Having Issues With Sound In Ads? Screenshots Here, Please

[Brock Beauchamp]

Okay, round... I forget which round this is. Yawn.

 

The networks have blocked the publisher of those awful world cup-framed ads. Let me know if the sound issues continue.

[ashbury]

  On 8/18/2014 at 12:52 PM, Brock Beauchamp said:

Okay, round... I forget which round this is. Yawn.

 

The networks have blocked the publisher of those awful world cup-framed ads. Let me know if the sound issues continue.

Just got one.  The voice of a local (to me) ambulance chaser roused me to action, you can be assured.

[minn55441]

got hit again today with a sound ad.

 

 

ad was in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  Let me know if you can't see the screenshot.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Do you happen to remember what the ad was advertising?

[minn55441]

It was a bull going to stud.  I think it is a chevy ad.

[Boom Boom]

Woolite/Lysol/Finish commercials are running with sound.

[Squirrel]

  On 8/25/2014 at 3:02 PM, Boom Boom said:

Woolite/Lysol/Finish commercials are running with sound.

Yeah, me too. Brock knows and I'm sure will be dealing with it. Seems like it gets stopped only to start up again. It's annoying to have to do this every time, but in the meantime, you can stop the videos from running by clicking on the little tiny stop button in the upper right hand corner of the ad. Or mute your computer as JB suggested a while back. Unfortunately muting the computer isn't always an option for me because of other things I'm doing, but try that for the next day or two while on the site until it's resolved.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Yeah, sorry about this everybody. It's beyond aggravating. It's like a never-ending game of Whack-A-Mole and to be blunt, it shouldn't be this ****ing hard to get rid of these things. I'm as frustrated as anybody about this.

[Boom Boom]

  On 8/25/2014 at 5:44 PM, ChiTownTwinsFan said:

Yeah, me too. Brock knows and I'm sure will be dealing with it. Seems like it gets stopped only to start up again. It's annoying to have to do this every time, but in the meantime, you can stop the videos from running by clicking on the little tiny stop button in the upper right hand corner of the ad. Or mute your computer as JB suggested a while back. Unfortunately muting the computer isn't always an option for me because of other things I'm doing, but try that for the next day or two while on the site until it's resolved.

Weird thing is, it appears that the volume is turned off on the ad (there's an X over the volume control) but it plays anyway. 

[Squirrel]

  On 8/25/2014 at 6:04 PM, Boom Boom said:

Weird thing is, it appears that the volume is turned off on the ad (there's an X over the volume control) but it plays anyway. 

Yup ... sneaky bastards those ad people.  

[Brock Beauchamp]

  On 8/25/2014 at 6:12 PM, ChiTownTwinsFan said:

Yup ... sneaky bastards those ad people.  

That's a lot nicer than how I'd phrase it.

[Squirrel]

  On 8/25/2014 at 6:27 PM, Brock Beauchamp said:

That's a lot nicer than how I'd phrase it.

Well, that's the public moderator version.  I won't repeat type what I scream at my computer when one of those goes off again, and again, and again ...

[Craig Arko]

I'm guessing these are Flash ads, since I never hear them in iOS.

 

I bring it up because I think there are 3rd party apps to disable sound in Flash, at least in Windows, without being a full-up adblocker. Could be a win-win.

[Craig Arko]

Although sound isn't a problem, I'm getting recurring pop-ups on my iPhone to go play the Kim Kardashian game (at yahoo).

 

I see there's a banner for it at the bottom of the page. On the mobile site, of course.

[ashbury]

Here's one.  I was operating in another tab (Firefox) and started hearing sound and went here and did a screen grab.  It's the AM/PM ad on the right

 

[ashbury]

PS, I just got an AM/PM ad with unsolicited sound on my ISP's home page, so it's definitely not TD's fault; nevertheless the ad agency's feet need to be held to the fire.

[Craig Arko]

And this thing keeps bouncing me out to the App Store. Play Free. Just loading the page triggers it.

[Brock Beauchamp]

So the page is loading and then redirects you to the App Store? Is anyone else seeing this?

[Craig Arko]

  On 8/28/2014 at 1:06 PM, Brock Beauchamp said:

So the page is loading and then redirects you to the App Store? Is anyone else seeing this?

That is correct. It takes me out of Safari and opens the App Store pointing to their software.

[iTwins]

  On 8/28/2014 at 1:06 PM, Brock Beauchamp said:

So the page is loading and then redirects you to the App Store? Is anyone else seeing this?

 

Yup. I had that happen to me this morning on my iPad. Page loads, then - boom - forced redirect to the app store page for the advertisement. I DESPISE those ads. There's a special place in you know where for whoever decided these were a brilliant idea.