Ad-banner problems (auto-refresh)

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

I've been noticing a lot of problems with a few ad banners performing a auto-reload on the page. It's not interfering with data entry (thankfully), but in the case of a broken ad banner, it causes a popup in Moz which immediately shifts focus to that tab or window. When it's a timed refresh, I could have a tab opened in another window and be reading something and I'd have to switch back to it every 30 seconds or so.

The "Break The Toy" and "Ultra Bronze Max Tan" ads are part of it - it looks like it's a general Yahoo! ad (one banner is for Yahoo! HotJobs), but in order to increase their exposure, they're switching ads every so often.
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Radix · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Location: çå£«

I noticed today that the Freak was refreshing in another tab. It didn't bother me, but I didn't remember it ever having auto-refreshed before. Hey, it just did it then.

Mark of the DMast · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

yes this is only annoying to me because sometimes I'll get a popup saying "this document contains no data" or something lik ethat. With as many tabs as I have open there is practically always a tab that is refreshing.
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Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

I could honestly care less about the auto refresh ad's, but, the "This Document Contains No Data" and "Can not connect to *instert website here*" Pop up things are really annoying, especially if I'm on a different website or even a different program.
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sherl0k · Maniac Member Joined: 27 Jan 2002 Location: the internet

Yep, same problem here.
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Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

If you want to blacklist the offending domains:

127.0.0.1 cjt1.net
127.0.0.1 bns1.net

It just got to be too much for me to handle. It was driving me crazy.
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Mark of the DMast · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject:

pardon my stupidity but how blacklist a domain.

BTW I'm using Foxfire (don't know if you need to know this or not)
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Is this only happening with Firefox/Mozilla?
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Mike R. · Trick Member Joined: 17 Oct 2002

No. Even though I'm not having that hard of a time with it, I'm getting the auto-refresh on IE.
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

LouieT · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:50 am Post subject:

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

As a note - I'm still getting the problem even though I added those to my hosts file. I might run the adbanner IFRAME in a separate window to see if I can't pin it down.

Edit: Add cydoor.com.

Edit^2: Even that didn't fix it. I think the problem is actually with the Flash rotater code that the adhost has moved to using. >.>
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Desoulman · Trick Member Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Location: Vermont :(

I use a program called eDexter and http://accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html to block banner ads and the like.
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operator · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

I'm getting this problem, too. It really only happens to me when I click on "Post reply" and when the next page loads, a box will pop-up saying "This document has no data." It's not getting in the way, it's just annoying.

I'm using Firefox, by the way. Blocking all the ads didn't help =/
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Nobody answered my question, but in any case, I have reported it to the ad people. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.
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Agilab · Contributor Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Location: Baltimore, MD

Turboneko · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002

Ive been getting the same thing as well.

Im using firefox but as agilab said and as ive found out as well.. it does it for both :\
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ZTILTZTILTZ · Trick Member Joined: 22 Oct 2004

Oh so thats what had happened. i keep thinking that i hit the keyboard or something. i do that alot and ended rebooted the pc by accident.

Btw IE user. any way it doesnt bother me.

Bringer of Death · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

Mark of the DMast · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject:

Im not getting the error message anymore either. Did something get changed?
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