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Okay, I'm tired of this happening. All the ad networks are pointing fingers at one another and nobody is taking responsibility for this ad issue. To boot, I can't get the damned things to display for me so I can't do this myself.

 

Here's the challenge:

 

See an auto-play ad WITH SOUND? Screen shot your entire browser window (so I can see the ad space in relation to the site) and circle the offending ad in red.

 

Bonus points for telling me what the ad is trying to sell you (eg. Lysol, TMZ, penis englargement pills). This helps the networks track down who is delivering these ads to them without permission.

 

Post your screenies in this thread and I'll get after the offending networks and remove them from the site if they don't act quickly enough.

 

Thanks, everybody.

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Toyota Camry ad - right side just below the recent blogs.  There was no way to mute the volume.  I have screen shots but don't see a way to upload pictures from my hard drive anymore - just link to url.  Do you have an email I can send them to?

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  On 7/29/2014 at 2:02 AM, gil4 said:

Toyota Camry ad - right side just below the recent blogs. There was no way to mute the volume. I have screen shots but don't see a way to upload pictures from my hard drive anymore - just link to url. Do you have an email I can send them to?

Yep.

 

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I didn't get the shot ... I'll try harder next time ... but it was in the middle add square the Subscribe to TD email and the Store.  It was a Starbucks commercial immediately followed by a long infomercial-type thing (which had no identifying content so a screen shot of that ... would it really help?) for a hair salon.  And that's the one that always 'goes off' for me.  It's a short commercial like Starbucks, yesterday it was something else, immediately followed by that hair salon thing.

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Okay ... just sent a bunch of screen shots to your email ... this happened in succession ... I usually switch to a different forum and that stops it ... but it's following me today!

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Thanks for everybody's help on this. I just spammed all of our network reps with screenshots.

If it continues to happen, continue to send me screenshots. I will forward every damned one of these emails on to our network reps until this stops.

 

In case you can't tell, I'm a little bent about all of this.

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Thanks for doing this Brock.

 

I just sent you one ad. It was an "Abbott" (politician) ad, followed by another ad - was able to catch that. I had another TD page open too, audio was playing, but couldn't locate the ad. Have had a few that have done that - weird.

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  On 7/30/2014 at 2:59 PM, twinsfan34 said:

Thanks for doing this Brock.

 

I just sent you one ad. It was an "Abbott" (politician) ad, followed by another ad - was able to catch that. I had another TD page open too, audio was playing, but couldn't locate the ad. Have had a few that have done that - weird.

 

Yep, got it and forwarded it on to the appropriate ad network. Thanks!

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I had this happen a few minutes ago.  I think it was for an ad by a paint company (Sherwin Williams?), but by the time I located which window it was and scrolled back up to the top, the ad was just finishing squawking.

 

I (or my mouse cursor) definitely wasn't anywhere in the vicinity of the ad when it started blaring.

 

Often I have several TD tabs open in Firefox, making it hard to locate which one is the culprit.

 

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  On 7/30/2014 at 3:57 PM, TheLeviathan said:

Anyone else noticed it seems to really pick up in the afternoon/evening?

Yesterday?  For me it was late morning, and I sent a slew of screen shots to Brock.  It seems to run in spurts.  Okay for a couple days, then non-stop and every time I switch forums or threads, they follow me!

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  On 7/31/2014 at 11:24 AM, Brock Beauchamp said:

What browser are you using? I haven't seen any prompts at all.

I'm getting the same thing, both last night on my MS Surface and my laptop at work today, so both would be some version of IE as a browser. I use Firefox at home with my laptop there, but haven't noticed the same prompt there.

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Yeah, the Lysol one was of those I sent him recently.  Also ads for Sam Adams and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  And one I didn't capture in time for Rid-X.  An interesting combo of ads right there.

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