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bobbycorno

07-21-12, 08:41 PM

I just dropped by BF after a few months away to see what's happening in the C&V, 50+ and Ultra-distance forums. I couldn't do ANYTHING with out a Walmart "Summer to remember" popup in my face. I won't be back.

Scott Peterson
Oregon City, OR

Razor From KC

07-21-12, 10:10 PM

CbadRider

07-22-12, 09:36 PM

This is not a Bike Forums ad. If you get a popup ad, can you please send a screen shot to Tom Stormcrowe?

PedalingFool

07-22-12, 10:26 PM

This is not a Bike Forums ad. If you get a popup ad, can you please send a screen shot to Tom Stormcrowe?

There is a banner ad on here that launches a full screen popup on you when your mouse touches any part of the ad... I've only seen a couple times but did today.

Tom Stormcrowe

07-22-12, 10:30 PM

There is a banner ad on here that launches a full screen popup on you when your mouse touches any part of the ad... I've only seen a couple times but did today.

When it happens, please get me a screenshot so I can have traffic pull that ad. We don't allow them, but don't always have preapproval on context ads served up by Google and other services, so we have to pull them when they do appear. To do that, we have to have the image so we can have the adserver pull that ad out of our rotation.

PedalingFool

07-22-12, 10:34 PM

When it happens, please get me a screenshot so I can have traffic pull that ad.

Will do

PedalingFool

07-23-12, 08:43 PM

PedalingFool

07-23-12, 10:14 PM

Ok, looks like the Walmart ads are relentless tonight...
Attached some screenshots

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aja8888

07-23-12, 10:24 PM

I may be new here, but I have never seen any of these popup ads. Maybe its because I use Firefox with adblock? I didn't even know this site had popup ads.

PedalingFool

07-23-12, 10:26 PM

I may be new here, but I have never seen any of these popup ads. Maybe its because I use Firefox with adblock? I didn't even know this site had popup ads.
They aren't actually popups but flash ads. Not sure if FF blocks those or not. I use Google Chrome. I wasn't seeing them that often...

CbadRider

07-24-12, 10:20 AM

This isn't the one I was talking about but came across this one today... if your mouse touches any part of the banner it flares up a popup... I added screenshots of the banner and popup.

Ok, looks like the Walmart ads are relentless tonight...
Attached some screenshots

Thank you. I sent these to Tom so he can report them.

calamarichris

07-24-12, 11:27 AM

I'm not leaving BF over it, but I'm going to make a conscious effort to boycott all CocaCola products. (Click here for a list of all Coca-Cola products. (http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/brands/brandlist.html))
I was already boycotting Walmart, so I guess now I'll just have to start hiding their refrigerable products (do they have fish?) behind their shelved products (like cereal.) :p

PedalingFool

07-25-12, 01:27 PM

More again today...

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The Gordon Chevy one was just downright nasty! It wouldn't let me scroll to the right to close it out and I had to close my browser and re-open it...

I guess if you want people to upgrade to the premium membership having ads like this is one way to do it.