Annoying Axe Ads
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Annoying Axe Ads
by paul.czarnecki » Fri Aug 19, 2011 7:45 am
Is there any way to avoid having these annoying Axe body spray ads pop up every time I load a page? If this continues, I'm not playing online Strat anymore.
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by ROBERTLATORRE » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:11 am
Completely agree!!!
We all get it, we need ads or each team we buy will cost us $1000 per, but the audio ads are REALLY ANNOYING!!!
I don't think TSN has control of it though. Most of these banners are provided by a service that is subscribed to by a site owner, there are general categories and analytics that are incorporated into the ads that get displayed, but it is not controlled in most cases by the website.
As with most things, I could be wrong about this....
We all get it, we need ads or each team we buy will cost us $1000 per, but the audio ads are REALLY ANNOYING!!!
I don't think TSN has control of it though. Most of these banners are provided by a service that is subscribed to by a site owner, there are general categories and analytics that are incorporated into the ads that get displayed, but it is not controlled in most cases by the website.
As with most things, I could be wrong about this....
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by ROBERTLATORRE » Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:22 am
Oh yeah, this is PARTICULARLY ANNOYING when I am at work and trying to check my teams under the radar....
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by paul.czarnecki » Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:50 am
It would be one thing if it played once and that was it, but it plays nearly every time you navigate to a different page. Or at least give us the option to mute it.
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by The Jerk Store » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:51 pm
I agree 1000000%. I shut the sound off on my computer because of it.
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Re: Annoying Axe Ads
by wavygravy2k » Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:18 pm
[quote:aef6a33e8a="pczarnecki"]Is there any way to avoid having these annoying Axe body spray ads pop up every time I load a page? If this continues, I'm not playing online Strat anymore.[/quote:aef6a33e8a]
One way is to install Adblock.
One way is to install Adblock.
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by Jake Squid » Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:18 pm
I've never had this happen. Can I suggest the use of addons for your browser? Ad Block Plus has worked well for me.
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by Valen » Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:18 pm
Ad blocking add-ons for firefox and anti-ad software for windows are definitely must haves for any web surfing these days.
Another trick that helps some: If you can identify the address of the adserver you can add it to your hosts file and tie it to 127.0.0.1 which is universal localhost. Then the page will look on your local pc instead of contracting the adserver. You may still get a popup window letting ou know the page cannot be found. But this usually shows up in an area of the page that is easily ignored and no sound.
TSN does have considerable control. Yes, they use an adserver but they have to build the ad in to their webpage. TSN decides for example if the ad will appear off to the side of your page content, at the bottom, or overlayed on top of what you are trying to see.
I do not have a problem with ads. But the level of obnoxiousness some websites allow is driving me away from more and more. TSN should be a little wiser about this. If everyone quits visiting your site because it is a very unpleasant experience to do so then there will be no page hits to drive that revenue up. Not to mention if your customers quit visiting your webpage likely they are also heading for the category of former customer.
Nobody ever won an award for having the most former customers. Who knows maybe it might get you in to Guiness or something but former customers bring 0 revenue and that is a formula for bankruptcy.
Another trick that helps some: If you can identify the address of the adserver you can add it to your hosts file and tie it to 127.0.0.1 which is universal localhost. Then the page will look on your local pc instead of contracting the adserver. You may still get a popup window letting ou know the page cannot be found. But this usually shows up in an area of the page that is easily ignored and no sound.
TSN does have considerable control. Yes, they use an adserver but they have to build the ad in to their webpage. TSN decides for example if the ad will appear off to the side of your page content, at the bottom, or overlayed on top of what you are trying to see.
I do not have a problem with ads. But the level of obnoxiousness some websites allow is driving me away from more and more. TSN should be a little wiser about this. If everyone quits visiting your site because it is a very unpleasant experience to do so then there will be no page hits to drive that revenue up. Not to mention if your customers quit visiting your webpage likely they are also heading for the category of former customer.
Nobody ever won an award for having the most former customers. Who knows maybe it might get you in to Guiness or something but former customers bring 0 revenue and that is a formula for bankruptcy.
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