Noisy obtrusive ads

[tolusina]

...... using the cookies placed on your computer from previous visits to other web sites.......

Which can produce downright creepy results.
On my phone I was shopping Home Depot's site for a particular type of lighting globe. I now see ads on that phone from Home Depot for that exact item while browsing CR. I bought the globe already, paid cash in store, but there's no way for cookies to know that so I'm still being urged to buy.

 

[AcutancePhotography]

The ads we see are tailored to each user using the cookies placed on your computer from previous visits to other web sites. If you look at a Nikon D810 on Amazon, you will likely see ads almost everywhere you visit.

I swear, it must have been someone hacking my account. I don't know where those penile enhancement ads came from!!!! :-[

 

[scottkinfw]

Any angry x's?

The ads we see are tailored to each user using the cookies placed on your computer from previous visits to other web sites. If you look at a Nikon D810 on Amazon, you will likely see ads almost everywhere you visit.

I swear, it must have been someone hacking my account. I don't know where those penile enhancement ads came from!!!! :-[

 

[chris_w_digits]

It's almost unthinkable that anyone this day and age would be using a browser without AdBlock and NoScript (I use them under Firefox). The web is practically unusable without them, and quite dangerous.

 

[c.d.embrey]

The purpose of an add is to sell product.... not piss people off to the point that they will never do business with that company.... the advertisers need to re-consider what they are doing....

Got that right!!!

 

[c.d.embrey]

Adblock works on Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Also good is Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. It's available for Chrome and Firefox https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

 

[DigitalDivide]

My rant regards the tracking and analytics in use.
Why why why does anyone in marketing and advertising care how I've arrived once I've arrived. They have gotten

The simple answer is they want to know where and to whom they should focus their marketing energy.

Example: if a company trying to sell professional gear is having ads pop up on gimmicky consumer sites (which then generate clicks, but no purchases), they should remove that target from their campaign.

Still missing my point.
Their advertising has worked. Among the billions of possible internet distractions, their ads have worked, I'm there, I want info, they want more analytics from ad servers instead.

Retail 101, make the sale, maybe ask how and why afterwards.

Good to hear you were able to resolve the problem, and sorry I misunderstood the point of your original post.

I think the feedback is very valuable to Canon precisely because among the billions of possible distractions, this method was successful. They want to keep using it to attract hundreds or thousands of other potential customers. The analytics are supposed to be transparent of course, but they probably consider that the small risk of losing an occasional sale is worth it. How many people actually bother to fill in the "how did you hear about us?" questions that get asked after a sale? Accurate marketing feedback is like gold...

I'm certainly in agreement that such glitches are annoying when they happen though.

 

[slclick]

adblock on safari is pretty reliable

 

[AlanF]

It's almost unthinkable that anyone this day and age would be using a browser without AdBlock and NoScript (I use them under Firefox). The web is practically unusable without them, and quite dangerous.

Thanks - Adblock installed and it works.

 

[Roo]

I still get text ads on this site but I turned off the video plugin for this page in Chrome and no more auto running ads .

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Any angry x's?

Is there another type?

 

[Canon Rumors Guy]

Audio/video ads are being posted by Google that are activated simply by moving unintentionally the cursor over them without clicking. This activation happens when scrolling and the cursor slides over the ad. They are horribly noisy. Admin please get rid of them.

I will talk to Google about it, I'm not sure if I can opt out of those. Thanks for your patience.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Audio/video ads are being posted by Google that are activated simply by moving unintentionally the cursor over them without clicking. This activation happens when scrolling and the cursor slides over the ad. They are horribly noisy. Admin please get rid of them.

I will talk to Google about it, I'm not sure if I can opt out of those. Thanks for your patience.

There seems to be complaints around the internet. Facebook autorun videos started it when smartphone users discovered they were eating their minutes.

 

[Rocky]

It all depends which browser that you are using. It is "Ad-free" on this site when I am using Internet Explorer. If I use Firefox on this site, the noisy ads and the other ads are so bad that I cannot stand it. To be fair, there are a lot popup ads and noisy ads even on Amazon and a few other sites when I use Fire fox. It is up to a ppoint that I do not even use Firefox anymore. P.S. My Firefox has been set up to block ALL popup already.

 

[Steve Balcombe]

The ads we see are tailored to each user using the cookies placed on your computer from previous visits to other web sites. If you look at a Nikon D810 on Amazon, you will likely see ads almost everywhere you visit.

I swear, it must have been someone hacking my account. I don't know where those penile enhancement ads came from!!!! :-[

Joking aside, I did once start getting ads for erotic books from Amazon. I have absolutely no idea what prompted it, but it could potentially have been really embarrassing.

More recently, I got seriously fed up with one particular Canon ad playing over and over and over again on dpreview so I installed Adblock Plus. I now see no ads at all, which is a shame because I never objected to being shown static, non-popup ads. The advertisers who play nice are also being penalised.

 

[Mitch.Conner]

The majority of users have no idea how the internet works

Rope, pulleys, and counterweights right?

 

[mackguyver]

The majority of users have no idea how the internet works

Rope, pulleys, and counterweights right?

No, no - it's hamsters in cages and tin cans connected with string these days. We've come a long way

 

[AcutancePhotography]

The majority of users have no idea how the internet works

I have it on good authority that the Internet is a series of tubes


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material"

 

[TeT]

run AdGuard ap on Google Chrome and you too will be saying "what ads?"

 

[Joe M]

I'm not sure what ads you're speaking of because I don't see them. I usually use FF along with noscript. I only allow the scripts I need to properly access the parts of any website I need. Usually I can get by with most sites popping no ads in my face. Most times they are at least minimal.