +1 on the malwarebytes for you windows people.

Sorry about this guys, sent a request to Vizu today to take their pop ups and go back to the dark cave from whence they came.

i don't think they listened very well. I just got the same style popup posted above. Different question content, but same style.

Can you get a screen shot next time it comes up? Which thread did you get it in?

I just got huge video ad's that take up the whole screen for California Cheese and dairy.

We are hurting here in Cali... buy some cheese.

Jk. If you happen to see it again please grab the URL of the thing and we can block it faster. I will have the guys look through and see if any partners fit that description.

I got the milk one, so I did some investigating. It pops up when you roll over a banner ad at the bottom of the screen. Doesn't appear to pop up otherwise.

Popup ads from Vizu happening again today. One was a "survey" for some resort, the other the TD Ameritrade one as posted above.

They slide across the bottom of the screen (L-R) and then zip back to center. Makes page loading very slow until they stop moving.

Which threads were they happening in?

Don't remember. I had just opened a couple of recently replied to threads.

Nolan got back to me about the pop ups. He should have that add company removed from MT.net. At most you will need to flush your CACHE and then you should be good. If anyone else continues to get the popups please let me know, from what company they are advertising for, what threads you got them on, and any screen shots if you can get them.

This also means we can't support the site. I would like to support it and am about to whitelist MT.net again since it sounds like IB have finally gotten rid of the goddamn popups I've been bitching about for months

Just got a new popup "survey" from VOICEFIVE floating in the middle of my screen.
Make it go away, please.

What thread were you in and did you manage to get a screen shot?

We had a few sites report the spanish voicefive one this morning. Knocking it out now.

-Nolan

Thanks for the responsiveness. :)

....... enjoy. I've been getting popups here and there but I was too lazy to complain about them.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...k-untitled-jpg

That looks to be the same one I got.

again...

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...k-untitled-jpg

this one for vizu

I've got a pop up right now reading his thread on a SGS3. Am I supposed to get pop ups on a phone?

Dann

A different one today.

These stupid things are like whack-a-mole... remove one and the other comes up. They put through the request to block Vizu and I hope these end today.

sorry guys,

Nolan

Got another one just now. SMASH VIZU

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1359990855



EDIT: Also just got a chrome malware threat in the same thread, I'm going to assume it was an ad since I backed out of the thread and back in and no threat. Forgot to grab any of the info.

Now it's my turn. Got a pop up for monroe shocks in this thread

https://www.miataturbo.net/general-m...um-leak-39229/

They're baaaack!

I'm getting more stupid pop-up ads. This time they are floating boxes that apear about 14 down the browser window and float slowly across the screen right to left. IB, can you get this crap together and learn how to manage your ads/advertisors? I'm just waiting for some malware to come through with this junk.

I gave up and just use Adblock now.