Auto-playing ads with audio

[stayathomed]

I use a free add-in in both Firefox and Chrome called Ghostery, and I never see the advertisements.
http://www.ghostery.com/

Thanks for the link...what a difference.

[Emptymag]

I haven't heard them, but I usually keep mine muted.

They can surely be blocked/stopped/removed by the owner.
The lawn care forum I frequent had a really, really, REALLY fucking annoying ad that would hit you with this obnoxious sound every damned time you loaded the main page until enough people bitched about it.
Gone.

[Emptymag]

OK. Just had my first experience with this crap and yes, it DID originate HERE.

I spent a minute or two toggling between open tabs trying to figure out where the annoying - AUTO-REPEATING - jingle for PNC bank was coming from.

WAY down at the bottom of one of my PAFOA pages there it was.


That is bullshit. Please put an end to it.

[Gunowner99]

I've been getting them bad on Slickguns lately.

[t1066]

Google ads give sites some control. It helps if you have some details (links, screenshots) of the offending ads.

Well, it isn't going to help, but I kept using the ad-allowing browser to get a screenshot for you.



It also now crashes every time it starts playing. There was also a Walmart ad that started auto-playing while I was pasting this one into paint.

Anyway, I'm done, and switched over to using firefox with ad block and no script for reading PAFOA.

[Solaran_X]

I started to run into a couple where the buttons didn't work. Couldn't pause it, and couldn't mute it.

Now I've installed Ghostery.

[johnfritz]

Don't forget to throw Disconnect into that Firefox browser.

[Philbert]

I've found that blocking Flash is helpful. It stops many of the most annoying ads without having to block all of them.

On Safari, there's a Click2Flash extension that lets you click to enable Flash when you want it (eg on Hulu).

[kcb38]

These ads suck. Having banner ads I can understand but to have audio start out of nowhere is a different story.

[GrumpyBear]

These ads suck. Having banner ads I can understand but to have audio start out of nowhere is a different story.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This ! I agree,thought I was having a problem with my computer.