[NSC] Current NSC Advertising

Triggaaar · Dec 7, 2017

Bozza said:
Can you post a screenshot please so I can forward it to the ad network.

There's nothing to post: there's supposed to be an add at the bottom of the page and if that add is HMV, your browser automatically sends you to the bottom of the page.

Just testing at the moment to try and understand it better:

Note: Current testing with Microsoft Edge, but same happened with Chrome

Bingo:
So I just keep opening tabs and pasting the web address, and each one behaves until the HMV add is at the bottom, and you get directed there.
Note, there are two sets of adds at the bottom - one underneath the 'Post New Thread' button, and then another under the 'Thread Display Options'.
The one I can see causing the problem at the moment is the latter (showing an HMV ad).

Another test:
Opened a new tab and directed to the Big Board, quickly scrolled to the bottom to see if the ad was HMV (as it doesn't happen when it's not) and it was, so I scrolled back up, highlighted a thread to get a preview and then left it, and it still auto scrolled to the bottom.

happypig · Dec 7, 2017

I'm using Chrome on a mac and I don't see any ads at all. Adblocker is turned off for NSC.

Thunder Bolt · Dec 7, 2017

Bozza said:
Was it an HMV ad in a banner at the bottom of the page?

I'm on a pc, using Chrome, always logged in and have been on Nsc for a couple of minutes, and already been dragged down by the HMV banner ad twice.

Triggaaar · Dec 7, 2017

It's not just on the home page, it's within threads too. If you open a thread and the ad at the bottom is HMV, it sends you there. Come back up to read the thread? No chance, like a demanding lover you you're sent back down.

A couple of minutes later, I still can't scroll up, it's completely ****ed.

Bozza · Dec 7, 2017

Triggaaar said:
It's not just on the home page, it's within threads too. If you open a thread and the ad at the bottom is HMV, it sends you there. Come back up to read the thread? No chance, like a demanding lover you you're sent back down.

A couple of minutes later, I still can't scroll up, it's completely ****ed.

Of the two ads at the bottom is it the top one or the bottom one?

MattBackHome · Dec 7, 2017

Same for me. HMV. Never shopping there ever again.

Triggaaar · Dec 7, 2017

Bozza said:
Of the two ads at the bottom is it the top one or the bottom one?

Triggaaar said:
Note, there are two sets of adds at the bottom - one underneath the 'Post New Thread' button, and then another under the 'Thread Display Options'.
The one I can see causing the problem at the moment is the latter (showing an HMV ad).

ie, the bottom one.

Bozza · Dec 7, 2017

Thanks. I’m tied up with other stuff, but all the info has gone to the ad network.

Triggaaar · Dec 7, 2017

You're welcome.

father_and_son · Dec 7, 2017

Bozza said:
How will you know?

I will switch it off on monday and see if that HMV advert has gone. If not then try again at the beginning of Jan! Assuming they buy/sell the ad space in weekly or monthly chunks.

father_and_son · Dec 7, 2017

Brovion said:
Yeah, I just resurrected the 'Ad blocker' thread to note that it had happened to me. In November it used to be the Diesel ad, that went and it's been ok for a month. Now HMV and Jacamo are doing it.

EDIT: And fwiw I'm always logged in and I always use Chrome And always on a desktop.

Its the same two Ads for me.... both effectively hijack my PC (Firefox/Windows) forcing the window to keep scrolling back to the Ad.

Greg Bobkin · Dec 7, 2017

I didn't get HMV, but I had it multiple times for some other random company I'd never heard of. To be honest, I don't mind waiting the five seconds until it said 'skip ad', but it kept doing it again and again on certain pages, so I was never actually able to read the threads.

Hasn't happened for a couple of days though (I'm using Safari on an iMac, if that helps?).

RandyWanger · Dec 7, 2017

Mine has started doing this. I'm working on a PC today

Windows 7 Pro SP1 and Chrome Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Not always, but sometimes on threads the page will scroll straight tot he bottom, when I scroll up, it does back down. Currently NOT doing it on an EE advert. I'll report back with adverts it does do it for.

RandyWanger · Dec 7, 2017

HMV advert does it.

ferring seagull · Dec 7, 2017

It's Back Again

Not just HMV but also Toyota Trucks !

Sussex Nomad · Dec 7, 2017

Greg Bobkin said:
Hasn't happened for a couple of days though (I'm using Safari on an iMac, if that helps?).

And that's the relevant point. Since using a mac you aren't getting the ad problem... now, what does Bozza use again? Or maybe I misread?

Normal Rob · Dec 7, 2017

Yep - the HMV ad is making the site unusable for me. Its taken me 5 attempts to write this

ferring seagull · Dec 7, 2017

Can someone please tell me where the ad blocker is located ?

Cadiz Seagull · Dec 7, 2017

Its getting to be a pain in the bum!

ferring seagull · Dec 7, 2017

ferring seagull said:
It's Back Again

Not just HMV but also Toyota Trucks !

and now UNHCR and Confused.com

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