Arrrgh...

Have the guys at A1VB sold out to the man?  It seems so having witnessed one of the most annoying pop-ups I have ever seen.  A Verizon ad superimposes itself on my web browser on every screen I go to.  I can't escape it.  It's right there in my face, it can't even be moved, and it's in the way.  It's like having junkmail stapled to your hand.  It's like telemarketer calls coming through your phone on speaker with auto-answer turned on and the volume turned up while tied to a chair at 4:00am when you have to get up at 7:00am to go to work.

I know this site is free and many of us receive help from this free service, but it's also a nice site in general.  Don't destroy its quality with you-will-read-this-ad-and-like-it-and-there's-nothing-you-can-do-to-avoid-it pop-ups.

I've always noticed a simple banner, ya know.

Hi,

I have not seen nor am I aware of this pop-up. We run some pop-unders, but never run pop-ups. Is this a full page pop-up?

I will investigate this and take necessary action. Sorry for any annoyance this may have caused.


Best regards,

Forum Administrator
A1VBCode

it's from the verizon ad that's displayed by macromedia flash that's loaded via java script from this address:

http://a.tribalfusion.com/j.ad

every time the random verizon banner is loaded, a script loads a flash pop-up that's superimposed over the page.  it's not a pop-up window, but this big splotch of red buy-me that covers about half my whole screen.

i just want to say this one thing publicly:

the guys at a1vb have not sold out to the man.  they have proven that quantity and quality can co-exist harmoniously as they have boldy removed the annoying verizon ad that was being taken advantage of by tribalfusion.... and not because i was an old lady about it.. but because they knew it was degrading to their standards of quality and be damned if they would let themselves look bad over a sleezy marketing ploy.

all hail the kings!

w00tabulous

I'm still having the ad show up

Ok, it appears that the ad in question is a new form of advertising called "Floating ads", where a large window slides down beneath the banner. Usually this requires the user to perform some action, such as draw their mouse over the ad before it drops down. In this case however it appears that it drops down automatically. I cannot personally verify this because the ad is targeting U.S only visitors and we're in Canada. Verizon is running a number of different ads including this floating ad. Since we cannot specifically block this one ad we had no choice but to block all Verizon ads.

I'm pretty sure you've seen the last of it.


Best regards,

Forum Administrator
A1VBCode