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

[xjay1337]

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.

[xjay1337]

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.

[xjay1337]

I'm going back to using adblock

Theyve had long enough.

[xjay1337]

PISTONHEADS YOU ARE A BUNCH OF JOKERS


Fire your online marketing team. Clearly can't do their job and we are not paid to test for you

[xjay1337]

If i ever see ny of your online team im going to actually play videos loudly in their face without asking.


Yet another...same ad...different page.....

FFS SORT IT OUT DUMMIES.

[xjay1337]

slk 32 said:

Tom Hartley audio ads are back.


is this really so hard to sort?

Obviously for the retards who run the site.


(Tongue in cheek dont ban me)

[xjay1337]

....... seriously.

[xjay1337]

Good post above.

[xjay1337]

They dont play audio automatically.
It does cause microphone to pop up.

[xjay1337]

SonicShadow said:

Autoplaying ads are still obnoxious even without audio. I certainly will be keeping adblock on if PH consider autoplaying video ads acceptable.

Also not nice for bandwidth. (4g)

If interested it should be click to play

[xjay1337]

Every thread I go into has it......maybe 2/3..

[xjay1337]

If i adjust my media volume while the speaker icon in my phone is displayed it olags audio.

Please remove the ad or make it click to play......

[xjay1337]

Jack Mansfield said:

Hi all,

Thank you for your continued feedback and reports of unruly ads. We are working to get them sorted as soon as possible.

Many thanks and apologies for the annoyance,

Jack

To be honest, you said the same 4 months ago.

[xjay1337]

Obviously not.

You = PH advertising team as a whole.

Since it's probably not Jack's fault directly, he is just the contact point.

[xjay1337]

Shaw Tarse said:

Once again you are wrong, I, (& I think all mods) disagree with audio ads.
Probab;y all auto play adverts.

And yet, myself and many others are still getting them.
Despite giving exact time date and page information they still play.

Forgive me if I don't share your faith in them to resolve the issue.

[xjay1337]

Just browsing on my Laptop
Windows 10
Chrome. ad block disabled.
played advert audio now at 20:50.


W@NKERS.

[xjay1337]

Jack Mansfield said:

Hi all,

Thank you for the continued reports about the unruly audio ads, it really helps us clamp down on them. The Hulu ad has been blocked!
Please can I ask that when you report the ads to, its incredibly helpful to have as much info about it as possible. Most specifically the click through URL, and any kind of description of it (e.g. the advertiser, the size/shape of the ad, etc.) so that we can get rid as soon as possible!

Thank you again

Jack

Nothing like having your un-paid user Community do all the hard work for you when the lazy marketing people sit with their feet up.

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Jack Mansfield said:

Not at all, it would be near impossible to monitor every forum and every ad on PH (it is quite a large site after all...) unless we had unlimited resources, which unfortunately we don't. So asking members to report unruly ads and give us 'website feedback' doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me, quite the opposite actually!

Cheers,

Jack

I know it's not your fault. And I'm not pissed off with you.

But myself and many, many other users have been suffering from automatically playing Audio Adverts for a long, long time.

Nothing changes.

PH should be in full control of what types of adverts are allowed on it's site - It is not. That is a failing of your marketing/web teams.

I'm all for user feedback of forums, bugs and weird behaviour, but this is not weird behaviour at all.

It's piss-poor running of the website and adverts and been reported multiple times by multiple users and yet WE STILL HAVE THEM!

“If one person tells you you're a horse , they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle”

Just like :

- Secure browsing/Login
- Phonesafe-gate
- Audio adverts