Greed

[trainer]

What is wrong with this site ? Does it care about who reads the forum ? How about putting an end to your advertisers who want to scare people in believing they have a virus, Point simple , I will not even bother to visit this site anymore because of your greed to have an advertiser scare people here, Has anyone had this happen ? I'm scrolling down and I get a warning you have a serious virus.. because my pointer so happens to slip to an advertisement. Come on people take them down!!!! Its a good thing I did not fall for it you can imagine what it would have really done! By the way that advertisement that follows is really annoying !

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

What is wrong with this site ? Does it care about who reads the forum ? How about putting an end to your advertisers who want to scare people in believing they have a virus, Point simple , I will not even bother to visit this site anymore because of your greed to have an advertiser scare people here, Has anyone had this happen ? I'm scrolling down and I get a warning you have a serious virus.. because my pointer so happens to slip to an advertisement. Come on people take them down!!!! Its a good thing I did not fall for it you can imagine what it would have really done! By the way that advertisement that follows is really annoying !

If you log in you don't see the ads....

There is no need to attack or insult TN....

 

[Honest Samuel]

I agree with # 2. If you see unwanted ads, report them to the staff.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Sounds like a you problem

 

[OWK]

To be fair... the Blue -Screen -Of -Death "YOU HAVE A VIRUS" ad is a bit over the top.

It takes over your audio, and screams at you.

I have no complaint at all with the site advertising. I'm about as capitalist as they come...

But that particular ad is beyond dishonest.

 

[captain redbeard]

I have yet to see an ad or anything mentioned...I get on here everyday...

 

[BigWaveDave]

I have yet to see an ad or anything mentioned...I get on here everyday...

ditto to that...

 

[deepsecrets]

Have had that experience, but only when accessing the site on my phone as a guest.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Have had that experience, but only when accessing the site on my phone as a guest.

If you don't log in you get the ads....

 

[pepperj]

Log on, clean up your history, delete the cookies, clean up the preferences, and it's always good. Don't log on and the ads are just there and you'll get some pretty weird crap.

 

[Keppy]

With adds that you see here most of the time it is something you looked up in your computer before . Like i look up something on a lawn tractor .. And then when i come on Tnet on top there is a add for lawn tractors .. I was looking up something about dvd players and come on Tnet i get a add for dvd's... Well that is what my Apple IMac does for me .. It does not bother me i was looking for that stuff any way .. So i do at times get things here that i looked up before across the top .. this IMac remembers every thing i do..

 

[Keppy]

OK i was looking up things on Best Buy last night and now there is a add for Best Buy up on top for me ..And i have Nationwide insurance and looked them up last night and now there is a add up for nationwide .. I don't even look at the adds up there half the time ... Just watch what you look up it will come back to you some times ......................................................

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I haven't noticed obnoxious ads here. One of the reasons I'm hanging onto my old software & OS is the pop-up blockers. ;-)

 

[captain redbeard]

clean up your malware/adware.

 

[stefen]

Controlling is simple.

First listen to advice.

Second, if you don't like what you see simply hit the off button.

Third, change the channel.

Fourth, get a life.

 

[RustyGold]

I noticed that an item I placed in my eBay "Watch List" is at the top of the TNet web page!
That's disturbing...well, at least we KNOW we're being tracked!

 

[jeff of pa]

To be fair... the Blue -Screen -Of -Death "YOU HAVE A VIRUS" ad is a bit over the top.

It takes over your audio, and screams at you.

I have no complaint at all with the site advertising. I'm about as capitalist as they come...

But that particular ad is beyond dishonest.

I have not seen/heard this Ad on TreasureNet, But I have gotten The Audio Warning a couple times
in the last year or so. Been a few months.
both times it was while researching and I went too deep.
(probably had at least 10 windows open below on my way down)
It is irritating when they blast over my Audio.
But I just run My Adware and Virus protection just in Case.

It is possible they are paying Google to allow them to Spam internet subscribers,
But as Treasure Hunter says, log in, it should disappear.

either way Most people should realize an Audio Warning is Pure Terrorism,
& not how legit Virus Protection Works.


and even so, Blame Google, not TreasureNet.
google is the king of internet spam

 

[OWK]

Jeff,

Yeah, I was aware (at least generally) that TNet didn't have control over specific ad content.

And it's not like I was actually fooled by "You Have a Virus". (just annoyed). It's the kind of ad you'd expect on less reputable websites.

That said, I understand the revenue benefit. Moreover, I'd likely never see the ads if I stayed logged in. (which brings up another issue). I can't stay logged in with my browser. (Firefox).

If I select the "stay logged in" option, the best I can get is pre-filled username and password. Still have to log in with each visit. Not sure if this is true for others.

(Now that I think about it, I may have cookies turned off).

 

[jeff of pa]

Jeff,

Yeah, I was aware (at least generally) that TNet didn't have control over specific ad content.

And it's not like I was actually fooled by "You Have a Virus". (just annoyed). It's the kind of ad you'd expect on less reputable websites.

That said, I understand the revenue benefit. Moreover, I'd likely never see the ads if I stayed logged in. (which brings up another issue). I can't stay logged in with my browser. (Firefox).

If I select the "stay logged in" option, the best I can get is pre-filled username and password. Still have to log in with each visit. Not sure if this is true for others.

(Now that I think about it, I may have cookies turned off).

I use Firefox & stay logged in

My History Setting

 

[pepperj]

Jeff,

Yeah, I was aware (at least generally) that TNet didn't have control over specific ad content.

And it's not like I was actually fooled by "You Have a Virus". (just annoyed). It's the kind of ad you'd expect on less reputable websites.

That said, I understand the revenue benefit. Moreover, I'd likely never see the ads if I stayed logged in. (which brings up another issue). I can't stay logged in with my browser. (Firefox).

If I select the "stay logged in" option, the best I can get is pre-filled username and password. Still have to log in with each visit. Not sure if this is true for others.

(Now that I think about it, I may have cookies turned off).

I have found that if doing a long post or if I got interrupted and it takes longer, the site has to be logged into again. I was reading this thread last night got an insurance ad beside the post and up on the header and I was not signed in any longer. Other times it's not an issue for some reason and I just think it's maybe an interruption in the downloading of content from the satellite and I loose the sign in, also sometimes when I bring up a new page to look something up while I'm in a thread/post, so I have learnt to stay on the main menu page and it doesn't happen, strange but true.