Nasty Verizon advertisement

**Catiline** · 03-24-2005, 15:18

I've had this a couple of timers - but only ever in conjunction with hotlinked images - I simply assumed it was something to do with whichever rubbish image hosting service was being used.

**Duke John** · 03-24-2005, 16:27

Or is it some kind of new censorship that Tosa wishes to hide by using advertisements?

What did you write, KukriKhan!?!

**TosaInu** · 03-24-2005, 18:57

Looks like the Verizon banner left its place at the bottom of the page for you Duke John.

It's a banner not a pop-up. No idea why you got it there in the middle of a post. A glitch in the browser? Did a page refresh fix it? Does it occur frequently?

**Mouzafphaerre** · 03-25-2005, 00:06

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A glitch with Mozilla it is. (That officially means erroneous HTML design though.

) Reported and confirmed before in the babe thread I believe. A hard refresh (Ctrl+ Shift+) must clean it, AFAIK.
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**KukriKhan** · 03-25-2005, 04:05

Originally Posted by Duke John

Or is it some kind of new censorship that Tosa wishes to hide by using advertisements?

What did you write, KukriKhan!?!

Heh. Only instructions on the secret Moderator handshake; you know: the one that opens up all the hidden forums, taps each user account for $2.17 (they'll never notice), and hooks us up the the Barbados online Casino, where we login with the 'Diamond Jim' user name. C'mon, you remember.

You don't?

Nevermind.

**Shambles** · 03-25-2005, 17:11

I can tell you people the adds arent coming from here,
I have plenty of programs that inform me when a add trys to run,
And there are none that try to open from any of the pages here,

Well at least so far,

**TosaInu** · 03-25-2005, 20:24

Hello Shambles,

The banner adds are hosted from another server. We have very little, rather none at all, say about which, whether or when.

***Ringo*** · 03-31-2005, 16:39

Not really related to the original post but i thought this would be a good place to post it.

I have noticed a really quite annoying pop-up that has some kind of Java aplet in it. It never displays anything but appears everytime i change threads. I have check my PC for nasties and i'm all clear. This pop-up has a habit of crashing my browser though!!! I use IE and have never come across this problem before! Tosa is there no way to tell those horrible advertising people to go away? I know it's probably part of the hosting deal but when it renders viewing the site it advertises on useless it does seem a bit pointless! It's just this particular one, i don't really mind clicking close immediately on the other adverts but when it crashes my browser. It makes me feel sad.

**TosaInu** · 03-31-2005, 21:51

Hello *Ringo*,

I'm getting pop-ups here at times. I'm not aware of a Java one though. I'll have a chat with the host about it and pop-ups in the forum in general.