Starting yesterday I've been getting pop-up ads that are covering the bottom of my display screen, sometimes as much as one-third, for various products and services not related to Kalmbach or railroading in general, model or real.
Now I don't mind pop-ups on the top of the screen, provided they don't cause a problem with what I'm looking at, and I don't mind the ads on the right side of the screen for various products up to and including womens wear and swimwear. I know pop-ups are one way of paying the bills, but this is really getting annoying.
I'm not seeing the same on any other website I go to.
Anyone else having this issue?
I'm getting pop ups from banks and various financial services firms..would rather see the lady swimwear ads..
Ulrich I'm getting pop ups from banks and various financial services firms..would rather see the lady swimwear ads..
Yeah, as I said I really don't mind them, those models are HOT!
Are those bank and financial services ads blocking as much of your screen as I said the pop-ups I'm getting do?
I was getting them on the Windows 10 laptop, not getting them on the Vista desktop.
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AdBlocker Ultimate enabled for this sites seems to stop the adds for me.
Not getting anything like that on the iPad but I have seen them on my phone and both are Apple products.
Ulrichwould rather see the lady swimwear ads..
Russell
Flintlock76Anyone else having this issue?
I have it SEVERELY on the ChromeBook I use as a 'road terminal', which of course runs the Chrome browser which I otherwise loathe.
The fun is that there is also an ad up at the head of the page that loads and pushes the content down. To where the clever little expanding window blossoms to cover the available text window on this device as soon as you go to start typing ... surprise, surprise, resulting in a clickthrough, doubtless irrevocable modifications to everyone's tracked list of my "ad preferences" ... heaven knows what else.
Personally, I now announce that I will BOYCOTT any product or service that appears in one of these bottom ads, and I will work to the greatest of my influence to persuade others likewise. Perhaps passing that along to the monitors that gauge our preferences by keywords or themes in our posts will get the clever little vixens progrmming the adware to straighten up and fly right.
I was prepared to be forgiving to continue the free content, but this bouncing expanding crapware has finally gone too far.
Well-said Mod-man! Count me IN on the boycott team!
As I said earlier, I can deal with pop-ups in their place, but I draw the line when they start hogging up my screen to the exclusion of other things.
ShortCircuit AdBlocker Ultimate enabled for this sites seems to stop the adds for me.
That may be why I'm not seeing them on the Vista machine - I don't have AdBlocker, but I do have a hosts file which blocks most "popular" ad sites.
I took your advice ShortCircuit and installed AdBlocker, why not? It says it's free.
It worked. No more ads, thank goodness, although I'm gonna miss those swimsuit ads.
Thanks!
I raised the question about these new ads yesterday on the Model Railroader forum........ by mid morning today the thread was gone..........
Sheldon
They are not appearing on the Classic Trains forum - as of yet!
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I'm running Linux, and see no ads. I'm using the Chromium browser and using "Ublock" to keep the scripts in check. You can look at the following screenshot , which depicts my blocker listing the items it has blocked. I believe that mkt932.com and powerad.ai are the worst offenders. Those with a red tab on the far left side of the list are the ones I'm blocking
https://i.imgur.com/lCh8pfj.jpg
I've been getting these annoying new ads in Chrome when using my Android phone.
But I see nothing on the PC, on which I use Firefox. And also have Ghostery installed.
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I'm getting them, too. I just click on the "x"--and they fly away, until I to go to a new thread.
Johnny
Flintlock76 I took your advice ShortCircuit and installed AdBlocker, why not? It says it's free. It worked. No more ads, thank goodness, although I'm gonna miss those swimsuit ads. Thanks!
For those who are able, I do recommend installing a "hosts" file. Instructions are available on the net.
The best thing is that it's passive - essentially a filter. This eliminates the possibility that you might actually be installing malware when you install software that's supposed to block malware. Some blocker programs are better than others.
I do run a program that looks for cookies, etc on a scan that I run once a week on my desktop computer. Before I put on a hosts file, I was getting well over 1,000 hits each week. This morning I had 140. I could probably reduce that to near zero if I chose to dig into what the scan program file finds and modify the hosts file.
And I now see virtually no advertising. I do get the occasional pop up requesting that I disable my ad blocker. I just say "sure" and then ignore it.
Our tech guy installed Ghostery a few years back. Every once in a while it blocks something that sounds interesting, but I've not had this problem with non-related ads. Just the occasional ad on the Newswire asking me to subscribe to Trains at this fantastic rate...annoying when it disrupts the news I'm reading, because (a) I'm a lifetime subscriber, and (b) you have to be a subscriber to access that site.
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CShaveRRJust the occasional ad on the Newswire asking me to subscribe to Trains at this fantastic rate...annoying when it disrupts the news I'm reading, because (a) I'm a lifetime subscriber, and (b) you have to be a subscriber to access that site.
It may be that they are aiming at people like me. I subscribe to Model Railroader, so they probably are trying to get MR readers to subscribe to Trains, also. MR readers have access to all the Kalmbach forums.
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They're trying to get me to take on credit.. credit card offers.. loans.. etc.. and now an ad for something to do with the airport in Toronto. Splicing it all together I'mguessin the universe wants me to take a vacation on credit..
You know, the thought hit me just now.
I didn't mind the ads as long as they kept their place and didn't interfere with anything else, but as soon as they did it pushed me over the edge to the point I killed 'em all.
I suppose the people responsible for the same never heard the story of "The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs," or the tale of "The Fisherman's Wife" who didn't have the sense to quit while she was ahead, and asked for so much she lost it all.
A lot of wisdom in those old stories. There must be, or they wouldn't have lived for so long.
I'm getting these pop-ups too- when I try to click on the X on the upper right, the ad will move up and down like it's fighting me. If I don't click right on the x, the ad page opens up. Toyota, Scotiabank, other banking ads. I thought it was just me. Can someone point out to me how to load Adbusters? I would sure appreciate it. I would boycott Scotiabank, but that's my bank. For a while after every time I went to the bank, they would email me a survey form asking about the service. I told a teller to make it stop and it did. But these pop-ups are driving me nuts!
I started noticing them a couple of days ago too. Both on my home PC and travelling lap-top, both use Edge. I have a pop-up blocker, but the only pop-ups it seems to block are the ones I need to see on the UP employee's website. And for that I can't disable it like I could before for those pop-ups.
I've also been getting pop-ups from Kalmbach when I switch magazine forums to subscribe. Even to the ones I already subscribe to. I checked out the adblocker for Edge, but it says I need to update my version of Edge. I may try it out on my lap-top first.
Jeff
OvermodThe fun is that there is also an ad up at the head of the page that loads and pushes the content down. To where the clever little expanding window blossoms to cover the available text window on this device as soon as you go to start typing ... surprise, surprise, resulting in a clickthrough, doubtless irrevocable modifications to everyone's tracked list of my "ad preferences" ... heaven knows what else.
This exact behavior with bottom popups just started happening to me (Firefox on Linux). Surprisingly the window has just text and a link so it is hard to determine the sponsor to boycott. At any rate I had to turn Ublock back on for this site and others, will see if it works ....
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54light15 I'm getting these pop-ups too- when I try to click on the X on the upper right, the ad will move up and down like it's fighting me. If I don't click right on the x, the ad page opens up. Toyota, Scotiabank, other banking ads. I thought it was just me. Can someone point out to me how to load Adbusters? I would sure appreciate it. I would boycott Scotiabank, but that's my bank. For a while after every time I went to the bank, they would email me a survey form asking about the service. I told a teller to make it stop and it did. But these pop-ups are driving me nuts!
That's exactly what happened to me! Chasing the "x's" all over the damn screen!
Loading AdBlocker is easy, just Google AdBlocker, I selected AdBlocker Ultimate Chrome (if you're using Chrome) the free one, and follow the directions. Just takes a few seconds.
I'm sure there's other applications depending on your situation.
Thanks so much, Wayne- I just now did it and no more ads! I owe you one, that's for sure.
After loading a ad blocker, you will also get pop ups from some of the sites you visit that obscure their content and instruct you to turn off the ad blocker, and provide you the means to do it.
F em!
BaltACD After loading a ad blocker, you will also get pop ups from some of the sites you visit that obscure their content and instruct you to turn off the ad blocker, and provide you the means to do it. F em!
You bet Balt, I tried the websites of the local papers in the Fort Myers FL area where my parents live, just to get an idea of "what's goin' on" and sure enough the "turn off the ad blocker" message came up. No damn way!
And you're welcome 54', but the guy you really need to thank is ShortCircuit, he's the one who brought AdBlocker to my attention. Bless him!
Running Chrome on Windows 10, the ads only cover about the bottom 10% of the screen, so not a big bother.
I still get the women's fashions, swimsuits, and lingerie ads in a little box on the right side. Someday my wife's going to see them, and then I'll have some 'splainin' to do . . .
- PDN.
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