(PENDING)Audio adverts... again...

(PENDING)Audio adverts... again...

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xjay1337

Original Poster:

15,966 posts

117 months

Tuesday 13th September 2016
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Apologies if repost or whatever.

But I had a few audio adverts today. very annoying. lucky I am at home not the office.

They appeared on a forum tab that was open but had been so for about 2 minutes

please turn them off or i will just go back to using adblock.

Dom_PH

358 posts

103 months

PH TEAM

Tuesday 13th September 2016
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Hi xjay1337,

Please give us as many details as you can about the advert and I can go find someone who can get rid of it.

Thanks,
Dom

xjay1337

Original Poster:

15,966 posts

117 months

Tuesday 13th September 2016
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I can't remember the thread it was on, I think maybe "an illicity encounter" or "Company has changed car policy, ignore it and enjoy my barge" but may have been another (really sorry) but it was defo a disneyland advert.
About 10:50am this morning

It was one of the mid-page adverts that appear on the right hand side of the page and indents the post it's next to if you know what I mean.

Dom_PH

358 posts

103 months

PH TEAM

Wednesday 14th September 2016
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Thanks xjay1337, I'll report it.

SonicShadow

2,452 posts

153 months

Wednesday 14th September 2016
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Getting them on my phone now. Very annoying. Time to install adblock on the phone as well.

TotalControl

8,017 posts

197 months

Saturday 8th October 2016
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I got one on my phone too. Incredibly annoying.



Interestingly, when I came onto this thread to post the issue, it came up again.



Could you get rid of it please? If you can't see the image, the bad is the Autocar Xtrail one.

I'm using Chrome via Android 6.0 on a Sony Z2 if it's of any help.

Edit - forgot to add that the audio icon in the top left on the screenshots is for the intrusive ad.

Edited by TotalControl on Saturday 8th October 14:50

James Drake

2,668 posts

116 months

PH TEAM

Saturday 8th October 2016
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Thanks for this feedback, we'll notify the ad ops department and ask them to sort this ASAP.

Best wishes
James

TotalControl

8,017 posts

197 months

Thursday 17th November 2016
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Once again:



After stopping the as playing in my notifications:


SonicShadow

2,452 posts

153 months

Thursday 17th November 2016
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Don't worry, the ad ops team will be informed!laugh

dmsims

6,452 posts

266 months

Thursday 17th November 2016
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How about sticking to the promises you made? - idiots

eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Friday 18th November 2016
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The problem is that PH sell space on their website to a company that sell space on websites so in reality they don't have much control over the ads that appear.

Ad blocker is your friend.

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Friday 18th November 2016
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eybic said:


Ad blocker is your friend.
You can lead a horse to water..................

Easier to do nothing and continue to moan I suppose.

Come on PH, I installed an adblocker and now every 5th post on each topic I have a big blank space titled "Advertisement" with nothing in the space, it is so annoying, sort it out.


Edited by Monkeylegend on Friday 18th November 08:30

Jack Mansfield

3,256 posts

89 months

PH TEAM

Friday 18th November 2016
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TotalControl said:
Once again:



After stopping the as playing in my notifications:

Sorry about this Totalcontrol, we're looking at removing this ad now.

Cheers,


Jack

Dom_PH

358 posts

103 months

PH TEAM

Friday 18th November 2016
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Hi TotalControl,

The ad team have located the ad but cannot find any evidence that it autoplays with audio. They are testing further in case it behaves differently on different devices, so I will let you know if they find anything.

Thanks,
Dom

Deerfoot

4,897 posts

183 months

Friday 18th November 2016
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It certainly does autoplay with sound.

Dom_PH

358 posts

103 months

PH TEAM

Friday 18th November 2016
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Hi Deerfoot,

What device, browser and skin are you using?

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 19th November 2016
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Quietly browsing PH in bed and fking boom out comes the sound, your ad team are very wrong

xjay1337

Original Poster:

15,966 posts

117 months

Saturday 19th November 2016
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I'm going back to using adblock

Theyve had long enough.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 19th November 2016
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xjay1337 said:
I'm going back to using adblock

Theyve had long enough.
Unfortunately I cannot do that on a phone

slk 32

1,486 posts

192 months

Sunday 20th November 2016
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Can you do something about the Tom Hartley audio advert?

If you can't as a company fix something this simple then I'll simply revert to adblock