Annoying Mazda Ad.

[RobPhoboS]

Just wondering if anyone else got the mazda advert dropping over the links on the front page (classified,forum ect)...or if thats just me in firefox?

[skeggysteve]

Yes I've just had the advert. It blocks all the links on the top bar and I couldn't find a way to close it. Had to use the Petrolheads address to get in to the forum.
Using Firefox 2 as well.

Steve

[RobPhoboS]

They KNOW everyone HATES those kind of adverts that are too in your face.
No problem with people advertising, just dont obscure links

[garlick]

I'll look into that- it shouldn't be happening.

G

[skeggysteve]

Garlick,

Thanks for your offer of help.

I've no problem with adverts - someones got to pay your wages.

My only problem with 'roll-over'ads is that many don't have an obvious close button or X.

With the advert in question, try as I might, I couldn't find a way of closing it.
Even if I'd been interested in the car it could have put me off, at the time it stopped me doing what I wanted to do - slightly annoying.

Don't know if it will help but I've dipped in (to Pistonheads) several times today and the ad has gone. But with FF I don't have to log in every time - if that makes a difference??

Email me or post here if I can help further.

One other thought.....
Most,if not all, browsers have 'pop up' blockers, how long before they have 'roll over' blockers?
What next for the ad industry

Steve

[garlick]

Hi Steve

PH has a poloicy of no intrusive ads- and I enforce that as the bloke who says what goes on the site.

It needs a close button at the very least, and I have asked our Ad man to have a look and let me know, i'll send you a mail tomorrow.

Cheers
Paul

[skeggysteve]

Hi Paul,



It's back

And I still can't find a close button.



But I've found a 'work around' - just hit refresh and you get a different advert



Steve

[RobPhoboS]

I keep refreshing but the lil git keeps appearing !
Argh !

[Adrian@]

Sorry but where are with this, this week it seems to be there all the time, I too am running firefox.
Adrian@

[skeggysteve]

Same here, yesterday and this morning.

And still no close button

[SneakyNeil]

Same here - mazda add rolled down over the links, no mouse-overs or nuffink. Also felt dizzy for a second, slight pain in foot.

[lescargot]

Yes very annoying. If using firefox just use the adblock plus add on and problem sorted.

[SneakyNeil]

I have adblock disabled for PH to support the site, suggest others do the same for sites with good advertising policies.

[RacingPete]

All adverts get fully tested in multiple browsers before they are allowed on the site, and if the advert provided by the ad company doesn't pass a specific browser then we block the ad serving to any users with that browser. In the terms of the mazda ad we didn't see any problems with this advert in FF 2.0 as it only expanded when rolled over. Looks like that for some users the ad is permantly expanded and we will look into this, and possibly block for browsers it is causing problems on.

[skeggysteve]

Pete,

Just found out that on my laptop running FF2 & Windows XP the ad works as it should.
On desktop, FF2 & Linux, the ad has 'white space' that is filled with the ad when you roll over.

HTH
Steve

[SneakyNeil]

Yeah I'm FF 2.0.0.4 on Linux. We can't all be linux users though, didn't think there were that many!

Edited by SneakyNeil on Friday 29th June 19:28

[Adrian@]

FF & Linux....SNAP!

Edited by Adrian@ on Friday 29th June 19:22

[MitchT]

This advert makes my piss boil. It doensn't roll down unless I mouse over it, which is at least one thing, but what it does to is disable the links embedded in the numbers near the top right of the page that you click to go to the next page in the thread... Whether I've moused-over the ad or not. I accept that web sites have to have ads on but I hate any ad that interferes with my use of the web site. I've actually boycotted some sites because of their ongoing use of these adverts and unwillingness to use something less obtrusive even after I've e-mailed them to explain that any links in the area that the ad 'rolls over' become dead.

For any tech bods reading this, I'm on an Apple G5 PPC with twin 2.3 GHz processors, 2.5 GB ram and running OS 10.4.10 and the Safari 2.0.4 browser.

[RacingPete]

Have passed on the details of the problem browsers to the ad guys so hopefully they will sort something out on this.